They Screamed Nuclear Threat — Iran Proposed a Brilliant Twist Instead

Right, so for over four decades, Western governments and Israeli leaders have warned the world of an impending Iranian nuclear bomb. Benjamin Netanyahu has personally been touting this for at least three decades himself, to even comical levels, holding up cartoon bombs at the United Nations, American presidents have spoken of "all options on the table," and sanctions have crippled Iran’s economy in the name of non-proliferation. Yet while Iran has endured suspicion, sabotage, and war threats, the West’s go to bad guy to cartoonish levels of ridiculousness, a far quieter truth goes completely ignored: Iran does not possess nuclear weapons, has never tested one, and has repeatedly renounced their development. Therefore it shouldn’t be a surprise to hear, though I’ll be surprised if you have, given how grossly underreported their latest diplomatic initiative is, Iran is now actively seeking to partner with Japan to lead a global movement for the abolition of all weapons of mass destruction (WMDs), reaffirming a long-standing doctrinal and legal stance against nuclear armament. Not only is this entirely keeping with their historical position on nuclear armament, but it brilliantly exposes all of the deceit at the heart of pro-Israel nuclear narratives against them and forces the world to confront the double standards of Western non-proliferation policy instead. Iran have flipped the script back on Israel and the West, so no wonder the mainstream media are all avoiding this story.
Right, so Iran and nuclear weapons, its still a topic being hammered at us by the mainstream media, even though, it really is a non story and just to make that clear, Iran have taken a rather clever step. They do seem to enjoy making the West look craven and dishonest and when it is so easy and wouldn’t you do likewise to your critics? Iran’s disarmament initiative is not only consistent with its long-held position against nuclear weapons, but also decisively unmasks the dishonesty of the Israeli and Western framing of Iran as a nuclear threat. This initiative, if we take it within the broader context of Iran’s religious, legal, and diplomatic posture, it’s long standing anti nuclear weapons stance and contrast that with Israel’s nuclear opacity and defiance of global norms, then the deliberate distortions that have long governed international discourse on nuclear proliferation in the Middle East, particularly when it comes to Iran, just fall apart completely.
Iran is a founding signatory to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), having ratified the treaty in 1970. As per its obligations under the NPT, Iran committed never to acquire or develop nuclear weapons and agreed to subject all its nuclear activities to the safeguards and verification mechanisms of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). As the UN Office for Disarmament Affairs affirms, the NPT rests on three pillars: non-proliferation, disarmament, and the peaceful use of nuclear energy. Iran has consistently emphasised its rights under the third pillar while upholding its responsibilities under the first.
Central to Iran’s rejection of nuclear weapons is a religious decree, a fatwa issued by Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. In a speech delivered to the people of East Azerbaijan and reiterated on multiple occasions, Khamenei stated unequivocally that the use, stockpiling, or development of nuclear weapons is forbidden under Islamic law. This fatwa, unlike many Western perceptions of clerical edicts, carries legislative and binding force within Iran’s political structure, it is a theocracy after all. As Khamenei declared, "We consider the use of such weapons as haraam [religiously prohibited] and believe that it is everyone’s duty to make efforts to secure humanity against this great disaster."
This theological position is not an afterthought or diplomatic manoeuvre. It reflects a deeply rooted doctrinal philosophy that aligns with humanitarian principles and Islamic jurisprudence. In a world where nuclear deterrence is often framed in secular, utilitarian terms, Iran’s fatwa represents a moral counter-narrative grounded in a faith-based ethic of restraint. This sets Iran apart not only from its regional adversaries but from all nuclear-armed states that attempt to rationalise their arsenals.
Despite the chorus of accusations, multiple IAEA reports have confirmed the absence of evidence that Iran has diverted nuclear material to weapons use. The IAEA's Final Assessment (GOV/2015/68) concluded that while Iran had conducted some feasibility studies with potential military dimensions before 2003, these activities did not progress to the level of a viable weapons programme and had ceased years before. Even following the collapse of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) after the US withdrawal in 2018, Iran's enrichment activities have remained under declared safeguards, and no credible evidence of weaponisation has ever emerged.
