Though it remains a comparatively weaker voice of mainly dispossessed nations, substance wise Tehran Conference on Disarmament and non-proliferations over shadowed its cousin hosted in Washington with greater fanfare. Joint statement of Tehran Conference exhibited a holistic approach, reflective of sincerity of purpose; it focused on core issues as well as handled the affiliated matters [...]
During the ‘Tehran Conference on Disarmament and Non-proliferation’, Iran did a splendid job by citing the Supreme Leader’s edict that use of WMD’s, including nuclear weapons, is forbidden by Islam. In the course of conference, references were also cited from the Old Testament to prove that nuclear weapons were not acceptable in the major religions. [...]
‘To Hell with Israel….and Murg bar Amrica’; After Iran, Syria and palestine; this slogan can now be seen on display in Pakistan also. This can be said; a cheap and superfluous slogans chanting exercise to pump up unnecessary adrenaline in our blood and make the emotions run wild;—but history says that this exercise have not [...]
Well wishers of a genuine nuclear disarmament regime are enthused about the ‘International Disarmament Conference’ being hosted by Islamic Republic of Iran. As a peaceful nation, Iran was first to float the idea of making the Middle East a nuclear weapons-free zone in the mid seventies. During the UN General Assembly meetings of 2005, 2007, [...]
Attacks on Iranian nuclear and missile site seem impossible because at this juncture if the west makes a mistake to attack Iran the whole Muslim world would be united. In case of attack on Iran, the spade work carried out by anti-Islam forces since 17 century to divide the Muslims on sectarian lines would vanish [...]
Any US efforts failing to stabilise Afghanistan and Iraq before the end of the Obama presidency could feasibly be blamed on their having been inherited from the previous regime. By direct contrast, however, the nuclearisation of Iran would represent the biggest American foreign policy blunder of this century
The Pak-US chinwag of last week has offered [...]
The Iran dilemma(s) are perplexing for their multidimensionality: The ‘Iran’ item on the foreign policy agenda encompasses, inter alia the nuclear/nuclear weapons programs: regional security in the Gulf; Iran’s current and prospective roles in Iraq and Afghanistan; a terrorism(s) connection; and strategic energy interests. Their delineation is complicated by the opacity of the regime’s decision-making, [...]
No alarm bells are ringing, there are no hooters or sirens but still uncertainty prevails in the gulf and its neighbourhood. Every day there are renewed threats from US and Israel that they might attack Iran but Tehran is crystal clear that noting will happen. US intend to break the backbone of Iranian Revolutionary Guards [...]
The United Arab Emirates’ plan to become the first Arab country to operate a nuclear power plant is a step closer to fruition with the announcement in December 2009 that it had selected a Korean consortium to build four nuclear-power reactors. Though other Gulf States have in recent years declared their intention to explore nuclear [...]
