Wednesday, August 19, 2015

August 19, 2015

Japan and Iran (click here) will start negotiations on an investment accord once sanctions are lifted following last month's landmark international deal on Tehran's nuclear program, the Nikkei reported on Wednesday, citing Japanese government sources.
Initial talks are being held between the two countries to prepare for the lifting of sanctions and begin formal negotiations, the business daily said, without identifying the sources. Japan is keen to boost ties with Iran and invest in resource projects in the country, as well as return imports of Iranian oil to about 10 percent of the total from 5 percent now after sanctions forced Japanese refiners to cut purchases, it said....

Japan already knows the wrath of the USA when triggered. It is not interested in having that occur anywhere in the world again. Japan is correct in welcoming Iran to a global stage. The more prosperous Iran becomes and the people are valued in other economies in the world as well, the far less the incentive to break sanctions and pursue nuclear weapons. 

Perhaps it is time for the Iranian leadership, including the Supreme Leader tour other countries to witness the horror of nuclear weapons and ovens of mass genocide. Both issues are real. Both issues need to have an impact on any foreign policy. Deaths of millions of people goes against humanity and God.

The world is still too dangerous. We know that because Russia threaten Europe according to the German Chancellor Merkel when Ukraine first had problems and an international agreement was breached. That solves nothing. It would kill the very people Russia wanted to protect when The West retaliated.

Nuclear weapons are not a solution simply because it decimated Japan during WWII. That act of war by the USA was carried out when it alone carried nuclear weapons in their military assets. Imagine what Japan and other areas of the world would be like if nuclear war broke out. It's crazy. 

Nuclear weapons in the year 2015 is irrational. A nuclear war could end habitable land. It makes no sense. If offers no comfort. A nuclear war defines the profound lack of government responsibility to their citizens.

Non-proliferation must go forward. It would be an excellent idea for non-nuclear countries, including Iran, demand further disarmament. There are only five permanent members to the United Nation Security Council. That is a small voting block in the real world. It is time all signators to the Non-Proliferation Treaty demand brevity to their participation and global disarmament.