Iran has lived up to the agreement that it Signed

It is interesting to hear Canada’s foreign affairs minister speaking about Iran and how he simply expects Iran to live up to the agreements that Iran has signed. Canada ‘s foreign affairs is making the same mistakes that they made during the sanctions on Iraq. In 2002 they were making exactly the same claims. (In tune with other government leaders claims that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction). Each of these statements and claims were carefully co ordinated and released and the wording was almost exactly the same from each country so it was pretty clear that they hadn’t a single brain among them. The same thing is happening again. Canada’s minister doesn’t point out that Iran “is” living up to the agreement that it actually signed. The agrement was changed by “some” government members in the UN “after” Iran signed it. Iran has never agreed to the new wording or restrictions made to the original agreement. But Canada’s foreign affairs minister fails to mention that. I believe that he knows full well what he is saying but has chosen not to point the truth out to Canadians.
This kind of thinking is a shame and it is exactly the sort of problem that leads the world down an ugly path where we wonder how the heck we ever got there. The Cuban missile crisis is an example of what I mean. President Kennedy asked why a group of intelligent people could end up down at the end of a road facing nuclear attack. Thank God he turned back.
A few world leaders believe that Iran should not be allowed to have civilian power under it’s full control. That would mean that Iran could enrich it’s nuclear fuel itself and not rely on other countries to supply that fuel. The very countries that don’t want Iran to enrich and supply it’s own fuel…. all have said that they would never allow their rights to fuel enrichment to be taken away from them and yet they expect Iran to give up that right.
Iran signed the nuclear non proliferation treaty and allows inspectors to verify what it is doing.
I believe that it is a mistake not to find a peaceful agreement to this tangle. Obama made a mistake by not taking Iran’s recent offer to exchange refined material.
It was a good start and a much easier path to set out on than the very real threat of seeing Israel start a bombing run on Iran’s nuclear facilities.
An opportunity for peace has been lost.
Iran has every right to develop a civilian nuclear program and yet our world leaders seem determined to make war.
When I was in Iraq during the sanctions I discovered that our governments were lying to us. I found that Canada’s foreign affairs at that time, Lloyd Axworthy’s office, didn’t have a clue what was going on in Iraq. When I successfully pointed out errors in their statements about Iraq, Axworthy’s office threw up their hands and said that there were so many conflicts in the world that they couldn’t keep up with everything. I was shocked by this admission considering that Canada was supporting sanctions that were well documented to be causing the deaths of several hundred thousand children. (according to a 2002 Unicef report and other agencies).
My point is that our governments are making the same mistake with Iran.
It is scary how they employ the same words and tactics as they did in Iraq. For example: “We have no conflict with the Iranian people themselves”. They said the same thing about the Iraqi’s knowing full well that the sanctions were causing the huge number of deaths of the children of Iraq.
The whole idea of sanctions is to inflict enormous pressure on the civilian population so that they will rise up against their leaders and demand change.
Our governments do not have the time to do their own homework. They rely on information fed to them by the US. It is not that people in government are evil. It seems that they simply do not have the resources to check facts fed to them or to do the proper checks on the ground. (I believe that it is much like the way all the oil companies safety and environment documents read the same almost to the word.)
We need countries to think for themselves and not get suckered into acting as a group.
Groups can become a pretty ugly mob very quickly and I don’t think we want that.
Churchill said that the first casualty of war is the truth.
It is unfortunate that Canada’s foreign affairs is contributing to the lack of truth in our struggle to preserve peace in our world.