Iran-1 Israel-0 at IAEA
Kudos to the Iranian dude for pointing out the Israeli violations of UN resolutions. And somebody tell me again why it’s ok for Israel and the U.S. to have nuclear weapons to defend itself, but it’s not ok for select other countries to have them to defend themselves. Here’s an idea…..how about NOBODY have them?
- Israel accused Iran of lying Friday while Tehran challenged the international community to send U.N. inspectors to probe its arch-rival’s nuclear capabilities, in a rare and unusually bitter direct confrontation.
U.N. officials at a 148-nation meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency said they had no memory of the two hostile nations ever engaging each other directly at previous meetings and said that development - and the unusually harsh tone of their statements - in part reflected Middle East tensions.
The exchange came after Iran’s chief delegate Ail Asghar Soltanieh - like Arab delegates before him - said that Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert had acknowledged last year that his country possessed nuclear weapons - something Olmert says he never did.
Soltanieh also criticized “the continuous silence of the U.S. … vis-a-vis the atrocities, aggression, bloodshed and violations of over 30 resolutions of the United Nations.”
That, he said, is “shameful and (a) dark point in the history of the United Nations, and the IAEA and the modern century at large.”
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