The nuclear question seems to be the biggest issue concerning Iran. It is treated by the USA/UK as the biggest issue facing Iran, and the Iranian leadership have unfortunately responding by treating it as the biggest issue for Iran when in fact there are other more pressing internal issues. Worse still the mullahs have rallied the country around it instead of defusing it and dealing with it a lot earlier. They have not effectively and quickly neutralised the problem as they should have done. They have played the USA's/Israel's game when they should have avoided it and steered well clear of it.
It is well known that the USA/UK/Israel are seeking confrontation with Iran, it is a matter of when and with what the Iranian leadership provides the excuse for confrontation.
The continued unqualified Iranian cooperation with the IAEA which has been taking place for the last couple of years has yielded Iran NOTHING tangible, but has resulted in the loss of 'National sovereignty' and the simultaneous loss of `Security sovereignty`. These are grave sacrifices to make for any nation, especially when Iran does not receive anything tangible back in return for such total cooperation.
The IAEA year after year make their reports, and say that they have not uncovered any programs which indicate that Iran is conducting a covert nuclear program. In addition in the same report they always leave a proviso saying that they are not 100% sure about everything, and that they need to continue visiting any and all military/security sights in Iran.
No nation in the world except Iraq has submitted to such intrusive foreign inspections. Such intrusive inspections for over 10 years did not save Iraq from invasion eventually again in 2003, because the findings of the inspectors were totally ignored by the Americans anyway. Besides Iraq in 1991 was a defeated nation which had to accept tacitly to intrusive inspections as a result of being defeated militarily for wrongly invading another neighbouring country. In addition It had been proven to the international community that the state of Iraq had used WMDs against it's own citizens. Such negative assertions, such as they existed against Iraq does not exist against Iran. Iran should not feel such weakness as to fully prostrate itself against the will of the Americans to full and intrusive inspections for so long, AND receive no diplomatic reciprocity in return, but further and worse vilification from the USA and Israelis mainly.
This cooperation with the IAEA is leading nowhere, however a sudden and untimely withdrawal of cooperation with the IAEA may be deemed by the USA, UK, Israelis with the Zionist media a major security incident and affront which will require an appropriate 'response'. I am not calling for Iran to unilaterally with draw cooperation with the IAEA, but done in conjunction with another policy, that of cessation of nuclear enrichment for a temporary period of a few months. The loss of uranium enrichment is a TEMPORARY loss of 'technical sovereignty' and not as some have said a full loss of 'inalienable rights' . The two are quite different. The loss of uranium enrichment is not the end of the world for Iran. The loss of uranium enrichment is not that a big deal. You stop for a while because it is pragmatic to do so, and start again later. It would be a pity if the regime should fall after war because of this small issue. The Iranian leadership should thus tone down the propaganda this area. Though I accept Ahmedinejad will continue with the wild rhetoric because he is sure to loose in the next Presidential elections unless the Majlis votes him out before his tenure finishes.
The IAEA was established by the Eisenhower government in the 1950's to safely regulate the civilian nuclear industry, as more and more countries sought to use nuclear power. Naturally hyper sensitive Israel realised that such an organisation could be an excellent cover for espionage work against potentially hostile nations and their peaceful nuclear programs. Thus from the 1950's Israeli intelligence has developed close relations with the IAEA. In fact many of its operatives are Israeli intelligence operatives. The same is true of many Western intelligence agencies, such as Germany:
1.' Target Iran: The Truth About the US Plans for Regime Change “ By Scott Ritter, who himself was an weapons inspector for USA intelligence in Iraq.
2.http://fanonite.org/2007/02/28/the-nuclear-option-and-iaea/
IAEA-Israel Nexus
“Israeli intelligence teams would often travel to Vienna, and rendezvous with IAEA personnel in hotel rooms used as impromptu safe houses. On the issue of Iraq, the Israelis had established a similar level of cooperation with the IAEA’s Iraq Action Team…The relationship involved not only the provision by Israel to the IAEA of intelligence information, but also placing at the disposal of the IAEA the extensive resources of Israel’s intelligence analytical community, where the IAEA could pose question to selected technical experts, or have the results of inspections or other intelligence data reviewed by the Israelis. This relationship…operated with the expressed permission of the Director General… [emphasis added] (p. 49)
Thanks to the IAEA inspections, the United States (and Israel) had extremely detailed intelligence on Iran’s nuclear enrichment program… (p. 147)
“The IAEA has no moral authority to check Iran’s peaceful nuclear development, when it has done nothing to raise attention to, let alone prevent, Israel’s aggressive nuclear program”
I am saying the IAEA is not merely a nuclear inspections organisation, but a covert military intelligence gathering organisation which works for the USA/Israel/UK.
