Why Security Council imposes sanctions on Iran for peaceful activities, but not on Israel for nuclear weapons?

Question

Both these countries are in the Middle East, a vulnerable region. Iran's nuclear program is peaceful but Israel's is not.
Zionists occupied a country. They are killing innocence people for years. They invade their neighbors. They have the slaughter of women and children in their history.
But Iran does not have any bad history.
Assume Iran's nuclear activities are not peaceful. Why they impose sanctions on Iran but not on Israel which is a criminal regime?????

get your head out of the sand and see israel's crimes.

Answer 1

Just about every claim of yours here is either inaccurate, false or a lie.

Nobody has slaughtered any women or children. Quite the contrary, innocent Israelis are daily targets for the Muslim terrorists, who fired over 60 Qassam missiles at Israel while Israel continues to observe a one-sided cease fire.

Iran is a terrorist state that has proclaimed that it wishes to destroy Israel. Nuclear weapons would give them the opportunity to do so, heaven forfend.

If Israel does indeed have a nuclear capability, it will use it only as a last resort, after a first strike by some other power.

Iran is the biggest threat to the West today, and their military capability must be curbed by the West.

In addition, individual terrorists must be eliminated--if necessary by engaging them and killing them.

There can be no rational argument against this two-pronged approach.

Answer 2

Sind, time and time again I read postings on this site that are only trying to make a political statement and not ask a question. That is all right with me because I don’t come here to try and show everyone how smart I am but I do come here to see what other rational minds think. Just as it is not very interesting for an adult to hold a conversation with a small child, at least for the adult, it is just as boring reading rhetoric from somebody that either has no valid point to make at all or is trying to throw slam bombs against a group of people just because of hate.

I am a Christian and there is no real love loss for Israel in my heart. That said I believe that I can make a couple of good points against your argument (?).

Iran does not and probably will not have a stable government for years to come. Iran’s governing body is Theocratic and being such is prone to attacking other people at will without any true regard to the consequences. I can’t make you believe this is you don’t already. Iran, as does all Islamic majority countries, does have a history of aggression and the thought of them (you) having nuclear capability actually makes me shudder. I’m certainly not that pleased that India has progressed to that point and blame many of the industrialized nations, including my country (US) for that but at least they have a stable form of government.

Past performance should dictate present policy. Having nuclear weapons for defensive purposes is bad enough but having them for aggressive purposes, as Iran wishes, is unconscionable. Iran’s government has pledged the annihilation of Israel and all of the Jews around the world. This is probably not an indication of peaceful intent. The nation of Israel, not the country but the people existed for almost 3000 years before the invention of Islam in 7th century ACE. They have been murdered, chased, hounded, persecuted for literally thousands of years. The small dot of land that the nation of Israel now occupies has no real importance to the Arabic world except that the Theocratic leaders of Islam cannot abide other religions, especially ones that stand up to them, and have sworn to kill all infidels. Yet another reason to make sure that not only Iran but also the other Islamic countries never have nuclear capability. This is not persecution of your religion; rather it is preservation of the rest of the peoples of the world.

In the United States if you are convicted of a felonious assault you are not legally allowed to ever posses a firearm. Remember what I said about past performance dictating present policy. Iran, as well as the rest of the Middle East have committed numerous felonious assaults against many nations and have stated their intent to continue to do so. As abhorrent as the thought is, I would rather seen Iran turned into a sheet of glass that have that terror loosed upon the world.

Answer 3

Just because they don't self proclaim they have nuclear weapons doesn't mean that they don't, and popular opinion leads us to think that they do, being in such a hostile part of the world. Second of all, Iran is a danger to the US, a self-proclaimed enemy of the US, and a country with a leader that denies the holocaust. They put sanctions on Iran because they can't be trusted with nuclear to weapons-to not use them when the situation doesn't call for them. Iran is known for having a government that practices a very conservative form of Islam...so conservative that it is probably the next step down from fundamentalism which is what leads to terrorism in this world...this is why the UN placed sanctions on Iran...not to say that what Israel does to people is right either

Answer 4

Israel has had nuclear weapons for decades. Iran is an untrustworthy country already calling for the destruction of Israel. Russia is already building a nuclear reactor for Iran, there is no need for them to develop their own program unless they plan on making weapons.

Israel has been attacked numerous times by their Arab neighbors, and they retaliate for those attacks. As well they should.

Blame the British, they gave Israel the land.

Answer 5

At the end of World War II, the British and the United States teamed up with the great idea of sending all of the European Jews to Israel. Israel had not existed for almost 2000 years, because the Jews had been thrown out by the Romans.

This idea of moving them back to their long lost homeland was promoted by one Baron Rothschild, a Jewish Banker. He funded much of the venture. He was in support of Zionism. The Jews were social outcasts over all of Europe, and after the War no country wanted them. Some were able to emigrate to the US. The rest were put on boats and taken to Palestine, hence...the "Exodus."

None of this was based upon fairness.

