Reply #56: Why Iran is NOT a threat

[LunaC]

First of all, Israel, Pakistan and India have nuclear power/weapons and have declined to sign the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) but * isn’t complaining about them.

As far as Iran is concerned, they've signed the treaty and they’re trying to “play nice” and quell jittery nerves by inviting the U.S. to bid on constructing its nuclear power plants. The U.S. has responded with stony silence.

http://www.hanfordnews.com/news/2005/story/7280850p-7192722c.html

It should be noted that “IAEA inspectors have been admitted to every nuclear site in the country to which they have sought access and have found no hard evidence, to date, that bombs exist or that Iran has made a decision to build them. (The latest IAEA report can be downloaded at: www.GlobalSecurity.org)”

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article7147.htm

Furthermore, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei issued a fatwa forbidding the production, stockpiling and use of nuclear weapons on August 9, 2005. The full text of the fatwa was released in an official statement at the meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna.

The NPT gives every state the inalienable right to use nuclear energy for peaceful purposes…..No state has successfully constructed a nuclear weapon in secret while subjected to an NPT inspection regime.

http://www.answers.com/topic/nuclear-non-proliferation-treaty

“Iran is a threat” is nothing more than propaganda to further the PNAC agenda. Anyone believing otherwise hasn’t been paying attention.