Blix Nixes Iran Regime Change

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UNITED NATIONS, June 1: The former chief UN weapons inspector in Iraq, Hans Blix, warned on Thursday against any military attempt at ‘regime change’ to resolve the nuclear crises surrounding Iran and North Korea.

Both countries figured prominently in a report from the Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission that Mr Blix presented to UN Secretary General Kofi Annan.

The 14-member international commission — set up by Sweden in 2003 to probe ways of reducing the dangers from nuclear, biological and chemical weapons — argued that any negotiations with Iran and North Korea had to consider their security concerns.

“In such states, incentives to acquire nuclear weapons may be reduced by offers of normal relations and assurances that military intervention or subversion aimed at regime change will not be undertaken,” the report said.

article: http://www.dawn.com/2006/06/02/int6.htm


my 2 cents -- Dealing with the U.S. Devil (6-01-2006)

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1. *whistling while I work*

Hans Blix knows the Bush regime will try to use his nuclear weapons report against Iran, so, he's included an admonition in the report about using non-proliferation efforts as pretext for regime change, and more . . .

from the report:

“In such states, incentives to acquire nuclear weapons may be reduced by offers of normal relations and assurances that military intervention or subversion aimed at regime change will not be undertaken.”

Nothing there which will stop the Bush regime, but it's another international entity headed by an authorative figure that rejects Bush's false mandate to conquer in their name.

It clearly rejects Bush's militarism in Iraq:

"To intervene against states is not quite the same as intervening against individuals. The present intervention by armed force in Iraq is extremely costly in terms of human lives,suffering and the destruction of economic resources."

The report also prods the Bush regime to 'take the lead' in nuclear non-proliferation, an obvious allusion to their plans for new nukes with new justifications for their use:

"All states possessing nuclear weapons must address the issue of their continued possession of such weapons.All nuclear-weapon states parties to the Non-Proliferation Treaty must take steps towards nuclear disarmament ,as required by the treaty and the commitments made in connection with the treaty ’s inde finite extension. Russia and the United States should take the lead."

"In both these areas, the US has the decisive leverage," Blix said of the report. "If it takes the lead, the world is likely to follow. If it does not take the lead, there could be more nuclear tests and new nuclear arms races."

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2. I saw Hans Blix interviewed on BBC America(PBS) Thursday.

He is a rational man armed with the truth. During the interview he stated that Iran had suspended its enrichment program in the past while they conducted negotiations with the EU. People (other than DUers) need to be made aware of that fact.

I just hope more people see the foolishness of attempting regime change in Iran under the guise of combatting proliferation.

I couldn't let this slide off the page! :)