Posted on 05/06/2005 4:19:54 PM PDT by DoctorZIn
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Iran Ready to Accelerate Nuclear Activities
AFX UK Focus:
Iran is ready to accelerate its nuclear activities if agreement is not reached quickly with the European Union over the Islamic republic's controversial nuclear programme, a chief negotiator said Friday.
"A long-term suspension or an end (to uranium enrichment) is stupid, bad and irrational," Syrus Nasseri was quoted as saying by student news agency ISNA. ...
If negotiators from Britain, France and Germany "use threats, the response in terms of threats is perfectly ready", said Nasseri.
"If we see that an agreement with the European three is not possible, we will accelerate our (nuclear) activities." ...
"If the Europeans don't do anything, we will go to the next stage in little time," he said, referring to Tehran's plan to resume enrichment activities at its Ispahan plant.
"We won't be the first to make threats," he said. "There is a solution on the table and we are ready to resolve the problem ... but we do not have much time to give to the Europeans."
Iran has made a proposal that would allow it build up in phases from enrichment with 3,000 centrifuges, still enough to make one atomic bomb a year, to an industrial level of enrichment with 54,000 centrifuges.
DoctorZin:
Is there a country on the planet that sends more mixed messages than the Islamic Republic of Iran? One day they say they are going to restart aspects of their uranium enrichment program, the next day the say it is on hold, then the next day they preparing to restart it again. The sad thing is that it seems to work with the European negotiators.
- Iran Focus Special Report – Part 1 reports that Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) is ranked by experts as one of the largest and most active intelligence agencies in the Middle East, has masterminded 450 acts of terrorism throughout the world.
- Tehran Times reports Iranian nuclear negotiator Sirus Naseri said that Iran will not compensate for Europe’s political weakness.
- The Times UK reports the issue now for the Foreign Office should be how best to help dissidents in Iran.
- The Financial Times discusses the Bush administration offer of money to groups and individuals working for democracy and human rights inside the Islamic republic.
- Washington Times gives three reasons why the EU3/Iran nuclear negotiations are fraught with peril.
- The Telegraph UK reports that Iran has offered to save 20,000 UK jobs in deal to ease nuclear pressure.
- Washington Post reports that Iran has not made any decision to restart its nuclear program, adding that they do not want to jeopardize key negotiations.
- And finally, a Mullah Convention photo-op?
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They have enough oil to buy a bomb from North Korea.
And so does Hugo Chavez, who is now cozying up to the North Koreans.
The mullahs have won the coin toss and have elected to receive.
Truer words were never spoken. Not long for this world.
From Financial Times article :
"The initial amount is small but the department's Middle East Partnership Initiative has separate funding for democracy promotion in the region running into tens of millions of dollars.
Some senators are proposing a bill that would raise $50m, specifically for Iran. Unspecified funding for Syrian opposition groups has been approved by Congress.
“We have turned opposition into a profession,” said Ray Takeyh, analyst at the Council on Foreign Relations, a New York think-tank. “This money is going to go up.”"
This was good to read.
From the Times UK article :
"Yet Mr Blair — who spoke so passionately about democracy in Iraq — again neglected to mention the ghost at the diplomatic banquet: the 60 million-plus Iranian people. They are the grouping most affected by the Tehran’s nuclear programme. Do they really want atomic weapons? At what price? And if the regime fulfils its ambitions to become a regional hegemon, able to intimidate its neighbours, will that not finish off all hope of domestic reform?"
Good points
I am glad you noticed it.
I'd like to see them explain that.
don=do
observant...
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