Western nations are again reiterating their demands for Iran to open up the Parchin military base to IAEA nuclear inspectors, following reports from the Iranian media earlier this week that such a visit was likely to be approved.
Under its international safeguards agreement Iran is under no obligation to open up the military site, since it is not a declared part of its civilian nuclear program, and beyond vague speculation about “explosives tests” there is no evidence that it has anything to do with anything nuclear in nature. Iran has previously balked at opening up random military sites as part of IAEA inspections, fearing it is being used as an excuse to spy on the nation’s conventional arsenal. Iran’s envoy to the IAEA has termed the allegations “ridiculous.”
The visit seems unlikely to be of much value to Iran at any rate, since the IAEA, already anticipating not finding anything at the site, says it is “possible” Iran has already removed the putative evidence they’d hoped to find.
So while the P5+1 is insisting that they are still open to diplomacy the group’s Western member nations seem unlikely to accept any deal that is liable to arise from negotiations with Iran, and will use either a visit to Parchin or the lack of a visit as “proof” that they need to continue imposing new sanctions on Iran.
Look: US head of Pentagon have said that he already have plan going to war with Iran, Israel is giving less then year to attack Iran, (which is by the way is after US presidential election and I am sure Obama and Israel zionism representative been talking about before he left US), in another word: a war plan by US is there and timing is set by Israel, meanwhile they are asking for Iran to capitulate to US and IAEA or for that matter Israel demand, are these people are out of their mind and think that it is only them who can read and write or have an education in "revers politics".
What the hell..?!! Now how about a little tit for tat and lets see if the Israelis will let the IAEA strong arm them into opening up Dimona, eh?
MoT is exactly correct. Even if Iran opened "one" military site to the IAEA inspectors, the United States acting subordinately to Israel would demand to investigate additional military sites. It was under President Johnson that Israel was allowed to steal enriched uranium from the United States, which was an act of treason, yet no Israeli was tried for the theft. If the citizens of the U.S. could live for years with thousands of Sovient nuclear bombs aimed at them, surely the Israelis can endure a few bombs aimed at them as they have hundreds of nuclear bombs to aim at Iran. U.S. hyprocracy concerning a nuclear Iran versus a nuclear Israel that refuses to sign the NP Treaty does not deserve respect from other nations.
This is an exact repeat of the scams tried with Saddam Hussein. What next – Obama appearing on TV looking under his desk for the supposed nukes?
Actually, the IAEA already conducted two inspections at this site in 2005, without finding anything of course.
Western Europe — King-god over planet earth
To a much larger extent then most people realize, Western Europe controls Empire USA and Israel, just look at who got all the oil after the invasions of Iraq and Libya. Time to starve the beast, time to put sanctions on Western Europe that surpass even those imposed upon Iran.
Iran should adamantly refuse inspection by IAEA inspectors of any of its military sites as it will be sorry later for having done so. Some of these inspectors are spies for the west as they were said to be the ones who identified Iranian nuclear scientists for assassination by Israeli Mossad agents.
Let's see…since they already know they're not going to find anything, then why go thru the exercise? Who gains? These people (the ones demanding access to a site not declared as "nuclear") are not interested in anything except thumping their chests with bravado. So, when they don't find anything because the "stuff" got moved or maybe it just wasn't there to begin with…which non-military site will be next.
I agree with june8642, for every one of the sites the west demands access to "because there might be something there", Israel should provide access to everyone, including Iran, to one of their military sites (nuclear or not). And since Israel has refused to sign the NP Treaty, any and all sites should be suspect. Any chance the lapdog USG will allow that to happen?
Yeah, me neither.
Sounds like an intelligence-gathering gambit, to figure out how best to bomb the place.
Bingo! The way it's shaping up they'll still either be accused of "stonewalling" if they refuse, which I believe is quite sensible for the Iranians to do, or if they do allow it to occur they'll later on be smeared as not bargaining in good faith, by the most treacherous countries on the planet, for not bending over further and taking it up the you know where, and they'll be bombed anyway. It won't matter what they do when the opposing side is out to kill you.
How about Israel open up its nuclear bomb sites.
Iran better NOT to follow theses genocides goverments USIsrael, they want to know how armed is Iran so they will have an idea how easy/hard will be their war on them, the nukes are only a stupid excuse…… don't be foolish by USA and their masters Israel……. don't let them see what you have!!
It's just another provocation in a series of provocations.
Obviously, it doesn't matter whether Iran complies or not, since this is not about Iran's so-called nuclear program in the first place, but about taking a powerful, infuential, largely successful country, and turning it into a failed state, similar to what was done to Iraq and Libya.
If Iran complies, the bar simply gets raised higher, just like what happened to Iraq. The more Saddam Hussein tried to accomodate, the more unreasonable came the subsequent demands. Same thing with Yugoslavia. Milosevic turned out to be so problematically submissive, that the Empire had to go all cartoonish with the infamous "Appendix B" of the Rambouillet accords; in order to get to the "see he's being unreasonable" point.
Giving in to the Empire's demands wil not prevent war, but might only delay it a little bit, at the expense of the Empire getting some information about Iran's conventional forces.
Perfectly said.
Iran needs to push the issue about Israel not being held to the same standards. They need to throw every media dollar they can at the issue and keep hammering it every time Israel, the IAEA, or the US makes some 'demand' for inspections. Of course, the West- at gunpoint by Israel- will squash the stories in the US, but I'm guessing Iran still has enough friends in Europe and scattered around the world that it would be a public issue soon enough. They need to throw the whole thing in the UN's face every chance they get, as well.
Sorry, US- I love you and I am proud to be an American- but this time you're wrong and I will not support any further cooked-up wars of choice, especially when the nation prodding you into war is guilty of even worse infractions that the supposed 'evil' nation.
Hands Off Iran
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACzYJ9IGlTg
Iran should agree to it as long as Isreael does the same.
Am I the only one who sees the glaring double standard here? Israel has 300 nukes and now–thanks to the "generosity" (i.e., "guilt money") of the Germans, 3 Dolphin subs capable of firing them. Thus Israel has a "second strike "nuke attack method and an Iranian nuke attacks on Israel would be suicide. The Ayatollahs are rational actors. With the way Israel and America have behaved in terms of aggression in the Mideast, Iran's leadership would be foolish NOT to be pursuing such a program to ensure that their regime is not overthrown by CIA & friends. Netanyahu well knows Iran is no "existential threat" to the Jews. The issue is, the longer he keeps this in the news he takes the focus of Palestinians, building on conquered territory and moving settlers onto there in direct contradiction to Intl law. My guess is that the Israeli strategy now s to keep up the the distractions as long as possible until nearly ALL the Nakba survivors are dead or totally forgotten and the "right of return" will no longer be a demand. (though of course they Israelis STILL make quite a business of out "nazi hunting–" even though the idea of any even low-level NSDAP official still being alive is absurd at this point. What will they do next, dig them up and trample their bones? Oh wait, they already did that t Rudolph Hess. the man sentence to life imprisonment for 'crimes against peace(!!!!#*$*$!!!!!) when he was the only man who braved the conditions and all sorts of Brit AA weapons to deliver the message to the the call for peace straight to the ears of the nobility there. Herr Hess learned firsthand that day that chivalry was dead in the UK and replaced by a far more "semitic" way of doing things….