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Originally Posted by Rochard
If if this the case, then Israel should have the same sanctions Iran has. However, you saying they don't allow IAEA inspections and then talking about a nuclear arsenal in the same sentence. The IAEA inspections are for nuclear power plants, not nuclear weapons.
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Actually, not so. IAEA is under the NPT umbrella and its function is to ensure proper civilian application of nuclear technology, and that there isn't any diversionary development towards military/weapons application, although since it's a voluntary process surely secret plans to do this wouldn't necessarily be detectable. But there's indicators, such as Israel's own production of fissionable material, which is way off the scale for it's 2 power plants as well as not being on the medical isotope market's radar... so what else is it for?
And though they aren't signatories they constantly gripe about Iran's non-compliance, which appear to be fabrications, and other IAEA/NPT "violations" though they themselves don't follow any of that.
Yeah, they should be sanctioned or pressured but they probably won't be. Nukes are political, not tactical, weapons, and sometimes it's not even important to actually have them as long as other nations *think* you do (look at North Korea - one year they do, one year they don't).
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