Posted on 03/06/2005 5:57:49 AM PST by DoctorZIn
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Iran Says It Won't Give Up Program to Enrich Uranium
By NAZILA FATHI
Published: March 6, 2005
EHRAN, March 5 - Iran's chief nuclear negotiator said Saturday that the country would never permanently cease enriching uranium, and he warned that if the United States went to the United Nations Security Council to seek sanctions against Iran, "the security and stability of the region would become a problem."
The statements came at the opening of a rare conference on nuclear technology in Tehran, to which three American scholars were also invited. The Iranian negotiator, Hassan Rowhani, also said the government wanted to see progress in its negotiations with Europe by the middle of this month.
"We said that we were not happy with the pace of the negotiations. We will end the negotiations if we feel there is no tangible progress by then," he said.
"Every time the talks get serious the Europeans say they have to talk to the other side of the Atlantic," he said, referring to the United States.
Mr. Rowhani's warnings came at the end of a week in which the United States strongly suggested that it was looking for ways to demonstrate that it would join Europe in offering incentives to Iran to fully dismantle its enrichment program.
But no final offer has been made, and senior American officials, in interviews in Washington, said that it may be several weeks before the Bush administration settles on what kind of package it is willing to contribute.
Several administration officials said that in talks with the European nations negotiating with Iran - Britain, France and Germany - Mr. Bush's aides have insisted that Europe also agree on what kind of sanctions would be appropriate if Iran refuses the incentives.
"There has to be a timetable," one senior American official said. "There has to be a common understanding of how we deal with Iran if it insists that it will resume enriching uranium or take other steps that we think are likely to give it bomb fuel."
Iran insists that its program is for entirely peaceful purposes, and the conference under way in Tehran, called "Nuclear Technology and Sustainable Development," is intended to show that the country has started on a full agenda of energy-related nuclear projects.
Alireza Akbari, a former general with the Revolutionary Guards and former deputy defense minister, who opposes any compromise over Iran's enrichment program, said the technology was vital for the country's modernization.
"What oil did for Iran over 100 years, nuclear technology can do in 20 years," he said. "It will transform Iran because so many other fields are involved with the technology."
The presence of the American guests at the conference suggested that Iran was interested in creating a back-channel of communication with the United States, something it has done often in several decades of tense relations.
"It seems that they want to get their case out through this conference and listen to what others are saying," said Clifford Kupchan, vice president at the Nixon Center and a former State Department official in the Clinton administration.
Mr. Bush is clearly rethinking his approach to Iran, which has been marked by a refusal to become involved in the European negotiations - or to demonstrate in any tangible way that he is willing to join its strategy of incentives. He returned from his trip to Europe 10 days ago saying he would reconsider that position.
But after a flurry of initial activity early this week, it became clear by Friday that it would take some time to work out the details. Meanwhile, Iran has refused to turn its temporary suspension of enrichment into a permanent commitment.
And it insists that the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, which it has signed, gives the nation the right to manufacture fuel for commercial purposes, and that Iran will not give up that right.
Mr. Rowhani said Saturday that Iran had made clear to the Europeans that cessation was out of the question and warned that referring Iran's case to the Security Council would bring a crisis.
No one would benefit, he said at a news conference.
"There would be no more confidence," Mr. Rowhani added, "and the region could face a crisis."
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Hint: The future is predicted by the past
Qur’an 8:12 “I shall terrorize the infidels.
So wound their bodies and incapacitate them
because they oppose Allah and His Apostle.”
Qur’an 8:57 “If you gain mastery over them in battle,
inflict such a defeat as would terrorize them,
so that they would learn a lesson and be warned.”
