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Iran rejects nuclear inspections unless Israel allows them
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| hardcore trancer |
Source:http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080505...nference_iran_1
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GENEVA - An Iranian envoy said Monday his government will not submit to extensive nuclear inspections while Israel stays outside the global treaty to curb the spread of atomic weapons.
"The existing double standard shall not be tolerated anymore by non-nuclear-weapon states," Ambassador Ali Asghar Soltanieh told a meeting of the 190 countries that have signed the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty.
Nuclear safeguards are far from universal, he said, adding that more than 30 countries are still without a comprehensive safeguard agreement with the International Atomic Energy Agency to ensure full cooperation with that U.N. body.
"Israel, with huge nuclear weapons activities, has not concluded" such an agreement or submitted its facilities to the IAEA's safeguards, Soltanieh said.
Israel, which does not discuss whether it has atomic weapons, did not sign the nonproliferation treaty, which requires all signatories except the major powers to refrain from obtaining nuclear arms. India and Pakistan, which have developed nuclear weapons, also are not signatories.
Iran did sign the treaty and is under U.N. Security Council sanctions meant to pressure the Tehran government into allowing inspections that will ensure it isn't developing nuclear weapons. Iran insists its atomic program is peaceful, with the sole goal of using reactors to generate electricity.
A U.S. envoy accused Iran of "provocative and destabilizing activities" and said its leaders were responsible for leading the country into the sanctions imposed by the Security Council.
"The path of defiance is also the path of isolation, of continuing and additional sanctions and of further stunted economic opportunities for a proud and sophisticated people already suffering from economic turmoil and mismanagement by its regime's leaders," said Christopher A. Ford, U.S. special representative for nuclear nonproliferation.
Ford said Iran joined North Korea and Syria in weakening the nonproliferation treaty.
"This treaty regime faces today the most serious tests it has ever faced: the ongoing nuclear weapons proliferation challenges presented by Iran, by North Korea and now by Syria," Ford said.
Ford cited U.S. intelligence that North Korea was helping Syria in "secretly constructing a nuclear reactor that we believe was not intended for peaceful purposes." Syria denied last week that it was working on an undeclared reactor, which purportedly was destroyed by an Israeli airstrike last September.
Soltanieh said nuclear-armed powers like the United States, Britain and France are practicing "nuclear apartheid" by denying or restricting peaceful atomic technology to countries like Iran.
"Access of developing countries to peaceful nuclear materials and technologies has been continuously denied to the extent that they have had no choice than to acquire their requirements for peaceful uses of nuclear energy, including for medical and industrial applications, from open markets," Soltanieh said.
This usually means the material is more expensive, poorer quality and less safe, he said.
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It is about time for somebody to speak up about Israel's nuclear weapons.
the Iranians aren't stupid. Many might like to think of them as barbaric and intolerant, but they aren't stupid. |
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| jerZ07002 |
| quote: | Originally posted by hardcore trancer
Source:http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080505...nference_iran_1
It is about time for somebody to speak up about Israel's nuclear weapons.
the Iranians aren't stupid. Many might like to think of them as barbaric and intolerant, but they aren't stupid. |
if iran is to be believe that they would actually allow inspectors, which probably is not the case, the request is actually not unreasonable. although, i'm not sure what it would accomplish. |
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| hardcore trancer |
| No matter what Iran does in the eye of the U.S they will always remain to be a terrorist nation. |
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| Lemonad |
| quote: | Originally posted by hardcore trancer
No matter what Iran does in the eye of the U.S they will always remain to be a terrorist nation. |
I don't think it's Americas fault, its the terrorist nation Israels fault for blind sightings USA.
America used to be major friends with Iran, remember that. |
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| Krypton |
| quote: | Originally posted by Lemonad
America used to be major friends with Iran, remember that. |
Until the CIA launched a coup from the American embassy in 1953 ousting a democratically elected prime minister and installed the puppet government of the shah...Yea...What a great friend America turned out to be...:rolleyes: |
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| hardcore trancer |
| Bottom line the U.S simply doesnt understand middle east and they just never get it right,all they think about is regime change and oil.:p |
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| CHRles |
| quote: | Originally posted by Lemonad
I don't think it's Americas fault, its the terrorist nation Israels fault for blind sightings USA.
America used to be major friends with Iran, remember that. |
Israel also used to be major friends with Iran until the ed up Iranian Revolution of 1979.
Iran is controlled by religious extremists. Would be nice to see Iran's religious leader butchered to death in an Indiana prison :) |
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| CHRles |
| quote: | Originally posted by Krypton
Until the CIA launched a coup from the American embassy in 1953 ousting a democratically elected prime minister and installed the puppet government of the shah...Yea...What a great friend America turned out to be...:rolleyes: |
Nigga please! As if America didnt have the backing of France, the UK, and the Iranian elite in the 50s.
The US has also had a hand in other Middle Eastern politics, as did the USSR.
Stop blaming America and start blaming Iran and its fundamental regime. You're not fooling anyone with this victim card you're giving Iran. |
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| Lemonad |
| quote: | Originally posted by CHRles
Israel also used to be major friends with Iran until the ed up Iranian Revolution of 1979.
Iran is controlled by religious extremists. Would be nice to see Iran's religious leader butchered to death in an Indiana prison :) |
I can say the same about the Zionist terrorists in control of Israel. |
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| hardcore trancer |
| quote: | Originally posted by CHRles
Israel also used to be major friends with Iran until the ed up Iranian Revolution of 1979.
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"ed up Iranian Revolution"? were they edup because they started standing up against American power?
| quote: | | Iran is controlled by religious extremists. Would be nice to see Iran's religious leader butchered to death in an Indiana prison :) |
Just like how everyone would love to see the Bush admin getting blown up to pieces? |
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| hardcore trancer |
| quote: | Originally posted by CHRles
Stop blaming America and start blaming Iran and its fundamental regime. You're not fooling anyone with this victim card you're giving Iran. |
You are making it sound as of they are criminals,what have they done wrong exactly?they have never attacked or invaded any country,U.S. on the other hand has done alot of that. |
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| Lemonad |
| quote: | Originally posted by hardcore trancer
You are making it sound as of they are criminals,what have they done wrong exactly?they have never attacked or invaded any country,U.S. on the other hand has done alot of that. |
I think Fox news is making him think otherwise. |
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