Welcome to the IRIS project

Like in other project websites, let us begin with something that everyone knows—or maybe not everyone, as current generations did not grow up in an era when video was only celluloid. And even then, when there were videos (VHS and Betamax), there was no YouTube, Dailymotion, Vimeo, TikTok, or Instagram. The first Internet video hosting site was ShareYourWorld.com, founded in 1997.

There are many definitions of history. However, the most simple way to explain it is to use the pictured images.

A celluloid film consists of a series of frames. Each frame is part of a scene,, which in turn may be part of a series of scenes. Together, they form a sequence, which is how a movie is built.

If you watch the whole film, you will see a chronology of frames, scenes, and sequences. In today's video technology, you don't need to stretch the movie. It's already done while you load it in a video editor.

Visualizing history is similar to this, meaning that you can imagine history as a complete movie unless you cut it into pieces to remove frames, scenes, or even a whole sequence that you don't want people to watch.

Like every movie, every event must have a beginning. Nothing happens in a vacuum; there is always a main cause or root that lies in the past.

And so it is about the Israeli-American nuclear politics against Iran.

In  December 1938, the radiochemists Otto Hahn (above, with Lise Meitner) and Fritz Strassmann, while bombarding elements with neutrons in their Berlin laboratory, made an unexpected discovery. They discovered the possibility of fission, the basis for an atomic bomb. It wasn't unnoticed by Albert Einstein. He warned Washington.

In 1942, the Americans were running a secret nuclear program in collaboration with the United Kingdom and Canada under the name "Manhattan Project.".

The introduction of nuclear militarization became a reality and would trigger the Cold War in 1947. So, the Americans were the real first introducers of nuclear militarization, President Dwight D. Eisenhower had no choice other than coming up with a plan, which only would create troubles in the Middle East.

On July 12, 1955.   Israel was the first to sign the Atoms for Peace Agreement, the US second. A year later, the European Zionist migrant, and first prime minister David Ben-Gurion, who has been known for his obsession with the nuclear Manhattan Project, violated  the agreement with the words:

Ben-Gurion spoke those words in the same year when the Israeli Zalman Mordechai Shapiro began to steal uranium from the NUMEC plant in Apollo, Pennsyvania to feed the Dimona reactor that was secretly built with the help of France, Paris withdrew from the illegal project as it suspected the Israelis of using the reactor for the production of nuclear weapons.

Iran had signed the agreement on March 5, 1957, which led to the establishment of the Tehran Nuclear Research Center ten years later.

To correct distributors of the photo here on the left, which has been shared without putting in the right context, it's the Soreq nuclear plant that was part of the agreement. The construction began in January 1958, and the reactor reached criticality in June 1960. The reactor is light water cooled and moderated with a light water reflector. It is operated six hours per day, two days per week, and forty weeks per year by a small staff of 16 (including six operators)

Israel started the secret construction work at the Dimona site almost synchronously with the construction of the Soreq nuclear plant.

However, the George Washington University claimed that it took the United States intelligence community almost three long years to "discover" the site for what it was, namely, a nuclear site under construction.

The discovery was by chance when an American businessman was on his way to Tel Aviv and came across the site. He went to the American embassy to ask if anyone at the embassy knew about the activities outside Dimona. The officials contacted Washington immediately 

In 1963, the battle of letters between US president John F. Kennedy and the European Zionist migrant, Ben-Gurion, broke out while Shapiro, was still unhindered stealing uranium from the NUMEC site.

The Israelis didn't build Dimona on their own:

In 1956, Egypt's president, Gamal Abdel Nasser, ordered the nationalization of the British-French Suez company that controlled the Suez Canal. Britain and France wanted the strategic canal back but were eager to start a war with Egypt. Both countries sought help from the Israelis. The Suez Crisis broke out.

The Israelis attacked Egypt by invading and colonizing Gaza

In return, France offered the Israelis help in the construction of Dimona. Gaza came under Israeli colonization from 1956 to 2005 and was blockaded from 2007 until the time of the war after October 7, 2023.

On October 9, 2016, Netanyahu announced the renaming of Dimona into the Shimon Perez Research Center as "Dimona" was too much linked to the roots of the real problem. However, Perez was involved in the conflict that broke out after President John F. Kennedy demanded full access to the site.

The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, also known as the Iran nuclear deal or Iran deal, is an agreement in an attempt to limit the Iranian nuclear program in return for sanctions relief and other provisions. It was adopted in 2015 and implemented in 2016.

