Posted on 09/13/2005 2:40:42 PM PDT by F14 Pilot
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush on Tuesday said Iran had a right to a civilian nuclear program if it did not gain expertise or materials to build an atomic weapon.
The United States is concerned that Iran's nuclear program is aimed at producing weapons, and Bush said he would be "speaking candidly about Iran" with Chinese President Hu Jintao and Russian President Vladimir Putin, who are gathering in New York for the United Nations General Assembly.
"It is very important for the world to understand that Iran with a nuclear weapon will be incredibly destabilizing," Bush said at a news conference with Iraqi President Jalal Talabani. "And therefore we must work together to prevent them from having the wherewithal to develop a nuclear weapon."
Iran says it has every right to develop nuclear technology to generate electricity, while the United States and the European Union want the U.N. Security Council to take up Iran's case after it resumed uranium processing last month.
The United States last month explicitly accepted for the first time that Iran could develop civilian nuclear programs, backing an EU proposal to allow Tehran to pursue atomic power in exchange for giving up fuel work.
That's what I was thinking, too.
no nukes for mullahs
I'm currently test marketing "Dead E. Roosevelt" and "Pedro."
"Is that Kerry or Bush?"
Or Clinton, with the north koreans. What a disaster.
Yes!
What about the "civilian nuclear program" in the US?
thats a good one..but not in my backyard please...:)
Do "Pedro." You'd have the youth and the Latino vote tied up.
WHAT???????
Check this one!
President Ahmadinejad arrives in New York
http://www.irna.ir/en/news/view/menu-234/0509143949083253.htm
Say wha...?? So much for the republican revolution...
The current US policy on Iraq (allowing the Shia to take power) makes no sense unless the US and Iran make up their differences and become friends. This would make two of the world's biggest oil producers allies. Oil is the only really important factor in play here. It will of course take a bit of diplomatic effort (like this statement by Bush), but would be well worth it for the USA. A pro-US Iran is the only thing that would stabilise Iraq in the long run. It's blindingly obvious. The Iraq insurgency is Iran's way of inducing the US to meet it halfway. Wait and see!
The current US policy on Iraq (allowing the Shia to take power) makes no sense unless the US and Iran make up their differences and become friends. This would make two of the world's biggest oil producers allies. Oil is the only really important factor in play here. It will of course take a bit of diplomatic effort (like this statement by Bush), but would be well worth it for the USA. A pro-US Iran is the only thing that would stabilise Iraq in the long run. It's blindingly obvious. The Iraq insurgency is Iran's way of inducing the US to meet it halfway. Wait and see!
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