Ahmadinejad Condemns World Powers for Atomic Arsenals

[marmar]

.....and you know what, he kinda has a point. :think:



Ahmadinejad Condemns World Powers for Atomic Arsenals (Update1)

By Ladane Nasseri

July 29 (Bloomberg) -- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad criticized the world's most powerful countries for expanding their atomic arsenals while attempting to stop the progress of other nations toward ``peaceful nuclear energy.''

``The expansion of nuclear arms by oppressing powers is continuing and other nations' peaceful nuclear activities are being condemned by these very countries through accusations that they are being aimed at constructing nuclear weapons,'' Ahmadinejad said in a speech aired live on state television.

``The United Nations Security Council is backing the interests of powerful countries and dismissing the rights of most other nations,'' he said in today's address to foreign ministers from the Non-Aligned Movement who met in Tehran. ``There is no influential and independent body to enforce nuclear disarmament by countries possessing nuclear weapons.''

Ahmadinejad told NBC News in an interview aired yesterday that Iran isn't developing nuclear weapons and would respond positively to a new approach from the U.S. Iranian, European Union and U.S. diplomats met in Geneva on July 19, when Iran was given two weeks to respond to an offer of economic and diplomatic incentives in exchange for the suspension of uranium enrichment.

Iran, which is a signatory to the Non-Proliferation Treaty, has said its nuclear program is aimed at generating electricity for a growing population and is lawful under the treaty. ......(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=awDkWZaaxAd0&refer=home

[endarkenment]

1. The odious toad has a point here.

We have violated the letter and the spirit of the nuclear non-proliferation treaty by not only failing to work in good faith toward disarmament, but in developing new nuclear weapons programs and by redefining our nuclear weapons use policies to include first strike use against other nations.

That treaty is a two way street. The nuclear nations have clear obligations as well, and we are in flagrant violation of those obligations while we threaten Iran with war for at best a marginal violation of a side agreement outside of Iran's actual treaty obligations.

"After nearly two years of diplomatic efforts led by France, Germany and the UK, in September 2005, the IAEA Board of Governors, acting under Article XII.C of the IAEA Statute, found that these failures constituted non-compliance with the IAEA safeguards agreement, not the NPT itself.<8> The United States contends on this basis that Iran violated Article II as well as Article III of the NPT.<29>

In its February 2008 report, the IAEA reported that most of the remaining safeguards issues in Iran had been resolved, except for "alleged studies" related to weaponization. The IAEA also reported that all declared nuclear material remained accounted for, but it was unable to make progress in determining whether Iran was engaged in undeclared nuclear activities."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_Non-Proliferation_Treaty