But US-led agreements like the JCPOA are obsolete. Here is why:

As mentioned on the previous page, the United States is the real introducer of nuclear militarization and has never taken responsibility for the consequences its invention had inflicted, namely the Cold War and future encouragement to possess nuclear weapons.

Image on the left from the US Manhattan project archive.

David Ben-Gurion's violation in 1956 by breaking the promise not to be the first nuclear power in the Middle East,

John F. Kennedy is/was the only American president who tried to stop the Israelis from building a nuclear weapons program. He also warned about Israeli infiltration in the US government system. All those after his presidency have done nothing but defend the Israelis, who couldn't have built their nuclear weapons program without stealing highly enriched uranium from the Americans to build the Dimona reactor in secret.

Between 1967 and 1968, the Israelis managed to produce their first nuclear bomb. In response to the spread of the American invention into the Middle East, which the first Israeli nuclear bomb is, in 1968, the Non-Profiliration Treaty was introduced and open for signing. Iran signed. The Israelis refused even though they were the creators of the cause that prompted the NPT to exist.

During the 1973 Israeli war with Egypt, Moshe Dayan wanted to use a nuclear bomb due to the huge losses he saw on the battlefield. When he proposed Golda Meir to use a nuclear bomb, she furiously said 'NO'. Dayan would eventually drag the Israelis in another violation, the agreement that the US-delivered F4 Phantom fighter jets may not be used for carrying nuclear weapons.

In 1975, the Israelis and South Africa signed a agreement on military cooperation, that also included nuclear weapons. Like the Israelis, the South Africans were working on a nuclear weapons program at a site in the Kalahari Desert.

In 1979, both parties carried out a nuclear weapons test in the Indian Ocean. The Israelis, who are a signatory to the Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. Both violated the treaty.

Image on the left is illustrative

Back in the early 1960s, Ben Gurion defended his secret nuclear weapons production program by saying that the program was meant "to prevent a second holocaust from happening."

After the bombing and destruction of the Osirak nuclear facility near Baghad in 1981, Menachem Begin said at the UNGA, "Make sure that no enemy has a reactor." We view Begin's remark in the context of Ben-Gurion's words because his words also refers to "enemy". However, Begin's remark is hasbara for "Make sure that we're the only one with nuclear weapons." His words became the Menachem Begin doctrine, that was first used against Syria in 2007.

The Begin doctrine knows a political version.

On May 7, 2018, Netanyahu pushed Donald Trump to withdraw from the JCPOA the next day. It came clear the following day, when American officials admitted that the US and the Israelis coordinated closely in the lead up to Iran deal withdrawal.

AIPAC was founded by Israeli agent Isaiah Kenen. The abbreviation stands for 'American Israel Public Affairs Committee', which explains that the organization acts to respond to developments, including the JCPOA, to protect the interest of a foreign entity, not in the national, so internal interest of the country where it operates. Israel is not part of the United States. That makes AIPAC a foreign agent , according to the US FARA regulation, which was enacted in 1938, That is ten years before the invention of what is called "Israel." We have found three memos which show that the Zionist organization meddled in the JCPOA talks.by pushing for the interest the Israelis have.

Image on the right: Israeli tactical nuclear bomb.

Secret nuclear weapons are no longer secret when experts manage to count the number of nuclear warheads that the Israelis have in their arsenal, which was 90 between 1960 and 1979. But the number is supposed to be much higher as it should be considered that they never have ceased the nuclear weapons production in the more than 60-years old Dimona reactor.

The Israelis have made themselves a nuclear power via obsession (Ben-Gurion), premeditation, secrecy, organized crime, and spreading disinformation (= delbiberately falsifying information when both the JFK and Richard Nixon administrations requested explanantion.

Two Israeli doctrines, the Menachem Begin doctrine and the doctrine of ambiguity, are reasons to document to find out how ill-conceived these doctrines are.

The Begin doctrine is the common term for the Israeli government's preemptive strikes and counter-proliferation policy regarding their potential enemies' capability to possess weapons of mass destruction (WMD), notably nuclear weapons.

In 1982, at the UN General Assembly 1982, Menachem Begin said, "Make sure that no enemy has a reactor." The doctrine was introduced a year after the Israelis bombed and destroyed the Osirak nuclear facility in Iraq in 1981

However, it's hasbara for

• "Make sure that we're the only one with nuclear weapons."

