“Iran has to prove it can be trusted”
Published: 02 October, 2009, 21:11
Edited: 16 July, 2010, 15:18
TAGS: Arms, Conflict, Nuclear, UN, Russia, Middle East, Politics, Europe, USA
The Russian and French offer to enrich uranium for Iran’s peaceful purposes could be hampered by Tehran itself, Vladimir Sotnikov from the Institute of World Economy and International Relations told RT.
“In the past, Iranians several times accepted offers, for example from the Russian Federation, to enrich uranium on Russian soil, but then they suddenly refused to do so,” he said.
The most serious problem with Iran, Sotnikov says, is that they would “very much like to enrich uranium by themselves, on their own soil.”
“There was even this offer on behalf of Iran to set up an international enrichment center on Iranian soil,” he said.
Sotnikov noted that Iran has to prove to the international community that it is fully cooperative with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and its principles, “consistent with the non-proliferation treaty and doesn’t have any secret nuclear installations and a secret weapon-oriented nuclear program.”
Only then can they “be trusted”.
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1)These self--proclaimmed "guardians of nuclear safety and security" have to lose their own mountains of nuclear warheads first and then point to others. 2)These G8 monsters also have to prove the enemy nation (Iran) has a nuclear weapons program not vice versa as the Russian so-called "expert" Sotnikov assumes here as a fact!! You have to prove the case against the accused (victim really), not to expect the accused to prove its innocence. Are you White Northerners that audacious no to see the logic or is it another case of "selective conscience and memory"?
Iran does not have to prove anything. Iran has a RIGHT to enrich uranium for generating energy. The UN SC Resolution that is being touted for demanding Iran stops enrichment, has been ever so conveniently abridged by the media. In fact, the Resolution calls only for halt in enrichment, as a confidence building measure, until a verifiable mechanisms are in place to insure that the enrichment is for generating electricity. Then, what is up? It is simple. IAEA has a bunch of POLICIES, but not enough concrete procedures for insuring that each IAEA member in good standing CAN enrich uranium, provided that it is based on their own uranium reserves. In short, if there is no proliferation, any nation that does not have nuclear weapons can produce its own nuclear energy. But here is the hitch. For as long as a country is "our, Western, and trusted", it is OK. When some nations (Western, of course) do not like a country, plenty of holes can be found in IAEA to raise "issues" and "concerns" and "suspicions" and "fears" --- name your favorite word. So, if Western countries want to stop a country from enriching uranium, they can do it through IAEA indefinitely. So, Iran did NOT STOP ENRICHMENT, because the nuclear states, members of IAEA did NOT SET UP RULES OF GAME FOR LEGITIMATE RIGHT TO PRODUCE URANIUM. So, Iran keeps enriching, while West keeps stalling. Who will blink first? Sometimes I think that Iran, being well taken care off by Russia and China, deliberately set out to challenge the IAEA doctrine, until the doctrine actually insures the rights of countries on nuclear energy. If force is not an option, then West will have to blink, and find a way to insure that Iran can enrich uranium on its own soil --- and that IAEA will get some teeth thorough additional protocols for intrusive inspections. But, sorry Israel, Iran's missiles are not for inspection. They are not part of IAEA oversight.
I so wish that Medvedev - or Putin - would stop this shilly shallying and just say that unless the criminal state, the artificial state of "Israel" gets rid of every bomb they have there need be no more talk about Iran's nuclear energy production - and it they DO want a bomb, they should certainly have one in order to be ale to defend themselves from the banksters. I suspiect that it is just because Iran is not in the international financial system that is really why they are threatening that country. Anyway, I have lost confidence in Medvedev and Putin - they do not seem as strong and independent as they were. Why? I am sad about it, and about having been so naieve as to think they were different and that they could tell the banksters to go to hell. I guess they can't, after all. Not even for Russia's sake, for Russia' freedom and independence. What a miserable state the World is in.