IRAN: Nuclear Deal has Prevented a New War in the Mid. East

IRAN: Nuclear Deal has Prevented a New War in the Mid. East

Postby Oscar » Sat Apr 04, 2015 10:09 am

WATCH: Historic Nuclear Deal has Prevented a New War in the Middle East

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Friday, April 3, 2015

After eight days of talks in Switzerland, Iran and world powers have reached a framework agreement on curbing Iran’s nuclear program for at least a decade.

In return, the United States and Europe plan to lift economic sanctions on Iran. As part of the deal, Iran must reduce the number of its centrifuges that can be used to enrich uranium into a bomb by more than two-thirds. Iran also has to redesign a power plant so it cannot produce weapons-grade plutonium, eliminate much of its stockpile of low-enriched uranium and be subject to regular international nuclear inspections.

While U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said the deal would contribute to peace and stability in the region, praise for the deal was not universal.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu condemned the agreement as a "threat to Israel’s existence."

We speak to Seyed Hossein Mousavian, a former nuclear negotiator for Iran. He served as Iran’s ambassador to Germany from 1990 to 1997. He joins us from Princeton, New Jersey, where he is an associate research scholar at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. Last year, he published the book, "Iran and the United States: An Insider’s View on the Failed Past and the Road to Peace." [ . . . ]
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Re: IRAN: Nuclear Deal has Prevented a New War in the Mid. E

Postby Oscar » Fri Apr 10, 2015 4:55 pm

The Iran Nuclear Energy Agreement: Force Again Prevails Over Law

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By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts Global Research, April 08, 2015

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The Israel Lobby and its associated neocon war criminals will block if they can the nuclear energy agreement, worked out by Putin, Iran, and Obama, which has the promise of bringing to an end the US orchestrated crisis over Iran’s development of nuclear energy.

As a signatory to the nuclear weapons non-proliferation treaty, which Israel is not, Iran has the right under the treaty to develop nuclear energy. Iran, alone of all the signatories to the treaty, has had its rights under the treaty cancelled by economic sanctions imposed by the US and by the threat of a US military attack.

Neither US intelligence nor the International Atomic Energy Agency, which inspects Iran’s enrichment sites, has reported any sign of an Iranian nuclear weapons program for the past decade. Despite the absence of any evidence of an Iranian nuclear weapons program, the crazed Israeli government and its neoconservative agents, who represent Israel’s interests, not America’s, have almost driven the US to war with Iran over nuclear weapons as non-existent as Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction.

The nuclear energy agreement that has been reached eliminates any possibility of Iran diverting enriched uranium to a weapons program. Nevertheless Washington warmongers and the Israel Lobby are attempting to block the agreement with the argument that “Iran’s leaders cannot be trusted.”

The real question, however, is on what basis can Iran possibly trust Washington?

Iran should ask former Soviet president Gorbachev what Washington’s word is worth. In exchange for Gorbachev’s agreement to the reunification of Germany, Washington promised Gorbachev that NATO would not move one inch to the East and promptly took NATO to Russia’s border and is now working to incorporate former parts of the Russian empire into NATO.

Iran should ask current Russian president Putin what Washington’s word is worth. Sensing Russian strategic weakness, the George W. Bush regime broke the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty that Washington had signed with Moscow. Pulling out of the treaty, Washington quickly put anti-ballistic missile bases on Russia’s borders, hoping to degrade Russia’s strategic missile forces that serve as a guardian against Washington’s first nuclear strike, a policy now permissible under Washington’s revised war doctrine.

Iran should ask Germany, which was coerced into the Versailles Treaty in violation of every promise President Woodrow Wilson made to Germany in exchange for ending World War I. The extensive loss of Germany territory and crippling reparations greedily and thoughtlessly imposed on Germany, whose government most certainly did not start the war, led directly to World War II, also blamed on Germany despite the fact that the war began with Britain’s and France’s declaration of war on Germany.

Iran should ask the American Indians–the Iroquois, the Cherokee, the Sioux, Cheyenne, Comanche, the Nez Perce, and every other indigenous American people how many treaties Washington kept. In case you don’t know the answer, it is zero. Washington did not keep a single treaty it made with Indian tribes. To fully comprehend the total worthlessness of Washington’s word, read Ralph K. Andrist’s book, The Long Death: The Last Days Of The Plains Indian. No one who reads this book would sign any agreement with Washington.

An agreement with Washington is a prelude to treachery. It puts the signer at ease while Washington prepares the signer’s doom. This is the way Washington operates.

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Re: IRAN: Nuclear Deal has Prevented a New War in the Mid. E

Postby Oscar » Thu Jul 16, 2015 4:16 pm

The Iran Deal: Our Take

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While there is rightfully celebration and relief in non-proliferation circles about the deal struck with Iran on its nuclear program, stark reminders remain about the ever-present dangers of the entire uranium fuel chain.

The Iran deal is a welcome triumph of diplomacy over war. And the irony of Iran's adherence to the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) while the U.S. still proposes to spend tens of billions of dollars on "refurbishing" its nuclear weapons arsenal should not be lost.

But the reality remains that nuclear power programs invariably have and do lead to nuclear weapons development.

The lid is never fully closed on the nuclear coffin until both nuclear power and nuclear weapons - and thereby environmentally discriminatory uranium mining as well - are abolished.

It's clear that a solar program in Iran would be a far more practical compensation prize for the renunciation of nuclear weapons than a nuclear energy program.

But that's not what the flawed NPT is about.

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