Since it's is becoming clear that the FAKE war between Israel and Hezzbollah is just a PRELUDE to the real war planned by CHENEY, we should start paying more attention to the real show in the UN. The US is pushing for sanctions on Iran. I don't know what's in the resolution yet. But I hope somebody will pay attention to the "language" and see if there's a loophole "legalizing" an attack on Iran by either the US or it's allies. I had to get Iran's statement from Iran news because... Well because of the same old reason's.... Here's Iran defending itself....
http://www.irna.ir/en/news/view/line-24/0607310922211239.htmIran-Security Council-Zarif
Iranian permanent Ambassador to United Nations Mohammad Javad Zarif on Monday reaffirmed civilian nature of Iranian nuclear program and Iran's commitment to Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).
In his statement before the UN Security Council, he deplored the big powers meddling in Iranian domestic affairs and making the Security Council as a tool for their own political objectives in the United Nations member states.
"This is not the first time that Iran's endeavors to stand on its own feet and make technological advances have faced the stiff resistance and concerted pressure of some powers permanently represented in the Security Council. In fact, contemporary Iran has been subject to numerous injustices and prejudicial approaches by these powers.
"The Iranian people's struggle to nationalize their oil industry was touted, in a draft resolution submitted on 12 October 1951 by the United Kingdom and supported by the United States and France, as a threat to international peace and security.
"That draft resolution preceded a coup d'etat, organized by the US and the UK -- in a less veiled attempt to restore their short-sighted interests. The coup, which was obviously no longer disguisable in the language of the Charter or diplomatic niceties, restored the brutal dictatorship. The people of Iran did, nevertheless, succeed in nationalizing the oil industry, thus pioneering a courageous movement in the developing world to demand their inalienable right to exercise sovereignty over their natural resources.
"More recently, Saddam Hussein's massive invasion of the Islamic Republic of Iran on 22 September 1980 did not trouble the same permanent members of the Security Council enough to consider it a threat to international peace and security. Nor did they even find it necessary to adopt any resolution for seven long days after the aggression, hoping that their utter miscalculation that Saddam could put an end to the Islamic Republic in a week would be realized.
"Sounds familiar these days, doesn't it?
Nor did they deem fit to call for a withdrawal of the invading forces for two long years, until, the Iranian people single-handedly liberated their territory against all odds. Nor was this Council allowed for several long years and in spite of mounting evidence, to deal with the use of chemical weapons by the former Iraqi dictator against Iranian civilians and military personnel, because according to former DIA officials, "The Pentagon was not so horrified by Iraq's use of gas? It was just another way of killing people."
"Tens of thousands of Iranians still continue to suffer and die from that carnage. And over the past several weeks, this august body has been prevented from moving to stop the massive aggression against the Palestinian and Lebanese people and the resulting terrible humanitarian crisis. Nor is it given the slightest chance of addressing the aggressor's nuclear arsenal despite its compulsive propensity to engage in aggressions and carnage.
"Likewise, the Security Council has been prevented from reacting to the daily threats of resort to force against Iran, even threats of using nuclear weapons, uttered at the highest levels by the US, UK and the lawless Israeli regime in violation of Article (24) of the Charter.
On the other hand, in the past few years, a few big powers have spared no efforts in turning the Security Council into a tool for attempting to prevent Iran from exercising its inalienable right to nuclear technology for peaceful purposes, recognized explicitly under the NPT.
"The intention to use the Council only as a tool for this or even other more dangerous ends could not have been made clearer than in the statement by the permanent representative of the United States at AIPAC on March 5th this year:
"It is critical that we use the Council to help mobilize international public opinion. Rest assured, though, we are not relying on the Security Council as the only tool in our toolbox to address this problem." Mr. President,
"The people and Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran are determined to exercise their inalienable right to nuclear technology for peaceful purposes and build on their own scientific advances in developing various peaceful aspects of this technology.
"At the same time, as the only victims of the use of weapons of mass destruction in recent history, they reject the development and use of all these inhuman weapons on ideological as well as strategic grounds. The Leader of the Islamic Republic has issued a public and categorical religious decree against the development, production, stockpiling and use of nuclear weapons.
"Iran has also clearly and continuously stressed that nuclear weapons have no place in its military doctrine.
"The President of the Islamic Republic of Iran, in his statement before the General Assembly last September, also underlined Iran's fundamental rejection of nuclear weapons, as well as the need to strengthen and revitalize the Non-Proliferation Treaty. He also stressed that "continued interaction and legal and technical cooperation with the IAEA will be the centerpiece of our nuclear policy."
"In order to dispel any doubt about its peaceful nuclear program, Iran enabled the IAEA to carry out a series of inspections that amounts to the most robust inspection of any IAEA Member State.
It included more than 2000 inspector-days of scrutiny in the past 3 years, the signing of the Additional Protocol on 18 December 2003 and implementing it immediately until 6 February 2006; the submission of more than 1000 pages of declaration in accordance with the Additional Protocol, allowing over 53 instances of complementary access to different sites across the country; and permitting inspectors to investigate baseless allegations by taking the unprecedented step of providing repeated access to military sites.
"Consequently, all reports by the IAEA since November 2003 have been indicative of the peaceful nature of the Iranian nuclear program.
"In November 2003 and in the wake of sensational media reports on the so-called 18-years of concealment by Iran, the Agency confirmed that "to date, there is no evidence that the previously undeclared nuclear material and activities were related to a nuclear weapons program."
"The same conclusion can be found in other IAEA reports, even as recently as February 2006, which states that "As indicated to the Board in November 2004, and again in September 2005, all the declared nuclear material in Iran has been accounted for."
"The Agency reaffirmed once again in paragraph 53 of the same report that it "has not seen any diversion of nuclear material to nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices."
"Much has been made, including in today's proposed resolution, of a statement by the IAEA that it is not yet in a position "to conclude that there are no undeclared nuclear materials or activities in Iran." "But the sponsors have conveniently ignored the repeated acknowledgment by the Director-General of the IAEA that "the process of drawing such a conclusion is a time consuming process," "They also ignored the Addendum to the 2005 IAEA Safeguards Implementation Report, released in June 2006, which indicates that 45 other countries are in the same category as Iran, including 14 Europeans and several members of this Council," Zarif said.
http://www.irna.ir/en/news/view/line-24/0607310922211239.htmIt's sounds pretty TRUTHFUL to me. Anyway I have come to the conclusion that CHENEY is going to NUKE Iran. This is an OUTRAGE! I hope the left in ALL COUNTRIES will rise up to try and stop this madness.
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