France prepared to nuke Iran if it disobeys
Iran-UN, Politics, 1/21/2006

Inspectors from the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency will come to Iran in the next two days to continue the process of verifying Iranian nuclear program.

A Tehran-based official told IRNA on Saturday that the upcoming visit to Iran of IAEA team indicates Iranian determination to work with the UN nuclear agency to verify the civilian nature of the national nuclear program.

Iran signed Additional Protocol to Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) in 2003 to give "objective guarantee" to IAEA that Iranian nuclear program will not be deviated from civilian use.
IAEA Charter specified the Additional Protocol to NPT as "objective guarantee" to ensure that nuclear programs of the member states are not be diverted to military purpose.

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said in a press conference in Tehran last Saturday that Iranian nuclear program is in line with Safeguards Agreement of the IAEA.
"Cameras of the IAEA are installed on all Iranian nuclear sites, whereas none of the Western states allow the UN nuclear agency to monitor their nuclear activities," President Ahmadinejad said.

The "unconventional" claims by French President Jacques Chirac on the use of nuclear arms under the pretext of preventing terrorism are 'unacceptable', said an Iranian Foreign Ministry official today.

In a speech during a visit to northwestern France, where France's nuclear submarines are stationed, Chirac said on Thursday France would be ready to carry out a targeted nuclear strike against any pro-terrorist state. The French president's remarks are seen to be directed at Iran if Iran defies those who are trying to force Iran to abandon its civil nuclear development rights.

Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid-Reza Asefi said the French president had revealed the inherent intentions of nuclear powers in using this leverage for political games.

Iran has asserted that this is exactly why the West, and others less vocal but with the same objective, seek to build nuclear weapons for themselves, but will not even allow civil nuclear development for Iran, in order to keep Iran weak and under the thumb of foreign powers, and to allow the West to be arrogant, and hypocritical about nuclear weapons. It is not clear if the French president's statement are bringing to the surface an anti-Islamic colonialist European mentality, or that the remarks will be interpreted as such.

"Iran has more than the right to develop a peaceful nuclear program for energy," said Leonardo Alaeddin Clerici, a European Islamic philosopher, in an interview with IRNA. "As a European, I am ashamed of European governments'
obscurantism. It's a kind of politics that don't help in developing a new era in international relationships," he said.

Clerici, of Italian origin, is the head of the Brussels-based Instituto di Skriptura, an institute which seeks to promote Islamic intellectual, academic, cultural and political dialogue between the West and the Muslim world.

"Freedom of exchange of technology is essential for civilizations, and also for Europe. The position of Iran is absolutely legitimate to develop its own energy and search for new energies," he said.

"I encourage Iran to develop energy for its own needs -- nuclear energy, solar energy, alternative energies. Everybody has the right to develop nuclear energy," he stressed.

A member of the Majlis Presiding Board said today that the possibility of Iran's nuclear case being referred to the United Nations Security Council was "unlikely." Shahin Mohammad-Sadeqi told IRNA there was a very faint possibility of Iran being referred to the UNSC during an emergency session of the Board of Governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency in February.

"If Iran's case is sent to the Security Council, we will not lose our independence and dignity at all," he said.

The Kazeroun MP added: "Regarding the nuclear issue, Iran can insist on its position of strenth. Those who oppose our use of peaceful nuclear energy only want to impose a monopoly" in this field.

Asked about the possible sanctions on Iran, he said: "Sanctions may not be within our interests, but one thing is sure: it will harm the West more than us."
Referring to Russia's nuclear proposal to Iran, Mohammad-Sadeqi added, "We will accept the plan if it acknowledges Iran's right to have access to peaceful nuclear technology and to complete the nuclear fuel cycle."

Meantime, Iranian Vice-President for Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Ahmad Mousavi said yesterday that Tehran will not give up its right to acquire nuclear technology and produce nuclear energy for peaceful purposes.

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