Missile Defense Shield Has Not Been Canceled
Interview By:Hamdollah Emadi Heidari
The US government approach has been pradoaxical in recent years, and this paradox has grown more intense during Barak Obama’s administration. Different decisions made by Whitehouse policy makers prove this. One of the most important promises made by Obama during and after his election campaign was canceling the deployment of the missile defense shield in Eastern European countries, a promise which has not been really accomplished. However, Obama’s administration has declared officially that the shield plan has been cancelled. But Mark Fitzpatrick, Director of Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Program for the International Institute for Strategic Studies and former US assistant secretary of state says this is not true.
In an exclusive interview with Siasat Rooz daily, Fitzpatrick said he believes that the proposed US missile defense shield in Eeastern Europe has not been cancelled but changed, to move it further south.
Fitzpatrick had previously served for four years at the US Mission to International Organization in Vienna and is fully aware of the US foreign policies, and what he says about Iran and its nuclear program in this short interview can be a clear proof of this fact that in contrary to Obama’s Change slogan, the US foreign policies
toward Iran has not been changed.
The proposal of the Deployment of US Missile Defense Shield has intensified the tensions between Russia and the US.
Kremlin believes it is dangerous for its security and threatened to deploy the same system on its borders with Europe. While US has the biggest Nuclear Arsenal and has not decreased them till now.
When he was asked about the new promises made by Obama’s administration in the case of making a world free from Nuclear Weapons, he said: President Obama has stated his commitment to the goal of a nuclear-weapons-free world, and he has taken concrete steps in this direction, starting with the negotiation of a START follow-on treaty under which American and Russian nuclear arsenals would be further reduced. Strengthening the non-proliferation measures of the NPT and the verification tools of the IAEA will also be important aspects of building a stable nuclear-weapons-free world in which no country need fear that another nation will suddenly break out and become the lone nuclear power.
About of the paradoxical statements posed by US officials about canceling the missile defense shield in Eastern Europe, He stated: The missile defence shield in Eastern Europe has not been cancelled, but it will be changed, to move it further south and to concentrate on capabilities to detect and destroy any short- or medium-range missiles fired by hostile countries.
Ansewring a question about making the missile defense shield near Israel he said: I do not think the primary purpose is to defend Israel, which has other means of defense.
While, many times, IAEA inspectors and it’s general secretary in different occasions have reported Iran Nuclear activities peaceful and the remaining ambiguities are not technical and are just some claims made by Israel and its supporters, in Expressing his analysis of the current talks between Iran and the West, Fitzpatrick, ignored Tehran cooperation with IAEA and 5+1 group. “Of all of Iran’s communications with the major powers to date, the 11 September package was the most disappointing. By refusing to even touch on the cause of the dispute, Iran’s pursuit of a nuclear weapons capability, the package provided no basis for finding a peaceful solution,” he claimed.
This former American official criticized Iran proposed package introduction about ‘peace and justice” and related it to Iran post election events.
Reviewing the past 5+1 group talks about Iran Peaceful Nuclear Energy, Director of IISS added: In New York last Wednesday, I assume the P5+1 expressed their common determination to persuade Iran to suspend the enrichment activity as a first step toward a peaceful solution.
Former US State department Deputy Assistant Secretary for Non-proliferation accused Iran of trying to make Nuclear Weapons and said: 5+1 representatives on 1 October will be united in asking Iran to stop he activity that is causing so much concern.
While Iranian officials had announced the process of building a second enrichment plant at Qom in a letter to Mohammad Albaradei several months befor it was released by media, Fitzpatrick claims that the “astounding news that Iran was secretly building a second enrichment plant at Qom will strengthen 5+1 determination and the revelation of the Qom plant is further proof that the main purpose of Iran’s enrichment program is for weapons-related.”
“ One of the most interesting developments of the past week is that Russia now accepts that further sanctions are inevitable. Now that the world knows about the second enrichment plant at Qom, I expect China, too, will agree to impose additional sanctions if Iran does not demonstrate in the talks that it is serious about meeting their concerns “he added.
