The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is calling on Saudi Arabia to sign a comprehensive safeguards agreement for nuclear material, as the Trump Administration rushes to deliver nuclear technology to them.
IAEA Director Amano Yukiya noted that the Saudis are not violating
anything yet, and haven’t refused to sign a safeguards agreement – they
just haven’t responded. The Saudis are currently under a small
quantities protocol signed in 2005.
In 2014, the Saudis submitted plans to the IAEA for a nuclear reactor,
and material could be introduced by the end of this year, at which point
they would need to have a proper safeguards agreement.
There is substantial concern that the Saudis might divert nuclear
material to military uses, and that’s got the IAEA particularly
interested in getting their system in place to keep an eye on it.
Ah yes, but they are our democratic and peaceful allies,like Israel, so we don’t have to worry.
Israelis not responsible for the deaths of 600 American soldiers in Iraq, Iran is.
Unlike Iran, Israel actually is responsible for killing a number of US soldiers on purpose and directly by attacking a US ship at sea. You know what I’m talking about.
And how many Marines were killed by Iran in Lebanon?
You mean by the indigenous Lebanese group Hezbollah, yes? Whose country the US soldiers were in?
Hezbollah is an Iranian proxy army, armed trained and controlled by Iran
Lebanon, which was once a multiethnic democratic society, and is now a occupied by Hezbollah
So for the sake of argument lets say Iran and Israel both killed US service members. To punish both countries we send 4 billion a year in aid to one and the other one we sanction to the teeth and threaten regime change/war on a daily basis.
It also has to do with Iranian attacks on the petrodollar
Bullshit.
Japan attacked the US at Pearl Harbor, and killed tens of thousands of US servicemen. Now we have troops stationed there for our mutual defense.Same with Germany. Alliances and foes sift all the time. Accept it.
We dropped nukes on Japan. We’re sanctioning Iran into economic ruin. We send 4 billion a year to Israel.
Would you rather have seen one million American die during the invasion of Japan? Did you forget the Rape of Nanking?
There was never any need for an invasion. Funny how that fairy tale lives on. But I guess we have to justify dropping those bombs.
Japan had been making surrender overtures for months by the time Truman authorized the Hiroshima and Nagasaki terror attacks (for the purpose of scaring Stalin).
Ignorant, brainwashed and stupid beyond belief.
Temper tantrums and insults do not refute my contentions-only facts do-in which you are totally lacking.
Wow, Harry bought the propaganda piece. By the way Harry, that was 608 not 600.
When invaders/occupiers get killed while invading/occupying, it’s their own fault, nobody else’s.
But who is occupying who?
Doesn’t make a bit of sense.
Why on earth would Israel fight anyone with weapons? They only choose unarmed people and especially children in their own land, Palestine.
Where was your concern when Israelis were victims of terrorism-of course, THAT is justified in your book
The PLO and Hamas are quite well armed, an dif they use children as cannon fodder,then it is they who are to blame
Whistling by the graveyard….
The risk of the Saudis obtaining nuclear weapons is one more potential flash point (of many) on the road to nuclear war.
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The US and the western countries are hypocritical and pathetic.
Putting the toughest IAEA control on Iranian and letting Israel ( who has over 200 nukes ) and the Saudis of the hook.
The only difference is that Iran is threatening to “burn” Israel, and not vice versa
And yet it’s Israel that keeps ACTUALLY ATTACKING Syria on the claim that Israel is entitled to kill Iranians anywhere it thinks they might happen to be found.
If someone is vastly bigger and stronger than you and wants to hurt you, you better not let them strike first
Israel has a vast military superiority over Syria and any of their other neighbors. The worlds lone superpower makes sure of that.
Iran will get into position and wage a long term, multi year war of attrition
And Israel will get the US to fight that war of attrition for them, as always.
Many ants can kill a scorpion
“vastly bigger and stronger”
Make up your mind.
A lie. Iran has consistently maintained over several decades that its position on Israel is that it will eventually and inevitably disappear as an entity. Sort of like when communists maintain that capitalism must eventually end. They have never threatened to do anything to make that happen. All of their actual threats have been in the context of a response to an Israeli attack.
Really-how about blowing up the Israeli embassy inArgentina, and a Jewish cultural center full of children
Your a sad example of a brainwashed MSM dude.
prove it
Your comments prove it-they do not relate to reality.
EXACTLY!!
during the 1930’s 1940’s and 1950’s people of your ilk insisted that Stalin was a good man.Some still do to this very day. Open your eyes and stop drinking the cool aidee
It is you who out of contact with reality,existing in a state of denial
Israel doesn’t have to threaten Iran when their lapdogs in DC do it for them. Not only threats but devastating actions like our ongoing crippling sanctions.
Which is a bald faced lie.
I am not lying-you are just ignorant of facts
“There is substantial concern that the Saudis might divert nuclear
material to military uses,”
I understand that concern. However, Saudi Arabia has a potent weapon that can be used repeatedly, for almost any reason, at any time, and with little risk of retaliation. It is called oil.