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IRAN IS NOT THE REAL NUCLEAR THREAT
Alejandro Teitelbaum
SEPTEMBER 2005 (IPS) - While Germany, France, and Britain are trying to dissuade Iran from
going ahead with its programme of nuclear fuel production, the United States
does not believe there can be a negotiated solution, and Bush has
stated publicly that the military option is on the table, writes
Alejandro Teitelbaum, lawyer and expert in international relations.
In this analysis, Teitelbaum writes that there is no juridical basis
whatsoever for demanding that Iran not proceed with completion of
its nuclear fuel cycle, including enriching uranium, which Brazil does
without drawing objections from the IAEA.
The real reasons for the pressure on Iran must be sought elsewhere:
certain countries' interest in maintaining their oligopoly on
uranium enrichment, and the fact that the economy of the United
States appears to be flourishing in part because of a boom in military
industries and other areas of business related to the wars in the Gulf,
Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, and Iraq (four wars in fourteen years).
Despite the fact that the security and stability of the Middle East
requires the complete elimination of all nuclear weapons and other
arms of mass destruction, and despite the existence of an Arab
initiative for the creation of a nuclear weapons-free zone in this
area, there is no hope for the formulation of treaty to bring this
about because of Washington's de facto decree that the
status quo remain as is, in other words, that Israel continue to
have weapons of mass destruction while its neighbours not be
permitted to develop nuclear technology. (END/2005)
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