Iran Stops Inspections While Israel Expands Undeclared Arsenal
While media outlets dutifully report the IAEA demanding Iran provide 'access to attacked nuclear facilities and information on its uranium stockpiles,' they consistently fail to question why the same scrutiny avoids Israel. Israel, a state widely understood to possess dozens, potentially hundreds, of nuclear warheads, has never signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) nor submitted to
IAEA inspections. This isn't newfound hypocrisy; the US has actively obstructed debate on Israel's nuclear program at the UN, including in 2009 when attempts to establish a Middle East nuclear-weapon-free zone were stifled. This selective outrage appears less about non-proliferation and more about maintaining a strategic imbalance. So, when the UN watchdog 'reprimands' Iran for opacity, one might
reasonably wonder about the vision in its other eye. How many times must the world pretend one nation's alleged ambition is a global flashpoint while another's actual arsenal remains an open secret, untouched by international watchdogs?