Scoop: CIA director doubts Iran's intentions on deal, sources say

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7. Israel secretly worked primarily with France to develop its nuclear weapons capability in the 1960s.

While everything about their acquisition of nuclear technology remains secretive, the US is believed to have provided unofficial assistance with scientists sharing knowledge, even though our policy was to prevent nuclear proliferation. Ben Gurion wanted weapons to use against Israel's Arab neighbors. Many analysts have argued that Israel's nuclear capabilities have destabilized the region rather than working as a deterrent against its protection.

Oddly enough, in 1967 the U.S.-supplied 5-megawatt Tehran Research Reactor (TRR) was started up for production of atomic energy, not weapons. By 1970 Iran had signed the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT). Israel refused to sign. It seems possible that had Israel not secretly acquired nuclear bomb technology, Iran would not have done so either.

So today we have complete instability in the Middle East and hundreds of thousands of people killed since 1948, and with no end in sight. Trump has done nothing but exacerbate the problems there.