Has it become certain that there is no trust in international organizations "the International Atomic Energy Agency as an example"?
Afrasianet - In the latest international statement on the nuclear watchdog, North Korea said the International Atomic Energy Agency's support for Japan's plan to drain water from the devastated Fukushima nuclear power plant was "unfair" and showed "severely double standards."
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has approved Japan's plan to drain water into the ocean after treating it from radiation from the Fukushima plant, which was destroyed by the tsunami.
The agency said Japan's plans were in line with global safety standards and would have "minimal radioactive impact on people and the environment."
Japanese fishing unions have opposed the plan, saying it would ruin a reputational repair effort after some countries banned Japanese food products after the 2011 disaster.
Japan says the water has been purified and most radioactive elements have been removed, with the exception of tritium, an isotope of hydrogen that is difficult to separate from water. The treated water will be diluted to levels well below internationally approved tritium levels before being discharged into the Pacific Ocean.
China said Japan's comparison between tritium levels in treated and wastewater was "completely confusing to perceptions and misleading public opinion."
China's Foreign Ministry said in a statement: "If the Japanese side insists on going its own way, it must bear all the consequences."
Double standards
Adnan Mansour, former Lebanese Foreign Minister, said that since Iran began a peaceful nuclear program, the eyes of Western countries, led by the United States, France, Britain and Germany, especially Israel, have been following the Iranian nuclear program with great care and concern.
This concern and concern were absent from the scene when Western countries were providing without limits, everything that achieves Israel's desire and ambition to establish a nuclear reactor, through the scientific and technological assistance and assistance it obtained in the fifties.
And the sixties of the last century to become a nuclear state, possessing an arsenal of weapons of mass destruction. All this was achieved thanks to the Western countries, which preferred to remain silent and still ignore Israel's nuclear arsenal, so that Israel would later become the sixth country in the world to possess this weapon, and the first in the Middle East.
In the absence of IAEA inspection, which Israel categorically rejects, and its ambiguity about its nuclear arsenal.
The West's handling of the Iranian nuclear file is completely different from its dealings with Israel, which has left it without objectivity, credibility and integrity.
What peace and security do the United States and the West want for the Middle East? Is there any leader in the West, no matter how high, who dares to demand that Israel's nuclear program be inspected by IAEA experts and that the objectives of the programme be verified and the level it has reached? Does he dare to accuse it, or demand sanctions to prevent it from subjecting its nuclear reactor to IAEA monitoring, as it does with Iran? It is the West, which is always biased, discredited, has double standards, sees only with one eye, this is how it is, and this is how it will remain.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi hinted that Tehran may reject any request from IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi to visit Iran's nuclear sites.
Araqchi also denounced what he described as Grossi's "malicious intentions", with the latter repeatedly requesting inspection of nuclear sites targeted by Israeli and US strikes.
In a post on the X platform, Araqchi wrote: "Grossi's insistence on visiting the sites that were bombed under the pretext that they are within the framework of the safeguards agreement is meaningless and may even involve malice in faith."
"Iran reserves the right to take any steps to defend its interests, people and sovereignty," he said.
The IAEA said in a statement earlier that Grossi "stressed the need for IAEA inspectors to continue inspection activities in Iran in accordance with the comprehensive safeguards agreement with the agency."
Iran's parliament approved a bill to suspend cooperation with the IAEA, a move that followed the recent war with Israel, which said it wanted to prevent Tehran from developing a nuclear weapon, which entailed US forces bombing three Iranian nuclear sites.
Since the start of the war, Iranian authorities have sharply criticized the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) for not condemning Israeli and U.S. attacks on Iranian nuclear sites.
The Iranian Foreign Ministry also condemned the adoption by the United Nations agency on June 12 of a resolution accusing Iran of not respecting its nuclear commitments, which Tehran considered a "pretext" for the United States and Israel to launch attacks against it.
Grossi: We don't know where Iran's highly enriched uranium is
IAEA chief Rafael Grossi said that after Washington's strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities, "part of the enriched uranium could have been destroyed, but part of it may have been transported."
In remarks to CBS News, Grossi noted that "nearly a week after the US strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities, there is no information on the location of about 900 pounds of highly enriched uranium that Iran claims was removed before the attack."
"We don't know where Iran's enriched uranium could be now."
Iran "had a vast and ambitious nuclear program that may still exist," he said, noting that Iran is an advanced country in nuclear technology and this cannot be erased with or without military operations.
"Iran's nuclear file will not be resolved definitively by military action and we will have to reach an agreement," he said.
In the context, Prince Turki Al-Faisal says: In a just world, we have witnessed an American bombing of the Israeli Dimona instead of Iran.
Former Saudi intelligence chief Prince Turki al-Faisal said, "If we were in a just world, we would see U.S. B-2 bombers raining down on Israel's nuclear Dimona and other sites instead of Iran."
The former Saudi intelligence chief added in an article published on the Emirati website "The National" that "Israel ultimately possesses nuclear bombs, contrary to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons."
"Moreover, Israel did not accede to that treaty and remained outside the jurisdiction of the International Atomic Energy Agency and no one inspected Israeli nuclear facilities."
Prince Turki al-Faisal said that "those who justify the unilateral Israeli attack on Iran by referring to the statements of Iranian leaders calling for the demise of Israel, ignore the statements of Benjamin Netanyahu since he became prime minister in 1996, calling for the destruction of the Iranian government," explaining that Iran's threats brought them destruction.
The former Saudi intelligence chief said, "The West is expected to show hypocritical support for Israel's attack on Iran. After all, their support for the Israeli attack on Palestine continues, although some countries have recently declined their support."
He noted that the West's punishment of Russia for its own military operation in Ukraine stands in stark contrast to what Israel is allowed.
He stressed that the rules-based international order, long promoted and proclaimed by the West, is in disarray.
The former Saudi intelligence chief added: "We in the Arab world are not immune to this, and our principled position on these conflicts is a shining example of what states, leaders and nations must do."
Fortunately, especially with regard to the struggle of the Palestinian people for independence from the Israeli occupation, a large number of ordinary people in the West have rejected the false positions of their leaders and people of all faiths, colors and ages continue to show their support for the independence of Palestine, hence the increasing shift in the positions of their leaders, and this is a welcome development.
The former Saudi official says: "US President Donald Trump gave the green light to his country's military to bomb three nuclear sites in Iran, and after doing so he believed Netanyahu's temptations and falsification of successes in his ongoing illegal attack on Iran."
When then-President Barack Obama's Washington, led by then-President Barack Obama, invaded Iraq and Afghanistan more than two decades ago, Trump opposed those attacks, recalling that U.S. attacks on those two countries had undesirable consequences, and an attack on Iran would have undesirable consequences as well.
"Unlike other Western leaders, Mr. Trump should not follow double standards and should listen to his friends in Saudi Arabia and the GCC.
"However, I can't do anything about double standards, Netanyahu's genocide, fraternal conflicts between Palestinian leaders, the cowardice of Europe, Trump's promise to bring peace to the Middle East in light of his war with Iran, his congratulations to Iran on signing the ceasefire, or his excessive flattery of Netanyahu."
"What I will do is follow the example of my late father, King Faisal, when then-President Harry Truman reneged on the promises of his predecessor Franklin D. Roosevelt and contributed to the creation of Israel. My father refrained from visiting the United States until Truman left office. I will refrain from visiting the United States until Trump leaves office."