Iran's Plan to Eliminate Nuclear Weapons Worldwide

Overall it is a grand idea, but one that doesn't quite fit into the rhetoric that has been spewed from Ahmadenijad in the past. For one, he has stated the intention of wiping Israel from the face of the earth. No secret there! Iran has always wanted Israel to dump its "nuclear weapons". However, Israel has as yet to admit to possessing nuclear weapons--I think we can say they have nuclear strike capability.

Fundamentalist Islam--the goal to to suppress and erase all religions but Islam. Straight up and no ifs ands or buts. Iran is fundamentalist to the core and Iran scares the other Arab nations in the middle east. Saudi Arabia is doing its best to distance itself from Iran and whatever their intentions will be.

Putin of Russia just recently stated that he will not tolerate any more sanctions or active strike against Iran. He believes Iran is trying to develop a peaceful nuclear base. But, in the same statement, said, "It is unacceptable for Iran to have Nuclear Weapons......" Go figure!!!! .... lakotahope
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

by Staff Writers
Washington (AFP) Sept 10, 2009
Iran is proposing to set up an international system to scrap and prohibit nuclear weapons worldwide, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's senior adviser said in an interview published Thursday.

Mojtaba Samareh Hashemi told The Washington Post that the Iranian package of proposals submitted Wednesday to the United States and other powers calls for the elimination of existing weapons and measures to prevent countries without weapons from acquiring them.

But he stopped short of promising that Iran would bow to international demands and halt its uranium enrichment program, which Washington fears is aimed at building a nuclear bomb but Tehran insists is for the peaceful use of nuclear energy.

"The methods of preventing development of nuclear weapons and a widespread system for preventing the multiplying and the proliferation of nuclear weapons are a part of the package," Hashemi said.

"Since nuclear weapons are an international threat, with the cooperation of all countries we can design an international framework that, basically, prevents research, production, multiplying and keeping nuclear weapons and also moves toward destruction of present nuclear weapons," he was quoted as saying.

"Iran is ready in this path to offer any and every kind of cooperation and effort. No country must be exempt from this international framework against nuclear weapons," Hashemi told the daily.

Iran has long called for Israel to abandon a stockpile of nuclear weapons it is widely believed to possess.

Hashemi gave no direct reply when asked repeatedly if the Iranian package contains a promise to stop uranium enrichment.

He appeared to reply affirmatively when asked if the proposal for a new framework aimed not only at eliminating existing nuclear stockpiles but also at clearing up doubts that countries like Iran aimed to build such weapons.

"Since today the threat of nuclear weapons comes from countries that have them, and to be secure and safe from future activities of countries that in the future will join the nuclear club, this framework must be widely implemented from now on," he said.

He suggested Iran's goal -- rather than trying to build a nuclear weapon itself -- is to establish an international system in which nobody will be allowed to make such weapons.

"Iran not only does not want to make nuclear weapons, but is actually intensely against nuclear weapons," Hashemi told the newspaper.

"In all truth, Iran is trying to establish a new regime to prevent nuclear weapons worldwide, which are an international anxiety," he was quoted as saying.