Iran's bomb threat ???

I have no idea what Iran is doing or wants to do. What follows are my personal observations, which may or may not be pertinent.

Nuclear reactors can be built using natural uranium or slightly enriched uranium. During operation, they produce plutonium in the fuel rods. That plutonium can then be chemically separated to yield material for nuclear weapons. This is why the IAEA must monitor all aspects of a nation's nuclear energy program.

No one is monitoring Israel's nuclear energy (a.k.a. bomb making) program. Why not?

When I left the US Navy in 1983, I went to work for the General Electric nuclear energy program. While attending their Senior Reactor Operator training, I often sat next to a fellow student who was from Iran. I cannot remember his name, and I never saw or heard from him after we both graduated from the school. Why was he there? Apparently the US was going to sell nuclear reactors to the Iranians (reactors that could produce plutonium ... and bomb material).

This was AFTER the Shah was overthrown by the Iranian revolution and AFTER he died. Does that make any sense? Why arm the Ayatollahs?

Remember the Iran-Contra Affair? The one in which it was revealed that the US traded arms for hostages? The resulting political scandal lasted from August 20, 1985 to March 4, 1987. The operation had involved the US, Israel, Iran, and the Contras (who more or less participated as a straw man to conceal CIA drug smuggling).

Why would Israel participate in a scheme to ship weapons to Iran, their current "worst enemy"? Because of the Iran-Iraq war, which lasted from September 1980 to August 1988, and which devastated both nations for the benefit of Israel. That mess was eventually followed by US Operations Desert Storm and Iraqi Freedom (sic), also carried out to further destroy Iraq for the benefit of Israel.

Apparently as long as Iran was willing to fight a suicidal war against Iraq, the Israelis were content to tolerate their nuclear energy aspirations and give them the false hope that they could have nuclear reactors. Now that the Iranians have been converted into the world's chief bogeymen (also for the benefit of Israel), this is no longer the case.

Why did the US ever go along with this bullshit? It probably has more to do with End Time prophecy than with Middle East diplomacy, but the secretive actions of all parties probably never be known, much less understood.

By the way, Gary Webb wrote extensively about the Contra-CIA drug aspect of this story, but nobody wanted to hear what he had to say:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Webb