Kourosh Ziabari

Nowadays, Iran and its people are being threatened widely for a near, possible attack by the Israeli forces if Tehran continue pursuing its nuclear program. Additionally, the amount of media pressure against the country is increasing simultaneous to the rhetoric of Israeli officials, backed by US statesmen.

Some western governments acclaim that they would support Israel for a possible bombardment of Iranian nuclear facilities because of the threatening nature of these installations.

White House people and the major EU members state frequently that they are looking for ways to help the process of global peace, stability and promote the international security by emptying the world from nuclear threats.

In the meantime, they refuse to pursue the lawsuit brought by the Iranian government against Israel for depositing 170 nuclear warheads. This figure is approved by the former US president, Ronald Reagan too.

According to an unwritten law, none of the global mainstream media are allowed or willing to investigate about the mass destruction weapons of Israel and its exact figures which have been issued by the Federation of American Scientists (http://www.fas.org/nuke/guide/israel/nuke) and republished by many other independent sources.

However, while the Israeli regime itself is under the international pressure about the details of its nuclear armories and the occupation of Palestinian lands on the other hand, it is lobbying actively to make some troubles for Iran.

It is not significantly clear that what are the roles and position of Israel in the nuclear case of Iran. Israel is neither the member of UNSC nor it signed the NPT and is reckoned as the world 3 countries that didn't join the treaty.

Regarding the article VII of UN charter, none of the member countries are allowed to threat the sovereignty, security or interests of other members in any way until a UNSC resolution is brought, but the Israeli statesmen are violating this article under the flag of US without being protested.

Nobody asks that is Israel really rightful to threat Iran even in words by using its affiliated media such as CNN, FOXNews, Reuters and propagating falsified facts about the dangerousness of Iran to for the international community?

The global public opinions also are being infected by this war of the words, counting Iran as a threat for the global peace and security, regardless to the historical facts that show the Iranian governments and people never occupied or attacked any other country during the past 7500 years.

With having these facts in mind, there are some important and vital questions that every conscious and wise human must think about and search to find proper answers for, and I want to propound them as an independent and freelance writer:

1- Why Israel doesn't join NPT? What are the distinctions of Israel to other countries in the world that nobody dares to pursuit its mass destruction weapon's case? Why IAEA doesn't take any serious action to disarm the nuclear arsenals of this regime?

2- It is witnessed that most of international radio channels, TV stations and joint media propagate the idea of attacking Iran and its people explicitly. Isn't it contrary to human rights, international regulations and media virtues to encourage the sparking of a new world war by inflaming the blazes of battle?

3- Who cares about the official advertisement of belligerence in state media? Which is it the professional duty of media? to prevent wars or to spark them?

4- Is Israel really capable of altercating with Iran? Referring to 2008 CIA factbook, Iran is placed 8th in the world ranking of total number of active troops passing Egypt, France, United Kingdom, Italy and Germany while Israel stands 31st. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_number_of_active_troops) According to the same source, Iran again stands 8th in the world ranking of size of armed forces while Israel takes the 30th berth. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_size_of_armed_forces) Israeli officials also announced that they are aware about the 600 Iranian missiles pointed to Tel Aviv since 2005 to hit back any strike.

The new generation of Iranian Shahab-3 which is a domestic-produced ballistic missile equipped to cover a distance of 2000 Kilometers, approximately from Tehran to Berlin. Also the Iranian commander of air forces has pledged early that any Israeli strike on Iran would be responded with 10,000 Shahab-3 missiles shooting Tel Aviv.

But with regard to the military strength of Iran, can anyone bring an example that the Persian governments have ever occupied any country or attacked any land in the world? Iran has a civilization of 7500 years but nobody can find a example of Iranians invading other countries during the history.

It seems that Israel and US politicians and diplomats are educated enough to know that any possible attack on Iran would lead to a new world war with irretrievable consequences that just leave repentance and regret.

Iran is a sovereign and historical country that has a right for using peaceful nuclear energy as well as other modern technologies to solve its electricity shortage problem and improving its scientific abilities, but motivating and insulting the Iranian nation in media by aggressing black propaganda, calling them "terrorists" and setting the mental wars will undoubtedly lead to some unsatisfactory results for the world.

Not saying as an Iranian journalist, but as a regular observer of international developments, the global community has no way but to accept Iranians as peaceful and harmless nation who respond to the enemies decisively, having the right to employ the new technologies like all of their neighboring countries, so it would be more appropriate to deal with them without discrimination and bias.

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2008 © Kourosh Ziabari