 | By Jon_i_Cohen
May 19, 2010 | Share |
Israels Government rejects Iran deal as a ruse
By JPOST.COM STAFF AND ASSOCIATED PRESS
18/05/2010 11:28
Says Iranian deal is a maneuver to prevent agreement on sanctions.
The Israeli government described the latest Iranian nuclear deal as a trick designed to prevent the imposition of UN Security Council sanctions.
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu met with the "Septet" of seven key ministers on Tuesday, to discuss Israel's response to the Iranian nuclear fuel reprocessing agreement, brokered by Brazil and Turkey.
Netanyahu instructed ministers not to make any public pronouncements before they had agreed a united response. Ministers concluded that the latest agreement is a maneuver to prevent the UN Security Council from agreeing on sanctions. They concluded the Iranian ruse will probably succeed as the Security council will be forced to study the new proposals.
Iran signed the agreement with Turkey and Brazil on Monday, in the face of growing likelihood of UN Security Council sanctions. Turkey and Brazil are currently non-permanent members of the Security Council, and Brazil is seeking a permanent seat on the council. Both countries have strong economic ties with Iran and are seeking a greater role in the Middle East.
Brazil and Turkey: Mediators for what?
The new agreement is similar to an earlier agreement, also used to offset sanctions, in which Iran was supposed to ship its enriched uranium to Russia, for processing into fuel rods that could not be used for weapons. On that occasion, Iran refused to implement the agreement.
The US, Britain and Germany have responded to the agreement with caution and are continuing to push for sanctions. Russia and China have welcomed the deal, but Medvedev has advised caution.
Under the deal Iran will ship most, but not all, of its enriched uranium to Turkey and in return receive uranium fuel rods for research, which cannot be used for weapons. In the event that the fuel rods are not delivered to Iran within a year, Turkey undertakes to return the original uranium to Iran.
So, once again, more delays, allowing Iran to continue to pursue enrichment, whilst the civilised world does nothing to stop it.
Just a matter of time now.
Jon_i_Cohen
25 May, 2010 - 13:40
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Below are highlights from the document produced at the conference on the 24th May 2010.
Paragraphs 2 and 3 below single out Israel, (along with India and Pakistan).
And, of course trawling through pages and pages of documents we find nothing about Iran.
Shall we assume the IAEA has been hoodwinked, otherwise if that is not the case, then the IAEA are complicit with Iran in it’s aim to obtain Nuclear Weapons.
NPT/conf.2010/MC.I/CRP.3/Rev.1
2010 Review Conference of the Parties
To the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation
Of Nuclear Weapons
2. The Conference urges all States not yet party to the Treaty, namely India, Israel and Pakistan, all of which operate unsafeguarded nuclear facilities to accede to the Treaty as non-nuclear-weapon States, promptly and without condition.
3. The Conference reiterates the call on the three States that operate unsafeguarded nuclear facilities and that have not yet acceded to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons to reverse clearly and urgently any policies to pursue any nuclear-weapon development or deployment and to refrain from any action which could undermine regional and international peace and security and the efforts of the international community towards nuclear disarmament and the prevention of nuclear weapons proliferation.