April 1, 2005
Staff Reporter
India Daily
Iran is following a path of trouble and unnecessary hardship for the Iranian people, every day the Teheran regime is coming out with more rhetoric and threatening statement. They are creating a perception of deception. They are showing vacant buildings to some selected reporters and then more information about their quest for nuclear arms is coming to light. The behavior of Iran resembles that of Iraq in nineties. Iran may listen to India and Pakistan. India and Pakistan jointly may be able to make Iran understand the fact they should give up their desire for nukes.
Here is the reason why Iran cannot have nukes. Iran signed the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty (NPT). India and Pakistan never signed it. The signing of NPT means that Iran cannot pursue use of nukes of weapons. In return NPT allows Iran to receive unobstructed nuclear technologies from the world for civilian use. What Iran, North Korea and some other signatories of NPT have done is that they deceptive diverted the civilian nuke resources for military purposes. That is in simple words called cheating. India for example never signed NPT. India has to develop every piece of the nuke bomb puzzle on its own. On the other hand Iran or North Korea just used deception.
Because Iran signed NPT; it should follow what it promised in signing NPT – no nuclear bomb. Iran is making the same mistake Saddam made. Iraq also signed the NPT and secretly tried to get hold of nukes.
India and Pakistan have a responsibility to pacify Iran down and influence the country to come to its senses instead of planning to buy Gas from them. The regime may not survive unless common sense overcomes stubbornness. Iran however is relentlessly adamant. Iran said that its Revolutionary Guard is prepared to defend the country and its nuclear program if the United States attacks. The armed forces warned the United States of defeat and said they would defend the supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and the "sacred system of the Islamic Republic." According another media report, Iran set aside $2.5 billion in 2004 to purchase three nuclear warheads, an exiled opposition group said. The National Council of Resistance, a group that seeks to end the rule of Iran's clerics, did not say whether Iran had obtained the warheads. It did say Tehran is accelerating work on a reactor south of the capital that would be capable of producing enough plutonium for an atomic bomb 2007. The group has given accurate information in the past on Iran's nuclear program.
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