Undernews Extract: Iran War Preparations
Compiled By Prorev.com Editor Sam Smith
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ISRAEL APPOINTS GENERAL TO LEAD ATTACK ON IRAN
HARRY DE QUETTEVILLE, LONDON SUNDAY TELEGRAPH - Israel has appointed a top general to oversee a war against Iran,
prompting speculation that it is preparing for possible military action against Teheran's nuclear program. Maj Gen
Elyezer Shkedy, Israel's air force chief, will be overall commander for the "Iran front", according to military sources
spoken to by The Sunday Telegraph. . . "Israel is becoming extremely concerned now with what they see as Iran's delaying
tactics," said the Israeli Iran expert Meir Javedanfar. "They [the planners] think negotiations are going nowhere and
Iran is becoming a major danger for Israel. "Now they are getting ready for living with a nuclear Iran or letting the
military take care of it." . . .
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WEST PLANS WAR WITH IRAN OVER NUKES WHILE PAKISTAN GETS A FREE PASS
BRAHMA CHELLANEY, INTERNATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNE - Nothing better illustrates the way global efforts to halt nuclear
proliferation are at the mercy of international politics than the contrasting responses of the United Nations Security
Council to the two latest proliferation cases. Iran was handed an excessively harsh diktat to cease doing what it
insists is its lawful right, while Pakistan has received exceptionally lenient treatment, despite the discovery of a
major nuclear black-market ring run by Pakistani scientists and intelligence and military officials.
The uncovering of the illicit Pakistani supply network, which has been operating for at least 16 years, exposed the
worst proliferation scandal in history. Yet in response the Security Council passed a resolution that made no reference
to Pakistan, or even to the nuclear smuggling ring, but instead urged the entire world to share the responsibility. . .
In contrast, the Security Council's tough line on Iran was expressed in a strongly worded resolution passed a month ago
that sets a Aug. 31 deadline. To "make mandatory" Iran's cessation of all nuclear fuel-cycle activity, Resolution 1696
states that the Security Council "demands, in this context, that Iran shall suspend all enrichment-related and
reprocessing activities, including research and development, to be verified by the International Atomic Energy Agency."
The difference between these approaches is all the more startling given that the Security Council is acting against
Tehran on reasonable suspicion but not clinching evidence, while Islamabad has admitted that the Pakistani ring covertly
transferred nuclear secrets (including enrichment equipment and nuclear-bomb designs) to Iran, Libya and North Korea.
The exporting state has been allowed to escape international scrutiny and censure while the importing state is being put
in the doghouse.
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