Ignoring all the forgotten promises and the “confidence deficit” which has grown between Tehran and West, Fitzpatrick said: Iran had been offered a very good opportunity four years ago to join with Russia in a joint enterprise to produce enriched uranium on Russian soil. The best way forward is a solution such as this that allows Iran to continue to be involved in nuclear technology and does not restrict its ability to produce nuclear power but does limit its ability to produce nuclear weapons. Any solution would also have to involve unfettered IAEA verification, including through implementation of the safeguards Additional Protocol and other measures to overcome what IAEA Director-General Mohamed ElBaradei called the ‘confidence deficit’ that Iran has created by its violation of IAEA safeguards and its refusal to fully cooperate with the IAEA.
Speaking about rationality and fairness of allowing some governments and regimes like India, Pakistan and Israel to have Nuclear Arsenals and struggling for preventing Iran from having Peaceful Nuclear Energy, he continued: Iran freely undertook an obligation under the NPT to forgo nuclear weapons and to allow the IAEA to verify that its nuclear activities are peaceful. Iran is being asked to adhere to its obligations. This is hardly unfair. And because Iran violated its safeguards obligations, it was asked to stop producing enriched uranium until the world is persuaded that the nuclear program is solely for peaceful purposes. It is desirable that all countries sign the NPT. The fact that three of them have not is not a justification for Iran to violate its NPT obligations and to seek a nuclear weapons capability. If Iran seeks to leave the NPT and to produce nuclear weapons, I predict that it will trigger war. I certainly do not want this, and I do not think any reasonable people in Iran do either.
former US State department Deputy Assistant Secretary for Non-proliferation, called Tel Aviv threats against Iran Nuclear Facilities acceptable and said: Iran’s proposal for protecting the IAEA member’s Nuclear Facilities from Airial attacks is obviously self-serving and unacceptable. If Iran is intending to use its nuclear facilities to produce fissile material for weapons purposes, as certainly appears to be the case, then they should not be given international legal status that protects them from military attack.
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Mr Fitzpatrick had previously served for four years at the US Mission to International Organizations in Vienna, including as Charge d’Affairs and as Counselor for Nuclear Policy, in charge of liaison with the International Atomic Energy Agency. Now he is the Director of the IISS Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Program.
Friday, October 2, 2009
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Polish journalists intrigued by Iran’s Muharram rituals
By: Hamdollah Emadi Heidari
TEHRAN -- Among the world’s most unique religious ceremonies, Muharram rituals are extremely fascinating, Polish photojournalist Marcin Kalinski told MNA on Friday.
Polish photojournalist Marcin Kalinski and his brother Piotr, a music specialist from the Dziennik newspaper, traveled Iran to take photos and also to review music performed during the Muharram ceremonies.
They unite Iranians into a single family who mourns for the loss of their most beloved member, namely Imam Hussein (AS).
They expressed their amazement over the continuation of such rituals for centuries in Iran and also lauded the collective nature of the mourning ceremonies.
“The Muharram rituals I observed were very different from Muharram I knew previously through Western media,” Marcin Kalinski mentioned.
“I saw a Reuters photo in which a Pakistani stabbed himself in the chest during a Muharram ceremony but the ceremonies I have witnessed in Iran are intense and meaningful, but without self-mutilation,” he added.
“I had expected to see Iranians injuring their bodies during the rituals but I did not see such a thing. In Iran, the Muharram mourning ceremonies were really quite different from what I expected.
“I have traveled to many countries and took several photos of different religious ceremonies but none of them were as extensive as those here in Iran. It seemed as though my brother and I were the only ones in the whole country not mourning Imam Hussein (AS),” he said.
