Tell Me Something I Don’t Know

I was disappointed by this story in the Wall Street Journal. It starts out interestingly enough with involved espionage by the Israelis on the Iranians. But then we get to this:

Israeli officials acknowledge that the documents are dated; much of the activity they allegedly chronicle occurred before 2003. That is when Iran disclosed and appeared to halt much of its known nuclear research in the wake of the U.S. invasion of Iraq and President George W. Bush’s designation of Iran as part of an “axis of evil,” which led to speculation Iran might be next on the American hit list.

Moreover, much of the activity the documents chronicle already was disclosed or suggested in IAEA reports in 2011 and 2015.

or, in other words the mountain labored and brought forth a mouse. We knew that the Iranians had a nuclear weapons development program that they ended in 2003. We don’t know how far advanced it was but I wouldn’t be surprised if our intelligence services (not to mention Israel’s intelligence service) did.

If the documents had proven that Iran continued its nuclear weapons development after 2003, that would have been big news. Without such information it’s just a propaganda campaign.

I avoid trying to figure out people’s motives. I can see what they do and understand its consequences but I can’t look into their hearts or read their minds so I avoid trying to do so. That having been said it’s hard not to conclude that there are some people who will settle for nothing less than war between the United States and Iran.