THE NPT HAS NO CREDIBILITY, IT CANT STOP PROLIFERATION (Bob Rigg, former chairman of the New Zealand National Consultative Committee on Disarmament, Smoke and mirrors in nuclear Middle East, The Dominion Post, 12-18-09) Iran cooperates with the IAEA, which is barred from inspecting Israel's nuclear facilities, while the prime minister of Israel, whose country is not a party to the NPT, recently visited key world leaders urging them to require Iran to fulfil its NPT obligations. This grotesque and discriminatory state of affairs will persist until Israel ratifies the NPT and joins all other Middle Eastern states, including Iran, that have declared their support fora nuclear weapons free zone in the Middle East. Interestingly, amidst the most recent sensational allegations against Iran, once again based on intelligence that has yet to be independently validated, Saudi Arabia kept its eye on the ball by describing Israel as a huge obstacle to the peacemaking process, and called fora regional nuclear weapons free zone to include Israel. The credibility of the NPT regime is at rock bottom. In today's increasingly atomised world the probability of nuclear proliferation and nuclear conflict will continue to increase as the credibility of the NPT is frittered away.
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