So argues Ephraim Asculai, noting that the Islamic Republic very well may have the design for a nuclear bomb already. Tehran, after all, signed the 1970 Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), and inspectors recently found out that it had been violating its terms for years. Yet rather than be punished, it is being rewarded:
Iran threatened the world that unless [investigations into its nuclear-weapons program were ended], it would withdraw from the deal. No one dares to call Iran’s bluff. . . . The main implication is that any state, even a member of the NPT, can probably develop nuclear weapons with impunity. It will not be punished in any way, especially if it is a threatening, terrorism-supporting state, with regional (or global) hegemonic ambitions. The United States, once considered the champion of non-proliferation, aided and abetted in this misdeed. . . .
The next victim of this shambles is the possibility of creating a zone free of weapons of mass destruction in the Middle East. . . . The shortsightedness in not daring to deal properly with Iran could be the undoing of the whole world order, rickety as it may have been until now.
Read more on Jerusalem Post: http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/The-death-knell-of-the-non-proliferation-regime-437810