by MONITOR
IT'S not surprising that the Obama administration is getting edgy over the increasingly chummy relationship between Iran and Venezuela. The leaders of both countries - Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Hugo Chavez -- enjoy annoying Washington and find it relatively easy to do so. Yesterday Iran announced that it had asked the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to call a conference to consider an international ban on attacks on nuclear installations. The motive is obvious - to exacerbate difficulties between the United States and Israel over the latter's threat to attack Iran's nuclear enrichment facilities if diplomatic efforts to stop Tehran's alleged progress towards a nuclear weapon should fail. Iran is within its right to make this request; until it can be proved otherwise what it claims to be its civilian programme is perfectly legal within the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Pact. Furthermore, a proposal to protect all nuclear installations from attack is prima facie common sense.
ANNOYING WASHINGTON
16/08/2013 00:00
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