Brazil's Lula doubts Iran nuclear bomb claims

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has publicly expressed skepticism about claims that Iran is developing a nuclear bomb. In a statement on social media, he drew a direct comparison to the false intelligence used to justify the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003, saying, 'I do not believe Iran is building a nuclear bomb — just as I did not believe that Saddam had nuclear weapons when Bush invaded Iraq.' Lula suggested that such claims are periodically used to build a 'false myth' to justify irresponsible opposition, implicitly criticizing the current US posture toward Iran. This statement places Brazil's leader in direct opposition to the core justification for the ongoing US military and diplomatic pressure campaign against Tehran.