Posted on 09/25/2009 1:40:46 PM PDT by lbryce
A week ahead of crunch talks on Iran's nuclear program, the leaders of the U.S., France and the U.K. on Friday accused Tehran of building a covert uranium enrichment facility, a development they said directly challenges the world's non-proliferation rules.
Later in the day, Iran publicly confirmed and strongly defended the nuclear fuel facility.
Speaking at an overflowing news conference in New York Friday afternoon, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said his country has complied with rules of the U.N. nuclear agency that requires Tehran inform it of any new enrichment facility six months before any such facility becomes operational, the Associated Press reported.
He told the news conference that the new facility won't be operational for 18 months so Iran has not violated any requirements of the International Atomic Energy Agency, AP said.
Mr. Ahmadinejad dodged a question about whether Iran had sufficient enriched uranium to manufacture a nuclear weapon, but said Tehran rejects such armaments as "inhumane."
President Barack Obama used the Pittsburgh Group of 20 venue to say that Iran was violating non-proliferation agreements with a previously unreported second nuclear-enrichment facility.
In brief comments at the Group of 20 summit in Pittsburgh Friday morning, President Barack Obama sharply criticized Tehran.
"Iran is breaking rules that all nations must follow, endangering the global nonproliferation regime, denying its own people access to the opportunity they deserve, and threatening the stability and security of the region and the world," Mr. Obama said. (See the full text of the statement.)
"It is time for Iran to act immediately to restore the confidence of the international community by fulfilling its international obligations," he said.
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Stay tuned for Obama’s apology...
“Denounced”? Oooooo, that oughta stop them and put the fear of Allah and Obambi in them.
Like the Iranian mullahs and Imanutjob give a damn.
Just as India and Pakistan didn't give a wig about "rules".
Their punishment will be being slapped in the face with a wet noodle.
Sorry...probably a bit too severe!
The State Department is currently upgrading their “sternly worded memo” to a “harshly worded memo”.
That oughta do it! Nothing like a good memo to make the miscreants behave.
“The revelation of a secret Iranian nuclear plant is a very auspicious development for all peace-loving people everywhere. “
The revelation of a secret Iranian nuclear plant is a very suspicious development for all people everywhere!!!
If they are fessing up to one, they probably have two or three more.
If you are a tyrant, here’s how you fool a bunch of liberals: You confess that you have a nuke plant near Bananastan which is actually small potatoes. The libs will express outrage and demand you shut it down, which you reluctantly agree to do while winning a bunch of concessions.
Of course, you don’t say a thing about the two larger plants in other parts of the country you still have running full bore while the libs are patting themselves on the back for “keeping America safe” by shutting down the decoy.
Shutting down the decoy buys more time for the other plants to accomplish their goals and the idoit libs never even consider the possibility that they are being played. The libs get the photo ops that make them look great at home while, in reality, they drop the ball on the bigger picture.
Jerusalem, you’re f——d with these clowns in charge. Hate to tell you that but it’s the truth and the irony, of course, is that most American Jews voted these losers into office.
May I please have the url to the image you posted in post no. 11, sonofstrangelove?
Thank you.
“Iran defiant amid new nuclear plant row”
By Alex Spillius and Andrew Porter in Pittsburgh and David Blair
Published: 7:30AM BST 26 Sep 2009
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SNIPPET: “America, Britain and France raised the prospect of new, tough sanctions after Tehran was forced to admit that its experts have secretly constructed a highly sensitive nuclear plant.
This facility, buried in a mountain outside the city of Qom, is designed to enrich uranium and could be used to produce the essential material for a nuclear weapon. Iran chose to admit its existence shortly before President Barack Obama, Gordon Brown and President Nicolas Sarkozy of France made a joint appearance at the start of the G20 summit in Pittsburgh.”
SNIPPET: “The secret facility, which Western intelligence agencies discovered some months ago, is due to become operational next year. The plant is large enough to hold 3,000 centrifuges, the machines used to enrich uranium. A clandestine facility of this kind, beyond the reach of inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency, would be enough to produce sufficient weapons-grade uranium for one nuclear bomb in about a year.”
SNIPPET: “A US official said the facility was located 120 miles south-west of Tehran, in a network of underground tunnels found beneath a military base once used as a missile test site by the Revolutionary Guards.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2348996/posts
Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi has cancelled a planned visit to Canada next week.
~snip~
The planned visit had caused a stir in Canada, with Prime Minister Stephen Harper ordering Foreign Minister Lawrence Cannon to greet the despot upon his arrival to express this country’s outrage over the reception Libya recently gave to the newly released Lockerbie bomber.
Good.
Canada, like America, does not need Gadhafi.
The release of the Lockerbie bomber is outrageous, to say the very least and to have the mass murderer get a hero’s reception — just sucks, for lack of a better terminology.
Ha! For a lack of better terminology, or non-ban-able words? ;-)
The other side is doing a meltdown, even now.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/9/24/785769/-The-False-Champion-of-the-Canadian-Left
LOL They get so hysterical.
Oh noes! They’ve been denounced!
Their plans never work because their plans make no sense.
In fact, Liberals are so stupid, if we can’t overcome them, well, then what does that say about our smarts?
Oh, no!
LOL!
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