- You might have frequently heard of the Western mainstream
media's claims that Iran is pursuing a military nuclear program which is
aimed at developing atomic weapons. Actually, spreading falsehood and untruth
about the nature of Iran's peaceful nuclear program has been a constant,
unchanging and recurring theme of the Western corporate media's coverage
of Iran's events.
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- Over the past years, the world mainstream media, funded
and fueled by certain Western governments to derail Iran's sublime position
in the international community through their unyielding black propaganda
have laboriously and persistently attempted to pretend that Iran's nuclear
program poses a serious threat to the global peace and security and that
Tehran is taking steps to create atomic bombs to drop on Israel and European
countries.
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- Unfortunately, the people who believe such claims are
credulously unaware of the fact that those who accuse Iran of trying to
develop nuclear weapons are themselves the largest possessors of the state-of-the-art
nuclear weapons and other types of weapons of mass destruction.
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- It should not be neglected that Iran has always been
at the forefront of combating the proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction
and also a victim of such weapons during the 8-year imposed war with the
Ba'athist regime of Saddam Hussein which claimed the lives of hundreds
of thousands of innocent Iranians, and it was the United States that equipped
Saddam with such weapons to use against the Iranian people in an unequal
and unjustifiable war in which the brutal Iraqi dictator was unconditionally
supported by a strong coalition of the United States and its European allies.
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- Since the U.S.-manufactured controversy over Iran's nuclear
program was ignited in the early 2000s, the White House and its cronies
successfully distracted the international attention from the illegal, underground
nuclear activities of Israeli regime and helped Tel Aviv to secretively
further its nuclear program and build atomic weapons.
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- According to the Federation of American Scientists, Israel
now possesses up to 200 nuclear warheads and since it is not a signatory
to the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty (NPT), it cannot be held accountable
over its military nuclear program.
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- The US Congress Office of Technology Assessment has recorded
Israel as a country generally reported as having undeclared chemical warfare
capabilities, and an offensive biological warfare program.
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- Since Israel started the development of nuclear weapons
in early 1950s, it adopted a so-called policy of "deliberate ambiguity"
and concealed its nuclear activities under this counterfeit label to enjoy
immunity and avoid responsibility over its nuclear program, meaning that
it neither confirms nor denies the possession of nuclear weapons, while
even the U.S.-based scientific and research organizations have admitted
that it has a perilous nuclear arsenal which is potentially able to evaporate
the whole Middle East in a matter of seconds.
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- On June 19, 1981, the United Nations Security Council
adopted a resolution which urgently called upon Israel to put its nuclear
facilities under the comprehensive safeguards of International Atomic Energy
Agency (IAEA); however, Israel never heeded the calls of the UNSC and following
that resolution, no significant decision was ever made to domesticate Israel
and bring its dangerous nuclear facilities under control.
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- According to Nuclear Weapons Archive website, "the
most specific and detailed information to be made public about Israel's
nuclear program came from a former mid-level nuclear technician named Mordechai
Vanunu. Vanunu had worked at the Machon 2 facility, where plutonium is
produced and bomb components fabricated, for 9 years before his increasing
involvement in left wing pro-Palestinian politics led to his dismissal
in 1986. Due to lax internal security, prior to his departure he managed
to take about 60 photographs covering nearly every part of Machon 2."
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- He made contact with the London Sunday Times and began
to write an exclusive story about the details of Israel's nuclear program.
Unfortunately for Vanunu, "the Israeli government had found out about
his activities and the Mossad arranged to kidnap him and bring him back
to Israel for trial," the report added.
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- Now, Iran has hosted dozens of representatives and experts
from over 40 countries in the Second International Nuclear Disarmament
Conference in Tehran to discuss the most important nuclear threats which
jeopardize the international peace and security.
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- Last year, Iran had hosted the first Nuclear Disarmament
Conference under the title of "Nuclear Energy for All, Nuclear Weapon
for None."
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- According to the scholars and experts who took part in
this years conference, the possession of nuclear weapons by the five permanent
members of the UN Security Council along with Israel which is the sole
possessor of nuclear weapons in the Middle East are among the main concerns
of international community which not only thwart the creation of a nuclear-free
Middle East but also portray an unquestionable exercise of double standards
by the Western powers.
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- The Tehran conference on nuclear disarmament has concluded
that all of the non-NPT members should ratify this treaty and allow the
inspection of their nuclear facilities. It has also proposed that Israel
should be disarmed as soon as possible, because it's the only owner of
nuclear weapons in the Middle East.
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- Even as even the U.S. intelligence services have confirmed
that Iran does not intend to produce nuclear weapons, Tehran is lethally
under the pressure of the United States and its European friends over its
civilian nuclear program. This is while 9 countries in the world own more
than 20,000 nuclear warheads and this leaves us with a basic question:
who poses the real threat to international peace and security?
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