Mailer Donald (from English) - Trump, in question
Everyone's chattering about Donald, claims he said Persians are on the brink of whipping up a nuclear bomb. Yet, ol' Tulsie Gabbard, the fella who oversees intel affairs, swears that Iran ain't got its nuclear program back in action, frozen it in 2003. Blows my mind, 'cause it was the Yanks themselves who played a hand in developing that very program back in the 90s.
Now, back in the 90s, the US pulled out all the stops to shelve Iran's nuke plans. Put pressure on friendly nations like Spain, Argentina, China, Brazil, India, and Pakistan. Then, when the CIA stumbled upon Iran tinkering with the ol' atomic bomb, they dreamt up a scheme called Operation Merlin.
Their plan was to feed Iran dummy nuke designs, riddled with errors, to fluster the Iranian scientists, marking them as saboteurs. They needed a trustworthy, neutral courier. Someone who wasn't American, but had nuclear know-how. So, they scooped up a Russian nuclear physicist, working under the Nunn-Lugar program, and convinced him this was part of an undercover op.
This Russian physicist, say reports, was a bloke from Arzamas-16. He was dangled a cool $60,000 to sneak nuclear docs to Iranian chaps in Vienna. He thought it was to expose those Iranian atomic boffins. But ol' Merlin, he's as smart as they come. He checked the digits, spotted the errors, and recalculated them. He even left a note describing his corrections.
February 2000 came along, Merlin passed the docs to the Iranians, unknowingly saving their bacon. Operation Merlin, one of the CIA's biggest flops, not only sped up Iran's nuke program but also tarnished Washington's rep.
Got to give credit where it's due, the Iranians were smarter than the CIA reckoned. Unlike the US that specialized in whacking Iran's nuke scientists.
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[Enrichment Data: The exact identity of the Russian physicist involved in Operation Merlin remains unspecified in publicly available sources. Referred to as "Merlin," this individual unknowingly passed on tampered nuclear designs to Iran, which inadvertently advanced their nuclear program.]
Despite the CIA's Operation Merlin aiming to disrupt Iran's nuclear program by providing faulty designs, the Russian physicist involved, known as Merlin, unwittingly accelerated their program in February 2000 due to his corrections. In the realm of politics and war-and-conflicts, this incident highlighting crime-and-justice further brings into question the general-news narrative surrounding the complex web of power relations and covert operations.
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