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Oct. 10, 2009 There is so much talk, fear and nightmare over Iran’s nuclear issue. This issue raises many questions worth examining, a few of which are raised in this article. Why so much fear about Iran and no fear about countries that have not signed the nuclear non-proliferation treaty? Don’t world leaders see that giving certain countries the lee-way as far as the nuclear issue is concerned constitutes bias? How, therefore, do they expect audacious and radical countries like Iran to sit passively and watch such injustice? Is the West transparent when it comes to its own nuclear programme? Does the rest of the world know, even the bearest minimum, about the stock-pile of their nuclear arsernal? How, then, do they expect countries like Iran or North Korea to feel secure. How do you hold a gun behind your back and ask the man in front of you to disarm? He will not! Even if he yields to pressure, sooner or later, he would find another means to rearm himself. This is only commonsense and human sense: it doesn’t make sense to even a child! Today it is Iran and North Korea; yesterday it was Libya. Who knows which country would be next? Already, North Korea and Iran are giving the rest of the world both cold and warm sweat! Both the nuclear nations and the want-to-be-nuclear nations are suffering. Therefore, who is at rest? Nobody, in this nonsense game of arms race. And, please, don’t give the world the line that the West is too civilized to detonate the bomb. It did it during World War II, and it can do it again, if pushed to the wall. Some day the IAEA should be asked how it functions in order to maintain transparency as regards the Wests’ nuclear activities and plans. This secrecy is a cause for concern and insecurity. But meanwhile, it seems obvious that there is the need for measures other than those we have at the moment, in order to hold in check nuclear proliferation. Firstly, any country with a nuclear facility likely to be employed to make the bomb must sign the nuclear non-proliferation Treaty: there must be no exemptions.
Secondly, any country going against the rules must be sanctioned and prevented from continuing down the dangerous path, without any fear or favour; without the least modicum of bias. Once we have just laws and apply them, the feeling of insecurity will be obviated, and the need to acquire one type of arm after another will be done away with.
The human mind is very smart in devising means to circumvent regulations it does not feel, due to its vested interest, like observing. Therefore, the question of bias would plague the international scene for a long time to come. However, this problem can be solved at the core level if world leaders and decision-makers as well as decision-enforcers, indeed, if the entire human population, would imbibe deeply the reality that we earthlings are all citizens of one country – earth - and one human race; that the well-being of one segment of society is also the well-being of any other segment; that to seek the well-being of any part, the well-being of the whole must be sought and fought for in the first place.
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