NUCLEAR LAW

What authority do the US and Israel have to allow or deny access to a sovereign nation's nuclear development? How murder and terrorism is disguised under the pseudonym of ‘pre-emptive strike’?

 

By Sidney Hey 

If rights are born out of necessity, when the subsistence of a nation is threatened there is no doubt that defence becomes a right-obligation. The warmongering diatribes that President Donald Trump has been ranting against Iran in recent hours are informing us of a very possible direct intervention in the escalation that Israel began with its ‘pre-emptive strike’.

Once again Trump is in evidence and shows that the campaign promises to end the wasteful spending that led to the economic-social crisis in which the state of the Union finds itself, were only a big ball of smoke that when it dissipates will show decisions as bad and harmful as those of his predecessors Bush and Biden. If he signs an executive order to mobilise military assets for the Persian Gulf it will entail an astronomical expenditure that will break the already critical economic situation of his country.

Rather than MAGA, we should speak of MIGA, i.e. ‘Make Israel Great Again’, revealing that Donald Trump (against the logic of everything he has promised and the interests of his own people) will mobilise all the resources and thus make all the necessary expenditures to support his colleague Netanyahu and his supremacist and racist regime in a dreadful war.

Let us emphasise that Donald Trump is not the real ruler in Washington DC, but the so-called ‘deep state’, although this does not excuse him for his bad performances that make him look like a fourth-rate vaudeville actor.

Israel has been the initiator of the aggressions, motivated mainly by the revealed (a few days earlier) blow to the Mossad following the leak of thousands of documents acquired by Tehran concerning its nuclear programme. Netanyahu, under pressure from his Establishment and obviously from his peers, took a decision that risks his own head. In addition to the humiliation it represents for Israeli intelligence, obtaining such information from its bitterest rival exposes Israel as an expansionist state with nuclear capability. And despite all the Western assistance it is receiving, Iran, using its right of self-defence and resistance, has pledged not to let crimes committed against Iranian sovereignty go unpunished. Let's remember that although in the first hours Trump claimed that he had nothing to do with Israel's decision, trying to hang on a supposed advantage achieved by the IDF, in the first 24 hours he changed his discourse and became aggressive and threatening.

As we can see and as we already knew, Trump is a pathological liar who is no longer fooling anyone. Only a few months into his term in office he has already broken all his campaign promises and this is something that his own supporters have already realised, leading to fractures within his supporters.

While Israel receives all this military support and strives to collapse the Persian country, Tehran has already received support from neighbours and other Asian actors willing to unite against this Anglo-Zionist aggression (exposed by the mobilisation of British and US Royal Navy ships in the Gulf waters). Pakistan, as soon as it learned of the Israeli attack, offered its cooperation to cover its back, recalling that this Muslim nation has a nuclear capability. On this last point, we should not lose sight of how India and especially the government of Narendra Modi, who is very close to Benjamin Netanyahu, will manoeuvre.

Also in the last few hours, intelligence sources from Pyongyang, North Korean President Kim Jong Un has declared that ‘Tehran is not alone in this fight. The North Korean military is on high alert’, setting a highly complex context that Donald Trump and his defence officials cannot overlook since, in addition to having developed its own nuclear weapons capability, North Korea has in its possession its own hypersonic missiles capable of carrying a weaponised warhead.

Kim Jong Un's warning is not mere rhetoric. The US and its Atlanticist partners have tried for decades and by all means to prevent his nation from developing its own nuclear programme. North Korea's response has been to persist and increase its research to achieve the capabilities it has today that have kept Washington and its puppet in Seoul at bay in their attempts to stop it.

The truth is that whether or not Iran was developing a nuclear programme, there is no excuse, let alone any international legislation, to prevent it from doing so. But if there were any doubts about this, the declarations of the Argentine Rafael Grossi in charge of the IAEA, despite his ambiguities (certainly very suspicious), clear up all the speculation that Washington and Tel Aviv have tried to present as truth.

Unlike Israel, Iran has been subjected to inspections and questioning with no evidence of military nuclear developments. Yet the world expects the same IAEA to take the same interest in Dimona, or rather, the 100 nuclear missile silos it houses at bases in the Negev desert.

In light of the facts and Israel's record of how (in addition to committing genocide) it advances on any other sovereignty, bombing or committing terrorist acts against officials and civilians (Syria, Iraq, Lebanon and now Iran) without answering to international law, much less to the United Nations, Tehran has many arguments on which to sustain its right not only to defence, but also to the preservation of its nation given that, as we are seeing today, the Western powers that support Israel are in open preparation for a similar aggression (contrary to Chapter VII of the UN Charter) to the one orchestrated in 2003 against Iraq through a big ball of lies.