Lex Fridman Podcast
#473 β Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East
No, they hadn't.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#473 β Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East
Natanz was empty until the end of 2006, right?
Lex Fridman Podcast
#473 β Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East
They didn't even start spinning centrifuges in there until 2006.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#473 β Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East
and overthrew Saddam Hussein for them, that was when they gave up even considering the need for it.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#473 β Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East
Remember, the Iranians held a million-man vigil for the Americans on September 11th.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#473 β Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East
The Iranians hated the Taliban.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#473 β Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East
In fact, the Americans thought Iran might invade Afghanistan earlier in 2001, and they hated Saddam Hussein.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#473 β Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East
So they had every reason in the world to want to work with the United States after September 11th.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#473 β Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East
I already told you I don't take their word for anything.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#473 β Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East
And as far as I understand, the accusations in there are the same ones from the laptop that are already discredited.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#473 β Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East
And I haven't read David Albright's book.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#473 β Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East
You're distracting from me refuting this giant list of false claims that you made previously.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#473 β Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East
Yeah, God changed his mind after the neoconservatives lied America into war with Iraq for Ariel Sharon.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#473 β Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East
Well, I can tell you that... So Gareth's book came out in 2014, which is before this archive was supposedly revealed in Tehran.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#473 β Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East
But in Gareth's book, he shows that the CIA and National Intelligence Estimate of 2007 that said that there was a program before 2003 and was halted after America invaded Iraq was...
Lex Fridman Podcast
#473 β Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East
based on, one, the DIA's mistaken but sincere interpretation of these invoices for these dual-use technologies, and then the smoking laptop, which was completely fake and funneled into the stream by the Mujahideen e-cult, communist terrorist cult, the same people who've come off with, you know, 10 major hoaxes at NCRI.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#473 β Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East
They just put out...
Lex Fridman Podcast
#473 β Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East
The NCRI, the National Council for Resistance in Iran, that's the MEK.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#473 β Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East
They just put out a fake story, what, three, four weeks ago about a big secret nuclear weapons site in Iran.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#473 β Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East
Don't you remember?