U.S. threatens to bomb Iran sites "after a month" (why, all of a sudden they want to talk ?)

Iran Focus ^ | Thu. 16 March 2006

[IrishMike]

U.S. threatens to bomb Iran sites “after a month” .. London, Mar. 16 – The United States warned Iran through a secret channel that it would launch military attacks on a number of nuclear sites in Iran if there was no diplomatic progress a month after the Islamic Republic’s referral to the United Nations Security Council, according to a Persian-language website run by associates of the former Iranian president, Mohammad Khatami...Khatami was quoted by the website Rooz Online as telling allies that he had received a message through a third party from a senior United States official during a visit to Germany last autumn. The U.S. official had warned Iran that the U.S. would bomb the country’s nuclear sites “if there is no breakthrough in resolving Iran’s nuclear dossier a month after the case is referred to the Security Council”....Khatami said that he conveyed the message to the country’s senior officials and the Supreme National Security Council, but “not much attention has been paid to it”, Rooz reported....The International Atomic Energy Agency referred Iran to the Security Council at the end of the last meeting of its Board of Governors on March 8. The council can impose sanctions on Iran for violating its international obligations and concealing critical parts of its extensive nuclear program....Iran’s top negotiator, Ali Larijani, reiterated on Thursday the theocratic regime’s rejection of Western demands that Tehran stop trying to produce fuel that can be used in nuclear power stations or, if highly enriched, in bombs. The United States said diplomacy must succeed to avert a confrontation with the Islamic Republic.

[IrishMike]

Now that's what I'd call diplomacy !!!!!

and

on the same day of the big offensive in Iraq against insurgents, coupled with the largest air operation since the 2003 invasion.

[ConservativeMind]

Very cool!

YEAH!

[theDentist]

Speak softly, carry a Big Stick... with plenty of high explosives on it's tip.

[taxcontrol]

I've always thought that for a nuke production site, they should lead with an EMP bomb / followed by a neutron bomb, and then send in a couple of combat brigades to seal the area while graves registration and NBC teams went in to secure / dismantle the facilities.

[Tulsa Ramjet]

"The United States warned Iran through a secret channel that it would launch military attacks on a number of nuclear sites in Iran if there was no diplomatic progress a month after the Islamic Republic’s referral to the United Nations Security Council"

Why warn? random acts of chaos should be the rule of the day.

[Vaquero]

Dont threaten. just Bomb.

[joe fonebone]

Vote YES! on Lake Iran...............

[IrishMike]

Don't want to see this on the cover of the NY Times the day before we start !

[joe fonebone]

I think this is my new tag line........

[moose2004]

"Iran’s top negotiator, Ali Larijani, reiterated on Thursday the theocratic regime’s rejection of Western demands that Tehran stop trying to produce fuel that can be used in nuclear power stations or, if highly enriched, in bombs."

FIRST WE HAD "BAGHDAD BOB," NOW WE HAVE "TEHRAN TED."

[dighton]

Khatami was quoted by the website Rooz Online as telling allies that he had received a message through a third party from a senior United States official during a visit to Germany last autumn.

One might hesitate to take this as gospel.

[76834]

Getting about time for Iran to put up or shut up.
Or:

Some great friendly folks just up the road from me in Abilene, Texas might turn their whole country into a smoking cinder.

[IrishMike]

It is a good one

[IrishMike]

Just voted...
YES

[Crispus Attucks Patriot]

Works for me!


"What, can't talk good with a gun in your mouth?"

[buck61]

This will only defer the matter to give them more time to
make the bomb, if they haven't already.
I think they now posses some kind of weaponry in their arsenal, given to them by Saddam prier to our invasion of Iraq. They are embolden with something or they wouldn't be pounding their chest so loudly.

[plck]

Now who is the BOSS! Uncle Sam! Hurray!!! Iran Mullah or Joker...BOOO....GET OUT!!!

[maquiladora]

It's possible, but not likely. Consider the source, and consider the fact that this warning supposedly happened in the third quarter of last year. Things change on a day to day basis, let alone year to year.

Its far more likely that Israel will act on it own with a cruise missile attacks on a couple of key facilities a few months from now. You only need to knock out a couple of places to break the nuclear cycle.

[Joe Boucher]

Too much b.s. talk already, take out the nuke facilities and end iranian lies.

[ChinaThreat]

This helps explain the troop increase in Iraq. I wouldn't be suprised to see some significant troop and equipment movements over the next couple of weeks.