It is crucial to distinguish between technical capability and intent though. Iran's enrichment to 60% purity is often cited as evidence of breakout capacity, but weapons-grade uranium requires over 90% enrichment, and no diversion of material has occurred. The continued conflation of enrichment with weaponisation serves to maintain a narrative of imminent danger, rather than reflect scientific or legal realities. And now Iran are seeking to confront and debunk such narratives for good and doing so in such a way as to flip the argument back on many of their accusers.
In news that came out yesterday and today, Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has called upon Japan to join Iran in leading a global push to abolish all WMDs. Writing in Japan's influential Asahi Shimbun and echoed in Iranian media including Press TV, Tasnim News, and Borna, Araghchi invoked the shared suffering of the Iranian and Japanese people – victims of chemical warfare and atomic bombings, respectively – to build a moral alliance for universal disarmament, as Japan make ready to remember the events of the atomic bomb drops on Nagasaki and Hiroshima, the 80th anniversary of which is this coming week. Araghchi told his Japanese counterparts that Iran and Japan have both endured the horrors of weapons of mass destruction. Iran, being a victim of Saddam Hussein's chemical attacks, notably in Sardasht; Japan, the only nation to have suffered a nuclear bombardment. So the point was made that given their shared histories, it should oblige both nations to lead the global call to end all WMDs.
This proposal is not a departure from Iranian policy but its culmination. Iran’s moral posture against WMDs has always been rooted in experience and principle. The Iran-Iraq war saw Saddam Hussein’s forces deploy chemical weapons with US support and Western indifference – at that time he was their mate. Iran’s response was neither retaliation in kind nor pursuit of a nuclear deterrent, but a deepened commitment to multilateral disarmament.
By involving Japan, Iran brings moral weight and global credibility to its campaign. Japan is a pacifist nation with constitutional renunciations of war and nuclear armament. Its involvement would not only elevate Iran’s initiative but corner the West into confronting the hypocrisy of sanctioning Iran while ignoring Israel’s nuclear arsenal.
Moreover, this alignment has strategic implications as well. If Japan joins Iran in a joint disarmament framework, it not only creates diplomatic synergy between a Global South power and a Western-aligned industrial democracy, but it forces a re-evaluation of who sets the terms of global non-proliferation. Iran is repositioning itself not merely as a state under siege, but as a leader in a broader moral and humanitarian effort to rid the world of WMDs. The fact all those Iran is 3 weeks away from a nuclear weapon arguments would have a symbolic WMD set off under them is a bonus on top of that of course.
Israel is not a signatory to the NPT. It has never declared its nuclear weapons, never allowed IAEA inspections, and never acknowledged its arsenal, estimated at 80 to 90 warheads by SIPRI, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. Its nuclear opacity is enabled and protected by the United States, which maintains a policy of deliberate ambiguity in support of Israeli strategic dominance. This unofficial arrangement, originating from the Richard Nixon - Golda Meir agreement of 1969, allows Israel to retain its nuclear monopoly in the Middle East without international accountability.
Unlike Iran, Israel faces no inspections, no sanctions, no sabotage, and no international scrutiny. It is the only state in the Middle East with nuclear weapons, yet it accuses Iran – which has none – of destabilising the region. This hypocrisy has been the cornerstone of Benjamin Netanyahu’s political theatre. From UN speeches with cartoon bombs to covert operations and cyberattacks on Iranian facilities and all the strikes we saw back in June, Israel has built a narrative architecture in which its own arsenal disappears while Iran’s nonexistent bomb becomes a global obsession.
Whistleblowers like Mordechai Vanunu have provided detailed accounts of Israel’s weapons programme, confirming the Dimona facility’s role in weapons production. Yet Vanunu was imprisoned, and the global media quickly buried the revelations. Israel continues to evade the international disarmament framework with the tacit approval of Western powers.
The Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), while often aligned with Western policy views, acknowledges that Israeli strikes on Iranian facilities risked destabilising the region without achieving long-term deterrence. These attacks, alongside US sanctions, have served to do nothing but undermine diplomacy.
The Western media landscape has played a crucial role in constructing and perpetuating the myth of the Iranian bomb. Terms like "nuclear breakout," "clandestine programme," and "existential threat" are deployed with little scrutiny or evidentiary basis. Meanwhile, Israel’s arsenal is relegated to footnotes or treated as a taboo subject. This selective attention functions as propaganda: it centres Iran as a global pariah while rendering Israel invisible in the very arena where it poses the greatest threat.
