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Targeting Syria and Iran
Neither country poses a nuclear or other regional threat. Yet Washington and other Western powers manipulated IAEA chief Yukiya Amano to claim otherwise, AFP on June 6 saying:
He "turned up the heat" on both countries, falsely accusing them of "illicit nuclear activit(ies)" in two late May reports, regurgitating Washington/Israel lies, no matter how distorted or false.
Specifically, he said Iran keeps stockpiling "low-enriched uranium, in defiance of multiple UN sanctions, and refus(ed) to answer allegations of possible military dimensions of its contested nuclear program." In fact, Tehran complies fully with Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) provisions unlike Israel, America, India and Pakistan - all of them nuclear outlaws, yet Amano is complicitly silent.
He also accused Syria of "building an undeclared atomic reactor at a remote desert site and has not allowed UN inspectors access to locations, data or individuals who could help clear up the allegation."
In fact, no evidence corroborates his accusations. In September 2007, US intelligence sources said North Korean No-Dong missiles were at the site Israel bombed, either in Musalmiya or further south near Hama. Israel was informed yet spuriously claimed a nuclear facility was struck, an act of war warranting retaliation and UN Security Counsel sanctions.
As a result, demanding inspectors admitted now is unjustifiable harassment. Send them where they're needed - to America and Israel, both engaged in illicit programs needing to be exposed and shut down.
On June 6, New Yorker writer Seymour Hersh headlined "Iran and the Bomb," asking:
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