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DaSangarTalib
03-07-2006, 02:50 PM
The international standoff over Iran's nuclear program has deepened ever since Washington's declaration it wouldn't rule out using the military option to stop Iran from carrying on with its nuclear activities, despite the fact that Iran’s nuclear program is watched by the UN nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency.

Last month, the U.S. Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld renewed threats made previously and more than once by the American President George W. Bush concerning launching a military action targeting Iran's nuclear sites if Tehran continued with its suspected nuclear program.


"All options - including the military one - are on the table," he said.

While, “The State of the Union is normally an occasion for boasting about an administration’s achievements”, commented the New York Times columnist, Paul Krugman, President Bush, in a recent State of the Union address, Bush briefly tackled domestic issues, apparently his speechwriters could not find anything positive to mention of his performance.

An editorial on Daily Times says that the American President and his Republican Party have reached the conclusion that there’s no chance for them to win the 2006 mid-term congressional elections by only focusing on the domestic problems.

Analysts suggest that Iran and the so-called war on terror will be the focus on the President’s election campaign this time, and some even predict that the Bush administration might give order for a preemptive military strike against Iran’s nuclear facilities even before the Congressional elections.

The recent Middle East tour by the Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was part of Bush's campaign to lobby efforts against the Islamic republic.

Last month, Bush’s key adviser, Karl Rove, speaking to a Republican legislators’ gathering, revealed that the only way to win November 2006 congressional election is the "war on terrorism".

Given Bush’s continuous failures, budget deficit, worsening U.S. economy, as well as the deterioration situation in Iraq, and the government monitoring of U.S. citizens scandal- Also the recent publication of new photos depicting new level of torture at Iraq’s notorious Abu Ghraib jail, Rove and Bush find no other way to secure a mid-term elections victory other than focusing on the “war against terrorism”.

Also recently conducted surveys show a sharp slump in President Bush’s approval rating, hovering around 39 percent, the lowest of U.S. presidents at a similar stage of their tenure.

On the other hand, the U.S. public’s perceptions of the Iranian threat, manipulated or otherwise, perfectly serves Bush’s domestic and international policies. But Bush’s plans to attack Iran or even Syria — two countries Washington claims they need its help to introduce democratic reforms as it did in Iraq, had been delayed with the American Army stretched thin in Iraq, and the rising casualties among the U.S. troops both in Iraq and Afghanistan. "Now when domestic issues are no help in elections, terrorism and Iran have become handy," Daily Times editorial stated.

It’s noteworthy that Iran’s nuclear programme began in 1967 with the establishment of the Tehran Nuclear Research Center, with the help of the U.S.-supplied nuclear research reactor.

Iran, a signatory of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, planned to construct up to 23 nuclear power stations with the help of other countries, the U.S. included, by 2000. But after a lull during its war with neighbouring Iraq, it resumed work again and in 1995, it signed a contract with Russia to build the Bushehr Nuclear Power Facility.

The Islamic Republic’s major N-plants are located in Isfahan, Natanz, Arak and Lashkar A’bad, most of them had been repeatedly visited by the IAEA inspectors.

The Islamic republic has the right, under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, to pursue nuclear technology as long as it’s for legitimate purposes, like generating power.

Under the guise of non-proliferation, the U.S., backed by the European Union, both seeking to have Iran and other countries abandon any indigenous capabilities and rely solely on western fuel suppliers, wants to create an underclass of nuclear energy have-nots, so that the world’s sole major source of energy stays in the hands of only few nations, Tehran is definitely not among these.
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