Israel has nukes, has never signed the Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty, won’t allow IAEA to monitor them, and repeatedly ignores a 1981 UN SC resolution on the matter.
Iran, horrible theocracy as it is, has signed the NPT and has been actually engaging with the international community, even though it is being ratfucked on every turn. Basically, they had a deal with the West, that was guaranteeing it would not develop nuclear weapons, that Israel’s biggest ally, the USA, just unilaterally cancelled a few years ago.
Weirdly enough, the actually horrible repressive theocracy has been behaving as a rational actor. And it is absolutely fair to say that it’s “misbehaving” in the nuclear issue is …our fault. We had a deal. We had every chance to normalize. We tore up the deal. And now our ally, that is completely unaccountable, has broken every bit of international law and is an entirely bad faith actor in the region, is attacking them.
I’m not cheering for the Iranian government. I’m more terrified for the lives of the brave progressive Iranian youths who stand up to the mullas and are now being bombed. But, my brother in Lemmy, the Iranian regime are not the crazies here.
Israel has nukes, has never signed the Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty, won’t allow IAEA to monitor them, and repeatedly ignores a 1981 UN SC resolution on the matter.
Iran, horrible theocracy as it is, has signed the NPT and has been actually engaging with the international community, even though it is being ratfucked on every turn. Basically, they had a deal with the West, that was guaranteeing it would not develop nuclear weapons, that Israel’s biggest ally, the USA, just unilaterally cancelled a few years ago.
Weirdly enough, the actually horrible repressive theocracy has been behaving as a rational actor. And it is absolutely fair to say that it’s “misbehaving” in the nuclear issue is …our fault. We had a deal. We had every chance to normalize. We tore up the deal. And now our ally, that is completely unaccountable, has broken every bit of international law and is an entirely bad faith actor in the region, is attacking them.
I’m not cheering for the Iranian government. I’m more terrified for the lives of the brave progressive Iranian youths who stand up to the mullas and are now being bombed. But, my brother in Lemmy, the Iranian regime are not the crazies here.