Jim Fetzer: Why is the US targeting Iran?

An abundance of reasons: The situation with Iran is completely absurd, unless there is a hidden motive. Iran poses no military threat to the United States. Iran has not attacked any other country for more than 300 years. It has signed the Non-Proliferation Treaty. It allows inspectors. In 2007, 16 US intelligence agencies converged, in the opinion that Iran is not pursuing nuclear weapons, an opinion they reaffirmed in 2011. The Supreme Leader of Iran has declared, "Nuclear energy for all, nuclear weapons for none", which is the policy of the nation. Whatever the motive for targeting Iran, it is not the development of nukes. If the issue were the possession of nuclear weapons, then we should be looking in another direction. Israel has not signed the Non Proliferation Treaty. Israel will not allow inspectors. Israel runs the largest concentration camp in the world in Palestine, and is known for the brutality of its treatment of the Palestinian people, where Israel Defense Forces are known for their practice of randomly shooting young Palestinian children. If there is a nuclear threat in the Middle East, that threat comes from Israel, not Iran. Moreover, one country appears to be using nuclear weapons in the Middle East, which is not Iran, but the United States. Dr. Christopher Busby, an expert on connections between cancer and birth defects, in relation to the use of nuclear weapons, has concluded, based on his study of anomalies in Fallujah, that the US has deployed a new type of nuclear weapon, probably a neutron bomb, in Iraq. While he came to the region in the expectation that he would discover the birth defects that have become so prevalent there, where 75% of live births suffer from serious genetic abnormalities, was from the use of depleted uranium weapons, what he found was more alarming: They were caused, not by a DU, but by enriched uranium from the use of a new class of weapons. Since Israel has a vast stockpile, and Iran is not pursuing nuclear weapons, any concerns about them ought to be directed at Israel, not Iran. A more likely explanation, therefore, is that the peaceful development of nuclear energy is the real problem, while Iran has the potential to produce nuclear fuel rods at a fraction of the cost of those produced by the US nuclear energy industry. This consideration is not even mentioned, much less discussed in the mass media in the United States, even though, upon reflection, the US industry must be panic stricken over the prospect that Iran is virtually certain to dominate the global market for nuclear fuel rods, and drive the US industry to bankruptcy.