Marcin Kalinski, who also traveled to Bander Abbas in southern Iran, commented on the Tazieh, Iranian passion plays performed in the street during the mourning period of Muharram. He said that although professional actors perform the Tazieh in Tehran, in other Iranian towns amateur actors perform in them.
Piotr Kalinski said that although he did not understand the liturgy recited during the Muharram rituals, he found that the music compositions performed were intriguing, sorrowful but also tranquil.
Tehran Times Art Desk
TEHRAN -- Among the world’s most unique religious ceremonies, Muharram rituals are extremely fascinating, Polish photojournalist Marcin Kalinski told MNA on Friday.
Polish photojournalist Marcin Kalinski and his brother Piotr, a music specialist from the Dziennik newspaper, traveled Iran to take photos and also to review music performed during the Muharram ceremonies.
They unite Iranians into a single family who mourns for the loss of their most beloved member, namely Imam Hussein (AS).
They expressed their amazement over the continuation of such rituals for centuries in Iran and also lauded the collective nature of the mourning ceremonies.
“The Muharram rituals I observed were very different from Muharram I knew previously through Western media,” Marcin Kalinski mentioned.
“I saw a Reuters photo in which a Pakistani stabbed himself in the chest during a Muharram ceremony but the ceremonies I have witnessed in Iran are intense and meaningful, but without self-mutilation,” he added.
“I had expected to see Iranians injuring their bodies during the rituals but I did not see such a thing. In Iran, the Muharram mourning ceremonies were really quite different from what I expected.
“I have traveled to many countries and took several photos of different religious ceremonies but none of them were as extensive as those here in Iran. It seemed as though my brother and I were the only ones in the whole country not mourning Imam Hussein (AS),” he said.
Marcin Kalinski, who also traveled to Bander Abbas in southern Iran, commented on the Tazieh, Iranian passion plays performed in the street during the mourning period of Muharram. He said that although professional actors perform the Tazieh in Tehran, in other Iranian towns amateur actors perform in them.
Piotr Kalinski said that although he did not understand the liturgy recited during the Muharram rituals, he found that the music compositions performed were intriguing, sorrowful but also tranquil.
Tehran Times Art Desk
ANSWER director: Israeli actions are ‘a crime against the humanity’
By: Hamdollah Emadi Heidari
TEHRAN - The Mehr News Agency has conducted an interview with Brian Becker, the director of the Act Now to Stop War and End Racism (ANSWER) organization, on Israel’s war on Gaza.
ANSWER is a U.S.-based protest organization that has organized many of the largest anti-war demonstrations in the United States.
Becker believes what is Israel is doing in Gaza is a “war crime”. He says, “It is really a crime against the humanity and war crimes as defined by all international standards including the Nuremberg Treaty, the Nuremberg Trial and the Geneva Convention.”
Following is an excerpt of the interview:
Q: What is your view on the UN’s silence about the Gaza tragedy and the killing of women and children?
A: People are demonstrating in the streets and yet the UN does nothing and the reason is that the UN is manipulated by the U.S. It is the exercise of the dictatorship by the U.S. and then other countries of the world because these exercises of power are in the Security Council. The charter of the UN is now a mockery because the UN, rather than bringing peace, allows a war of aggression carried out by Israeli government but supported and financed by United States.
Q: Do you think the crimes committed in Gaza can be classified as war crimes?
A: It is really a crime against the humanity and war crimes as defined by all international standards including the Nuremberg Treaty, the Nuremberg Trial and the Geneva Convention. It is illegal to target or even to allow military combatants to target civilians…. That is a violation of international law. Clearly the Israel government is not only targeting the military and governmental centers in Gaza but this is a war against the entire people and this is a war crime and a crime against the humanity.
Q: Some analysts say Israel does not intend to stop the attacks. What do you think?
A: Israel has a goal and its goal is shared with the U.S. The goal is to destroy all organizations… those resistance organizations that reject the colonial projects called Israel. The goal is to destroy Hamas and other organizations that continue to resist against the colonial projects. Israel’s goal is to destroy the (Hamas) movement.
