It is more than a paradox. The United States, the world's leading
military power and the only country to use the atom bomb against
humans, is leading the pressure against Iran for its efforts to
develop a nuclear energy program for peaceful ends.
The crusade has reached the point that the UN Security Council
recently passed sanctions against Iran for exercising its right to
use this energy source to meet its development needs.
The paradox is even more apparent when Washington remains silent,
like its European partners, about the nuclear weapons arsenal of
Israel, its strategic Middle Eastern ally and spearhead of US
expansionist and militarist policies in the region, with oil as the
top priority.
To guarantee its aims, the White House needs Israel and its nuclear
arms and also requires, and to no less a degree, the stopping of
other country's development plans that could consolidate the growth
of nuclear science and technology for peaceful ends, such as the
program carried out by the Islamic Republic of Iran.
The paradox also applies to the Palestinian issue and explains why
Israel has had free reign to massacre and invade under the
indifferent and conspiratorial eye of the US, which provides it with
sophisticated weapons while the UN and the international community
have made endless calls and resolutions that amount to nothing.
In this context, Israel is steeping up its policy of terror and death
against the Palestinians by adding the diplomatic disguise and the
manipulation of the media to "help the Europeans understand" the
importance of condemning Iran and, as ordered by Bush, trying to
impede that country from carrying out its plans to develop nuclear
energy for peaceful ends.
ANNOUNCEMENT WITHOUT CONSEQUENCES
In a recent tour of Germany and Italy, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud
Olmert admitted for the first time, in an apparent slip up, that
Israel has nuclear weapons. However, the West didn't appear to notice
and the UN Security Council didn't bother to even debate the issue.
THE UNITED STATES NUCLEAR ATTACK ON HIROSHIMA LEFT 140,000 DEAD.
Olmert's announcement was directed to Iran to help "convince" the
European governments that, besides sanctioning Iran, it is important
to be ready militarily, like Israel, for any situation that endangers
US and European interests in the region.
Nevertheless, the Israeli "nuclear mystery," as revealed by Olmert,
is a well-known secret about a country that is known to have more
than 200 nuclear warheads and has never signed the Nuclear
Non-Proliferation Treaty. Israel also forbids inspectors of the
International Atomic Energy Agency to examine or monitor its
installations.
ISRAEL YES, IRAN NO
In this light, Washington was able to convince the UN Security
Council to approve sanctions against Iran, which even received the
support of India, a nation with which Bush has signed a nuclear
development agreement.
In recent days the pressure has reached the level of military threats
from the Pentagon, which doesn't rule out a military strike if the
Iranian government doesn't renounce its uranium production.
Iran's response has been to reiterate that it will not renounce its
sovereign and legitimate right to develop nuclear energy for peaceful
ends, complying with legislation of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation
Treaty and the regulations of the International Atomic Energy Agency.
Iran plans to develop nuclear energy to produce 20,000 megawatts of
electricity as the key development project of the country, as well as
to use it in medicine, agriculture and other industries.
The United States and Europe know very well that the uranium that
Iran enriches is up to a 3.5 percent level, sufficient for generating
electricity but not for making bombs that require 80-90 percent.
The Iranian government's assurances that it has no plans to make
nuclear weapons and a Fatwa issued by supreme religious leader
Ayatolah Jamenei in opposition to this type of weapon is not enough
for them.
The United States, which threatens Iran with war, currently has 104
nuclear power plants in operation, producing 20 percent of the
country's total energy consumption.
According to official Pentagon figures, the US military has 1,480
nuclear carriers of different types (strategic, non-strategic, and
bombers); 7,006 nuclear warheads, of which 5,886 are strategic and
can be launched from rockets or submarines; 1,120 non-strategic,
which can be launched from planes or Cruise missiles; and 3,000
nuclear warheads in reserve.
But there is more: the Pentagon has strategically placed 150
high-powered nuclear bombs (that can be launched from planes) at nine bases in six NATO member countries.
These facts reveal some of the reasons behind Washington's policy
against Iran. The US uses Israel, according to its rules and
interests -and always with oil at the center of its viewfinder-, as
an atomic advance party and guarantor of its domination in the so
called Great Middle East.
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