Iran Has No Right to Nuclear Technology

WSJ ^ | SEPTEMBER 29, 2009 | Matthias Küntzel

[nuconvert]

The international community has treated the recent disclosure of another secret uranium enrichment facility in Iran the way it has treated Tehran's previous violations of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty—with calls for yet more "dialogue." The continued pursuit of fruitless diplomacy at tomorrow's talks between Iran and the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council plus Germany is based on an incorrect understanding of international law, one that was spearheaded by the Europeans and is now unfortunately shared by the U.S. president.

"Any nation—including Iran—should have the right to access peaceful nuclear power," Barack Obama declared in his famous Cairo speech, "if it complies with its responsibilities under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty."

The problem is that Iran is bound by its own constitution to violate the treaty, which is why insisting that the NPT still confers any rights on Iran is not only politically absurd but also wrong from a purely legal point of view.

The treaty was signed by Iran in 1968 under the rule of Shah Mohammed Reza. It aims, as outlined in its preamble, at "further easing of international tension and the strengthening of trust between states." Its purpose is thus to stabilize the international system. The Islamic Republic, though, wants to abolish this "Satanic" secular world order and replace it with a Sharia-based system of Islamic rule. "The struggle will continue," promised Ayatollah Khomeini, "until the calls 'There Is No God but God' and 'Muhammad Is the Messenger of God' are echoed all over the world." The atom program is part of this revolutionary quest. "Iran's nuclearization," President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told his supporters, "is the beginning of a very great change in the world." It would "be placed at the service of those who are determined to confront the bullying powers and aggressors."

[marstegreg]

I doesn’t really matter if they have a right to it as long as its’s going to the highest bidder.

[2001convSVT]

The only thing that will prevent Iran from becoming a Nuclear Armed Power is an all out war, and who will fire the first shot? Surely not President Obama, not the English, not the French, not the Saudi’s, the Israeli’s might, but even they know their attack would be limited with no posibility of destroying all the Iranians nuclear sites. Therefore, Iran welcome to the Nuclear Club!

[SECURE AMERICA]

The muslims want to destroy this world. That is the only way they think they can usher in a return to the 7th century which has pretty much been their declared policy..

[b4its2late]

Yeah. They need to bring chaos and total destruction to this world to bring their 12th imam into the world to take it over.