Q: Is there any effort to bring Israeli officials to trial?
A: To be realistic I don’t believe there will be a trial because U.S. and Israel almost represent one entity and they have a great power to stand trial in any court. So the court we are going to is the court of the world public opinion and the people have to rise up against the aggression that has been done by Israel and supported by the U.S.
Q: How will the EU respond?
A: I think the EU too is under the political and military dominance of NATO and I believe that they won’t act independent of the desire of the U.S.
Q: What are you trying to do for Palestine?
A: This (U.S.) government speaks in our name and spends our taxes in our name for policies that are unjust and are harmful and for aggression and we have a moral obligation to stand up and speak to say no. The government speaks in our name but we do not approve it.
Tehran Times Political Desk
TEHRAN - The Mehr News Agency has conducted an interview with Brian Becker, the director of the Act Now to Stop War and End Racism (ANSWER) organization, on Israel’s war on Gaza.
ANSWER is a U.S.-based protest organization that has organized many of the largest anti-war demonstrations in the United States.
Becker believes what is Israel is doing in Gaza is a “war crime”. He says, “It is really a crime against the humanity and war crimes as defined by all international standards including the Nuremberg Treaty, the Nuremberg Trial and the Geneva Convention.”
Following is an excerpt of the interview:
Q: What is your view on the UN’s silence about the Gaza tragedy and the killing of women and children?
A: People are demonstrating in the streets and yet the UN does nothing and the reason is that the UN is manipulated by the U.S. It is the exercise of the dictatorship by the U.S. and then other countries of the world because these exercises of power are in the Security Council. The charter of the UN is now a mockery because the UN, rather than bringing peace, allows a war of aggression carried out by Israeli government but supported and financed by United States.
Q: Do you think the crimes committed in Gaza can be classified as war crimes?
A: It is really a crime against the humanity and war crimes as defined by all international standards including the Nuremberg Treaty, the Nuremberg Trial and the Geneva Convention. It is illegal to target or even to allow military combatants to target civilians…. That is a violation of international law. Clearly the Israel government is not only targeting the military and governmental centers in Gaza but this is a war against the entire people and this is a war crime and a crime against the humanity.
Q: Some analysts say Israel does not intend to stop the attacks. What do you think?
A: Israel has a goal and its goal is shared with the U.S. The goal is to destroy all organizations… those resistance organizations that reject the colonial projects called Israel. The goal is to destroy Hamas and other organizations that continue to resist against the colonial projects. Israel’s goal is to destroy the (Hamas) movement.
Q: Is there any effort to bring Israeli officials to trial?
A: To be realistic I don’t believe there will be a trial because U.S. and Israel almost represent one entity and they have a great power to stand trial in any court. So the court we are going to is the court of the world public opinion and the people have to rise up against the aggression that has been done by Israel and supported by the U.S.
Q: How will the EU respond?
A: I think the EU too is under the political and military dominance of NATO and I believe that they won’t act independent of the desire of the U.S.
Q: What are you trying to do for Palestine?
A: This (U.S.) government speaks in our name and spends our taxes in our name for policies that are unjust and are harmful and for aggression and we have a moral obligation to stand up and speak to say no. The government speaks in our name but we do not approve it.
Tehran Times Political Desk
Israel’s crimes against Palestinians is out of ‘desperation’
By: Hamdollah Emad Heidari
TEHRAN - Sarah Flounder, director of International Action Center Organization in U.S., believes that brutal attacks against Palestinians in Gaza is out of desperation as the Tel Aviv regime has lost support among governments around the world.
Flounder is of the opinion that the resistance by Palestinians cannot be defeated even with the “most powerful weapons” in the world. She also says Israel will “cease to exist” by continuing such a policy.
In an interview with the Mehr News Agency she said the Israeli officials’ crimes against Palestinians is out of “desperation because more and more they have lost support everywhere in the world except from Washington and they have realized that even among Jewish people around the world and their own population they have lost the support they once had.”
