Sunday, March 19, 2006

Prohibited ambitions

The issue of the Iranian nuclear power is getting more and more importance specially after transferring the case to the UN security council, and it seems that the Bush administration has succeeded partially in convincing at least the Europeans of the seriousness of Iranian ambitions to produce nuclear weapons and there is no good sign for the moment of a possible solution, the Iranians have always claimed there right of getting nuclear power for civil use (mainly for generating electricity) and accused Washington of using double standards in dealing with the sensitive issue of nuclear power reffering to India and Israel , the Americans from their side insist on the fact that Iran was always a threat for peace process in the Middle East and the statements of president Ahmadinejad that Israel must be wiped out from the map are there to proove the bad intentions of Tehran . the last reports of the IAEA are not helping Iran at all, the agency headed by Muhammad Albaradei regret the lack of cooperation from the Iranian government , i guess nobody would be happy with this report more than president Bush given the difficulties he met to convince the European about the necessity of transferring the Iranian dossier to the security council and the UN could find itself in front a deep crisis , the Iranians don’t seem to care alot about the American threats , they’re fully aware that George Bush has enough troubles in Iraq and the last think he needs is another war with a strong neighbour of Iraq, as for economic sanctions it would damage international oil market more than it would do to Iranian economy, so a diplomatic solution would be preferable. John Bolton , the American ambassador to the UN in an interview and as an answer to a BBC journalist who asked him why blaming Iran for its nuclear ambitions and not other countries like India for instance , Bolton answered that Iran has signed the treaty of non-proliferation of nuclear weapons while India didn’t (!!!) , so according to Mr Bolton adhering to a peace treaty could be a trap!!! Not encouraging at all.