Iran rejects nuclear inspections unless Israel allows them

Started by MikeWB, May 06, 2008, 01:32:24 PM

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MikeWB

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080505/ap_ ... zQYwgUewgF
QuoteBy ALEXANDER G. HIGGINS, Associated Press Writer
Mon May 5, 4:22 PM ET
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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Hei Hu Quan

Fuck, it's about time someone articulated that demand. Holy shit it's only been swinging in the breeze for a long while now, waiting for anyone to grab that.
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Ognir

Shit TiU has been going on about these 400+ unchecked nukes
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sullivan

Quote from: "Hei Hu Quan"Fuck, it's about time someone articulated that demand. Holy shit it's only been swinging in the breeze for a long while now, waiting for anyone to grab that.
It is not that the demand hasn't been articulated, it just hasn't been articulated by someone who can't be immediately ignored. Given time, this demand will in all likelihood be brushed aside and we'll be treated to more MSM presstitutes bleating on about the evil nation that is Iran, whilst ignoring the absolute and fucking total evil that the illegitimate failed state of Israhell.
"The real menace of our Republic is the invisible government which like a giant octopus sprawls its slimy legs over our cities, states and nation. At the head is a small group of banking houses generally referred to as \'international bankers.\' This little coterie... run our government for their own selfish ends. It operates under cover of a self-created screen, seizes our executive officers, legislative bodies, schools, courts, newspapers and every agency created for the public protection."
John F. Hylan (1868-1936) - Former Mayor of New York City

joeblow

It's been along time since I've been proud to have born in Iran, growing up in Texas wasn't easy. Too bad y'all can't understand how inspiring Ahmadinejad and other leaders speak. It's acts like this that will destroy the New Jew Order.