In an attempt to salve over concerns that the IAEA’s discussion of the Israeli nuclear arsenal would bring any actual policy change, officials are saying that the IAEA will not, under any circumstances, attempt to draw a parallel between Israel and Iran.
While this was meant to reassure Israel, it seems that the stark differences between Israel and Iran on the nuclear front are very apparent, and from a proliferation standpoint the Iranians are better served by not being in the same company.
While Israel is a non-signatory of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and possesses one of the world’s largest undeclared nuclear arsenals, Iran has only a modest civilian enrichment program which is under intense IAEA scrutiny at all times. The IAEA is continually able to verify the non-diversion of Iranian nuclear material to weapons purposes, the same has never been true of Israel.
Officials insist the IAEA position on Israel has not changed, though what exactly that position is remains unclear. They also say, contrary to reports, that Israel was discussed in IAEA meetings before, but was removed from the agenda of those meetings for some reason.
"…from a proliferation standpoint the Iranians are better served by not being in the same company."
Again nicely put–like comparing hand grenades and pineapples.
Naked corruption at IAEA… It's a scam to keep the strong, strong, and the weak….. weak.. and a few friends with the right connections, or Swiss bank accounts…. slip silently by the inspections regime….. Time for EVERYONE to get nukes, the tone will become way more polite and evenhanded…!!! Notice how the billies all have them now… Freedom has nothin to lose…..
"One of the world’s largest undeclared nuclear arsenals"! Israel is in a class b y itself. In 1999 a report by Colonel Farr Warner D. Farr, LTC, U.S. Army, of the USAF Counterproliferation Center at the Air War College, "The Third Temple's Holy Of Holies: Israel's Nuclear Weapons" stated that by 1977 Israel had over 400 nuclear weapons. I do not know of any analyses proving the report to be unreliable.
The internet address for the USAF Counterproliferation Center is: http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/awc-cps.htm
Good article. Amazing how the blatant hypocrisy is so readily glossed over in the mainstream media. If the IAEA cannot hold Israel to the same standards as it does Iran, it deserves to be disbanded as a watchdog. Regardless of how you view its rulers, in Iran, you have a signatory to the NPT, exercising its legitimate right to peaceful use of nuclear technology under intense international scrutiny poised against a racist regime that has managed to stockpile a nuclear arsenal with active connivance and support of the US. If that doesn't turn your stomach, nothing will.
When are the Iranians going to quit the NPT? How does it help them in any way? They abide by it and they get in trouble. They might as well release themselves from the obligations of the NPT. I don't know why then dont' just give the required notice and quit!!
Iran's nuclear program is for utilitarian energy; Ashkenazi Khazar pagans (Israel) illegal nuclear WMDs are for blackmail, intimidation, and war!
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The U.S. should invade and occupy the fascist state of israel in the same racist and brutal manner we invaded and occupy Iraq and Afghanistan. We should disarm those israeli terrorists to the point where they have the same weaponry the oppressed Palestinians have.
Once we have disarmed those racist thugs: we should leave and let them fight it out with sticks and stones.
Nothing could please me more than the total destruction of israhell!
…And now another one ascends to the supreme court. Maybe we should start swimming the Rio Grande to Mexico