Iran’s Ever-Ticking Nuclear Clock: Countdown to Nothing
By Nima Shirazi | Wide Asleep in America | November 22, 2014
Recycled rhetoric that sounds ominous, yet signifies nothing – least of all reality – is standard practice when fear-mongering about, well, anything. But especially about Iran’s nuclear program, constant threats to bomb it, and the dire predictions of how soon Iran will have an atomic weapon.
Time is always running out on diplomacy, a military operation is always around the corner, and Iran is always just months away from decimating Israel and holding the world hostage with a single nuclear bomb that it isn’t even making. The clock, we hear ad nauseum, is ticking.
With nuclear negotiations nearing their latest deadline in Vienna this weekend, we are hearing – once again – that it’s “crunch time” for diplomacy and anything less than a comprehensive deal sets the stage for war.
While a fair and just nuclear deal would certainly be in the best interest of all parties involved, we’ve heard all this before. The “clock” has long been “ticking” when it comes to Iran, or so we’ve been told for over a decade now.
Here’s a little trip down memory-hole lane and here’s hoping that, come Monday and the inking of an multilateral agreement, this talking point’s time will finally be up.
Associated Press / The Columbus Dispatch, November 9, 2014:
New Europe – October 16, 2014:
Council on Foreign Relations, September 17, 2014:
Newser, July 15, 2014:
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SBS, February 19, 2014:
CNN, January 13, 2014:
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Roll Call, August 2, 2013:
American Enterprise Institute, July 10, 2013:
BBC News, April 7, 2013:
The Wall Street Journal, March 13, 2013:
The Hill, March 5, 2013:
The Telegraph, December 26, 2012:
James G. Zumwalt, December 26, 2012:
CBS DC, October 22, 2012:
The Sydney Morning Herald, October 2, 2012:
Foreign Policy, August 30, 2012:
The American Spectator, August 27, 2012:
Ha’aretz, August 14, 2012:
Albuquerque Journal, June 28, 2012:
Reuters, June 21, 2012:
NewsMax, February 8, 2012:
CBS Sunday Morning, January 15, 2012:
The New York Times, December 29, 2011:
The Weekly Standard, December 19, 2011:
AEI Center for Defense Studies, December 12, 2011:
UPI, November 9, 2011:
The Hill, November 8, 2011:
Associated Press, November 4, 2011:
New York Post, January 18, 2011:
The Atlantic, August 20, 2010:
The New York Times, March 19, 2010:
Voice of America, December 6, 2009:
The Spectator (UK), December 1, 2009:
New York Post, November 16, 2009:
Christian Science Monitor, November 3, 2009:
Los Angeles Times, September 20, 2009:
Meet the Press, June 21, 2009:
Politico, June 19, 2009:
The Washington Post, March 8, 2009:
EurasiaNet, June 13, 2008:
Toronto Star, May 17, 2008:
Los Angeles Times, August 2, 2006:
Institute for Science and International Security, March 27, 2006:
Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP), May 26, 2005:
Dawn, March 19, 2005:
Voice of America, September 19, 2004:
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