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Will new Iran sanctions work?
Published: 10 June, 2010, 02:42
Edited: 12 June, 2010, 20:48
The UN Security Council has approved new sanctions against Iran over its controversial nuclear program, but will they work?
NO!!! Iran is not as easily intimidated by America as Russia and China was. Iran has the qualities to become a major player in the Middle East and this is what Israel fears. Iranian people are highly talented, and once they made a decision to become a nuclear power, nothing in the world can stop them. Iran might give up its nuclear ambitions, but only under following conditions: 1. Israel must open up its nuclear facilities and arsenals for unhindered international inspection. 2. Israel must give up all its enriched uranium to the EU. 3. Israel must give up all its nuclear weapons to the EU. 4. Israel must sign the nuclear nonproliferation treaty. 5. Israel must permit stationing of international inspectors and monitoring equipment in all her nuclear related facilities. Since Israel will not accept these five conditions, Iran has no choice but to become self-sufficient in nuclear technology and nuclear weapons development. If Iran dismantles her nuclear capacity, she will become a victim of Israeli threats and blackmail - and, this Iran will never do. Irony in the UN sanctions vote is that America tested her two nuclear bombs over Japanese cities, killing tens of thousands of human beings, and now here she is pointing fingers at Iran. If any nation will use nuclear weapons again, it will be America - you all can count on that.
Iran is afraid of Israel? Ridiculous. Iran hates Israel and is willing to fight through proxies, perhaps directly someday, to try to get rid of Israel, but Israel only attacks it's neighbors with considerable force. With regards to Israel, Iran's is an offensive posture not a defensive one. Iran is afraid of US. First, we invaded Afghanistan to the East because it had a regime we don't like, then we invaded Iraq to the West for the same reason, Iran lies directly between the two and it also hosts a regime we don't like. The US has, ostensibly anyway, the most formidable conventional military in the world. Meanwhile, the Iranian leadership indulgently fantasizes that the entire Green revolution was a giant Western conspiracy involving mass brainwashing, thinks the US supports rebel/terrorist groups against it (which is probably true to an extent), and thinks we are the Antichrist for a combination of true, exaggerated, and out right false interpretations of the past and present. Regarding proof that Iran is after nuclear weapons, there is definitive proof it was after nuclear weapons in the past (heavily vetted digital records up to 2003, the start of a nuclear program in the Iran-Iraq war). There is none as of the last 7 years, but a completed civil nuclear program could be utilized to create a bomb within 6 months, so the lack of evidence of weaponization activities right now is, in my view, a reflection of the fact they are avoiding such activities until the home stretch so that they can hide behind a veneer of innocence until then. The same people are in charge (ie in control of the military) as were 7 years ago, the same threats and wants exist or else are replaced by stronger ones, so I don't think the goals have changed. Iran wants nukes. Non-Western countries are more concerned with economics and asserting their independence than they are with solving this problem; the IAEA treaty is too permissive to be effective.