ABBREVIATED PARTIAL LIST OF ISLAMIC TERRORIST MURDERS AND PLOTS
1968 Robert Kennedy assassinated
1972 Munich Olympics Sep-5,1972 (Black September)
1976 Entebbe Hostage Crisis, June 27, 1976
1979 Iran Hostage Crisis, Nov. 4, 1979 444 days
1979 Grand Mosque Seizure, Nov 20,1979
1981 Assassination of Egyptian President, Oct 6,1981
1982 Assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister, Sept 14, 1982
1983 Bombing of US Embassy in Beirut6, April 18,1983
1983 Bombing of Maring Barricks, Beruit, Oct 23,1983
1984 Hizballah Restaurant Bombing, April 12,1984
1985 Egyptian Airliner Hijacking, Nov 23,1985
1985 Rome Airport murders
1985 TWA Flight 847 hijacked, U.S. Navy diver murdered
1985 Achille Lauro hijacking, Homacidal maniac lived in saddams Iraq
1986 Aircraft Bombing in Greece, March 30, 1986
1988 Pan Am 747 Flight 103 Bombing, Lockerbie, 100's murdered
1988 Berlin Discoteque Bombing, Dec 21,1988
1992 Bombing in Israeli Embassy in Argentina, March 17,1992
1993 Attempted Assassination of Pres. Bush Sr., April 14,1993
1993 First World Trade Center bombing, February 26th, 7 Killed, Hundreds injured, Billions
1994 Air France Hijacking, Dec 24,1994
1995 Attack on US Diplomats in Pakistan, Mar 8,1995
1995 Saudi Military Installation Attack, Nov 13, 1995
1995 Kashmiri Hostage taking, July 4,1995
1996 Khobar Towers attack
1996 Sudanese Missionarys Kidnapping, Aug 17,1996
1996 Paris Subway Explosion, Dec 3,1996
1997 Israeli Shopping Mall Bombing, Sept 4, 1997
1997 Yemeni Kidnappings, Oct 30,1997
1998 Somali Hostage taking crisis, April 15,1998
1998 U.S. Embassy Bombing in Peru, Jan 15, 1998
1998 U.S. Kenya Embassy blown up, 100's murdered
1998 U.S. Tanzania Embassy blown up, 100's murdered
1999 Plot to blow up Space Needle (thwarted)
2000 USS Cole attacked, many U.S. Navy sailors murdered
2000-2003 Intifada against Israel - 100's dead and injured
2000 Manila Bombing, Dec 30,2000
2001 4 Commercial airliners hijacked, 250+ murdered
2001 World Trade Center attacked, 2800+ murdered
2001 Flight 93 murders
2001 Pentagon attacked, 180+ murdered
2002 Reporter Daniel Pearl, kidnapped and murdered
2002 Philippines American missionary, Filipino nurse killed
2002 July 4, El Al attack Los Angeles LAX, several murdered
2002 Bali bombing - 200 dead, 300 injured
2002 Yemen, French Oil Tanker attacked
2002 Marines attacked / murdered in Kuwait
2002 Washington D.C. sniper
2002 Russian Theater attacked, 100+ dead
2002 Nigerian riots against Miss World Pageant, 200 dead, dozens injured
2002 Mombasa Hotel Attacked, 12 dead, dozens injured
2002 Israeli Boeing 757 attacked by missiles, fortunately no one injured
2002 August Hotel bombing in Jakarta, Indonesia. 12 dead, dozens injured.
2003 Rusian concert bombing
2003 Phillipines airport and market bombing
2003 Foiled SAM plot in the USA
2003 UN Baghdad HQ Bombing
on and on and on and on it goes .........
Russian-Iranian military cooperation reaches into space. DEBKAfile’s military sources report Russia will next month launch on Iran’s behalf two satellites. Kosmos-3 will loft Mesbah (Dawn) military surveillance probe and Sinah-1 (Sinai-1) into space.
Iran claims resolution of Mesbah’s instruments high enough to pick up valuable military and strategic data for attacks on Israel. Launching put forward from summer to April at Tehran’s insistence.
www.debka.com
Russian-Iranian military cooperation reaches into space. DEBKAfile’s military sources report Russia will next month launch on Iran’s behalf two satellites. Kosmos-3 will loft Mesbah (Dawn) military surveillance probe and Sinah-1 (Sinai-1) into space.
Iran claims resolution of Mesbah’s instruments high enough to pick up valuable military and strategic data for attacks on Israel. Launching put forward from summer to April at Tehran’s insistence.
www.debka.com
So sorry about the double post. Please feel free to delete this one.
I immediately thought of Peter Pan singing, "I won't grow up!"
A map shows Iran flanked by Iraq and Afghanistan--and our B-2's rule the night as well.
A cursory glimpse of current news shows Iran is, as Syria, on the wrong side of history.
W2 is not Carter or Clinton, and Israel wasn't born yesterday.
very bump!
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