Wednesday, June 24, 2015

The power plays by the Supreme Leader in the face of a reasonable President has to stop.

It is tag team wrestling.

Good cop - bad cop. 

The current President was elected for a reason. He is a reflection of the will of the people. The Supreme Leader needs to respect President Rouhani's judgement and move forward to a solid agreement that is verifiable.  

Otherwise.

Restore the sanction to 100 percent of where they were before. When that happens fully expect Iran to return to weapons proliferation. 

24 June 2015
Iran's supreme leader (click here) has said that the US wants to destroy entirely the country's nuclear industry, state TV has reported, pointing out that international inspections of Iran's military sites are out of question. 

"America is after destroying our nuclear industry altogether," Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said in his address on Tuesday. "Our negotiators' aim is to safeguard Iran's integrity ... and our nuclear achievements during the talks." 
Our negotiators aim is to safeguard Iran's integrity...and our nuclear achievements during the talks.

Ayatollah Ali Hamenei, supreme leader Khamenei ruled out freezing Iran's sensitive nuclear activities for long period such as 10 or 12 years, state TV quoted him as saying. He has opposed inspections of military sites by foreigners in the past... 

When Iran returns to nuclear proliferation, no matter when it is, they should fully expect to be in the lens of nuclear weapons of other countries.

This is the problem with "Third World Nuclear Capacity." Nuclear weapons are easy to produce to become a country immune from invasion. Brinkmanship becomes a real defense strategy. The nuclear sites then carry greater priority than the people. The people are ultimately hurt by such proliferation. The international community becomes less interested in social development to a first world economic status, so much as proliferation of poverty along with the nukes. 

This is the way the world works to end the dangers of nuclear weapons. Iran contemplated their issues with nukes before the last election and chose wisely. The problem with Iran is that the Supreme Leader carries too much authority with the people and is less a religious leader so much as a weighted political player. He has a global stage. Why change that when he could ultimately rule the world with religious proliferation along with his nukes.

The entire mess is hideous.

This is a simple issue. Iran is not a permanent nuclear nation. Iran has to provide a transparent platform for the IAEA for complete compliance with the non-proliferation treaty. There is no negotiations here. Either comply or not. If not suffer the consequences.

The Non-Proliferation Treaty demands IAEA involvement and it demands unlimited verification of nuclear status for any country. Unlimited in time or depth of development.

The best examples of how nuclear proliferation goes bad with real life impacts is Pakistan and North Korea. The condition of the people has never recovered since nuclear proliferation.

In a speech on Tuesday night, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei insisted Iran would only dismantle its nuclear infrastructure if economic sanctions were lifted first.

He also ruled out a freeze on research and development for 10 years, as well as inspections of military sites. 

Why waste a country's assets on nuclear knowledge and proliferation if the country is a member of the non-proliferation treaty. The treaty is a PEACE document. It was intended to be a peace document to end potential to annihilation of human beings from the face of Earth.

If nuclear research means a better place and greater safety as a medical measure there are avenues that are recognizable.  The same is true of nuclear energy. There is no excuse to legitimate inspections and compliance.