The Real Mission of IAEA

By: Hamdollah Emadi Heidari

Developing the civilian nuclear energy and disarming the nuclear powers by IAEA is a just solution for resolving the nuclear race in the world, what has been forgotten under the big powers interference.

Many decades ago, when US dropped two nuclear bombs on Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, human being understood the fact that a new danger had been borne, a danger that could destroy everything in a minute by pushing a button.

Decades passed from that horrible incident but the powers, which had committed those crimes, continue their nuclear ambitions. Today, there have revealed proved evidences about the use of depleted uranium in Lebanon, Gaza, Iraq and Afghanistan by Israel and US. Although the nuclear weapon race has been speed up among regional and global powers, up to now there has been no other direct use of a nuclear weapon.

The increasing danger of nuclear weapons stocked in North Korea and Israel, the increasing nuclear tension between US and Russia, and India and Pakistan as the owners of the most horrible nuclear arsenals in the world makes the nuclear revolution essential.

World fossil reserves are gradually ran out. Besides, ozone penetration problems which has been caused by fossil energy consumption has made the use of nuclear energy a must. Nuclear energy is a clean, harmless and economic form of energy, so we cannot omit the nuclear option for solving the 21st century’s humankind energy problems. Many analysts call this century the century of struggle for energy. Powers struggle in Middle East, Caucasus, Central Asia, Parts of Africa and even North Pole are the real evidences of this struggle.

Now, in this crazy struggle for energy and crazy struggle for nuclear weapons, the only option forward is to make a distinction between these two, one forbidden and the other recommended.Disarming the countries, which have nuclear weapons without discrimination, and helping all nations for acquiring the civilian nuclear energy can be a good mission for IAEA to revolutionize the world nuclear atmosphere.

IAEA as the sole international powerful organization for controlling the nuclear tests and arsenals around the world can and should differentiate between nuclear weapon and peaceful nuclear energy in both rules and actions.Then, the most difficult and challenging introduction for a world free from nuclear weapons is to have an international nuclear watchdog free from power’s interference and political attitudes.