www.washingtoninstitute.org - Iraq Pledges Nuclear Cooperation with Russia and China - June 11, 2025

|------- ... Iraq is still a governance basket case and a huge U.S. sanctions risk. The ruling coalition that appointed Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani includes several U.S.-designated, Iran-backed terrorist organizations, and nuclear chief Aboudi is a member of one such group, Asaib Ahl al-Haq (AAH). ...

U.S. and international policymakers have ample reason to view Iraq's nuclear energy ambitions with caution. Although a single small training reactor is unlikely to pose a threat, anything more than that would raise multiple concerns.

First, the militias that essentially run Iraq have a poor record on safety, corruption, and smuggling, so trusting them to responsibly oversee nuclear infrastructure would be unwise. ...

Second, can a government controlled by Iran-backed militias be counted on not to transfer nuclear technology to and from Iran? For example, Iran has vowed to retain its uranium enrichment capabilities and could conceivably become the main and most proximal supplier of nuclear fuel to Iraq... Worse, Iran may try to use militia-run Iraq as a way to circumvent U.S. nuclear sanctions. To give an adjacent example, after the National Iranian Oil Company was hit with heavy sanctions, it established offices inside Iraq's Oil Ministry, which is free from such sanctions. Since then, Iraq's ministry has repeatedly purchased excess oil and gas equipment and transferred it to Iran. Such abuses make clear why it is so important for Washington not to repeat the error it made during Iraq's 2022 government formation process, when U.S. officials raised no objection to a member of a designated terrorist group running key scientific and nuclear research agencies. ...
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www.iina.news - Iraq and Russia Sign Nuclear Energy Agreement at IAEA - Sep. 18, 2024

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en.wikipedia.org - Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons - June 1968

Parties 191
membership in dispute: North Korea
non-parties: India, Israel, Pakistan and South Sudan

|------- Iran was found in non-compliance with its NPT safeguards obligations in an unusual non-consensus decision because it "failed in a number of instances over an extended period of time" to report aspects of its enrichment program. -------|

Iran has also for many years openly expressed policy and will to destroy "Little Satan" (Israel) and then "Big Satan" (USA), and used terrorist proxies in other countries (Lebanon, Syria, Yemen etc, including number of "Palestinian" terrorist organizations) to attack Israel. That's just history.

[Mostly Shi'a] Islamist-governed Iran also has long been a threat to [mostly Sunni] neighbors like Iraq, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Yemen and others.

Saudis openly stated that if Iran gets nuclear weapon, they are going to get one too, buying from Pakistan, and/or building their own. Neighbors are not concerned about Israel, yet most of them are worried about Iran having nukes, and as we see Iran attacking their Arab/Islamic neighbors with their "conventional" weapons, not without reason.



Israel introduced such weapons of mass destruction and has hundreds aimed straight at Iran

"Introduced" where? "Hundreds"? "Aimed"? "Straight at Iran"?

That's an amazing new intelligence!

Why hasn't Israel used a couple of them? Any other country Israel would "aim" nukes at?

Why did UAE ask Israel to provide Iron Dome to defend them from Iranian missiles?

Well, at least you understand concept of "self-defense" when the country has been constantly threatened with annihilation and attacked by several of its neighbors since Day 1 of its existence. You just don't see it from Israel's point of view.

Iraq, Libya and Syria have tried developing various NBC WMDs, with varying success.

Libya: finally agreed to abandon their WMD program in 2003, days after Saddam Hussein was captured in Iraq.
www.armscontrol.org - Chronology of Libya's Disarmament

Syria: has been stopped several times from developing or importing WMDs:
en.wikipedia.org - Syria and weapons of mass destruction

en.wikipedia.org - Operation Orchard / Outside the Box

2 weeks ago: www.devdiscourse.com - Syria Uncovers Bashar al-Assad's Hidden Secret Chemical Weapons Program Arsenal - 2026 May 26



... it is about stealing Iranian oil

Oh, not this pablum again! Who and how would be "stealing oil" from Iran? Same people who were "stealing oil" from Iraq, Libya or Syria?

Was it also about "stealing Iranian oil" during Biden administration when Iran first attacked Israel to support their terrorist proxy Hezbollah in Lebanon?
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