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by Peter Huessy
• August 5, 2015 at 5:00 am
- Are we
actually being told, then, that the only way to prevent Iran from
having nuclear bombs is to let it have them? If not now, in 10-15
years? And with intercontinental ballistic missiles that can reach
the U.S.?
- Even
supporters of the deal say that yes, at the ten year mark, Iran will
be able to breakout and build a weapon's worth of nuclear fuel in a
year or less -- in other words, have nuclear bombs.
- Iran has
never come clean with the IAEA -- or anyone else -- about its
nuclear activities. These were discovered not by IAEA inspectors but
by the U.S. and allied law enforcement and intelligence services, as
well as by dissident groups within Iran. Are we actually assuming
that Iran, under this new deal, will now come clean?
- Thus under
the July deal the U.S. may not (technically) know if Iran, after a
breakout, has a nuclear weapon arsenal until Iran either tests a
nuclear warhead or explodes it in an American or Israeli city. Then,
of course, the discovery will be "too late" to do anything
about, especially if the U.S. is helping Iran with technology
assistance designed to prevent attacks on Iran's nuclear sites.
- Having made
so many concessions to a non-nuclear Iran, how tough in the future
will we be, faced with a nuclear Iran?
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Iran's Foreign Minister and chief nuclear
negotiator, Javad Zarif (left), is very, very pleased with the recent
nuclear deal. Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (right), is
not unclenching Iran's fist in its relations with the West.
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Iran says its nuclear technology program is totally peaceful. In 31
other countries with peaceful nuclear programs, there are 438 nuclear
power plants in operation, and in another 16 countries, 67 plants under
construction.
Under the terms of the 1969 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, any
nation adopting nuclear energy has to comply with International Atomic
Energy Agency (IAEA) rules. Every one of these nearly 50 countries does.
Iran does not.
For over two decades, in fact, Iran has flouted, bamboozled and
cheated the IAEA.
What, then, does this pattern of behavior bode for the emerging
nuclear deal with Iran?
Past activities by Iran related to prohibited nuclear weapons have
included facilities where nuclear work was done, and the attempted
smuggling of nuclear weapons technology, which was interdicted.
by Shoshana Bryen
• August 5, 2015 at 4:00 am
- Is there a
difference? To the perpetrators, no. To the societies from which the
murderers came, the difference is a chasm.
- When the
Israeli government announced it had suspects, one suspect's mother
said, "I will be proud of him until Judgment Day. If... it is
true... My boys are all righteous, pious and pure. The goal of my
children is the triumph of Islam."
- This weekend
in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, thousands of Israelis protested the
murder of the baby Ali Saad Dawabshe.
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Ali Saad Dawabshe, murdered last week in his house
in the West Bank village of Duma.
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It is almost ghoulish to compare the deaths of children in war. They
were not responsible for the situation in which they found themselves,
and they did not deserve their fate. In a healthy society, such deaths are
mourned without regard for the children's nationality, or the politics
and misdeeds of their parents.
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