Major outlets like the New York Times, CNN, and BBC have routinely repeated Israeli claims of an imminent Iranian bomb without interrogating their basis. Think tanks like the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) and Washington Institute for Near East Policy serve as echo chambers for pro-Israel talking points, amplifying threat narratives while erasing the context of Iran’s NPT membership, IAEA cooperation, and fatwa-based prohibition on nuclear weapons.
This media asymmetry distorts public perception and policymaking alike, which is also why you will never hear anything about this story in Western mainstream media. While Iran’s every enrichment activity is portrayed as a crisis, Israel’s actual arsenal is normalised or ignored. The net effect is to manipulate international attention, drawing it away from real proliferation risks and towards fictional ones. This is not journalism – it is narrative engineering in service of vested interests.
Iran’s overture to Japan and the global disarmament movement functions as diplomatic judo if you can forgive a cheesy analogy: it uses the moral momentum of its adversaries against them. Where Western states claim to support disarmament, Iran calls their bluff. Where Israel claims to fear Iranian WMDs, Iran calls for an end to WMDs altogether. Where the West weaponises the NPT against Iran, Iran reclaims it to demand universal compliance.
This is not a soft-power rebranding exercise; it is a direct challenge to the legitimacy of the post-WWII nuclear order, in which the haves dictate terms to the have-nots while violating every principle they claim to uphold. Iran’s move is both bold and grounded. It cannot be easily dismissed as insincere without exposing the insincerity of those who claim to champion non-proliferation.
Moreover, Iran’s initiative highlights the failure of nuclear-armed states to honour their Article VI obligations under the NPT – namely, to pursue negotiations in good faith toward disarmament. While Iran complies with its obligations as a non-nuclear state, the 5 permanent UN Security Council Members, namely, the US, UK, France, Russia and China have expanded or modernised their arsenals. By contrast, Iran’s disarmament call brings the treaty back to its moral core: mutual restraint and universal accountability. Who are really the grown ups in the room here eh?
Iran’s call comes at a time when Global South nations are increasingly rejecting Western double standards. From Latin America to Africa and Southeast Asia, there is a growing awareness that nuclear norms are selectively enforced. Iran’s partnership with Japan could galvanise a broader coalition to demand that all nuclear states – including the US, Russia, China, France, the UK, India, Pakistan, North Korea, and Israel – be held to the same standard.
In this context, Iran is not an outlier but a bellwether. Its consistent adherence to non-proliferation norms, despite enormous pressure, is more credible than the selective outrage of those who arm Israel while isolating Tehran. As UN records show, Iran has supported every major multilateral disarmament resolution, including those blocked by the US and Israel.
Countries within BRICS, the Non-Aligned Movement, NAM, and the Group Seventy-Seven nations, the G77, have all expressed increasing frustration with Western manipulation of the non-proliferation regime. Iran’s disarmament diplomacy could serve as a rallying point for a multipolar coalition advocating for equitable enforcement of nuclear norms. The involvement of Japan adds legitimacy and bridges the gap between traditional Western allies and the Global South.
Iran’s push for global disarmament in partnership with Japan is not a diversion from scrutiny; it is a demand for scrutiny — of everyone, equally. It is a reaffirmation of Iran’s religious, legal, and moral opposition to nuclear weapons. And it is a potent exposure of the sham non-proliferation narrative pushed by Israel and its Western allies. The Iranian bomb is a fiction, sustained not by uranium but by propaganda, by the silence around Israel’s arsenal, and by a Western media ecosystem that punishes those who expose the imbalance.
If nuclear weapons are a threat to humanity, then all who possess them must be challenged for that. Iran, unlike its accusers, has issued that challenge. The question now is whether the world will listen — or continue to fear the weapon that wasn’t, while ignoring the ones that are.
Speaking of terror alerts issued by Israel that might be a load of stuff and nonsense, even Abraham Accords Allies of Israel are not immune from attack when politically convenient, as the United Arab Emirates is now no longer safe for Israelis to travel to apparently, with Israel withdrawing diplomats, yet still keeping the embassies open, so is there a legitimate threat, or does it all have more to do with the UAE demanding Israel remove their scandalised ambassador and this is the cover story? Check out the details of that story in this video recommendation here as your suggested next watch.
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