That personnel in the IAEA are mainly individuals who work for foreign intelligence agencies--- as shown when Scott Ritter and David Kay later openly revealed after they had finished their work in Iraq.
Germans Spying for Israel
“Many Germans secretly supported the Isareli position concerning the ndeed for a preemptive strike. German intelligence agents, operating under economic cover, had been inside Iran for years, often times in support of joint German-Israeli mission objectives…So even while German diplomats negotiated in support of an incentives-based approach towards resolving the Iranian nuclear crisis, German intelligence officials secretly hedged their bets towards an American-backed effort to undermine and overthrow the regime of the Mullahs” (pp. 154-155. Target Iran: The Truth about the US plans for regime change )
Military homing devices and other pathfinder equipment used to mark out all strategic and military sites in Iran for a possible military attack as was done against Iraq.
1.http://www.linkspoint.com/wsj.html
2.http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1979STIN...8011441N
3.http://www.saunalahti.fi/wtc2001/soldier1.htm
That contrary to state propaganda, with special personal announcements by Ahmedinejad every few months (odd political behaviour for a man who is loosing his domestic popularity because he is not dealing with the REAL ISSUES related to the Iranian economy etc), the nuclear uranium enrichment program is probably having problems given the fact that Iran does not have access to the full international civilian nuclear market. Then rather than struggle on, Iran should shut the enrichment program down, and re-access it again. The cost of continuing the program does not equal the benefits.
http://fanonite.org/2007/04/08/ahmadinejad-leader-of-the-arab-people/
Recommendations:
Shut down the uranium enrichment program immediately, as have been requested by Iran friendly countries such as Russia, China and India.
Sign a temporary uranium enrichment contract with Russia, as they have generously offered. If they do not comply with the strict terms of the contract, as with any commercial contracts it can be immediately cancelled. I doubt, given the nature of the contract, and the international profile that the Russians will fail to live up to their end of the contract as it is too high profile. They will honour the agreement.
Then when all that is done, get the IAEA inspectors out of the country as soon as possible. Their presence in Iran and their work is a serious threat to Iran's 'national sovereignty', and is also a threat to Iran's 'security sovereignty'.
The Iranian government ceases false Israeli/UK/USA propaganda that uranium enrichment is the only and main issue facing Iran. The Iranian leadership stops playing these countries games. There are other more important pressing issues which requires the full attention of the Iranian government/international community .........such as the genocide in Iraq....unemployment in Iran....the emigration of millions of educated Iranians from Iran with their capitol worth over $800 billion........Iranian economy is a Communist economy.........The poor situation of the oil/gas industry.......The massive corruption inside Iran.........inflation........poverty........homelessness......diplomatic isolation in many respects............poor governance.............arbitrary/banana republic laws.............banana republic judiciary..............slave trading.............narcotics/drug dependency epidemics..............low infrastructure investment levels..............so on and so on..........The ability of the UK/USA/Israel to control/fool/manipulate the Iranian leadership so easily.
The Iranian government thus also quickly recognises that Iran is not Iraq:
The reason Iraq cooperated with foreign inspections of its sensitive military sights after 1991 was because it was defeated by the USA, and coalition of other countries, including many Arab and Muslim countries. Iran has not yet been defeated by the USA.
The reason Iraq cooperated with foreign inspections of its sensitive military sights after 1991 was because it had been defeated by the USA, and it had lost the moral high ground by invading two neighbouring countries. Iran has never invaded a foreign country for the last 200 years. It is not an aggressive expansionist power.
The reason Iraq cooperated with foreign inspections of its sensitive military sights after 1991 was because it had been defeated by the USA, and it had been proven that the Iraqis used WMDs against its neighbours, and against its own people. Iran has not. It\'s Supreme leader and others have loudly and clearly stated that their use is fundamentally un-Islamic.
In light of the above facts, the Iranian leadership thus should not facilitate further cooperation with the IAEA, and as per the suggestions above should defuse this matter as quickly as possible, and cease aiding foreign agents/spies from gaining sensitive information about Iran's security capabilities. No nation correctly submits to such inspections of such magnitude, for so long, without any clear reciprocity and continue barking about 'inalienable rights'. If they continue to do so one may well ask who are the true foreign agents and spies in Iran.
