Drishtikone
This is very interesting! US can prove and disprove ANYTHING!!! Its still vivid in the minds of most analyts when AQ Khan – the Father of Pakistan Nukes – ran away from Netherlands with the NATO Nuke designs and there was an Interpol alert all over! So, that was legitimate? Hmm… Iran got it all wrong!
The U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton said on Wednesday the way India and Pakistan had obtained nuclear arms was legitimate, in contrast to Iran which he accused of pursuing atomic weapons in violation of its international undertakings.
While Iran is seeking to conceal development of nuclear weapons under the guise of a legitimate program to generate nuclear power, Bolton said, India and Pakistan “did it legitimately.”
His comments, made in response to an audience question following a speech to a meeting of the World Jewish Congress, appeared to go farther than the administration of President George W. Bush has previously gone in embracing the two nations’ nuclear programs.
They also coincide with a visit by Bush to India in which the United States is offering New Delhi de facto recognition of its nuclear arms program. Bush is due to travel to Pakistan from India.
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