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Iran rejects nuclear inspections unless Israel allows them

Tuesday, May 6th, 2008

Associated Press | 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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8 Responses to “Iran rejects nuclear inspections unless Israel allows them”

Nasirah Machmound
Posted: May 7th, 2008 at 1:14 am

I think this clear predjudice, why is that Briton and United States can have nuclear power but Iran can not…someone please explain

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whistler
Posted: May 8th, 2008 at 7:21 am

Why? simple really…The USA does not like to be on equal ground with other countries. The United States has the “biggest stick”, and wants to keep it that way.

It freaks out if any other country (except Israel) should have an equal or similar “big stick”, and lose it’s power to dominate and control.

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Infidel
Posted: Mar 2nd, 2009 at 5:09 pm

Oh, really? I would think not! The difference between totalitarian fascistoid states such as Iran and Syria and Western democracies like GB and US is that the former would not hesitate to use WOMD to advance Islamo-imperialistic goals, nor hesitate to supply Islamic terrorists set on the destruction of the west. The motive of self-preservation has nothing to do with prejudice. The leaders of The World have a moral duty to see to it that these weapons never fall into the hands of evil states like Iran and Syria and their terrorist allies. The Protection of oneself and future generations from harm and destruction is not negotiable.

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Maximus V
Posted: Mar 3rd, 2009 at 5:48 pm

Israel is a criminal Terrorist stare as was evident in GAZA.

Period.

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Maximus V
Posted: Mar 4th, 2009 at 6:45 am

ISRAEL IS A CRIMINAL, TERRORIST STATE - as EVIDENT in the way it Murdered & Masacared Women & Children in GAZA.

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Infidel
Posted: Mar 4th, 2009 at 4:32 pm

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Maximus V
Posted: Mar 3rd, 2009 at 5:48 pm

Israel is a criminal Terrorist stare as was evident in GAZA.
Period.

Both you and I know that Israel does not deliberately target or disregard the safety of civilians in Gaza when responding to constant rocket attacks against her citizens. HAMAS (Hide Among Mosques And Schools), deliberately uses its civilian population as human shields to maximize the damage to life and property in order to discredit Israel. The callous calculating scum are more than willing to sacrifice (In accordance to fine Islamic tradition) women and children to achieve a propaganda victory. Doesn’t that disgust you?

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Maximus V
Posted: Mar 5th, 2009 at 12:37 am

Hogwash!

Sure Hamas are terrorists!

But ISRAELI Terrorists blew up UN Schools & Hospitals!

Hamas scuffed one or two pavements & ISRAEL flattened 100 square miles!

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unjusticehater
Posted: Mar 5th, 2009 at 9:44 pm

With its nuclear weapons, powerful military, technologically advanced state and US support, Israel has no peers in its neighbourhood. Within Gaza, Hamas has rockets, a highly irregular militia, no state whatsoever and fair-weather patrons.
The [Palestinian] Kassam [rockets] have terrorized the 25,000 people in Sderot and its environs, but have caused very, very few deaths or serious wounds. By contrast, Israel has terrorized 1.5 million Gazans, locked them inside their awfully narrow borders, throttled their economy, and killed and seriously wounded thousands of them.

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