In article <C5LIHI.389@ccu.umanitoba.ca> ebrahim@ee.umanitoba.ca (Mohamad Ebrahimi) writes: > >       I would like to share with netters a few points I picked up from the PBS >    Frontline program regarding Iran's nuclear activities, aired on Tuesday >    April 13. For the sake of brevity, I'll present them in some separate >    points. Already say it the other week on CBC Snoozeworld   >    1- As many other western programs, this program was laid on a bed of >    misinformation throughout the program, to maximize the effect of the >    program on the viewer. Some of the misinformations were as follows: Yeah, I thought Bonanza was full of lies about the West...                 > >    - While the number of martyrs during the sacred defense against Iraqi >    aggression has been officially announced to be about 117,000 and even most >    radical counter-revolutionary groups claim that Iran and Iraq had a total >    of one million dead, this program claims that Iran alone has one million >    dead left from the war. > >    - The translation of Iranian officials' talks are not 100% true. For >    example when Iranian head of Atomic Energy says that: " It hurts me to >    see that Iran is the subject of these unfriendly propaganda." The  >    translator says: " It hurts to see that Iran is doing unfriendly  >    research."! > >    2- Almost all alleged devices or material bought or planned to be bought >    by Iranians were of countless dual usage, while the program tries to  >    undermine their non-military uses, without any reference to Iran's >    big population and its inevitable need to other sources of energy in >    near future and its current deficit in electrical power.   Why the hell would such an oil rich (and hydroelectric potential to be exploited) spend billions on a nuclear energy programme?  >    3- The whole program is trying to show the Sharif University of  >    Technology as a nuclear research center, while even the cameramen of the >    program know well that in a country like Iran without a so tightly closed >    society no one can make a nuclear bomb in a university! Taking in account >    the scientific advancement of Sharif U. in engineering fields and its >    potential role in improvement of Iran's industries and eventually the >    lives of people, it is obvious that they are persuading other countries >    to prevent them from further helping this university or other ones >    in scientific and industrial efforts. > >    4- A key point in program's justifications is trying to disvalidate as >    much as possible all efforts done by IAEA [*] in their numerous visits from >    Iran's different sites. They say: "We are not sure if the places visited >    by IAEA are the real ones or not" !, or " We can not rely on IAEA's >    reports and observation, because they failed to see Iraq's nuclear >    activities before" as if they didn't know that Iraq was trying to build >    nuclear weapons!  Yeah, and we have every reason in the world to trust the Iranian regime. After all, they've been *so* forward with us in the past....  >    5- As an extremely personal opinion, the most disgusting aspect of the >    program was the arrogance of the member of US Senate foreign Affairs, >    William Triplet, in his way of talking, as if he was the god talking >    from the absolute knowledge!  Maybe he *is* God!  >       I hope all Iranians be aware of the gradual buildup against their >    country in western media, and I hope Iranian authorities continue to >    their wise and calculated approach with regard to international affairs >    and peaceful coexistence with friendly nations.