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#10 | Posted by Hughmass at 2026-06-07 07:19 AM
Legally, why is it that Iran cannot have nuclear weapons? Not arguing the advisability, but the legality
Good that you don't argue advisability of Iran (and some other countries in the Middle East) having nukes.
Legality: UN's NPT is the general basis in principle for non-proliferation of nuclear WMDs, otherwise what have IAEA inspectors been doing in Iran all these years?
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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