Why does Iran have to allow access to it's nuclear facilities but Israel doesn't?

Question

The Dimona reactor in Occupied Palestine has been producing deadly plutonium since the last 40 years, yet that has long gone unquestioned & unopposed. Why the double standards?

Answer 1

The Israelis didn't use their nukes during the yom kippur war, so it seems to me they understand the grave responsibility of having nuclear weapons.  Mahmoud on the other hands regularly threatens to use his before they're even up and running.

Answer 2

Crystal clear,

Israel can be trusted with such facilities.

Sincerely,

Ms. Miche ; })

Answer 3

Because Iran has signed the nuclear non-proliferation treaty, which says that in exchange for civilian nuclear technology, it must not persue nuclear armament and must allow inspection of its nuclear facilities.

Israel, like some other countries, is not a signatory of the treaty.

There is no 'occupied Palestine', because there was never a country called Palestine.

Answer 4

Because Iran openly threatens other countries, and Israel doesn't.

In the 40 years that Israel has their nukes they have never ever used them.

Answer 5

I agree with you. No country has the right above another. I believe no country should have nuclear arms.

Answer 6

Iran doesn't have to allow access to it's facilities, it's that they have accepted for the  International Atomic Energy Agency to do inspections, which in turn shows they have nothing to hide. Today, as well, Syria has accepted such inspections. I guess it just shows us who has something to hide and who doesn't. Peace.

In theory it should also put to end the "rumour" that Iran and Syria want to wipe Israel off the map. They can find something else to complain about now. (although that's wishful thinking)

Answer 7

No country should have nuclear weapons.

And to pepper's disgusting comment--

I won't dignify your notion that Arabs are all filthy and can't be trusted with anger, but I must point out that Iranians are Persians, not Arabs. They have different art, food, philosophies (though any statement in regards to religion is a generalization), and languages, on top of simply being different ethnicities.

Answer 8

I think Boomerang is correct that this is a legal matter rather than a double standard.  Personally, I would like to see a world with a single standard that no nuclear weapons were allowed to exist.  I'm deeply saddened by the extremely slow rate at which the U.S. and former U.S.S.R. are disposing of nuclear weapons.  At the end of the cold war, I thought perhaps they would be gone in my lifetime rather than reading about new countries acquiring such horrific weapons.

Still, I do - completely off-topic - agree with others above that Israel seems to have a nuclear deterrent it has never used or threatened to use, while Iran seems inclined to at least threaten the use of such weapons in thinly-veiled language.  At which point any double-standard about what is fair begins to depend on one's bias toward or beliefs about the Arab-Israeli conflict.  You see my bias and I see yours; I presume we both hope such weapons are never used.

Answer 9

Primarily because it has positioned itself as a purportedly indispensable friend of the U.S. It does have a large arsenal - and on unstable ground - but if the U.S. blocks any push for inspections the UN can't do much of anything.

I want to correct two statements posted. First,Iran is not Arab. They are Persian and speak Farsi. The derogation of Arabs should be reported as racism,which is violation of our community guidelines.

Second,Palestine was known as Palestine for two thousand years and even the predecessor of the so-called "Israeli" government - the jewish Agency (1920-48) employed the term. It is idiotic to state there was never a land called Palestine.

Answer 10

multiple things going on here...

a) Israel never was a part of the nuclear non-proliferation treaty and is therefore not bound to it

b) Iran doesn't have to do anything...  we live with international anarchy, there is no governing body that oversees all countries.  The only ones enforcing the nuclear non-proliferation treaty on Iran is Iran...

Answer 11

The answer is clearly Boomerang . Israel never signed that treaty which allows any country to use nuclear means for peaceful reasons under the inspection of the World Atomic Energy .

I don't remember where i have seen a documentary about a book called "1948" . it is a book printed this year in Israel . in that book there is a long a discussion between Ben Guroin and one of his top aides . the assistant was asking Ben Guroin about what will happen if the Arabs wanted peace . Ben Guroin ridiculed the idea saying that the Arabs don't have the beliefs of the right of Israel in Palestine like in the west . and they don't have the guilt feelings the Europeans have for how they treated the Jews . so they will never seek peace with Israel , but if they did they are either very stupid or they are only buying time to destroy Israel when the time allows .

this idea Ben Guroin had is not far from the truth . and Israel was given nuclear capability to defend itself from a hostile enemy who is waiting anxiously to destroy the Jewish entity .

for me this shows how wrong was the decision to create Israel in Palestine.  jeopardizing the lives of millions of Jews who are living in Israel by being nuked . i don't wish this to happen , but i can see that this is where we are heading in the future .