They did keep it secret, that fact is not controversial. If they didn't want to use it for nukes, why the secrecy? Obviously, you are willing to give this Islamic nation a pass because for some strange reason you trust this terrorist dictator more than America.
Are they obliged to inform the IAEA about their plants? Does everyone else? I think they should just quit the NPT then they will be on equal footing with Israel
Tomorrow sees the start of a historic process with potentially earth-shattering consequences as Iran begins official talks with 6 world powers about its nuclear program. If it does not produce results that satisfy Israel, the Jewish state could be tempted to attack Iran's nuclear facilities... http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-10/01/content_12138158.htm
OK. It would be interesting though. .......... The hype around the secret nuclear installation is classic pretext creation. It is very likely that Obama & Co. need the talks to fail to achieve his objective. Ie. isolating and emasculating Iran. It is patently clear that there will be a walk out by the West when the nuclear issue is raised. Before ANY chance of wider talks that the Iranians want to focus on, as per the official response document that was sent.
As noted the "secrecy" card is contrived. I am bringing attention to hypocrisy, lies and double standards. Why has Israel A. not declared their nuke stash, and B. not been held accountable? Besides the fact that Iran is historically a peaceful nation, and has not initiated ANY war in hundreds of years.
They are currently fighting a war by proxy with Israel. Israel has not signed any treaties limiting their nuclear capability, besides the fact that they are an ally of the US.
Hopefully sanity will prevail, so that a tragedy like Iraq is avoided. Although irrational by nature, which is dangerous, Israel is not necessarily up to the job. Given that this scenario has been hot news for years, the current odds are stacked out in this paper: (http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1085619.html)
And, so far as I can tell from your link, is in complete agreement with my summary of their position. Nonsense. There is no precedent whatsoever for Parlaimentary/Congressional ratification of IAEA Subsidiary Arrangements, In Iran or elsewhere. The unmodified Code 3.1 Subsidiary Arrangement that Iran now claims is in force was no more ratified than the modified version they agreed to. Nor has any other IAEA member state ever subjected a Subsidiary Arrangement to a ratification process. In particular, Iran has never before held that Subsidiary Arrangements require ratification. It has made numerous such modifications before, without raising the issue of ratification, either domestically or internationally. If taken seriously, Iran's position is now that none of the IAEA Subsidiary Arrangements are legally binding. Which would actually be a more extreme breach of treaty relations than a single undeclared enrichment facility. Let's also note that the Safeguard Agreement itself (which Iran did ratify) is explicit that Subsidiary Arrangements do not count as Amendments to the Safeguard Agreement (which would require ratification).
If they pull out of the treaty, we must assume their intentions are militaristic. At least now they are making a show of wanting peace.
Not if they do it because the treaty conditions are not being fulfilled Iran threatens to pull out of NPT
What conditions? Because the world wants inspections of it's nuclear facilities? They are not fooling anyone. It's a game.
What game? They are not the ones being investigated for war crimes Besides, the Persians are strategists. 99% they'll come up with a way that is peaceful to deal with it.
They supply Hamas with the weapons shot at Israelis, which led to Israeli actions, so they are not innocent. Everyone is a strategist.
