Good news from Tehran not for bigots

Dr Azaveli Feza Lwaitama

On Monday the world received good news from Tehran on the nuclear issue with the clinching of a deal involving Iran, Turkey and Brazil. The President of Brazil, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, the Prime Minister of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and the President of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, witnessed the signing of the deal.

According to the Tuesday 18th May edition of Iran’s Tehran Times, “The deal calls for Iran to exchange 1,200 kilograms of its low-enriched uranium for 120 kilograms of 20 per cent enriched nuclear fuel to power the Tehran research reactor, which produces radioisotopes for cancer treatment”. One would have thought everyone would be rejoicing at the receipt of such good news.

Yes all men and women of goodwill are overjoyed. This includes the President of the Russian Fedration, Dmitry Medvedev, who is quoted by one Western News source commending the three countries who worked out the deal and saying that:

“What was done by our colleagues needs to be welcomed. This is the politics of a diplomatic solution to the Iran problem.” The Brazilian President himself, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, was full of joy calling the deal “victory for diplomacy.”

An adviser to the Brazilian President added that this was good news because “it is the first time that Iran has agreed to send its nuclear fuel to a third country.”

It means Iran has eventually agreed to be persuaded by Turkey and Brazil to forgo some of its legitimate ambitions regarding developing its own nuclear power capabilities, be it for peaceful or military purposes.

Some bullies in the international community have been threatening to impose economic and other sanction on Iran if it dared proceed in wanting to develop such a nuclear capability, which Israel next door has.

To save its people from unnecessary hardships and out of its respect for the President of Brazil and the Prime Minister of Turkey who had been visiting, Iran agreed to swallow its pride.

What Iran has just agreed to is the humiliation of having to accede to the unreasonable and hypocritical demand by the US and its Western allies that Iran must not have the sovereign right to the acquire the capacity to develop low-enriched uranium to higher-enriched nuclear fuel, even if that was for the peaceful purpose of medical research.

But you will be wrong to think the good news from Tehran has been received with joy by all.

No, the extreme right wing leadership clique in Israeli has been caught on the wrong foot. It came out shrieking foul, claiming that the deal was an example of Iran manipulating Brazil and Turkey.

Zionist Jews seem to think that only they are intelligent enough to know what is good news where the promotion of world peace is concerned.

One may recall that just the other day, the Zionist Israeli settler colonialist regime denied Professor Noam Chomsky a permission to visit and address University students and staff in occupied Palestine. This was a fellow Jew of world renown and peace loving linguistic guru.

Presumably they wanted to ensure that Professor Chomsky did not get a chance “manipulate” other Jews, worldwide, and Arabs on the West bank of River Jordan, into believing that Jews and Arabs, Muslims and Christian, can all live in peace in one united multi-ethnic and multi-religious Peoples Republic of Palestine.

To war mongers and bigots the world over, the best of all possible world is one where every country is at war with the other and very religion is in a crusade against the other.

To bigots and racists of all persuasions the best possible international climate is one where pretexts are daily found to legitimise sanctions against the Islamic Republic of Iran. Yet Iran’s only crime is to have a President who refuses to accept the claim by Western apologists for Zionist bigotry who keep telling us that the existence of the state of apartheid Israel is synonymous with the survival of free Jews.

A senior Israeli official is reported by a Western news source as claiming that: “The Iranians have manipulated Turkey and Brazil in appearing to accept the enrichment of part of their uranium on Turkish soil”.

And he added, ”The Iranians have already pulled off such a trick in the past — by pretending to accept such a procedure to lower tensions and reduce the risk of harsher international sanctions, then refusing to follow through.”Good news for peace would seem to be sour grapes to bigots!

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