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IAEA Report Confirms Iran’s Peaceful Nuclear Program

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February 26, 2013

by Stephen Lendman

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It’s no surprise. It’s been that way for years. Iran’s legally entitled to enrich uranium. Dozens of other countries do the same thing.

Tehran alone is criticized. Managed news misinformation begets more of it. Washington, Israel, and European partner collaborators repeat it ad nauseam.

They lie. They know they’re lying. They repeat what they know is false. Media scoundrels regurgitate it. Doing so makes them complicit.

Americans are the least informed, most entertained people anywhere. They’re mindless about what matters most.

Propaganda works. A new Gallup poll explains. It found 99% of Americans believe Iran’s nuclear program threatens US security. Its nonexistent nukes are considered more dangerous than nations with real ones.

Previous polls called Iran America’s top enemy. China ranked second.

Paul Craig Roberts calls thinking America’s “national disability.” Indifference lets Washington get away with murder and much more.

Iran fully complies with Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) provisions. Its nuclear program is peaceful. US intelligence says so. Annually it repeats earlier assessments.

On February 6, the IAEA said Iran began installing IR-2m centrifuges. It’s entitled to do so. It’s doing it at Natanz. It’s Tehran’s main uranium enrichment facility.

“This is the first time that centrifuges more advanced that IR-1 have been installed,” it said.

Ali Asghar Soltananieh is Tehran’s IAEA ambassador. Iran’s program is entirely peaceful, he stressed.

“The most important point of the report is that after a decade of continuous inspections by the agency, there is no evidence on divergence toward military purposes in Iran’s nuclear material and activities,” he added.

“The agency says that (uranium) enrichment is continuing in Iran without any problem and under (its) full supervision.”

“According to (its) report, enrichment to a purity level of 20 percent with the aim of fueling the Tehran reactor is successfully continuing, and it indicates the peaceful use of enrichment to supply the Tehran research reactor with fuel to provide hospitals with radioisotopes they need.”

Iran is committed to continued IAEA talks. It wants all outstanding issues resolved. Its research reactor produces radioisotopes for cancer treatment. Nothing proves otherwise.

On February 13, Tehran concluded its latest round of talks. Most issues were resolved. India’s ambassador said Iran successfully completed them. It’s committed to whatever else is required. It wishes to do so in a “calm atmosphere of cooperation.”

State Department spokeswomen Victoria Nuland called Iran’s new centrifuges “another provocative step.” Britain’s Foreign Office said it’s of “serious concern.”

IAEA’s report comes days ahead of more P1+5 talks. On February 26, they’ll begin in Almaty, Kazakhstan. Six major powers and Iran will meet.

Expect no breakthroughs. Washington obstructionism prevents them. So does Israel behind the scenes. Iran’s nuclear program is duplicitous red herring cover.

At issue is longstanding regime change plans. America tolerates no independent governments. It wants subservient pro-Western ones replacing them. If Tehran had no nuclear program, another pretext would be invented.

Rogue states operate that way. Washington and Israel are by far the worst. Iran faces formidable challenges. It’s committed to peaceful nuclear development.

It’s entitled to do so. It won’t abandon its sovereign rights. It’s unconscionable that America, Israel, and complicit European partners insist it do so.

 

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A vote by the United Nations general assembly has called on Israel to open its nuclear programme to weapons inspectors.

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December 5, 2012

UN vote demands hypocritical Israel to let in nuclear inspectors

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A vote by the United Nations general assembly has called on Israel to open its nuclear programme to weapons inspectors.

As nuclear peace talks are cancelled, overwhelming vote by general assembly calls for Israel to join nonproliferation treaty

The UN general assembly has overwhelmingly approved a resolution calling on Israel to open its nuclear programme for inspection.

The resolution, approved by a vote of 174 to six with six abstentions, calls on Israel to join the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) “without further delay” and open its nuclear facilities to inspection by the International Atomic Energy Agency. Those voting against were Israel, the US, Canada, Marshall Islands, Micronesia and Palau.

Resolutions adopted by the 193-member general assembly are not legally binding but they do reflect world opinion and carry moral and political weight. And the resolution adds to pressure on Israel as it faces criticism over plans to increase settlement in the West Bank, a move seen as retaliation for the assembly recognising Palestinian statehood.

Israel refuses to confirm or deny possessing nuclear bombs though it is widely believed to have them. It has refused to join the non-proliferation treaty along with three nuclear weapon states: India, Pakistan and North Korea.

Israel insists there must first be a Middle East peace agreement before the establishment of a proposed regional zone free of weapons of mass destruction. Its rivals in the region argue that Israel’s undeclared nuclear arsenal presents the greatest threat to peace in the region.

While the US voted against the resolution, it voted in favour of two paragraphs in it that were put to separate votes. Both support universal adherence to the NPT and call on those countries that aren’t parties to ratify it “at the earliest date”. The only no votes on those paragraphs were Israel and India.

The vote came as a sequel to the cancellation of a high-level conference aimed at banning nuclear weapons from the Middle East. All the Arab nations and Iran had planned to attend the summit in mid-December in Helsinki, Finland, but the US announced on 23 November that it would not take place, citing political turmoil in the region and Iran’s defiant stance on non-proliferation. Iran and some Arab nations countered that the real reason for the cancellation was Israel’s refusal to attend.

Just before Monday’s vote, the Iranian diplomat Khodadad Seifi told the assembly “the truth is that the Israeli regime is the only party which rejected to conditions for a conference”. He called for “strong pressure on that regime to participate in the conference without any preconditions”.

Israeli diplomat Isi Yanouka told the general assembly his country had continuously pointed to the danger of nuclear proliferation in the Middle East, singling out Iran and Syria by name. “All these cases challenge Israel’s security and cast a dark shadow at the prospect of embarking on a meaningful regional security process,” he said.

