[IslamCity] Does IAEA Stand for Israeli Atomic Energy Agency

[Alan Border]

The Nukes Of Hazard?  http://www.mpacuk.org/content/view/2/941/101/     If a Martian landed on our green planet and took any interest in the news it could be forgiven for being extremely perplexed by reported events. It would be confused in particular by events in the international arena. Why is
 it okay for some countries to take a particular course of action but not others? This is not logical. Take for example the question of Iran and nuclear power. This particular topic seems to generate a lot of heat in the media but not much light, so in the interests of balance let's just look at the cold hard facts.     There are two basic types of nuclear reaction - nuclear fission and nuclear fusion. Nuclear fission was used in the atom bomb and nuclear fusion (thermo-nuclear) was used in the more deadly hydrogen
 bomb. Nuclear fission can also be used to produce electricity and is used for this purpose in at least 32 countries around the world. The economics of nuclear electricity production are rather skewed. The infrastructure, safety and security costs are enormous but they are offset by miniscule generating costs in fact news reels in 1950's Britain even speculated that one day electricity from nuclear power would be so cheap to generate it would be "given away free".     Fossil fuels such as oil are finite and are contributing to global warming. Iran is a big producer of oil but recognises that it
 too one day will have to find alternative means of energy production.     The One-Eyed Watchdog     The I.A.E.A (International Atomic Energy Agency) is the global nuclear "watchdog". Its job is to report on nuclear activity to the United Nations. Its website contains lots of useful information about nuclear power. It even has a section on country profiles that lists pertinent data on the counties that have nuclear programmes (really useful)
 except…..Israel (less useful). Isn't it curious that the IAEA doesn't "have" any data on Israel's nuclear programme? According to this glorious institution there are "no operational nuclear reactors in Israel". Better tell that to the Israeli's then. The IAEA's role is to promote "the peaceful use of nuclear technology" yet the IAEA has become increasingly shrill lately in its dealings with Iran. This is very curious.     Israel has both nuclear energy and weapons programmes from the 1950's. It has a nuclear power plant located in Dimona in the southern
 Negev Desert. It is estimated to have over four hundred nuclear weapons in its arsenal. This includes hydrogen bombs. These weapons are deployed using the classic trident strategy in land based nuclear missile silos, air based nuclear bombs / missiles and sea based missiles from submarines. When the Israeli nuclear technician Mordechai Vanunu fled to the UK in 1986 to reveal to the world Israel's clandestine nuclear programme he was kidnapped by Israeli agents and smuggled back to Israel where he was jailed for 18 years in solitary confinement.      Stop The Press!     Britain itself has just started planning for a new generation of nuclear power plants. Ministers state that because the deployment of these nuclear plants could take 20 years, planning must be started soon. Britain is also planning to upgrade its Trident weapons.     Recent revelations show that Britain helped start Israel's nuclear programme by selling it the "heavy water" required for nuclear fission. It even kept this a secret and hid the transaction by showing the purchaser as Norway on the paperwork. Norway was the original supplier of "heavy water" to Britain. It even hid this sale from the Americans.     The Americans are the only nation to have ever used nuclear weapons in war. They attacked the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. With two atom bombs killed over 200,000 people. After this event America continued nuclear weapons development at an ever increasing pace. It carried out over 317 "atmospheric tests" (nuclear explosions carried out in the air, sea or above ground). After the USSR also acquired nuclear weapons in 1949 and under huge international pressure, a treaty was signed and the two countries agreed to stop atmospheric testing in 1963. Subsequent testing was then carried out underground but other nations such as Britain and France having recently acquired the technology continued atmospheric testing. Computing power is now sophisticated enough to simulate nuclear explosions so now the cyber realm is used to test ever deadlier devices.  Iran is trying to develop nuclear power and categorically denied it wants to develop nuclear weapons. In fact it is a signatory of the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) yet anyone watching the news would be under the impression that the reality was the other way round.     Under immense pressure from the West sorry "international community" Iran agreed to a self imposed moratorium on developing its peaceful nuclear energy programme. Iran is not breaking any international law by restarting its research into nuclear energy.     Bad Cop - Worse Cop     Without a hint of irony, Israel and its western cronies have been determined to stop Iran from acquiring any form of nuclear technology. In the midst of the disaster that is the Iraq war the Americans cannot
 find the resources for another invasion and so they have decided to try to play the "bad cop" to "EU3's" good cop (Britain, France and Germany). They have tried to bully Iran into giving up any nuclear ambition. The implication is "listen to the EU3 or the Americans will attack". The newly elected President of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has decided to restart the research.
 The IAEA has installed cameras at the Iranian research facility near the city of Isfahan so they can monitor activity at the plant.     Iran had the choice of giving up its nuclear power ambitions like the Libyans did but what have they received in return? Another option would be to develop a nuclear programme in secret until it is operational and then present the world with a fait accomplis like Pakistan. Instead the Iranians have made no secret of their quest for nuclear energy. They have cooperated with the IAEA and engaged the EU3. The press reaction however has been nothing short of hysterical. The impression given is that anyone outside the First World, especially Muslim countries, should not be allowed to develop any form of nuclear power and they won't let the facts get in the way.     So what do we hear from the Muslims of Britain on this issue?   Any support from our Muslim M.P's?   Any countering the blatant lies peddled in the media and by the media?      Not a bit of it. Read the newspapers and there are plenty
 of examples of correspondence by the people who view Iran as another Muslim country that should be attacked. This sentiment is then parroted by our elected representatives in the House of Commons. The silence of these very same representatives on Israeli nuclear weapons is also telling. Isn't it time our brothers and sisters in this country did something for our brothers and sisters in other countries such as Iran?     "A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes."  (Mark Twain)     AB  [EMAIL PROTECTED]  "For to us will be their return; then it will be for us to call them to account." (Holy Quran 88:25-26)
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