U.S. endorsed Iranian plans to build massive nuclear energy industry

[Clara T]

 
March 5, 2006 – In 1976, President Gerald R. Ford signed a directive that granted Iran the opportunity to purchase U.S. built reprocessing equipment and facilities designed to extract plutonium from nuclear reactor fuel. When Gerald Ford assumed the Presidency in August 1974, the current Vice President of the United States, Richard B Cheney served on the transition team and later as Deputy Assistant to the President. In November 1975, he was named Assistant to the President and White House Chief of Staff, a position he held throughout the remainder of the Ford Administration.<1>
 
In August 1974, the current Secretary of Defense, Donald H. Rumsfeld served as Chairman of the transition to the Presidency of Gerald R. Ford. He then became Chief of Staff of the White House and a member of the President's Cabinet (1974-1975)<2> and was the Ford Administration’s Secretary of Defense from 1975–1977.  
 
The current President of the World Bank, Paul Wolfowitz served in the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency under President Gerald Ford.<3>  Wolfowitz is considered as a prominent architect of the Bush Doctrine, which has come to be identified with a policy that permits pre-emptive war against potential aggressors before they are capable of mounting attacks against the United States. 
 
According to Washington Post Staff Writer Dafna Linzer, “Ford’s team endorsed Iranian plans to build a massive nuclear energy industry, but also worked hard to complete a multibillion-dollar deal that would have given Tehran control of large quantities of plutonium and enriched uranium – the two pathways to a nuclear bomb.  Either can be shaped into the core of a nuclear warhead, and obtaining one or the other is generally considered the most significant obstacle to would-be weopons builders.”<4>

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[tularetom]

1. I'll bet if you did the research

you would find that those two assholes (cheney and rumsfeld) were involved in just about every foreign policy fuckup that the US has made over the past 30 years.

[Clara T]

2. Don't forget "The Godfather"

George Schultz as Rumsfeld was/is essentially Becthels errand boy as in Gulf of Aqaba deal that Saddam backed out on as well as Nuclear "Energy" programs all over the place.

Rummy and Dick are corporate mafia errand boys disguised as government officials, at the highest levels. Scary.

[acmejack]

3. Those two have played both ends against the middle for the last 40 years!

Just as you say. Don't forget GHWB and Carlyle Grp, there are a bunch of people who have become fabulously wealthy off of this as well. Albright Grp has done well, too. Everyone on top has got to play! And play they have, their game will soon be revealed to our great chagrin. We are being played for the fools we are.

[Monkey see Monkey Do]

4. To be fair, Iran was a huge US ally then

and (pre Three Mile Island & Chernobyl) nuclear power was seen a good thing.


edit - just to say, I get the point about the utter hypocrisy & the never reported history, but that's the wanky media today for you (see Iraq, Afghanistan, etc)

[Clara T]

5. kick for truth