New York Times: Bush aims for bypassing Nuclear Prolifiration Treaty with Iran
Iran-USA, Politics, 3/16/2005

A report by the New York Times said that the US is trying to prevent Iran from producing enriched Uranium for its nuclear plants, while conceding that Iran has such legal rights, because the US fears Iran is taking the negotiation path pursued by North Korea.

"Behind President Bush's recent shift in dealing with Iran's nuclear program lies a less visible goal: to rewrite, in effect, the main treaty governing the spread of nuclear technology, without actually renegotiating it," The New York Times reported yesterday.

The New York Times report said "In their public statements and background briefings in recent days, Mr. Bush's aides have acknowledged that Iran appears to have the right - on paper, at least - to enrich uranium to produce electric power. But Mr. Bush has managed to convince his reluctant European allies that the only acceptable outcome of their negotiations with Iran is that it must give up that right."

The report added "So far the administration has not declared publicly that its larger goal beyond Iran is to remake a treaty whose intellectual roots date back to the Eisenhower administration, under the cold war banner of 'Atoms for Peace.' To state publicly that Iran is really a test case of Mr. Bush's broader effort, one senior administration official said, 'would complicate what's already a pretty messy negotiation.'"

Today, Iran's President Mohammad Khatami said that "Tehran calls on Washington to stop its wrong policies concerning Iran and the Middle East," IRNA reported. These policies "stem from the US President George W. Bush's wrong policies."

Khatami said "If the US is really trying to stop nuclear weapons, it had better go to the states which are neither member to the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty nor are abiding by the international regulations and have large nuclear arsenals, the most dangerous of which in our region is Israel," adding "We are not at all after weapons of mass destruction because given our beliefs and the events taking place in the world, we consider nuclear weapons as the most dangerous threat to the world," IRNA reported.

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