The Nuclear Paradox
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Courtesy Of: CubaNews
By Elson Concepcion Perez
Jan 5, 2007, 01:39
It is more than a paradox. The United States, the world's leadingmilitary power and the only country to use the atom bomb againsthumans, is leading the pressure against Iran for its efforts todevelop a nuclear energy program for peaceful ends.
It is more than a paradox. The United States, the world's leadingmilitary power and the only country to use the atom bomb againsthumans, is leading the pressure against Iran for its efforts todevelop a nuclear energy program for peaceful ends.
The crusade has reached the point that the UN Security Councilrecently passed sanctions against Iran for exercising its right touse 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 ofIsrael, its strategic Middle Eastern ally and spearhead of USexpansionist and militarist policies in the region, with oil as thetop priority.
To guarantee its aims, the White House needs Israel and its nucleararms and also requires, and to no less a degree, the stopping ofother country's development plans that could consolidate the growthof nuclear science and technology for peaceful ends, such as theprogram carried out by the Islamic Republic of Iran.
The paradox also applies to the Palestinian issue and explains whyIsrael has had free reign to massacre and invade under theindifferent and conspiratorial eye of the US, which provides it withsophisticated weapons while the UN and the international communityhave made endless calls and resolutions that amount to nothing.
In this context, Israel is steeping up its policy of terror and deathagainst the Palestinians by adding the diplomatic disguise and themanipulation of the media to "help the Europeans understand" theimportance of condemning Iran and, as ordered by Bush, trying toimpede that country from carrying out its plans to develop nuclearenergy for peaceful ends.
ANNOUNCEMENT WITHOUT CONSEQUENCES
In a recent tour of Germany and Italy, Israeli Prime Minister EhudOlmert admitted for the first time, in an apparent slip up, thatIsrael has nuclear weapons. However, the West didn't appear to noticeand 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" theEuropean governments that, besides sanctioning Iran, it is importantto be ready militarily, like Israel, for any situation that endangersUS 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 morethan 200 nuclear warheads and has never signed the NuclearNon-Proliferation Treaty. Israel also forbids inspectors of theInternational Atomic Energy Agency to examine or monitor itsinstallations.
ISRAEL YES, IRAN NO
In this light, Washington was able to convince the UN SecurityCouncil to approve sanctions against Iran, which even received thesupport of India, a nation with which Bush has signed a nucleardevelopment agreement.
In recent days the pressure has reached the level of military threatsfrom the Pentagon, which doesn't rule out a military strike if theIranian government doesn't renounce its uranium production.
Iran's response has been to reiterate that it will not renounce itssovereign and legitimate right to develop nuclear energy for peacefulends, complying with legislation of the Nuclear Non-ProliferationTreaty and the regulations of the International Atomic Energy Agency.
Iran plans to develop nuclear energy to produce 20,000 megawatts ofelectricity as the key development project of the country, as well asto use it in medicine, agriculture and other industries.
The United States and Europe know very well that the uranium thatIran enriches is up to a 3.5 percent level, sufficient for generatingelectricity but not for making bombs that require 80-90 percent.
The Iranian government's assurances that it has no plans to makenuclear weapons and a Fatwa issued by supreme religious leaderAyatolah Jamenei in opposition to this type of weapon is not enoughfor them.
The United States, which threatens Iran with war, currently has 104nuclear power plants in operation, producing 20 percent of thecountry's total energy consumption.
According to official Pentagon figures, the US military has 1,480nuclear carriers of different types (strategic, non-strategic, andbombers); 7,006 nuclear warheads, of which 5,886 are strategic andcan be launched from rockets or submarines; 1,120 non-strategic,which can be launched from planes or Cruise missiles; and 3,000nuclear warheads in reserve.
But there is more: the Pentagon has strategically placed 150high-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 policyagainst Iran. The US uses Israel, according to its rules andinterests -and always with oil at the center of its viewfinder-, asan atomic advance party and guarantor of its domination in the socalled Great Middle East.
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