• Justifying allowing itself for taking the right to violate the Law of Sovereignty and Independence of a country.

• covering up the character of attacks, that they are to protect Israel's nuclear military activities.

The Israel refuse to confirm or deny it has nuclear weapons or to describe how it would use them, a policy of deliberate ambiguity known as "nuclear ambiguity" or "nuclear opacity." This may look difficult for anyone outside the Israeli government to describe the Israeli true nuclear policy definitively,

However, saying that it is difficult to describe the Israeli true nuclear policy, is contrary to declassified documents on this project website. These documents make clear what the true nature of the Israeli nuclear politicy is.  The policy hallmarks a strategy of misleading, disinforming, and even has past-elements of resorting to organized crime.

The Israeli hasbara is a political 'language', which has its roots in earlier concepts of propaganda, agitprop, and censorship. It roughly means "explaining". It is a 'language' that "seeks to explain actions, whether or not they are justified". As it focuses on providing explanations about one's actions, hasbara has been called a "reactive and event-driven approach".

In the context of nuclear militarization, hasbara focuses on 'the other' while already having resorted to nuclear militarization at a time when no Arab countries showed interest, not even Iran under the Shah rule.

There are a lot of (scientific) publications available on the internet about Israeli nuclear weapons. Many of these documents are very detailed. You would not be able to write in detail if you don't have intelligence showing details. So, from where do investigators and researchers have this information? They have shown at least Israeli military nuclear ambitions. But the Israelis have never commented on these publications.

There is a saying, "Silence is the enemy of yourself as others will break it."

In April 2014, during the peace talks between the Israelis and the Palestinians led by US Secretary of State John Kerry, Netanyahu decided all of a sudden not to release the fourth and last batch of Palestinian prisoners. He triggered the run-up to the Gaza war of that year. US president, Barack Obama, retaliated by silently giving the order to declassify more than 80 documents belonging to the NUMEC files. Twenty-seven of them can be retrieved via our website. Netanyahu was furious, which is no other than showing yourself in a moment of abandoning the doctrine of ambiguity.

The reason why the Israelis refuse to join the Non-Profiliration Treaty is that the treaty would undermine the Begin doctrine and their doctrine of nuclear ambiguity as signing the NPT is confirming having nuclear weapons. 

In 2018, Mordechai Vanunu, who worked at the secretly built Dimona reactor, was convicted of "treason and espionage" for revealing Israeli nuclear secrets to the British Sunday Times. In the context of nuclear ambiguity, conviction under the pretext of espionage is exposing that you have a nuclear weapons production program because you admit that secrets about the production were shared with the outside world.

Two laters later, during a cabinet meeting, Netanyahu said "Israel is a nuclear power." In the media, his gaffe has been reported as 'slip over the tongue.' It did not come from there but from his toes as a Dutch saying goes when you fail to control yourself to prevent your real thoughts or feelings from going 'on air.'

Three examples which shows how obsolete the Israeli nuclear ambiguity is.

On October 26, 2005, a conference in Tehran was held with the title "The World Without Zionism".  The conference was attended by Jews. At that time, Mahmoud Ahmedinedjad was the president of Iran. He gave a speech that has been translated in many versions, like the following examples:

Al Jazeera::

• “The establishment of the Zionist regime was a move by the world oppressor against the Islamic world,”

• “The skirmishes in the occupied land are part of a war of destiny. The outcome of hundreds of years of war will be defined in Palestinian land.”

• “As the Imam said, Israel must be wiped off the map,” said Ahmadinejad, referring to Iran’s revolutionary leader Ayat Allah Khomeini.

The Guardian:

• "Anybody who recognises Israel will burn in the fire of the Islamic nation's fury, [while] any [Islamic leader] who recognises the Zionist regime means he is acknowledging the surrender and defeat of the Islamic world."

• "There is no doubt that the new wave [of attacks] in Palestine will wipe off this stigma [of Israel] from the face of the Islamic world."

However, Arash Norouzi of the Mossadegh Project noted in 2007 that Ahmadinejad "never... uttered the words 'map,' 'wipe out,' or even 'Israel'" in his statement. Rather, he argued, the translation should have been that "this regime occupying Jerusalem must vanish from the page of time."

