US supports ‘peaceful’ pursuit of N-technology by Arab states

Maybe these idiots support nuclear development by Arab states, but I sure don't. What is Ambassador Greg Schulte smoking? I know, he's a diplomat, that means he's from the State Department, so it's all right. Another sellout by State.
FROM GULF-TIMES.COM:

US supports ‘peaceful’ pursuit of N-technology by Arab states
Publish Date: Wednesday,12 December, 2007, at 01:27 AM Doha Time

By Sarmad Qazi
THE US supports ‘peaceful and responsible’ pursuit of nuclear technology by any Arab country, while encouraging them to be a moderate force between America and Iran at the same time, said panellists at a policy discussion at the Diplomatic Club yesterday.
The event, an initiative of the newly-opened Brookings Doha Centre, featured US Permanent Representative to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Ambassador Greg Schulte and director, Center for International and Regional Studies (CIRS) at Georgetown School of Foreign Service in Qatar (SFS-Q), Mehran Kamrava, who talked on “Nuclear Proliferation At a Crossroads: Iran, US and the Arab States.”
“The US is the largest contributor to IAEA in terms of nuclear technology and if countries in the Middle East want to go nuclear, we support them, as long as they follow the protocols,” said Schulte.
“Our efforts are only aimed at containing the pursuit of sensitive technology by some countries,” he added.
Kamrava, a Political Science professor at California State University, Northridge endorsed the idea and said: “With US rhetoric on Iran lessening, it can increasingly find its place in the GCC security situation. In fact the GCC countries can act as a go between the two parties,”
According to him, it was a vital decision to invite Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to the recently held GCC summit in Doha.
The session that was chaired by the director of Brookings Doha Centre, Hady Amr, opened in the background of recently published National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) report that said Iran had halted its nuclear weapons programme in 2003.
“The Iranian pursuit of nuclear technology has isolated that country, and it has not benefited domestically or internationally from it,” said Schulte.
According to him, it’s high time the leadership in Tehran pays heed to the global outcry and ‘come clean’.
Kamrava however, disagreed and said that the current ‘conflict’ is being fuelled due to the unilatarism of US and the uni-polar world that its hegemonic foreign policy has created post cold war and 9/11.
“The Iranian regime is based on populism and people are starting to get tired. This is why, Tehran’s rhetoric on nuclear technology has been getting stronger and stronger,” he added.
“The core of the conflict is Iran’s desire to be assured of its place in today’s uni-polar world and not any other incentive,” he concluded.