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GUEST,Teribus BS: Afghanistan (149* d) RE: BS: Afghanistan 27 Sep 12


"What Iran keeps asking why the international community (the UN and the west) not concerned about the Israeli nukes, and send in inspecters to look at their nuclear program? Why is it one sided?
Is this not a good question? If not, why not?"


Iran is a signatory of the nuclear non-proliferation treaty - Israel is not.

Iran got "its foot on the nuclear ladder" through the auspices of the UN "Atoms for Peace" programme which forbids use of the assistance and technology provided to gain or develop nuclear weapons.

Israel's nuclear programme, which considering its lack of natural resources, particularly fossil fuels is totally rational, is about one year younger than that of the UK. Israel's nuclear programme pre-dates the UN Nuclear NPT by about 13 years.

So not one-sided at all, the circumstances are completely different.

Most advocating the necessity of Iran to acquire nuclear weapons (You all now have retreated from supporting the rather ludicrous Iranian contention that they do not have a weapons programme) and indeed the desirability of them having nuclear weapons forget one thing - the Iranian nuclear weapons programme was supposed to be secret - the Libyan nuclear weapons programme was secret - the Syrian nuclear weapons programme was secret

Post nuclear NPT there is only one reason that you build a secret nuclear weaon - you intend to use it. Those weapons were not meant to be delivered conventionally (aircraft, rocket or missile) they were meant to be delivered component by component and assembled at their target. If anyone dismisses that possibility then take a look at the time line and events:

- 2002 US defence and intelligence agencies define greatest threat as an anonymous, asymmetric terrorist attack involving nuclear, chemical or biological weapons backed by a "rogue state". A list of candidates for the role of "rogue state" is drawn up both Iraq, Iran, Libya, Syria and North Korea appear as potential candidates.

- 2003 Action is taken to remove Iraq from that list, a dissident group in Iran reveals the existence of Iran's "secret" uranium enrichment facilities, the US National Intelligence Evaluation is of the opinion that Iran has suspended its nuclear weapons programme.

- 2003 the illegal nuclear weapons proliferation network of Pakistani Dr A.Q.Khan is uncovered, along with Libyan and Syrian secret nuclear weapons programmes.

- From 2003 Iran puts massive energy into missile development as now having been caught out instead of them having an offensive weapon it now must be reconfigured so that it can now serve as a deterrent. The Iranians can now hit anywhere in Europe and can send ballistic missiles into Russia, a fact that was not lost on either French President Jacques Chirac (who reconfigured the missile payloads on French Submarines) or on Russian President Vladimir Putin.


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