http://www.baltimorechronicle.com/2007/031007RUIJTER.shtml
.höchst interessanter Artikel des Baltimore Chronicle über die Vorgeschichte der Atomforschung und der Sanktionen gegen Iran und die eigentlichen Gründe:nämlich die Kontrolle über das Öl und über den Dollar als Währung dafür.....On June 16, 2003 the International Atomic Energy Agency announced that Iran had not reported an importation of uranium in 1991, and its subsequent stocking and processing. That is true. But from a confidential IAEA document of June 6, 2003 we learn, the stockpile contained just 130 grams of uranium.[8] According to article 37 of the official agreement between the IAEA and Iran, in force since May 15, 1974, nuclear materials containing less than 1 kilo of uranium are exempted from the IAEA safeguards.[9] The IAEA accusations, however, made the world believe that Iran had violated the rules.
Similar disputes are about the Additional Protocol. During the embargo against Iraq, when proof had to be found of weapons of mass destruction and Saddam was not willing to grant more rights to the UN inspectors, the IAEA developed additional rules to make controls easier. The new rules also made it easier to discriminate among members: excessive rules for one country, friendly rules for others.
In June 2003, only 33 of the 188 members of the Non-Proliferation Treaty had agreed to sign the Additional Protocol. Nevertheless, the U.S. and a delegation of the European Union formed by France, Germany and the United Kingdom wanted to force Iran to sign. In exchange, the three European countries (E3) promised to come up with interesting commercial deals. Iran was willing to hear what they had to offer. This is not so surprising; 30 percent of Iran’s oil goes to Europe, and 40 percent of its imports come from Europe. In the Spring of 2003, Iran had even switched its oil sales from dollars to euros, which is good for Europe and bad for the U.S., since it weakens the dollar.
During the talks about new commercial deals with the Europeans, Iran voluntarily agreed to suspend its research program for uranium enrichment and to grant additional rights to the IAEA for extended checking of their nuclear facilities. However, after repeated Iranian requests, it became clear to the Iranians that the E3 countries had no intention of following through on the incentives they had promised. They just wanted to keep the talks going on indefinitely, meanwhile preventing Iran from enriching uranium. So Iran resumed the program it had voluntarily suspended and re-established the contractual conditions for the IAEA controls. This resulted in the attempt by the U.S. and E3 to have the UN Security Council condemn Iran.
U.S. agenda: The oil, the dollar and the foreign debt...
If the so-called proofs against Iran appear to be fabricated, what is the real issue? I think the general idea is clear to all. With its excessive energy consumption, the U.S. thinks it is necessary to have pro-U.S. governments in Iraq, Iran and, for the UNOCAL pipeline project, also in Afghanistan. During the Cold War, Saddam Hussein in Iraq and Shah Reza in Iran were useful U.S. allies, but those days are over. Thanks to Bush, we now have wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Iran is located in between. Considering the reputation the U.S. has built up in Iran, a spontaneous uprising of a pro-U.S. government is not likely to happen soon.
Another thing that explains Bush's aggressive stance against Iran is its part in the weakening of the dollar. A new Iranian oil bourse, if successful, may even trip up the hegemony of the U.S.[10]At a glance, this is how it works. The world’s oil and gas is traded in U.S. dollars. Since 1971, the U.S. has enjoyed the advantage of being the petrodollar supplier to the world. Supplying dollars to foreign countries means the U.S. can print money and purchase goods, services and investments with it. Since the foreigners need these dollars to buy oil, and keep them also in use in the international trade outside the U.S., the U.S. has never had to deliver anything in return. Merely supplying money means free shopping. This is how U.S. foreign debt grew to $3,200,000,000,000 today. If at some point the world starts selling the trillions of dollars the other nations currently hold, the exchange markets would be flooded with dollars, and, as a result, the value of the dollar would drop to next to nothing. It would trigger a financial crisis, but if the dollar becomes worth next to nothing, it means the foreign debt would vanish. So it is very advantageous to deliver currencies that are permanently needed and wanted abroad. And that is the case as long as the world needs dollars to buy oil and gas.But with today’s skyrocketing debt, the dollar has become vulnerable. When Saddam Hussein switched to the euro on November 6, 2000[11, 12], the exchange markets were temporarily flooded with dollars. With Iran considering a similar switch since 1999 and maybe more OPEC countries to follow[13], speculations and decreasing trust had set in motion a long descent of the dollar[13a], which could lead to its collapse......
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