Iran Would Already Have A Nuke

1984: West German intelligence sources claim that Iran’s production of a bomb "is entering its final stages." US Senator Alan Cranston claims Iran is seven years away from making a weapon. (Iranian nuclear specialists had no knowledge of how to enrich uranium and had no technology with which to do it.) 1987: Iraq targeted Iranian civilians with chemical weapons. Iranian Prime Minister Mir Hossein Mousavi said in a late December 1987 speech that Iran "is capable of manufacturing chemical weapons" and added that a "special section" had been set up for "offensive chemical weapons." Mousavi refrained from saying that Iran actually had chemical weapons, and he hinted that Iran was constrained by religious considerations. Rafighdoost recalls Khomeini asking rhetorically, "If we produce chemical weapons, what is the difference between me and Saddam?". The supreme leader was unmoved by the new danger presented by the Iraqi gas attacks on civilians. "It doesn’t matter whether it is on the…