Does Evidence Support the Claim that Iran Violated A Weapons Agreement?
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Date: 2020-08-15
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James
Is this another propaganda BS effort from America? Remember that time they tried to blame Assad for the gas attacks in Syria.
The 2013 Ghouta event, for example, employed home-made rockets of the type favored by insurgents. The White House Memorandum on Khan Sheikhoun seemed to rely heavily on testimony from the Syrian White Helmets who were filmed at the scene having contact with supposed Sarin-tainted casualties and not suffering any ill effects.
Likewise, these same actors were filmed wearing chemical weapons training suits around the supposed point of impact in Khan Sheikhoun, something which makes their testimony (and samples) highly suspect. A training suit offers no protection at all, and these people would all be dead if they had come into contact with real military-grade Sarin.
Chemical weapons are abhorrent and illegal, and no one knows this more than Carla Del Ponte. She, however, was unable to fulfill her U. N. Joint Investigative Mechanism mandate in Syria and withdrew in protest over the United States refusing to fully investigate allegations of chemical weapons use by rebels (jihadis) allied with the American effort to oust President Assad (including the use of Sarin by anti-Assad rebels.
The fact that U. N. investigators were in Syria when the chemical weapon event in Khan Sheikhoun occurred in April 2017 makes it highly dubious that Assad would have given the order to use Sarin at that time. Common sense suggests that Assad would have chosen any other time than that to use a banned weapon that he had agreed to destroy and never employ.
Furthermore, he would be placing at risk his patronage from Russia if they turned on him as a war criminal and withdrew their support for him.
Tactically, as a former soldier, it makes no sense to me that anyone would intentionally target civilians and children as the White Helmet reports suggest he did.
There is compelling analysis from Gareth Porter suggesting that phosphine could have been released by an airborne munition striking a chemical depot, since the clouds and casualties (while organophosphate-appearing in some respects) do not appear to be similar to MilSpec Sarin, particularly the high-test Russian bomb-carried Sarin which independent groups like bellingcat insist was deployed.
Americas credibility was damaged by Colin Powell at the United Nations in 2003 falsely accusing Saddam Hussein of having mobile anthrax laboratories. Fast forward to 2017 and we encounter Nikki Haley in an uncomfortably similar situation at the U. N. Security Council calling for action against yet another non-Western head-of-state based on weak, unsubstantiated evidence.
Now Secretary Mattis has added fuel to the WMD propaganda doubters fire by retroactively calling into question the rationale for an American cruise missile strike.
While in no way detracting from the horror of what took place against innocent civilians in Syria, it is time for America to stop shooting first and asking questions later.
Ian Wilkie is an international lawyer, U. S. Army veteran and former intelligence community contractor.
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Is this another propaganda BS effort from America? Remember that time they tried to blame Assad for the gas attacks in Syria.
The 2013 Ghouta event, for example, employed home-made rockets of the type favored by insurgents. The White House Memorandum on Khan Sheikhoun seemed to rely heavily on testimony from the Syrian White Helmets who were filmed at the scene having contact with supposed Sarin-tainted casualties and not suffering any ill effects.
Likewise, these same actors were filmed wearing chemical weapons training suits around the supposed point of impact in Khan Sheikhoun, something which makes their testimony (and samples) highly suspect. A training suit offers no protection at all, and these people would all be dead if they had come into contact with real military-grade Sarin.
Chemical weapons are abhorrent and illegal, and no one knows this more than Carla Del Ponte. She, however, was unable to fulfill her U. N. Joint Investigative Mechanism mandate in Syria and withdrew in protest over the United States refusing to fully investigate allegations of chemical weapons use by rebels (jihadis) allied with the American effort to oust President Assad (including the use of Sarin by anti-Assad rebels.
The fact that U. N. investigators were in Syria when the chemical weapon event in Khan Sheikhoun occurred in April 2017 makes it highly dubious that Assad would have given the order to use Sarin at that time. Common sense suggests that Assad would have chosen any other time than that to use a banned weapon that he had agreed to destroy and never employ.
Furthermore, he would be placing at risk his patronage from Russia if they turned on him as a war criminal and withdrew their support for him.
Tactically, as a former soldier, it makes no sense to me that anyone would intentionally target civilians and children as the White Helmet reports suggest he did.
There is compelling analysis from Gareth Porter suggesting that phosphine could have been released by an airborne munition striking a chemical depot, since the clouds and casualties (while organophosphate-appearing in some respects) do not appear to be similar to MilSpec Sarin, particularly the high-test Russian bomb-carried Sarin which independent groups like bellingcat insist was deployed.
