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Arash
November 8, 2003
Sharon's duplicity
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Dr. James Gordon Prather
Nuclear weapons physicist
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Israeli Prime Minister Sharon went on a mission this week to Russia and to
the European Union. He urged them to support the imposition of U.N. Security
Council sanctions on Iran - for "violations" of the Nuclear
Non-Proliferation Treaty.
Sharon also urged them to withdraw a proposed Security Council resolution
that could result in sanctions being imposed on Israel - for failure to
withdraw its troops from Palestinian Authority-controlled areas.
Why should sanctions be imposed on Iran?
Well, for years Israel and the United States have claimed that Iran has a
clandestine nuke development program.
Iran denies it.
Iran is a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. Hence, Iran is
required to "declare" to the International Atomic Energy Agency all 1)
nuclear material; 2) nuclear reactors and equipment therefor; 3) non-nuclear
material for reactors; 4) plant and equipment for the reprocessing,
enrichment and conversion of nuclear material and for fuel fabrication and
heavy water production; and 5) technology associated with each of the above
items. Iran has a right to acquire, produce and operate all the above, if
subjected to an IAEA Safeguards Agreement. Though not required to do so,
Iran invited the IAEA to come assure themselves that Iran had declared
everything it should have, and that the charges by the U.S. and Israel were
unfounded.
The principal "violation" the IAEA uncovered was that Iran had obtained, way
back in 1991, almost two metric tons of natural uranium and had not
"declared" it.
The Iranians contend that the amounts were small - well below the IAEA
threshold of "one effective kilogram" of fissile material - and didn't need
to be declared.
After all, even if the Iranians did have the a capability - which the IAEA
says they don't - to enrich two tons of natural uranium, they couldn't have
produced more than two pounds of weapons-grade uranium from it. It takes at
least 60 times that amount to make one Hiroshima-like nuke.
But, the IAEA ruled that, whereas amounts larger than "one effective
kilogram" of fissile material are subject to more stringent controls and
reporting requirements, all amounts have to be reported.
The Israelis and the neo-crazies were ecstatic. Iran was not in complete
compliance with its Safeguards Agreement.
So, bomb Baghdad!
No, wait. That was last year.
Well, why not urge the IAEA Board of Governors to refer the
less-than-complete-compliance "violation" to the U.N. Security Council.
The board refused.
So, Sharon went around the IAEA to Russia and the EU. His message? Either
the Security Council passes a resolution invoking sanctions on Iran, or
Israel and the U.S. will put Iran - the "center of world terror" - at the
top of the "to do" list.
But even British Foreign Secretary Straw, when he heard what Sharon was
urging, said "it would be the gravest possible error" to do unto Iran what
we did to Iraq.
Quoth Jack - "I think that the way to ensure proper progress with Iran is
not by that kind of hostile threat, but by the process and strategy of
constructed and critical engagement that we [EU] are involved in."
For if Iran concludes an Additional Protocol to their existing Safeguards
Agreement - giving the IAEA the right to inspect without warning any
suspicious activity in Iran - then the EU has agreed to provide everything
that Iran is entitled to under the terms of the NPT. In particular, Russia
intends to finish construction of the power reactors at Bushehr.
President Putin even made a counter-threat: "If the principle of preventive
use of force continues to develop in international practice, then Russia
reserves the right to act in an analogous manner to defend its national
interests."
That could be construed as a warning to Sharon - don't even think of "taking
out" Bushehr.
So Sharon failed in his primary mission. But, what about his secondary
mission?
Russia and the EU - with U.S. approval - had also introduced a resolution at
the United Nations last week asking the Security Council to formally "call"
for the establishment of a Palestinian state alongside Israel.
Sharon urged Putin to withdraw it.
Why?
Such a resolution would effectively put the Security Council "in charge" of
that establishment, and that could be big trouble for Sharon.
You see, there is an existing resolution - UNSCR-1403 - that "demands" that
Israel withdraw all its troops from Palestinian cities.
So, is Sharon busting his donkey to comply with that existing resolution?
Are you serious?
So, did Putin agree to withdraw his proposed resolution? Are you serious?
* Physicist James Gordon Prather has served as a policy implementing
official for national security-related technical matters in the Federal
Energy Agency, the Energy Research and Development Administration, the
Department of Energy, the Office of the Secretary of Defense and the
Department of the Army. Dr. Prather also served as legislative assistant for
national security affairs to U.S. Sen. Henry Bellmon, R-Okla. -- ranking
member of the Senate Budget Committee and member of the Senate Energy
Committee and Appropriations Committee. Dr. Prather had earlier worked as a
nuclear weapons physicist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in
California and Sandia National Laboratory in New Mexico.
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