The EU and IAEA Get Results in Iran!
Iran starts atom tests in defiance of EU deal
Iran has broken the seals on nuclear equipment monitored by United Nations inspectors and is once again building and testing machines that could make fissile material for nuclear weapons. Teheran's move, revealed to The Daily Telegraph yesterday by western sources, breaks a deal with European countries under which Iran suspended "all uranium enrichment activity".The EU and IAEA are being played by Iran, just like Clinton got played by North Korea. You'd think they'd figure it out eventually, no? I'm sure Iran's mullahs can be trusted with nuclear weapons, though.. I mean, it's not like they openly support terrorist groups. Oh.. wait.
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America believes that a succession of reports by IAEA inspectors "revealing that Iran [has lied] systematically for 18 years and has yet to answer many troubling questions about its activities" provide ample evidence that Teheran has violated the treaty.
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Inspectors have found that Iran made small quantities of weapons-grade uranium and plutonium.
Comments
where's your bitching about Israel's nukes? I suppose you think we should just go in and have a "regime change" in Iran with our already insufficient number of troops eh?
Posted by: esco | July 31, 2004 01:13 PM
Moral equivalence fails. Israeli's nukes are a threat to no-one except the belligerent Arab dictatorships which surround it. You also won't see me bitching about France's nukes. That's because I know that France isn't going to nuke anyone with them. Now Russia's nukes? Those are still kinda scary! North Korea's nukes? You bet your sweet bippy those are scary. Potential Iranian nukes also qualify. US and Israeli nukes sure don't.
Also, Israel never signed the NPT, and Iran did. Therefore the IAEA has, well, nothing to say to Israel as a matter of "international law.
I do think that the "international community" needs to get serious about Iranian attempts to develop nuclear weapons. Perhaps if we had been serious about it earlier, Pakistan wouldn't have been running an open proliferation market for years. But the EU continues to try to "negotiation" with people who do not negotiate in good faith. Bad faith must have consequences if the international community is to seriously enforce non-proliferation.
Pretty moderate position, eh?
=darwin
Posted by: Darwin | July 31, 2004 01:26 PM