UN to threaten Iranians with sanctions over nuclear plans
The US continues on it's collision course with Iran at the UN with a US spokesman insisting, "We cannot allow this dangerous regime to gain access to the most deadly of weapons. This radical regime poses a clear threat to international security. A nuclear-armed Iran could pose an even greater threat to the region, including Israel."
Of course, the US has so far produced not a scintilla of evidence that Iran are producing a nuclear weapon, rather than simply enriching uranium for their own domestic use - which is Iran's right under the nuclear non-proliferation treaty.
The resolution does not accuse Iran of violating international law or the terms of the nuclear non-proliferation treaty but urges it to observe the UN demands in order "to build confidence in the exclusively peaceful purposes of its programme".
Referring to the President of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who has called for Israel to be wiped off the map and said the Holocaust was "a myth", Mr Schulte said: "We have to wonder what a man like that would do with nuclear weapons."
Some academics have questioned this translation of what Ahmadinejad said about Israel, saying that he called for "an end to the occupying nation" rather than for the destruction of Israel itself.
The fact that the US are always choosing to make the worst possible interpretations of Ahmadinejad's every utterance, would appear further proof that the objective here is not to ensure that Iran do not obtain a nuclear weapon, but rather that the nuclear issue - much like Saddam's non-existent WMD - are merely a subterfuge for regime change; which is, of course, illegal under international law.
It is highly unlikely that Russia or China will go along with these US proposals.
The question for many of us is: what will Bush do when his efforts at diplomacy hit the brick wall towards which he is currently heading at such high speed?
As I've previously argued, I don't think he has a Plan B. And that may make a disastrous war all but inevitable.
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