{"id":40810,"date":"2026-03-29T03:58:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T03:58:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/40810\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T03:58:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T03:58:06","slug":"opinion-one-rule-for-israel-and-another-for-iran-risks-nuclear-disaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/40810\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion | One rule for Israel and another for Iran risks nuclear disaster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/israel?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Israel<\/a>\u2019s avowed goal in the Middle East war is to prevent <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/iran?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Iran<\/a> from acquiring nuclear weapons. Yet the double standard associated with this is hardly sustainable in the long run.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The worst-kept secret in the world of nuclear politics is that Israel possesses a formidable arsenal of nuclear weapons. It began developing these in the 1950s and reached a fully operational capability by the late 1960s.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Although Israel refuses to confirm or deny this fact, arms control organisations have assessed that the country has some 80 to 90 nuclear weapons.<\/p>\n<p>In recent days, Iran targeted Israel\u2019s nuclear facility <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/world\/middle-east\/article\/3347450\/iranian-missile-strikes-israeli-town-houses-nuclear-facility?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">in the southern town of Dimona<\/a>, injuring more than 100 people. The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) called for restraint to avoid a \u201cnuclear accident\u201d.<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"People inspect the site of an Iranian missile strike in Dimona, Israel, on Sunday. More than 100 people were injured in the attack. Photo: AFP\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/5764cb18-fa47-4701-b3fb-bc5b49e1682b_3fd928fe.jpg\" title=\"People inspect the site of an Iranian missile strike in Dimona, Israel, on Sunday. More than 100 people were injured in the attack. Photo: AFP\"\/>People inspect the site of an Iranian missile strike in Dimona, Israel, on Sunday. More than 100 people were injured in the attack. Photo: AFPShrouded in secrecy<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">There is much evidence to support the existence of Israel\u2019s arsenal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Israel\u2019s avowed goal in the Middle East war is to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons. Yet the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40811,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[17435,1648,10923,41,17434,262,14183,38,382,537,13058,34,37,389,17433],"class_list":{"0":"post-40810","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-israel","8":"tag-amichai-eliyahu","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-avigdor-lieberman","11":"tag-benjamin-netanyahu","12":"tag-canberra-commission","13":"tag-china","14":"tag-dimona","15":"tag-donald-trump","16":"tag-france","17":"tag-germany","18":"tag-iaea","19":"tag-iran","20":"tag-israel","21":"tag-japan","22":"tag-joint-comprehensive-plan-of-action"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116310461838645078","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40810\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}