The next futile war

Grateful to recieve this.

Pamphlet:  Some facts about Iran’s nuclear activities
Published by the Irish Peace & Neutrality Alliance (PANA)

Summary

 

“The United States , European allies and even Israel generally agree on three things about Iran 's nuclear program: Tehran does not have a bomb, has not decided to build one, and is probably years away from having a deliverable nuclear warhead.” (Reuters Special Report, 23 March 2012 [1])

 

 

• Iran has no nuclear weapons

 

• Iran has no nuclear weapons programme

 

• The Supreme Leader of Iran, Ayatollah Khamenei, has said that the possession of nuclear weapons is a “grave sin”

 

• The November 2011 report of the IAEA did not claim that Iran has a nuclear weapons programme

 

• Iran is not in breach of any obligations under the NPT

 

• Uranium enrichment is Iran ’s “inalienable right” under the NPT

 

• The US and its allies are trying to deny Iran its right to uranium enrichment under the NPT

 

• Iran’s nuclear facilities are open to IAEA inspection, Israel ’s are not

 

• A double standard is being applied with regard to nuclear weapons in the Middle East :-

 

(1)   Iran, which has none, is the object of ferocious economic sanctions and threats of military action;

(2)   Israel, which has many (perhaps as many as 400) and the ability to deliver them to any capital in the Middle East , is the object of over $3 billion a year of military aid.

 

• The US , Israel and others, who are threatening military action against Iran , are in breach of Article 2.4 of the UN Charter, which requires that all UN member states “shall refrain in their international relations from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state”.

 

Comments

[Paul Flynn]

The double standards are gigantic. Even the Today programme failed to notice that Israel does not allow the IAEA inspectors into their country while demanding greater access in Iran.

[HuwOS]

In other news, the media draws attention to the fact that there are over 10,000 people on all sides have died since the uprising in Syria began a year ago.

Trouble is, people keep wanting to do something, so I just hope that those people bear in mind that with our help in Libya over 30,000 were killed in 6 months and of course in Iraq, the first two months of our involvement killed around 8,000 civilians never mind counting how many "baddies" were killed too.

[HuwOS]

Headline:

Iran continues to not be in breach of NPT.

Meanwhile:
NYT has confirmed that the US and Israel were behind the Stuxnet virus that they used to attack Iran with.

http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/c/computer_malware/stuxnet/index.html

Any change of mind yet on how wonderful Obama is Paul?

The US seems to spend more time in breach of international law than just about any country on the face of the planet. Good thing we have the kind of leadership that places us safely up their welcoming fundament.