Posted on 08/14/2005 9:30:36 AM PDT by DoctorZIn
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Iran Rejects Agency's Call to Suspend Nuclear Work
The governing board of the U.N. nuclear watchdog unanimously called on Iran on Thursday to halt sensitive atomic work it resumed this week in defiance of the West, a demand that Tehran rejected as unacceptable and illegal. READ MORE
- Reporters Without Borders condemned the current crackdown on Iran's Kurdish journalists.
- Caroline Glick, The Jerusalem Post delivered sobering evidence that the U.S. is retreating in the war on terror.
- BBC News reported that the situation with Iran is more a case of crisis delayed rather than crisis averted.
- MemriTV.org reported that the Chief Iranian negotiator said, The negotiations with Europe bought us time to complete the Esfahan UCF Project.
- SMCCDI reported a heavy explosion rocked parts of southern Tehran.
- Iranian blogger, Mehrdad Sheibani, Rooz Online reported that the Iranian Parliament has a constitution reform bill to consolidate power in a few appointed centers.
- Politics.co.uk reported the British Foreign Office has once again urged Iran to suspend its uranium conversion activity and return to the negotiating table.
- Reuters reported French Foreign Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy said on Friday that negotiations were still possible with Iran.
- The Guardian reported that the IAEA Resolution is a poor outcome for EU diplomacy toward.
- Ilan Berman, The Wall Street Journal reported that Ukraine's government is heading into dangerous diplomatic waters in a deal with Iran.
- The Telegraph UK reported that Israel is preparing to deal with Iran's N-plants, if need be.
- Patrick Devenny, FrontPageMagazine applauds the mainstream media have finally begun to highlight the role played by Iran in fueling the insurgency in Iraq.
- SMCCDI reported tens of inmates have been injured during a riot at the Abadan penitentiary located in southwest Iran.
- IranMania published the text of resolution by IAEA on Iran's nuclear plan.
- SMCCDI reported scattered and violent clashes rocked, today, several areas of the northwestern City of Oroomiah.
- Iran Focus reported on clashes in Iran’s holy city of Qom.
- Reuters reported that around 250 supporters of Akbar Ganji, the Iranian dissident journalist who has been on hunger strike for 63 days, held a peaceful protest at the hospital.
- Stefania Lapenna, Tech Central Station writes that Iran is ripe for revolution, but the regime has so far succeeded in diverting the world's attention from this.
- Petition to President George W. Bush: Denouncing Ahmadinejad's U.N. Visit.
- BBC News reported that US President George W Bush said he still has not ruled out the option of using force against Iran, after it resumed work on its nuclear program.
- Islamic Republic News Agency reported that Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani on Friday dismissed the resolution of the IAEA Board of Governors on Iran's peaceful nuclear program as very tyrannical.
- The Guardian UK reported Britain yesterday described as "unacceptable" the smuggling of weapons from Iran into Iraq.
- And finally, Amir Taheri, The NY Post takes a serious look at Ayman al-Zawahiri's latest message.
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What a surprise!
There are plenty of people in Iran just praying that their nation is next on the hit parade.
"The resolution adopted by the board of governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) says Iran must resume full suspension of all nuclear-fuel-related activities and asks the agency to verify Tehran's compliance."
Or what? The IAEA will sulk?
(The article is in Dutch, but has been translated to English)
http://www.nu.nl/news/573647/24/Ira...lie-export.html
TEHERAN - the Iranian parliamentary energy commission has warned that oil can use as a political weapon against possible sanctions. The country react with that is able to international strafmaatregelen because of the core programme of the country, will communicate to the Iranian press office Mehr Saturday. According to the commission member Shokrollah Attarzadeh against olie-exporten of the country can answer sanctions to iran with a complete stopzetting of the oil export from the Persian golf. He did not say thereby if such a blockade would find also the export from the Arab emirates. The international nuclear energy agency (IAEA) iran Thursday all nuclear activities has called to stop. The UN organisation has not yet referred the question to the Security Council, which sanctions could impose.
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Iranian media calls for oil embargo!
The Tehran Times runs a column in Sunday's edition calling for an oil embargo as response to the US/European pressure and possible sanctions.
Here, the column is run by the Mehr News Agency:
http://www.mehrnews.ir/en/NewsPrint.aspx?NewsID=217919
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http://www.tehrantimes.com/Descript...&Cat=14&Num=001
Oil embargo best response to nuclear boycott
By Hassan Hanizadeh
Thursday’s resolution of the International Atomic Energy Agency Board of Governors, issued under pressure from the United States and the European Union big three, actually indicated that the status of international organizations, including the IAEA, has declined seriously in the face of the blackmail of the neocolonialist powers.
The resolution was ratified despite the fact that the Islamic Republic had proven its good faith and observed all IAEA regulations.
Unfortunately, under the tutelage of the U.S., the EU trio of Britain, France, and Germany drafted an unfair resolution against Iran by fostering disunity among the member states of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM).
The resolution, which violates the terms of the Tehran and Paris accords, was ratified to meet the objectives of the Zionist regime and the United States.
Many political analysts say the IAEA resolution also violates the terms of the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty because the NPT states that signatories have the right to access nuclear technology meant for peaceful purposes.
The double-standard policy applied by the U.S. and other Western countries to the nuclear issue and other global issues is one of the most significant challenges facing the modern world.
Although several countries, including the Zionist regime, Pakistan, and India, are producing nuclear weapons, and most of them have conducted nuclear tests, the United States and its Western allies are trying to deprive Iran of its right to gain access to civilian nuclear expertise.
This double standard on international issues obliges NAM members, including the Islamic Republic of Iran, to review their relations with the West.
The U.S. and other Western countries are making use of the natural resources of various countries, including the fossil fuel resources of the Middle East, to power their military and civilian industries.
The continuation of the unequal relationship between Third World countries, particularly Muslim countries, and the U.S. and other Western countries, which have adopted an unfair attitude, will never benefit the countries of the global South.
Therefore, the oil-rich countries, including Iran, which possess the most significant pressure lever, should wisely use this tool to punish the Western neocolonialist countries.
Oil is the lifeline of the West, and most of the West’s military industries are dependent on it. Therefore, it is the most potent economic weapon for settling scores with neocolonialist countries.
The Iranian nation clearly has the right to stand up to the dictatorship of the EU3 and the U.S., and the best act of resistance would be to impose an embargo on oil sales to those countries.
Iran is a country with great potential to respond to Western meddling.
Therefore, after consulting with some OPEC countries, Iran should propose plans to confront the hegemonistic actions of the West.
Islamic countries must unite and formulate a political strategy to respond to Western neocolonialist countries, since the efforts to prevent Iran from accessing nuclear technology are the first step in the plan to prevent other Islamic and Third World countries from developing this vital technology.
the first step in the plan to prevent other Islamic and Third World countries from developing this vital technology.
Damn right, what we need is Fatah with nukes. /sarc
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