Can anyone blame Iran for accusing the Bush administration of double standard, as well as undermining the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty?
What the USA has done was to agree to aid India’s civil nuclear programme, while insisting that Tehran abandon its nuclear ambitions or face international sanctions.
The upsetting double standard was made worse by the fact that Iran is a NPT member while India is not.
What has been clear about the US double standard is what I have blogged on earlier, Washington’s strategic intention to use India as a counterfoil against China.
President Clinton imposed sanctions on India after its 1998 nuclear bomb tests. Bush has now changed it. This means that it will be more difficult to convince Iran not to go down the N-path.
Nigel Chamberlain of the independent British American Security Information Council supported the Iranian accusation. He stated that Tehran had complied so far with the NPT and International Atomic Energy Agency inspection requirements, and now probably thinks it's all for nothing as India gets almost everything from the Americans without even toeing the IAEA line. Iran feels that they have been singled out unfairly by the US, egged on by Israel.
Israel is of course paranoid about a Persian N-bomb. There have been talks/speculations about an Israeli Air Force pre-emptive strike on Iran’s nuclear plants if the Israelis believe that Iran nears the achievement of an N-bomb.
There is certainly sinister collaboration between the USA and Israel against Iran, while the UN (IAEA) and the Europeans are more inclined towards the persuasive and inclusive approach. It's not only an example of US double standards but a case of US-Israeli Shaolin tactics versus UN-European Taijiquan methods.
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