"To
wave the scarecrow of an Iran equipped with nuclear weapons is an act of false
alarmism on the part of Paris and Washington. Rather, it seems reasonable to assume
that these two governments have chosen to exploit the domestic problems of the
Iranian regime."
In response to Iran’s
decision to begin the process of enriching uranium to 20 percent, reported to the
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) by Tehran, the government of France,
speaking through its ministers of defense and foreign affairs, Hervé Moriny and
Bernard Kouchner, announced that together with the United States, it will
intensify economic sanctions against the Islamic Republic. “For us, the only path
that remains is to exert pressure,” Kouchner said, exhorting the international
community to “work in unison” against the Iranian government.
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It's worth recalling that
Iran is currently enriching uranium to less than 6 percent, and that to obtain material
for the construction of nuclear weapons - the secret objective attributed to it
by the Western powers, systematically denied by Teheran - it would have to boost
the process to 90 percent, which at present is beyond the technological capabilities
of that country. And it's important to note that, when announcing the start of
20 percent enrichment, Iranian authorities invited IAEA inspectors to observe
the entire operation.
In such circumstances, therefore,
to wave the scarecrow of an Iran equipped with nuclear weapons is an act of
false alarmism on the part of Paris and Washington. Rather, it seems reasonable
to assume that these two governments have chosen to exploit the domestic
problems of the Iranian regime - a dissident movement renewed and fed by the
authoritarianism and intolerance of Mahmud Ahmadinejad’s government - to push
it to the ropes through unjust and hypocritical economic sanctions.
The latter of these
adjectives suggests itself when one considers that the governments of the United
States, France and other Western powers looked the other way as Israel developed
a nuclear program that transformed it into a nuclear power, and did the same as
India and Pakistan manufactured their own nuclear arsenal. There was then no
comparison with the West's verbal outbursts against nuclear proliferation today
- and no talk of economic blockades of any kind.
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Of course, the multiplication
of countries possessing nuclear weapons is an undesirable prospect, but to avert
this, it's necessary for members of the so called “nuclear club” to recognize
themselves as the principal and most dangerous owners of weapons of mass destruction,
and that they preach by example and commit themselves to acts of voluntary and
unilateral disarmament.
In the current situation,
Iran, having endured decades under the threat of U.S. militarism, has a
sovereign right to pursue its nuclear program for peaceful purposes and even,
if such were the case, to develop nuclear weapons. Ultimately, the Iranian
regime will have learned the lesson of Iraq, a nation that Washington accused
of possessing weapons of mass destruction and which it could pulverize with
impunity because it didn’t possess them.
