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Originally Posted by Rochard
The same rules should apply to both countries.
Iran is building nuclear power plants and refusing to allow anyone to inspect them. Israel has two nuclear reactors and allows them to inspect them. Well, I'm assuming Israel allows the IAEA to inspect them, and if they refuse, Israel should be bitch smacked. (It's disappointing that the UN isn't already bitch smacking Israel for building on land that isn't legally theirs, but you know how that goes - The US supports Israel in the UN, and Russia supports their friends [Syria] in the UN.)
Nuclear weapons don't apply to this conversation. Nuclear weapons aren't subject to the same rules or regulations, or inspections.
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Iran isn't refusing to allow anyone to inspect them; this is sorta like Saddam refusing UN WMD inspectors access to his country - bullshit. The inspectors were kicked out of Iraq by Bush so he could claim provocation and maintain deniability.
There's an IAEA inspection in Iran this week as a matter of fact.
Israel does not undergo IAEA inspections, because it is not a NPT signatory and are presumed not to have a nuclear arsenal.
But while Israel doesn't deny Nuclear Weapons capability, it doesn't acknowledge either. They won't sign the non-proliferation treaty - they maintain a "nuclear ambiguity" policy or some such bullshit.
Iran on the other hand has signed on to the NPT, but pressure from the US years before Iran was able to enrich their fuel to 20% (which isn't one-fifth what they need for weaponization) caused them to be ruled as "non compliant".
The West or more particularly the US has been trying to pick a fight with Iran for a long time.