Ahmadinejad exposes the hypocrisy of his accusers

May 5, 2010

The NPT Review Conference is meant to be a ministerial level event but Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was the only head of a sovereign state, who attended the conference, thus proving how much Tehran gives importance to NPT in establishing a world without nukes. Under UN Protocols, Dr. Ahmadinejad was given a chance to address the conference as an honorary speaker. Contrary to that, Hillary Clinton in her speech at American Jewish Committee Annual Gala Dinner on April 30 – showed which country she will be representing at the conference – dubbing Iranian President “anti-Semitic”. “We will not compromise our commitment to preventing Iran from developing nuclear weapons….. Transferring weapons to these terrorists (Hamas and Hizb’Allah) – especially long-range missiles – would pose a serious threat to the security of Israel…”.

Bowing to the World Jewish Congress (WJC) and local Israel Lobby groups demand – the representatives from the US, France, Britain and Canada made fool of themselves by walking out during Dr. Ahmadinejad’s speech – showing how much they can tolerate ‘freedom of speech’ which they love to teach to the Muslim world. Barack Obam message to the conference bordered on his ‘self-denial’ of the US nuclear and imperialist record in the past. The national director of Anti-Defamation League (an Israeli lobby organization), Abraham Foxman, issued a statement on May 3 on ADL website, praising those countries which boycotted Dr. Ahmadinejad’s speech.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in his speech at the NPT Review Conference said:

While the Zionist regime which has stockpiled hundreds of nuclear warheads, has waged many wars in the region and continues to threaten the people and nations of the region with terror and invasion, enjoys the unconditional support of the United States government and its allies and receives, as well, the necessary assistance to develop its nuclear weapon program. The same States impose various kinds of pressures on the members of the IAEA on the false pretext of probable diversions in their peaceful nuclear activities without providing even a single credible proof to substantiate their allegation.

Nuclear energy is among the cleanest and cheapest sources of energy. Severe climate change and environmental pollution caused by fossil fuel has intensified the need to expand the use of nuclear energy…… One of the gravest injustices committed by the nuclear weapon States is equating nuclear arms with nuclear energy. As a matter of fact, they want to monopolize both the nuclear weapons and the peaceful nuclear energy, and by doing so to impose their will on the international community. The aforementioned issues are all against the spirit of the NPT and in flagrant violation of its provisions.

Although the NPT has as its key mandate the mission for prevention of nuclear arms race, nuclear disarmament, non-proliferation as well as inalienable right of the member States to use peaceful nuclear energy, however, the most difficult conditions have been put in the mechanisms and regulations for the countries seeking peaceful use of nuclear energy. On the contrary, no effective mechanism has been devised to address the actual threat of nuclear weapons, which must be in fact the most important mission of the IAEA. All efforts in this respect have been only limited to talks that lack any binding force guarantee and effectiveness. The IAEA has been putting the most possible pressures on non-nuclear weapon States under the pretext of proliferation risks, whilst those having nuclear bombs continue to enjoy full immunity and exclusive rights.

It is now clear that the production and stockpiling of nuclear weapons and policies practiced by some nuclear weapon States, along with the weakness of and the imbalance in the NPT provisions have been the main causes of insecurity and served as an incentive for the development of such weapons.

The government of the United States which is the main suspect in the production, stockpiling and use and threat of the use of nuclear weapons, insists to assume the leadership role in reviewing the NPT. The U.S. administration, in its recently released Nuclear Posture Review (NPR), has announced that it will neither produce new nuclear weapons nor will it attack non-nuclear weapon States by nuclear weapons.

The United States has never respected any of its commitments. One may ask how much could nations possibly trust the US to implement its commitments? What are the guarantees for living up to such commitments? And what are the tools for its independent verification? It should be bom in mind that in the past decades the United States has had most of its wars and conflicts with those who were once its friends. Furthermore, under the same NPR, some member States of the IAEA which are also committed members of the NPT have been threatened to be the target of a preemptive nuclear strike. The United States government has always tried to divert the public opinion’s attention from its noncompliance and unlawful actions by bringing into focus some misleading issues. They have recently raised the issue of nuclear terrorism as part of their efforts to maintain and upgrade their nuclear arsenals on one hand, and divert world public opinion from the issue of disarmament and direct them toward phony matters, on the other, while arming the terrorists with nuclear weapons are only conceivable by those States which posses such weapons and have used them and also have a long record of supporting terrorists.

The current structure of the Security Council is extremely unfair and inefficient and mainly serves the interests of the nuclear weapon States. Reforming the structure of the Council along with reviewing and accomplishing the NPT are interrelated and essential for realization of the IAEA’s objectives

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