Non-Proliferation Treaty and Iran: The Insane Application of an Agreement

Non-Proliferation Treaty and Iran: The Insane Application of an Agreement

By www.trabajadores.co.cu

With the accord adopted against Iran by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna on Saturday due to pressures exerted by the United States, George W. Bush is once more irresponsibly and unnecessarily pushing humankind toward a delicate situation portending conflict.

The IAEA Board of Governors’ decision to take the Iranian nuclear issue to the UN Security Council is part of Washington’s plan to have this body impose sanctions on Teheran. This would be a first step in the US “justifying” later military aggression against the Islamic Republic, a firm anti-imperialist stronghold, and taking control of the Middle Eastern nation’s huge hydrocarbon reserves.

According to the Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty signed by Iran, all countries are entitled to develop the nuclear energy for peaceful objectives. That country claims its right to enrich uranium to generate electricity, but the United States, supported by the allied Western powers (France, Great Britain and Germany, represented by the European Union) are denying this prerogative of Iran – they allege that Iran intends to produce atomic weapons. However, no evidence supporting this charge has been produced, despite the Persian country’s position which maintained its nuclear facilities under the IAEA supervision until this past Sunday, when it rescind that stance in response to the unfair decision taken by that entity.

The arbitrary decision is also reinforced by available 2005data showing that worldwide there are 441 active nuclear reactors generating electric energy in 31 countries. Of these, 104 are located in the United States, 59 in France, 23 in the United Kingdom and 18 in Germany. Meanwhile, Iran possesses one sole unit which is not yet in operation; work on it has been confined to preliminary research.

This does not taking into consideration Washington, Paris and London’s own nuclear arsenals contain thousands of atomic weapons. The former not only threatens to launch these anytime it considers it necessary, but has also used them – causing monstrous genocidal destruction in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

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It's amusing to see Marxists align with theocrats, just because they have a common enemy. I hope most liberals don't make a similar mistake. And more, I hope we elect a sensible president before Castro dies, one who can offer a helping hand rather than a scour face as that island escapes its long tyranny.