Nuclear watchdog agency says Iran not cooperating

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43. None of that makes Kissinger's statements about the diversion untrue, nor does it change the fact

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that we are applying an unethical double standard by punishing Iran for something Israel has gotten way with because for decades that country has been using the threat of first-use of its illegally obtained nuclear weapons to blackmail the U.S.

BTW: Kissinger and Nixon are hardly the only source for this. Hersh can hardly be accused of either antisemitism or being a friend of Nixon's. There are dozens of others, but the burden is on you to source any authorities that might refute this.

P.S. - Israel has repeatedly used its threat of first-use against other nations in the region to blackmail the U.S. to take more aggressive action. According to Tony Blair's aide, Alistair Campbell, Ariel Sharon applied pressure on George Bush to invade Iraq. At a 2002 NATO meeting in Prague, Bush related to Blair that Sharon had made such a threat. An account in The Guardian reports: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jun/15/pakistan-boasted-nuclear-strike-pakistan?newsfeed=true

Campbell also relays another nuclear threat a year later when George Bush told Blair he feared that Ariel Sharon, the former Israeli prime minister, was planning to launch a nuclear attack against Iraq. In an account of a conversation with Bush at a Nato summit in Prague in November 2002, as diplomatic pressure intensified on Saddam Hussein, Campbell writes: "[George Bush] felt that if we got rid of Saddam, we could make progress on the Middle East. He reported on some of his discussions with [Ariel] Sharon, and said he had been pretty tough with him. Sharon had said that if Iraq hit Israel, their response would 'escalate' which he took to mean go nuclear. Bush said he said to him 'You will not, you will not do that, it would be crazy.' He said he would keep them under control, adding 'A nuke on Baghdad, that could be pretty tricky.'"