Friday, February 13, 2009

Obama and Iran

The Obama administration is currently accusing Iran of pursuing nuclear weapons.

This whole nuclear crisis is the latest pretext the US has found to punish Iran for challenging US hegemony in the Middle East by toppling the Shah in 1979.

The International Atomic Energy Agency has gone to Iran multiple times since the nuclear crisis started in 2002 and has issue many reports, which all say the same thing: there is no evidence Iran is working on nuclear weapons.
Second, it's the US (and UK, France, Russia, China) which are in clear breach of international law because they need to eliminate their own nuclear weapons, as the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), which they signed, says. Well the NPT came into force like 40 years ago, and the US still hasn't done what it's supposed to do, so that's clear breach. Western officials don't care about this obligation, as several of them told me in interviews. That would be the first step in dealing with nuclear issues. Another step would be to eliminate Israel's nuclear weapons, which for some reason we never hear about--it's all about Iran, which doesn't even have the weapons.

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