Posted on 02/01/2006 8:40:10 AM PST by DoctorZIn
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Permanent 5 Agree: Send Iran to the Security Council.
- Reuters reported that the permanent five members of the U.N. Security Council agreed on Tuesday that this week's meeting of the U.N.'s nuclear watchdog should report Iran to the Council.
- Reuters reported that Iran presented no major new proposals at talks with European Union countries on Monday.
- Reuters reported that the European Union called on the U.N. Security Council to step into the nuclear dispute with Iran.
Bill Clinton thinks we need more talks.
- Jenny Davey in Davos, The Times reported that Bill Clinton called for America to forge closer links with Iran, saying that talks had to allow Tehran to "preserve a sense of national dignity."
- Washington Post reported that Seven in 10 Americans would support international economic sanctions as a way to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons.
Iran already has the bomb?
- Middle East Newsline reported that Mansoor Ijaz, a U.S. nuclear scientist, said Tehran obtained an atomic bomb about a decade ago from the nuclear black market.
- The Jerusalem Post reported that Israel intelligence notable, Rafi Eitan, suspects that Iran already has enough enriched uranium fissionable material to manufacture at least one or two atom bombs.
Another Tehran Bus Strike, Friday.
- SMCCDI reported that hundreds of "Tehran's Collective Bus Company" (TCBC) drivers, technicians and workers will stay home, this upcoming Friday, in order to protest.
Here are a few other news items you may have missed.
- ExpressIndia reported that Iran had detained dozens of suspects in two bombings that killed at least nine people in the southwestern city of Ahvaz last week.
- Reuters reported that India has replaced its pro-Iranian oil minister with Murli Deora known to have "deep contacts" in the US Senate and business circles. The Iran gas pipeline now appears dead.
- Michael Karpin, The American Enterprise Online examined the question: Will Israel Blast the Iranian Bomb?
- And finally, Jonathan Gurwitz, San Antonio Express-News reminds us that occasionally, madmen make good on their threats.
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We'll see how serious China and Russia are. My guess is they will stall and obstruct.
Well, that clinches it. Iran will be afraid of the U.N. and cooperate fully now. Just like Iraq did.
Iran is cowering in fear of getting a harshly worded letter from the UN with the threat of another letter if they don't comply.
And so their uranium enrichment continues. Next step?
AFTER
We'll get the oil in 2106.
One can only hope.
The idea that sanctions can prevent Iran from developing nukes is preposterous!
Getting the US involved in supporting UN sanctions will only insure that Israel will have to solve the problem alone. I'm confident that they can, and will.....but the aftermath will be very messy.
"The idea that sanctions can prevent Iran from developing nukes is preposterous"!
I agree. The only sanctions those suckers understand is brute force. We have plenty of that, more than enough for some to go their way too.
In summary, and simple terms, what does one do who wants to help the Iranian people?
Stop that! And if you don't stop we'll say stop again!!!
How long before Bill Clinton figures out a way to make a buck off this? He has become the caucasian version of a Jesse Jackson. Whitey meets world crisis with his hand out.
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