Great Britain and France had already divided up the Persian Empire, and they had control of Palestine. The Palestinians were of no importance to these imperialist European powers because there is not much oil there.

The Jews seem to have a knack for taking control of the monetary forces that be, i.e. the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund,etc. Jews help Jews. Israel wanted the Bomb. Oppenheimer (A German Jew) invented it and, guess what? They got it.

Answer 6

Simple... the Iranian leaders are Idiots... have repeatedly promised to exterminate the Jews and wipe Israel off the face of the Earth. They support terrorism and are supplying the "insurgents" in Iraq with weapons and explosives. They are the force, money, and logistics behind Hamass.
Israel on the other hand has threatened no one. And, in fact, has bent over backward to accommodate the Palestinian people. The reward for this tolerance has been continued rocket attacks and the murder bombing of innocent women and children.
I can safely assume that you are a chief propagandist for the Islamic Jahidist of the world. You are an enemy...

Answer 7

Many nations and kingdoms throughout the history of Israel have tried to destroy it. Israel has a right to defend itself. Iran's rhetoric and statements of its president such as "Israel should be taken off the map" are only proving the point that Israel should be prepared to defend itself...

Answer 8

It's the exercise of Double Standards, a vice that has become the disease of the century.

The biggest irony of all? : the one country that demands others stop their nuclear weapons programs is the US of A, the current owner of some 13,000 nuclear warheads.

Does that make ANY sense?

numbers 2 and 3 on the list of powers with the most nuclear weapons are:

Russia - with some 3,000 weapons, and
Israel - with about 200 weapons

The Security Council has turned out to be more screwed up than the UN itself. Doesn't their latest decision seem all too familiar? what a perfect setup for another Iraq-like invasion of the second largest power in the Middle East, just smack them with a 10 year sanction and slowly suck them dry.. how diplomatic.
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some points to argue with the post above:

Copmared to the rest of the Middle East, Iran has proven to be the most politically mature nation of the countries with current Islamic governments. THey're the first to allow women to vote and to hold seats in parliament. The fact that their revolution changed a secular government into a theocratic one does not make it unstable. Of course there's no denying that despite this maturity they have a ways to go to reach real democratic status, but nonetheless, that democracy does not necessarily have to mirror what the West accepts as democratic.
As for the current president spouting hate-filled threats, it's mostly wind, an exercise that many in this region practice, a phony show of muscles.
Iran's pursuit of nuclear technology may well be an ambition on its part to compete in the global arena of modern advancement.
To put it simply: hey other third and second world countries are doing it, why can't we?
As far as being a threat to Isreal, that little-big nation has been threatened the day it was formed. It's nothing new. More importantly, this equation works the other way round as well. The nation of Israel has been a threat to its neighbors the day it was formed, and that's no secret. Its history of leaders have made that quite clear.
Israel's aggressions should not be overlooked either. and as long as we're talking about aggressions, what about America's history of aggression?.. past performance.. what about Hiroshima? the US has been the Only country to have dared try that kind of attack.. shouldn't the rest of the world take that single catastrophic past performance as dictation of present diplomatic policy? according to your reasoning using the example of felonious assault and the possession of firearms the US should not have been allowed to own ANY nuclear weapons from that day on...the American nation has countless examples of aggression from recent history going back to the days of colonization. It's rather biased and unfair to bring to light the aggressions of one nation while ignoring the crimes (past and ongoing) of other world powers.
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Felt like playing the Devil's Advocate here. It can be refreshing at times since I don't like to see one sided discussions. It's healthy to see both sides of the coin on any issue. I am in no way a fan of the current Iranian president or his recent actions. His behavior of late, although just a rehash of rantings of previous Iranian leaders, is childish and immature and certainly does Not reflect the characteristics of the Iranian people. He has been a disappointment to many of them and I hope they have learned from their mistake of electing him. But that said, I still think any developing nation has the right to pursue scientific and military advancement if they wish. Perhaps it's the fact that other countries stick their noses into their business that makes them that much more rebellious. However, in the end, we're all better off if Zero countries had nuclear weapons in their possession.

Answer 9

at the start you cant assure that the nuclear events are peacefull. whether they're non violent, they're the 1st step in the direction of a militia use. so in case you have the desire to determine that iran would not make weapons, the main suitable part of do is to stop them now. then the respond to your next question is that for the period of international politics capability concerns lots greater desirable than logic and justice. in basic terms speaking the powerful people choose for his or her capability and impression intact. in case you dig into historic past you could continuously discover undesirable issues. think of with reference to the atrocities committed via the persian empire. at that factor iranians have been the main capability complete and that they made the regulation.

Answer 10

Israel invokes the right to defend itself and it is not an aggressive nation other than when it is attacked. They do like the United States, initial pre-emtive strikes on terror based threats and also decisive retalitory strikes when provoked.

Iran clearly states that their goal is to irradicate all western influence and cannot be trusted.

As for Israel being a problem it was created by the UN. Israel has a right to defend itself.