Activist: US, Israel ‘bullies’ that need nuclear weapons to ‘kill others’

The United States and Israel will reject the vote on the Iranian-proposed resolution on nuclear disarmament as they are “bullies” and “killers” that need such lethal weapons to perpetuate their atrocities and “kill others,” an American political activist says.

Paul Larudee, with the Free Palestine Movement from Berkeley, made the remarks in a Saturday edition of Press TV’s News Review program while commenting on a resolution proposed by the Islamic Republic on the nuclear disarmament and destruction of nuclear weapons.

The UN General Assembly First Committee approved Iran’s draft resolution last week and the Assembly is expected to vote for its final adoption in about a month.

“From a moral point of view, Iran is making a statement of conscience; it is reminding what is right and what is wrong. It is pointing out what is justice and what is injustice. That’s the point of the statement,” Larudee told Press TV.

“Large nuclear powers will all vote against it; the point is that those who have the power to destroy other nations want to keep that power and want to keep that power out of the hands of other nations,” he added.

“Its other point is to say that countries like Israel and the United States are bullies and furthermore they are killers and murderers as well because they need these weapons in order to give them the permission to kill others.”

The American political activist called nuclear weapons in today’s world a “deterrent” while censuring the issue as a “very sad situation” since a nuclear-free world would be better.

“The unfortunate fact is that nations that don’t have nuclear weapons, let’s take Syria for example, it doesn’t have nuclear weapons and the United States and Turkey and Israel can just walk in there and occupy the Syrian territory. If Syria had nuclear weapons, they would not be able to do that and that’s what North Korea has done,” Larudee said.

“We are in an unfortunate situation where the nations that have nuclear weapons have a meaningful deterrent whereas those who don’t, don’t have that deterrent. This is a very sad situation because everyone knows that it would be better if no nations had nuclear weapons. It would be better for the world, the human race if that were the case and that’s essentially what Iran is saying,” he underlined.

Iran-proposed nuclear disarmament resolution is a test for positions and claims of UN member states

Iran says its proposed resolution on nuclear disarmament serves as a benchmark for measuring the actions of UN members against their claims.

Lawrence Davidson, a former lecturer at West Chester University, was the other panelist invited to the Saturday edition of Press TV’s News Review program.

Davidson said it is possible that the resolution will be adopted by the UN, but added that the US will dismiss the resolution, repeating such baseless claims as Iran is trying to get nuclear weapons and at the same time trying to promote non-proliferation.

“The US would try to change the subject and redirect the target of the effort to expose their own hypocrisy,” Davidson said, adding that Israel will in so many ways stand as an “obstacle” to the adoption of the resolution.

“It is important that this particular issue be kept in the sight of the public, but the problem is that the media for all intents and purposes is censoring these in the United States and much of the Europe,” Davidson stressed.

The Israeli regime, which has refused to allow inspections of its nuclear facilities or sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, pursues a policy of deliberate ambiguity about its nuclear weapons and is estimated to have 200 to 400 nuclear warheads in its arsenal.

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