The NPT Conference

At the once-every-5-years Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) conference at the United Nations, the United States and Iran are currently engaged in diplomatic warfare as the U.S want new sanctions on Iran for attempting to get nuclear weapons.

To improve its bargaining position, the U.S announced its own nuclear stockpile of 5,113 nuclear warheads with a few more thousand retired warheads waiting scrap. Now I applauded Obama’s decision to declare its stockpile but the irony of the situation is so ridiculous I can’t believe no one in Obama’s administration mentioned it.

The country with over 5,000 nuclear warheads is trying to prevent Iran from getting it’s first! That has always been the U.S problem with Iran and why it never got more international support than it should. The goal as the Americans said is to have a nuclear-free Middle East. 5 years ago in the last NPT meeting, that was the goal. The problem with that is that Israel already has about 200 warheads and it never signed the NPT!

So why is it okay for Israel (a country in the Middle East) to have 200 nuclear weapons but Iran can’t even get it’s first? Now before anyone start talking about being a responsible country, I will have to remain you that this is Israel. The country who forged foreign passports, authorized assassination on foreign soil, insulted the Vice-President of it’s closest ally, and where it’s okay for it’s Foreign Minister to insult the Turkish ambassador on national television!

A nuclear-free Middle East? We are about 30 years too late for that and the U.S is hardly the best country to talk about the nonproliferation of nuclear weapons.