This is a key difference because Ahmadinejad used the "vanish from the page of time" idiom elsewhere in his speech: when describing the governments of the Shah of Iran, the Soviet Union, and Saddam Hussein. While war and revolution were involved in the three regimes' collapse, none of them, Norouzi argued, were "wiped off the map." Rather, they underwent regime change. This, in turn, he said that Ahmadinejad was calling for regime change in Israel, not nuclear genocide.

It is this controversy that the Israelis picked up for their own interest while disregarding the discovery of the mistranslation.  The controversy brings us to Hezbollah. Because the politics of conflation of Iran-Hezbollah as the same has its roots can be linked to

On Google Search, many entries from Western sources describe Hezbollah as being founded by Iran. That is historically diverting the blame to a country that is not the cause.. The forming of Hezbollah emerged under the same circumstances Hamas was formed:. For Hezbollah, the Israeli occupation of Southern Lebanon from 1982 to 2000. For Hamas, the Israeli colonization of Gaza from 1956 to 2005.

It is the media to blame for the systematic conflation of Hezbollah and Iran as they were reluctant to rectify their mistranslation for two years..

The Israelis were exploiting this failure.

We all know that Iran is a strikt Islamic country. So, let us put the nuclear weapons issue in a religious context.

Unlike David Ben-Gurion, who brought the first introduction of nuclear militarization by the Americans into the Middle East in 1956, and Netanyahu who also appears to be obsessed of nuclear weapons, real Jews believe that only God has the right to take life away as stated in one of Moses' ten commandments: “Do not kill,” (Exodus 20:13).

In January 2012, the late US President, Jimmy Carter told the Times, that the Israelis have 300 nuclear bombs. Unfortunately, Times has removed the page from its website.  In a post on a deactivated blog of the Jerusalem Post, he said:

"Well, of course, the religious leaders of Iran have sworn on their word of honor that they’re not going to manufacture nuclear weapons. If they are lying, then I don’t see that as a major catastrophe because they’ll only have one or two military weapons. Israel probably has 300 or so."

Tthere are verses in the Quran that refer to mass killings and mass destruction during warfare. One such verse is this:

"“Fight in God’s cause against those who fight you, but do not overstep the limits: God does not love those who overstep the limits.” (2:190)

"Overstepping the limits" sounds very broad to us as it may include attacking non-combatants, starting acts of aggression, as well as reacting disproportionately to aggressions. "Overstepping the limits" sends at least the message that there are rules of jihad that prohibit any acts that may cause disproportionate harm to the enemy or, in other words, acts that may “overstep the limits.”

Here's another example:

“Prepare against them whatever forces you [believers] can muster, including warhorses, to frighten the enemies of God and of yours.” (8:60)   The phrase "... to frighten the enemy ..." reads like weapons of mass destruction, so nuclear weapons, are allowed but not to use them first. The Israeli warlord, Moshe Dayan wanted to use them first in 1973.

If such verses are known by the Iranians, then we can not rule out that their nuclear program have other means.

There is nothing about Iran's nuclear energy program on this website because it has been reported thousands of times more than about the Israeli nuclear weapons production program, particularly by the Western media.

Of course, we collect and document reports and other publications about developments on nuclear issues in Iran. But our view is by chronology, not by politics.

Iran didn't create nor start the nuclear conflict. Tehran decided to resume with a nuclear program some twenty years after the Israelis already had a first nuclear bomb in 1966-1967, and had the decision to do with the Iraq-Iran war from 1980 to 1988, despite the Iran Revolution in 1979.

Previously, we mentioned that the Non-Proliferation Treaty was introduced in response to the revelation that the Israelis had a first nuclear bomb. Iran may have signed that treaty, it is the Israelis who 'created' the momentum of having the treaty to exist. (What more has been an Israeli creation but brandished as made by Iran or from a(another) foreign country or entity?) It is one of the reasons why they refuse to join the NPT.

However, the main reason remains their politics of nuclear ambiguity. Because signing the treaty would mean admitting to having nuclear weapons in their possession.

However, the United States claims that the Non-Proliferation Treaty was an agreement that pledged cooperation by countries who signed.

The JCPOA agreement can be considered as some sort of extension to the NPT. In this context, the US but under the two Trump administrations, have shown not being cooperative as Trump and Netanyahu were closely coordinating before Trump announced his withdrawal from the JCPOA.

The Israeli nuclear policy has no legitimacy, not just because it is ambiguous but most of all because it is a tool that successively diverts attention away to Iran's nuclear energy program, which is (still) not a nuclear weapons program.