Mark Jensen, "Scott Ritter: U.S. Plans June
Attack on Iran," United for Peace of Pierce County (WA), February
19, 2005
Gordon Prather, "Bye-Bye, NPT; Hello,
Mushroom Cloud," Antiwar.com, February 28, 2005
[Explaining Tehran's decision to bar the United Nations from some sensitive
sites, a senior Iranian envoy told a 35-nation meeting Wednesday that his
country fears leaked information the inspectors gather could help those
planning a possible military strike.--"U.S., Iran Face Off Over Nukes,"
Associated Press, March 2, 2005]
[Iranian officials are quick to point out that before the 1979 Islamic
revolution, which brought clerics to power, the United States firmly
supported its ally the Shah's plans to build up to 23 atomic reactors by
1994.--Paul Hughes, "Iran's arguments for nuclear power make some sense,"
Reuters, March 5, 2005]
Richard Butler, "Heavily Armed Duo in No Position to Lay Down Law On Proliferation:
Thwarting Iran's Nuclear Ambitions Would be Easier if the US and Israel Kept
their Side of the Bargain," Sydney Morning Herald, March 8, 2005
Douglas Jehl and Eric Schmitt, "Data
Is Lacking on Iran's Arms, U.S. Panel Says," New York Times, March 9, 2005
[. . . Tehran not only has agreed with the International Atomic Energy
Agency (IAEA) that it will permit inspections of sites suspected of housing
weapons programs, but also that the sites shown in Sharon's photos have
already been visited by IAEA inspectors, with nothing found. . . .
The plan of the neoconservatives in the Bush administration, who work
closely with Sharon, instead, aim at changing the terms of the NPT when the
countries that are party to the treaty will gather in New York City in May
for the 1970 treaty's Seventh Review Conference. . . .
An American expert in nuclear weapons, Gordon Prather, says Bolton has
deliberately confused "failure to fully comply with an IAEA Safeguards
Agreement" with "violations" of the NPT. . . .
What Prather is saying is that many countries, including the US, have not
fully complied with the safeguards regime, which actually preceded the NPT
and which simply means that they were found to have done something that they
were obliged to report to the IAEA and failed to do so, for example moving
material from Building A to Building B.--Jude Wanniski, "Israel Guns for
Iran," CounterPunch, April 23, 2005]
William J. Broad, "Bunker-buster
bomb plan won't work, study finds," New York Times, April 28, 2005
Jimmy Carter, "Erosion of
the Nonproliferation Treaty," International Herald Tribune, May 2, 2005
Gordon Prather, "Iranian Nuclear Power
Crazy? Think Again," Antiwar.com, May 30, 2005