She said it has become “impossible” for Israeli officials to “maintain an apartheid state”.
“A state built on racist exclusion is no longer possible in this world today. That is making them desperate to crush any form of resistance.
“They will not succeed although the impact for Palestinian people will be very hard, will be very terrible, but the Palestinian resistance will continue and in the long run Israel will cease to exist because… such a colonial enterprise cannot survive even with support from Washington.”
She stated the “resistance” shown by the Palestinians is “so powerful” that the “most powerful weapons in the world can not destroy it.”
“The bombardment from air, from land, from sea cannot destroy it and still in the impossible conditions Palestinians resist with tunnels with suicide bombs, just like the World War Second which people fought with rocks against the Nazis.
“So today what we see in Palestine is a heroic level of struggle and it has the solidarity of people everywhere in the world. Millions of people are demonstrating around the world… in New York, in Washington, in Boston in Los Angeles…”
She added that people from all major cities have poured into the streets “in support of Palestinian peoples, both Arabs, Muslims, Jews, Christians, secular forces, antiwar forces, peace organizations, trade unions… and this support is growing and growing and Israel is more isolated in its crime against Palestinian people.”
The Israeli criminal action in Gaza with “every form of explosive destruction” largely on “civilian population” is an effort to break any Palestinian resistance, she explained.
“This will not succeed and the whole world stands with Palestinian people against the occupation and the seizure of their land. And we are confident that Israel will not prevail.”
The director of International Action Center Organization said the U.S. is giving political, financial, and military support to Israel in its “great crime” against the Palestinian nation.
Flounder predicted that “this crime can not continue.”
“Israel’s action is genocide,” she noted.
She blasted the U.S. administration for its blind support for Israel.
“Here in U.S. we have a criminal government and it is people that must demand an end to aid for Israel’s military.
Tehran Times Political Desk
TEHRAN - Sarah Flounder, director of International Action Center Organization in U.S., believes that brutal attacks against Palestinians in Gaza is out of desperation as the Tel Aviv regime has lost support among governments around the world.
Flounder is of the opinion that the resistance by Palestinians cannot be defeated even with the “most powerful weapons” in the world. She also says Israel will “cease to exist” by continuing such a policy.
In an interview with the Mehr News Agency she said the Israeli officials’ crimes against Palestinians is out of “desperation because more and more they have lost support everywhere in the world except from Washington and they have realized that even among Jewish people around the world and their own population they have lost the support they once had.”
She said it has become “impossible” for Israeli officials to “maintain an apartheid state”.
“A state built on racist exclusion is no longer possible in this world today. That is making them desperate to crush any form of resistance.
“They will not succeed although the impact for Palestinian people will be very hard, will be very terrible, but the Palestinian resistance will continue and in the long run Israel will cease to exist because… such a colonial enterprise cannot survive even with support from Washington.”
She stated the “resistance” shown by the Palestinians is “so powerful” that the “most powerful weapons in the world can not destroy it.”
“The bombardment from air, from land, from sea cannot destroy it and still in the impossible conditions Palestinians resist with tunnels with suicide bombs, just like the World War Second which people fought with rocks against the Nazis.
“So today what we see in Palestine is a heroic level of struggle and it has the solidarity of people everywhere in the world. Millions of people are demonstrating around the world… in New York, in Washington, in Boston in Los Angeles…”
She added that people from all major cities have poured into the streets “in support of Palestinian peoples, both Arabs, Muslims, Jews, Christians, secular forces, antiwar forces, peace organizations, trade unions… and this support is growing and growing and Israel is more isolated in its crime against Palestinian people.”
The Israeli criminal action in Gaza with “every form of explosive destruction” largely on “civilian population” is an effort to break any Palestinian resistance, she explained.
“This will not succeed and the whole world stands with Palestinian people against the occupation and the seizure of their land. And we are confident that Israel will not prevail.”
