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Tue, 07/06/2010 - 14:03
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Pakistani daily questions West’s policy to patronize Israel vs Iran
Islamabad, July 6, IRNA -- A largely-circulated Pakistani daily wrote Monday that Western powers have always patronized Israel’s but regrettably are always monitoring Iran’s peaceful nuclear program.
“The truth is, while western powers follow Iran’s nuclear program with a microscope, patronzing Israel, the Middle East’s only nuclear power, continues to be the basic principle of their policy,” the daily Dawn said.
“This has robbed western diplomacy of a moral basis for going tough on Iran,” the paper said in its editorial “Sanctions on Iran”.
Dawn opposed sanctions on Iran, saying that it is highly unlikely that adding American sanctions to those imposed by the UN Security Council last month will make Iran change course.
On Thursday, President Barack Obama signed into law sanctions that stop the export of petroleum products to Iran and prevent American banks from doing business with financial institutions that provide services to the Iranian Revolutionary Guards.
The American law, which comes within a month of the fourth set of sanctions passed by the UN, is to be followed by the bans which the European Union is set to impose in late July.
“In any case, Iran has been under sanctions for three decades, and that has in no way made any of the revolutionary governments relent on the nuclear issue or on Tehran’s over-all foreign policy posture,” the paper said.
Supporting negotiations to resolve Iran’s nuclear issue, the paper said that dialogue is only the proper way for addressing western fears about Iran’s intentions, which have remained suspended since October.
Dawn has meanwhile praised Iran for not giving up the path of negotiations and said, “it is significant that Tehran has not in principle given up the idea of negotiations with western powers and insists that more parties should be part of the negotiating process”.
The daily referred to opposition to the UN sanctions by Brazil and Turkey and said vote against the UN resolution helped it clinch an agreement that shows how things can work out peacefully on such an emotive issue as its nuclear program.
The paper has regretted that the US-led bloc has not helped matters by failing to realize the reasons behind Iran’s hardline approach./end
“The truth is, while western powers follow Iran’s nuclear program with a microscope, patronzing Israel, the Middle East’s only nuclear power, continues to be the basic principle of their policy,” the daily Dawn said.
“This has robbed western diplomacy of a moral basis for going tough on Iran,” the paper said in its editorial “Sanctions on Iran”.
Dawn opposed sanctions on Iran, saying that it is highly unlikely that adding American sanctions to those imposed by the UN Security Council last month will make Iran change course.
On Thursday, President Barack Obama signed into law sanctions that stop the export of petroleum products to Iran and prevent American banks from doing business with financial institutions that provide services to the Iranian Revolutionary Guards.
The American law, which comes within a month of the fourth set of sanctions passed by the UN, is to be followed by the bans which the European Union is set to impose in late July.
“In any case, Iran has been under sanctions for three decades, and that has in no way made any of the revolutionary governments relent on the nuclear issue or on Tehran’s over-all foreign policy posture,” the paper said.
Supporting negotiations to resolve Iran’s nuclear issue, the paper said that dialogue is only the proper way for addressing western fears about Iran’s intentions, which have remained suspended since October.
Dawn has meanwhile praised Iran for not giving up the path of negotiations and said, “it is significant that Tehran has not in principle given up the idea of negotiations with western powers and insists that more parties should be part of the negotiating process”.
The daily referred to opposition to the UN sanctions by Brazil and Turkey and said vote against the UN resolution helped it clinch an agreement that shows how things can work out peacefully on such an emotive issue as its nuclear program.
The paper has regretted that the US-led bloc has not helped matters by failing to realize the reasons behind Iran’s hardline approach./end
