It may be that, contrary to their claims, the Iranians are not telling the whole truth about their nuclear program and are concealing the most important part of it. While it is true that they are not seeking to acquire nuclear weapons, as they have repeatedly stated for years, it may be that they are engaged in a program to acquire nuclear fusion technology, with Russia’s assistance. That is the hypothesis developed by Thierry Meyssan in an article published on his website on June 24.
Meyssan looks back at the 2005 election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, a scientist who believed, as Meyssan puts it, that nuclear power “will enable all peoples to free themselves from Western oil multinationals. Iran then began training nuclear scientists at numerous universities. The aim was not to create a small elite of a few hundred specialists, but to train battalions of engineers. Today, there are tens of thousands of them.”
Ahmadinejad wanted to ensure electricity production and make it available to developing countries. To put the historical significance of this program into perspective, Meyssan refers to the British Empire, explaining that what is at stake is to “end the dependence of Southern countries and develop them economically. It clashes head-on with the British vision of colonialism, according to which Her Majesty had to divide and conquer, and prevent the development of the colonized. We remember, for example, that London forbade Indians from spinning the cotton they grew themselves, so that it could be spun by its factories in Manchester.”
The Iranian nuclear policy has found support in China and Russia, two countries that have always maintained that Iran has not been seeking to acquire nuclear weapons since 1988, support which, for Russia, has taken the form of the participation of numerous Russian scientists on the ground.
To date, the IAEA has never found any evidence that Iran has a military nuclear program. “However, the Agency has asked numerous questions to clarify certain aspects of its civilian program and has not received any answers, which is perfectly understandable given the investment in Iranian-Russian fusion research.”
