Iran's Peaceful Nuclear Installations
Iran's vast natural resources in fossil fuels renders it OPEC's second-largest producer of oil; the fourth-largest exporter in the world of crude oil. But Iran has never invested in oil-refining facilities to the extent that it might independently be capable of finishing its product for export, and must rely on outside sources to do that. And in turn, Iran imports externally-refined oil back into the country for domestic use. The country possesses 136-billion barrels of proven oil reserves, yet beggars itself to acquire sufficient refined oil for its population.On the other hand, this country, not far from being impoverished, has been able to amass sufficient treasury funds to allocate toward the establishment of a number of nuclear reactor sites, a hugely costly undertaking. Shades of North Korea. Of course, Iran's friends and business partners, like Russia which offers its expertise and material support, and North Korea and Venezuela who do likewise, have enabled Iran greatly in its aspirational efforts to become a nuclear power. Not to worry, however, Iran's purpose in achieving nuclear power is solely for the generation of electricity.
Yes, it is puzzling that a country with such vast oil and natural gas reserves should undertake to build expensive nuclear power stations rather than rationalize its reserves with the building of adequate refining infrastructure instead, but isn't it every country's right to determine what works best for them? One supposes so. Other than the fact that some administrations of some countries are profoundly untrustworthy, with a real and troubling agenda masked (however awkwardly) by the innocence of self-sufficiency.
(Iran's agenda is clearly destabilization of the accursed West, and they will start with discharging their obligation to Islam by destroying the State of Israel.)
News of a second installation placed inside a mountain where a previously-existing network of underground tunnels beneath a military base once used as a missile test site by the Revolutionary Guard, has confounded the world community, expressing shock at the perfidious nature of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Dear me. How utterly unsporting of them. That the combined intelligence of U.S. French and British sources have long known of these advances is irrelevant.
Labelling the new infrastructure at Qom as "a covert uranium enrichment facility", whose "size and configuration" appears to be "inconsistent with a peaceful program", (thank you, Barack Obama) as though this is unexpected and a betrayal of broad international anticipation of an Iran docile and willing to be a part of the world community is ingenuous and pretty stupid. It is common knowledge and has been for quite a long time, about what Iran's agenda represents.
Reeling back in astonishment at revealing what is already known and what intelligence has long revealed establishes nothing but incompetence on the world stage. We know that Iran is intent on continuing its pursuit of "breaking rules that all nations must follow". We have long been aware that Iran has been "endangering the global non-proliferation regime and threatening the stability and security of the region and the world."
So now that it has been publicly established that all this and more represents the actual reality of Iran and its singular ambitions, how will the Security Council proceed? Better yet, will President Obama still insist on diplomatic niceties with Iran, extending a hand of friendship, in the belief that courtesy elicits reliable confederacy? Is it any likelier that Russia and China will relent and finally agree to urgent action?
And will France and Germany and the U.S. finally insist on the kind of sanctions that would have their national corporations surrender their encouraging economic investments in Iran?
Labels: European Union, Technology, Terrorism, United Nations, United States
posted by Pieface @ Saturday, September 26, 2009
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