The director of International Action Center Organization said the U.S. is giving political, financial, and military support to Israel in its “great crime” against the Palestinian nation.
Flounder predicted that “this crime can not continue.”
“Israel’s action is genocide,” she noted.
She blasted the U.S. administration for its blind support for Israel.
“Here in U.S. we have a criminal government and it is people that must demand an end to aid for Israel’s military.
Tehran Times Political Desk
Phenomenon of Ahmadinejad and Obama
Iran’s Election, Struggle for Dominance in Middle East
By: Hamdollah Emadi Heidari
Making the velvet revolution was the only remaining approaches for controlling the Iran developing dominance over ME.
While describing the political situation in the world in US and Iran, we are facing tow phenomena which have effected the world political scene a lot.
Two phenomena which have two character behind, Obama and Ahmadinejad. Each of these two political characters whom the history will remember for their especial effect on the balance of force in the world have their own strategy toward this.
Ahmadinejad as the representative of principalist political groups in Iran, in his four-year ruling over Iran’s diplomatic machine, having the best use of a weak America, dealing with two war in Iraq and Afghanistan and also global financial crisis, changed the balance of forces in the middle east in favor of the resistance under the Islamic Republics hegemony.
Having a good understanding of the world situation, Ahmadinejad resisted against the international pressure on Iran’s peaceful nuclear energy encouraged by Israel and US.Ahmadinejad won both these two difficult games and strengthened Iran position in the region and the world.
On the other part of the world, a different scenario was programmed for arranging the balance of force in this oil-rich region.
Referring to fact that this rich region with great natural resources and good geopolitical situation has been the most important part of the global hegemonies wishes for developing their authority over the world.
Us as a weak superpower after obama presidency tried to correct the mistakes done by George bush, the previous president of US.
Obama decreased the military aspect of the empire and showed its velvety hand to the world.Obama in the case of Iran proposed the straight dialogue and even restarting relations.
The velvety hands of a black President could attract some political characters and groups in Iran, hence, White House tried to bring the Troy Horse to Tehran and along with its traditional ally Britain could effect the presidential election in Iran.
The tenth presidential election in Iran was a real serious struggle between two phenomenons for remaining and effecting the balance of force in middle east.
By: Hamdollah Emadi Heidari
Making the velvet revolution was the only remaining approaches for controlling the Iran developing dominance over ME.
While describing the political situation in the world in US and Iran, we are facing tow phenomena which have effected the world political scene a lot.
Two phenomena which have two character behind, Obama and Ahmadinejad. Each of these two political characters whom the history will remember for their especial effect on the balance of force in the world have their own strategy toward this.
Ahmadinejad as the representative of principalist political groups in Iran, in his four-year ruling over Iran’s diplomatic machine, having the best use of a weak America, dealing with two war in Iraq and Afghanistan and also global financial crisis, changed the balance of forces in the middle east in favor of the resistance under the Islamic Republics hegemony.
Having a good understanding of the world situation, Ahmadinejad resisted against the international pressure on Iran’s peaceful nuclear energy encouraged by Israel and US.Ahmadinejad won both these two difficult games and strengthened Iran position in the region and the world.
On the other part of the world, a different scenario was programmed for arranging the balance of force in this oil-rich region.
Referring to fact that this rich region with great natural resources and good geopolitical situation has been the most important part of the global hegemonies wishes for developing their authority over the world.
Us as a weak superpower after obama presidency tried to correct the mistakes done by George bush, the previous president of US.
Obama decreased the military aspect of the empire and showed its velvety hand to the world.Obama in the case of Iran proposed the straight dialogue and even restarting relations.
The velvety hands of a black President could attract some political characters and groups in Iran, hence, White House tried to bring the Troy Horse to Tehran and along with its traditional ally Britain could effect the presidential election in Iran.
The tenth presidential election in Iran was a real serious struggle between two phenomenons for remaining and effecting the balance of force in middle east.
