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| After Iran nuclear deal, it’s everyone else’s turn | After Iran nuclear deal, it’s everyone else’s turn |
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| The Iranian foreign minister, Javad Zarif, is correct in his nuclear weapons analysis and has both logic and morality on his side (Iran has signed up to peace. Surely now it’s Israel’s turn?, 31 July). How can we maintain that we must possess these weapons of mass destruction while Iran, facing threats from a nuclear-armed Israel on one side and a nuclear-armed Pakistan on the other, must not. | The Iranian foreign minister, Javad Zarif, is correct in his nuclear weapons analysis and has both logic and morality on his side (Iran has signed up to peace. Surely now it’s Israel’s turn?, 31 July). How can we maintain that we must possess these weapons of mass destruction while Iran, facing threats from a nuclear-armed Israel on one side and a nuclear-armed Pakistan on the other, must not. |
| Related: Iran has signed a historic nuclear deal – now it’s Israel’s turn | Javad Zarif | |
| When signing up to the non-proliferation treaty more than 40 years ago, nuclear-armed states such as the UK did indeed enter into a bargain to work towards nuclear disarmament, but they have done just the opposite. With the 70th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima this week, it is surely time to give new impetus to international negotiations. Last year Austria issued a pledge to find a way to fill the legal gap and work to prohibit and eliminate nuclear weapons in the light of their unacceptable humanitarian consequences; 113 nations have endorsed that pledge, including Iran and 10 other states in the Middle East. | When signing up to the non-proliferation treaty more than 40 years ago, nuclear-armed states such as the UK did indeed enter into a bargain to work towards nuclear disarmament, but they have done just the opposite. With the 70th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima this week, it is surely time to give new impetus to international negotiations. Last year Austria issued a pledge to find a way to fill the legal gap and work to prohibit and eliminate nuclear weapons in the light of their unacceptable humanitarian consequences; 113 nations have endorsed that pledge, including Iran and 10 other states in the Middle East. |
| In today’s world the threats we face are from international terrorism, cyber-warfare, climate change, pandemics and the mass movements of people. Everyone knows modern nuclear weapons can never be used to hold or to gain territory, yet the arsenals of the nuclear-armed states present a constant and terrible risk of catastrophe by accident or miscalculation. | |
| The world community has concluded treaties on chemical and biological weapons, cluster bombs and landmines. It can be done and it is entirely reasonable for Iran, having unilaterally surrendered its nuclear capability, to seek a comparable treaty to ban nuclear weapons.Joan RuddockLondon | The world community has concluded treaties on chemical and biological weapons, cluster bombs and landmines. It can be done and it is entirely reasonable for Iran, having unilaterally surrendered its nuclear capability, to seek a comparable treaty to ban nuclear weapons.Joan RuddockLondon |
| • Javad Zarif makes a constructive case for a new dialogue between Iran and other nations. But his argument would be all the stronger were it not for the pervasive Jew-hate emanating from Iran and calls by its leaders for the destruction of the one nation-state in the world where Jews face no persecution. | • Javad Zarif makes a constructive case for a new dialogue between Iran and other nations. But his argument would be all the stronger were it not for the pervasive Jew-hate emanating from Iran and calls by its leaders for the destruction of the one nation-state in the world where Jews face no persecution. |
| Here, for example, is Ayatollah Khamenei last year: “This barbaric, wolflike & infanticidal regime of Israel which spares no crime has no cure but to be annihilated.” | Here, for example, is Ayatollah Khamenei last year: “This barbaric, wolflike & infanticidal regime of Israel which spares no crime has no cure but to be annihilated.” |
| Or Mohammad Ali Jafari, the commander-in-chief of the Revolutionary Guard who said earlier this year: “The Revolutionary Guards will fight to the end of the Zionist regime … We will not rest easy until this epitome of vice is totally deleted from the region’s geopolitics.” | Or Mohammad Ali Jafari, the commander-in-chief of the Revolutionary Guard who said earlier this year: “The Revolutionary Guards will fight to the end of the Zionist regime … We will not rest easy until this epitome of vice is totally deleted from the region’s geopolitics.” |
| There are many more examples of such vile, racist, eliminationist language from senior Iranian leaders or their allies in Hezbollah. | There are many more examples of such vile, racist, eliminationist language from senior Iranian leaders or their allies in Hezbollah. |
| We may all welcome the Iran deal and hope it works, but until Iranian leaders repudiate their anti-Jewish ideology and their persistent eliminationist talk about Jews in Israel, it is hard to see where much common ground between democracies and Iran is to be found.Denis Macshane (@denismacshane)London | We may all welcome the Iran deal and hope it works, but until Iranian leaders repudiate their anti-Jewish ideology and their persistent eliminationist talk about Jews in Israel, it is hard to see where much common ground between democracies and Iran is to be found.Denis Macshane (@denismacshane)London |
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