Egypt deplores IAEA's anti-Iran resolution

from : presstv.ir ( Iran )

Iran has always said its nuclear activities are totally peaceful.

Egypt has criticized the latest IAEA resolution, which censures Iran for its uranium enrichment program, saying it failed to include other nuclear disarmament issues in the Middle East.

“The resolution on the Iranian nuclear dossier does not take into account its regional aspect,” Egyptian Foreign Ministry spokesman Hossam Zaki told journalists on Saturday.

He added that the UN nuclear watchdog's resolution should have also mentioned Israel's nuclear arsenal and nuclear disarmament in the Middle East.

His remarks came after the 35-member International Atomic Energy Agency Board of Governors passed a resolution sponsored by Germany on Friday, calling on Iran to halt the construction of its Fordo enrichment plant, located near Qom.

The move was the IAEA's first adoption of a resolution against Iran since February 2006.

Malaysia, the current president of the IAEA Board of Governors, Venezuela, and Cuba voted against, but 25 countries voted for the resolution. Egypt was among the six countries that abstained. Azerbaijan Republic missed the vote.

The Egyptian diplomat reaffirmed Iran's right to nuclear energy, saying all signatories to the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty are entitled to have nuclear programs for civilian applications without any preconditions.

However, he expressed his regret that Iran had failed to inform the IAEA about the construction of its second uranium enrichment facility in due time.

The Fordo site will be Iran's second uranium enrichment plant, after the Natanz facility in central Iran, for the production of nuclear fuel enriched to a level of 5 percent.

Iran announced that it was constructing the Fordo nuclear plant 12 months earlier than the agency's requirement for member states to inform the UN nuclear watchdog about new developments.

The country currently faces pressure to halt uranium enrichment, with Western powers alleging the civilian program is cover for a nuclear weapons program.

However, Tehran has denied the allegations and has called for the total eradication of all weapons of mass destruction.

SF/HGL

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The Media: Israel and Nuclear Weapons

from : what really happened (blog) ( Int. )

by Sode

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Mon Sep 28, 2009 at 02:35:31 PM PDT

For the past four days we all have been bombarded by the media about Iran and secret nuclear facility in Qom.

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It is quite surprising to me that nearly all the Main Stream Media have been on the bandwagon on Iran and nuclear weapons. Not one media person had shown their independent thinking or having the guts to ask about the nuclear program in Israel. We know that Israel has nuclear weapons but they are not informing us about the nuclear weapons in Israel. How do we look to the outside world?

As someone who is against nuclear weapons and supports a nuclear weapon free world. Why is it that Iran is the country that we are picking on?

Some questions for the so called experts and journalists:

Why is Iran in violation and not Israel? If Iran is in violation then Israel has been in violation for a long time. What the G3 needs to do is to compel Israel, India and Pakistan to join the NPT. Till this is done we are not credible. Israel has nuclear weapon and we are not going after them. We are not credible on this matter. Israel also must come clean!!!!!!

Why is Vanunu not allowed to travel out of Israel? This is also a human rights violation issue. Vanunu was the Moroccan Jew and an Israeli former nuclear technical assistant that revealed details of Israel's nuclear weapons program to the British Press in 1986. He was kidnapped by Israeli intelligence operatives and transported to Israel. He was tried and convicted of treason and espionage. He spent 18 years in prison and more than 11 years in solitary confinement.

Why is Israel not a member of the NPT?The UN's nuclear assembly passed a resolution last week urging Israel to accede to the NPT and open their atomic sites to inspections by the IAEA. Israel refused, " Israel will not cooperate in any matter with this resolution which is only aiming at reinforcing political hostilities and lines of division in the Middle East region "
India and Pakistan have also refused to sign the treaty and permit inspections.

Entering the NPT would place Israel’s nuclear arsenal under direct international scrutiny for the first time since its creation. Coming clean with its own decades of nuclear activities may also undermine its demands to crack down on the Iranian government.

We need to start the elimination of nuclear weapons by having and insisting that all countries with nuclear weapons must be members of the NPT. Israel does not even confirm that she has nuclear weapons and goes around insisting that Iran should not be allowed to have nuclear weapons. Who allowed Israel to have nuclear weapons?????

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