Iran: France’s Nuclear ICBM Test Violating NPT

[Philosopher]

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran voiced concern over France’s recent test-firing of an intercontinental nuclear-capable ballistic missile, and said that the move is in clear violation of the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and incompatible with Paris’s obligations vis-à-vis nuclear disarmament.
Iran expresses its concern over the move and believes that the French government must not ignore its international commitments stressed in Article 6 of the NPT and the NPT Review Conferences, Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Seyed Abbas Mousavi said on Saturday.

He added that France must fully live up to its international obligations regarding nuclear disarmament.

On June 12, French Ministry of Armed Forces announced the launch of an M51 submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) from Le Téméraire, a Triomphant-class nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine.

“The nuclear-powered Le Téméraire successfully fired an M51 strategic ballistic missile off Finistère,” Defense Minister Florence Parly said in a Twitter post.

In relevant remarks in December 2019, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif lashed out at US and the European trio of the UK, France, and Germany for following a duplicitous foreign policy and turning deaf ear to Israeli nuclear arsenal, as the only owner of such weapons in the region, and at the same time pressing Tehran for its conventional defensive missiles.

"Israel today tested a nuke-missile, aimed at Iran," Zarif tweeted on December 6, 2019.

“E3 [UK, France, and Germany] and US never complain about the only nuclear arsenal in West Asia – armed with missiles actually DESIGNED to be capable of carrying nukes,” he tweeted in reference to Tel Aviv which is the only nuclear armed country of the Middle East.

Nevertheless, these four states have “fits of apoplexy over our conventional and defensive ones,” Zarif added.

https://en.farsnews.ir/newstext.aspx?nn=13990401000328

 

[Pakistani Fighter]

@Vergennes

 

[Muhammed45]

Not only that but these Fenchies have made Space a military Zone. First step must be kicking them out of UN Security Council.

 

[Philosopher]

This is the nature of the world. The nations that can get away with perusing their interest, will do so regardless of any "treaty". These restrictions are in a great part just tools used to try and contain nations that are otherwise unable to do anything about it due to fear of sanctions, war and so on. The fact that the 5 permanent members of the UNSC are all nuclear powers and yet they make demands of other nations regarding their nuclear program should highlight this "law of jungle" system clearly enough.

 

[Aramagedon]

France/Afrique : 14 African Countries Forced by France to Pay Colonial Tax For the Benefits of Slavery and Colonization

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By Mawuna Remarque KOUTONIN*




Did you know many African countries continue to pay colonial tax to France since their independence till today!

When Sékou Touré of Guinea decided in 1958 to get out of french colonial empire, and opted for the country independence, the french colonial elite in Paris got so furious, and in a historic act of fury the french administration in Guinea destroyed everything in the country which represented what they called the benefits from french colonization.

Three thousand French left the country, taking all their property and destroying anything that which could not be moved: schools, nurseries, public administration buildings were crumbled; cars, books, medicine, research institute instruments, tractors were crushed and sabotaged; horses, cows in the farms were killed, and food in warehouses were burned or poisoned.

The purpose of this outrageous act was to send a clear message to all other colonies that the consequences for rejecting France would be very high.

Slowly fear spread trough the african elite, and none after the Guinea events ever found the courage to follow the example of Sékou Touré, whose slogan was “We prefer freedom in poverty to opulence in slavery.”

Sylvanus Olympio, the first president of the Republic of Togo, a tiny country in west Africa, found a middle ground solution with the French.He didn’t want his country to continue to be a french dominion, therefore he refused to sign the colonisation continuation pact De Gaule proposed, but agree to pay an annual debt to France for the so called benefits Togo got from french colonization.It was the only conditions for the French not to destroy the country before leaving. However, the amount estimated by France was so big that the reimbursement of the so called “colonial debt” was close to 40% of the country budget in 1963.

The financial situation of the newly independent Togo was very unstable, so in order to get out the situation, Olympio decided to get out the french colonial money FCFA (the franc for french african colonies), and issue the county own currency.

On January 13, 1963, three days after he started printing his country own currency, a squad of illiterate soldiers backed by France killed the first elected president of newly independent Africa. Olympio was killed by an ex French Foreign Legionnaire army sergeant called Etienne Gnassingbe who supposedly received a bounty of $612 from the local French embassy for the hit man job.

Olympio’s dream was to build an independent and self-sufficient and self-reliant country. But the French didn’t like the idea.

On June 30, 1962, Modiba Keita , the first president of the Republic of Mali, decided to withdraw from the french colonial currency FCFA which was imposed on 12 newly independent African countries. For the Malian president, who was leaning more to a socialist economy, it was clear that colonisation continuation pact with France was a trap, a burden for the country development.

On November 19, 1968, like, Olympio, Keita will be the victim of a coup carried out by another ex French Foreign legionnaire, the Lieutenant Moussa Traoré.

In fact during that turbulent period of African fighting to liberate themselves from European colonization, France would repeatedly use many ex Foreign legionnaires to carry out coups against elected presidents:

• - On January 1st, 1966, Jean-Bédel Bokassa, an ex french foreign legionnaire, carried a coup against David Dacko, the first President of the Central African Republic.
• - On January 3, 1966, Maurice Yaméogo, the first President of the Republic of Upper Volta, now called Burkina Faso, was victim of a coup carried by Aboubacar Sangoulé Lamizana, an ex French legionnaire who fought with french troops in Indonesia and Algeria against these countries independence.
• - on 26 October 1972, Mathieu Kérékou who was a security guard to President Hubert Maga, the first President of the Republic of Benin, carried a coup against the president, after he attended French military schools from 1968 to 1970.

In fact, during the last 50 years, a total of 67 coups happened in 26 countries in Africa, 16 of those countries are french ex-colonies, which means 61% of the coups happened in Francophone Africa.

Number of Coups in Africa by country

Ex French colonies Other African countries Country Number of coup Country number of coup Togo 1 Egypte 1 Tunisia 1 Libye 1 Cote d’Ivoire 1 Equatorial Guinea 1 Madagascar 1 Guinea Bissau 2 Rwanda 1 Liberia 2 Algeria 2 Nigeria 3 Congo – RDC 2 Ethiopia 3 Mali 2 Ouganda 4 Guinea Conakry 2 Soudan 5 SUB-TOTAL 1 13

Congo 3

Tchad 3

Burundi 4

Central Africa 4

Niger 4

Mauritania 4

Burkina Faso 5

Comores 5

SUB-TOTAL 2 32

TOTAL (1 + 2) 45 TOTAL 22[/QUOTE]

 

[NightKing]

14 African Countries Forced by France to Pay Colonial Tax For the Benefits of Slavery and Colonization

so basically they still are slaves. and will always be....