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.
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.
Will Amano Follow Ambiguity Procedure in IAEA?
By: Hamdollah Emadi Heidari
As the gap between developed and developing countries grows deeper, the selection of another pro-western character as the head of IAEA, means the extension of ambiguity and politicized procedure.
While the Far East Asian characters like Ban Ki-Moon have raised on the top of the UN as the most important international institution, appointing Yukia Amano, a Japanese diplomat as the head of International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), shows a new phase in the rise of characters from the Far East.Although Ban Ki-Moon from South Korea has been judged as the most pro- American UN secretary general in UN history, nobody can judge about what the new secretary general will do in his new position in this phase.
It’s too soon to say that Amano like his past predecessors will continue the IAEA procedure in favor of the West and the big powers, however, the serious disagreement of the developing countries with Western countries choice shows a great global doubt about Amano’s approaches.
Of course Amano’s predecessor, Mohammad Albaradei in his last year in office tried to show an impartial stance, particularly about Iran’s nuclear issue and somehow against Israel’s big nuclear arsenal. However, history will remember him mostly for his political and pro-western stance.
Releasing double-edged documents about nuclear activities of Iran, the Egyptian diplomat paved the way for politicizing some technical facts about the peaceful nature of Iran peaceful nuclear program.
Amano’s victory over other campaigners is significant because of the real animosity, which exists between his country and North Korea as the most important part of the US axis of evil.In his previous activities as Japan ambassador in IAEA , Amano had reflected US and Western claims, saying that Iran is may seek for
Nuclear weapons. At the same time he had admitted that there had not been any evidence proving Iran’s deviation from IAEA rules.
Now after this difficult campaign between Abdul Samad Minty, apro-developing countries candidate and the pro-western Amano, what both developed and developing seem to seek is the nuclear justice and peaceful nuclear atomic energy for all.
Giving clear technical reports and judging them on the base of IAEAs protocols, not the veto and nuclear power’s obligations, is what Iranians and all other independent nations expect from the new head of IAEA.
As the gap between developed and developing countries grows deeper, the selection of another pro-western character as the head of IAEA, means the extension of ambiguity and politicized procedure.
While the Far East Asian characters like Ban Ki-Moon have raised on the top of the UN as the most important international institution, appointing Yukia Amano, a Japanese diplomat as the head of International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), shows a new phase in the rise of characters from the Far East.Although Ban Ki-Moon from South Korea has been judged as the most pro- American UN secretary general in UN history, nobody can judge about what the new secretary general will do in his new position in this phase.
It’s too soon to say that Amano like his past predecessors will continue the IAEA procedure in favor of the West and the big powers, however, the serious disagreement of the developing countries with Western countries choice shows a great global doubt about Amano’s approaches.
Of course Amano’s predecessor, Mohammad Albaradei in his last year in office tried to show an impartial stance, particularly about Iran’s nuclear issue and somehow against Israel’s big nuclear arsenal. However, history will remember him mostly for his political and pro-western stance.
Releasing double-edged documents about nuclear activities of Iran, the Egyptian diplomat paved the way for politicizing some technical facts about the peaceful nature of Iran peaceful nuclear program.
Amano’s victory over other campaigners is significant because of the real animosity, which exists between his country and North Korea as the most important part of the US axis of evil.In his previous activities as Japan ambassador in IAEA , Amano had reflected US and Western claims, saying that Iran is may seek for
Nuclear weapons. At the same time he had admitted that there had not been any evidence proving Iran’s deviation from IAEA rules.
Now after this difficult campaign between Abdul Samad Minty, apro-developing countries candidate and the pro-western Amano, what both developed and developing seem to seek is the nuclear justice and peaceful nuclear atomic energy for all.
Giving clear technical reports and judging them on the base of IAEAs protocols, not the veto and nuclear power’s obligations, is what Iranians and all other independent nations expect from the new head of IAEA.
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