Why is Iran being singled out while others escape scrutiny: Erase nuclear apartheid

“The world cannot preach non-proliferation while practising selective permission. That is not law – it is hierarchy.” The global discourse on nuclear weapons has drifted far from its stated goal of disarmament. What remains today is not a principled framework for peace, but a deeply unequal system of control – one that determines who may possess the most destructive weapons ever created, and who must remain permanently under suspicion. At the centre of this unequal order stands Iran: scrutinized, sanctioned, and threatened, not for what it has done, but for what it might one day choose to do. This is not non-proliferation. This is nuclear apartheid. The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, which entered into force in 1970, was premised on a […]