“The fact that the sponsors include in this anti-Israeli resolution language referring to the 2012 conference proves above all the ill intent of the Arab states with regard to this conference.”

The Syrian diplomat Abdullah Hallak told the assembly his government was angry the conference was not going to take place because of “the whim of just one party, a party with nuclear warheads”.

“We call on the international community to put pressure on Israel to accept the NPT, get rid of its arsenal and delivery systems, in order to allow for peace and stability in our region,” he said.

The conference’s main sponsors are the US, Russia and Britain. The British foreign office minister Alistair Burt has said it is being postponed, not cancelled.

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Syria accused the West at a major UN meeting of double standards and condoning an Israeli atomic arsenal

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September 21, 2012

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Syria accuses West of double standards over Israel

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At major UN meeting, Syrian ambassador seeks to turn tables on Damascus accusers by hitting out at Israel, says influential Western states are implicitly condoning Israeli atomic arsenal.

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VIENNA – Syria, itself suspected of illicit nuclear activity, accused the West at a major UN meeting on Wednesday of double standards in implicitly condoning an Israeli atomic arsenal and warned of a nuclear arms race in the Middle East.

Israel hit back at the annual assembly of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) by saying Syria and its ally Iran were “known for their clandestine pursuit of nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction.”

Israel also made clear its view that the volatile region was not yet ready for creating a zone free of such weaponry, which Arab states have been pushing for.

“Such a process can only be launched when peaceful relations exist for a reasonable period of time in the region,” Israeli atomic energy commission head Shaul Chorev said. “Regrettably, the realities in the Middle East are far from being conducive.”

The United States said last week Syria was using the “brutal repression” of its people waging an uprising as an excuse not to address international concerns about its past nuclear work.

UN inspectors have long sought access to a site in Syria’s desert Deir al-Zor region that US intelligence reports say was a nascent, North Korean-designed reactor designed to produce plutonium for nuclear weapons before Israel bombed it in 2007.

The IAEA has also been requesting information about three other sites that may have been linked to Deir al-Zor, which Syria says was a conventional military site.

Syrian Ambassador Bassam Al-Sabbagh, in a rare public comment on the issue, insisted that his country was ready to cooperate with the UN agency and he sought to turn the tables on Damascus’s accusers by hitting out at Israel.

Israel is believed to have the Middle East’s only nuclear arsenal, although it refuses to disclose any capability. Like its ally the United States, the Jewish state sees Iran’s nuclear program as the most urgent nuclear proliferation threat.
Clearly referring to Washington and its allies, Al-Sabbagh told the IAEA’s General Conference in Vienna:

“The fact that some influential states … condone Israel’s possession of nuclear capabilities and its failure to subject them to any international control exposes clearly the extent of double standards used by those states.”

He said that this “poses a threat to the region’s security and stability and may even spark a nuclear arms race there” and that Israel was the main obstacle to ridding the region of atomic weaponry.

Israel has said it would sign the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and renounce nuclear weapons only as part of a broader Middle East peace deal with Arab states and Iran that guaranteed its security.

Chorev, the Israeli delegate, said the concept of a region free of weapons of mass destruction “is certainly much less applicable to the current volatile and hostile” Middle East and would require a significant transformation in the region.

Iran says its nuclear program is peaceful, denying Western and Israeli suspicions that it wants to develop an atom bomb capability. Syria also denies any such ambitions.

IAEA chief Yukiya Amano said this year that Syria had asked for understanding of its “delicate situation” in response to requests for Syrian cooperation with his inspectors.

Syrian President Bashar Assad is fighting an 18-month-old revolt in which more than 27,000 people have been killed.

Chorev said the situation in Syria was a reminder of the need to secure nuclear materials and added that the whereabouts of atomic fuel intended for the destroyed Deir al-Zor reactor was an “enigma”.

 

 

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Prominent international lawyer Francis Boyle : “…if the crisis escalates certainly it would be my advice that Iran follow this lawsuit against these three states (US, UK, and France)

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July 5, 2012

Iran should stop US war machine legally: Int. lawyer

Prominent international lawyer and law professor at the University of Illinois, Francis Boyle is of the opinion that Iran should sue the US at the International Court of Justice for Washington’s refusal to engage in direct negotiation with Tehran and its threats of military strike against the Islamic Republic.

“I’ve been a lawyer since January 10, 1977. And if someone is ignoring to talk to you sue them, and then they have to talk to you,” says Boyle, professor of international law at the university.

“But if the US government is not going to do that (accept to negotiate), then it seems to me Iran should sue them at the World Court, and protect itself and then by means of the World Court proceedings, force negotiations which Iran can do…,” he noted.

Boyle said “…if the crisis escalates certainly it would be my advice that Iran follow this lawsuit against these three states (US, UK, and France), ask for the emergency hearing of the court, win these three orders, and try to use those orders to prevent a war.”

“The restraining order would be to prevent a military attack on Iran, to prevent any type of blockade of Iran…to prevent the imposition of further economic sanctions by these three states against Iran, and also their pursuit of more sanctions against Iran at the United Nations Security Council.”

He referred to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)’s failure to detect any sort of diversion in Iran’s nuclear energy program towards military purposes.

“So if the US government is not prepared to engage in reasonable, direct, unconditional, good faith negotiations with Iran, then my advice is that the Iranian government go forward with this lawsuit.”

The United States, Israel, and some of their allies, accuse Iran of pursuing military objectives in its nuclear energy program. Washington and Tel Aviv have time and again threatened Tehran with the “option” of a military strike against its civilian nuclear facilities.

Iran argues that as a signatory to the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and a member of the IAEA, it has the right to develop and acquire nuclear technology for peaceful purposes.

MHB/HN

 

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