Americas credibility was damaged by Colin Powell at the United Nations in 2003 falsely accusing Saddam Hussein of having mobile anthrax laboratories. Fast forward to 2017 and we encounter Nikki Haley in an uncomfortably similar situation at the U. N. Security Council calling for action against yet another non-Western head-of-state based on weak, unsubstantiated evidence.
Now Secretary Mattis has added fuel to the WMD propaganda doubters fire by retroactively calling into question the rationale for an American cruise missile strike.
While in no way detracting from the horror of what took place against innocent civilians in Syria, it is time for America to stop shooting first and asking questions later.
Ian Wilkie is an international lawyer, U. S. Army veteran and former intelligence community contractor.
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foolish American president Drum's administration and his milking Saudis to condemn IR of Iran for supplying Houthis this long range missiles. haven't seen the Yemeni military parades Of assabeen square displaying hundreds of different range Russian and Korean made missiles before Houthis came to Power. when Ali Abdullah Saleh was a president of Yemen, who's close ally with Saudi Arabia and foe to Iranians by that time.
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foolish American president Drum's administration and his milking Saudis to condemn IR of Iran for supplying Houthis this long range missiles. haven't seen the Yemeni military parades Of assabeen square displaying hundreds of different range Russian and Korean made missiles before Houthis came to Power. when Ali Abdullah Saleh was a president of Yemen, who's close ally with Saudi Arabia and foe to Iranians by that time.
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Southern
Thanks New York Times you're starting to be a respectable reporting agency again hopefully you'll keep up with the real news and stop following in the footsteps of the rest of the MSM news.
Good luck on your future endeavors, fair and equal news is all we ask for stop your Trump bashing agenda and just give us the news the real news the whole story not just one side.
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Thanks New York Times you're starting to be a respectable reporting agency again hopefully you'll keep up with the real news and stop following in the footsteps of the rest of the MSM news.
Good luck on your future endeavors, fair and equal news is all we ask for stop your Trump bashing agenda and just give us the news the real news the whole story not just one side.
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multisphere1
It is so clear that America conspires with Saudis and Israel against Iran.
And don hesitate to falsify the evidence, or whatever else the trio is capable of doing to deceive public, to provoke and justify sanctions and even war. This trio is planing bad, bad troubles to the world! Dont get deceived by their lies.
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It is so clear that America conspires with Saudis and Israel against Iran.
And don hesitate to falsify the evidence, or whatever else the trio is capable of doing to deceive public, to provoke and justify sanctions and even war. This trio is planing bad, bad troubles to the world! Dont get deceived by their lies.
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Philippe
Nikki Haley's evidence regarding the Iranian Missile reminds me Colin Powell waving a small vial that would have contained Bacteriological Weapons when it was just apple juice. Nice try but once not two.
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Nikki Haley's evidence regarding the Iranian Missile reminds me Colin Powell waving a small vial that would have contained Bacteriological Weapons when it was just apple juice. Nice try but once not two.
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Ishfaq
If the Iranian people want nuclear weapons and it is there nationalist demand - then who are the US to stop them achieving this. If the US can have 28000 then Iran should be allowed to have them too
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If the Iranian people want nuclear weapons and it is there nationalist demand - then who are the US to stop them achieving this. If the US can have 28000 then Iran should be allowed to have them too
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Richard
This lazy spectacle is the Trumpian equivalent of aluminum tubes.
Trumps lies gives the rest of his cabal license to insult the intelligence of the American people on a daily basis.
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This lazy spectacle is the Trumpian equivalent of aluminum tubes.
Trumps lies gives the rest of his cabal license to insult the intelligence of the American people on a daily basis.
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Arashk
They always try to blame everything on Iran even though they have supported the biggest the terrorist state in the world which is Saudi Arabia and no one is believing them this time.
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They always try to blame everything on Iran even though they have supported the biggest the terrorist state in the world which is Saudi Arabia and no one is believing them this time.
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tube3365
This is just laughable. Saudi is raining U. S. bombs on innocent Yeminis and they're pointing to a single missle and building a case against Iran!
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This is just laughable. Saudi is raining U. S. bombs on innocent Yeminis and they're pointing to a single missle and building a case against Iran!
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His
Why doesn't this report have more views? They're trying to drag us into another economy-crushing and unethical, destabilizing, hatred-breeding war.
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Why doesn't this report have more views? They're trying to drag us into another economy-crushing and unethical, destabilizing, hatred-breeding war.
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