Posted on 11/15/2007 5:52:03 AM PST by IrishMike
UNITED NATIONS — In an indication of the battle lines forming as the U.N. atomic agency is set for today's release of its latest report on Iran, Western diplomats are saying the report is likely to leave many questions unanswered, while President Ahmadinejad is predicting it will "prove" the clerical regime's peaceful intentions.
The much-anticipated periodic report of the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency was preceded yesterday by a 10-page document prepared by America, Britain, and France, which was circulated to the agency's 35 executive board members, detailing all the outstanding information Iran must answer on its uranium enrichment program. The release of the document was immediately seen as a Western pre-emptive strike to counter what many expect to be a soft IAEA treatment of Iran.
Even after the release of today's report, "I think it is going to take a long time to clarify, first of all, the history of this 20-year concealed program. And it is going to take even longer for the international community to re-establish confidence that Iran's intentions are purely peaceful," the British U.N. ambassador, John Sawers, told The New York Sun yesterday, stressing, nevertheless, that he trusts the IAEA and its director general, Mohamed ElBaradei.
Mr. Ahmadinejad predicted, however, that the nuclear agency will exonerate his country. "The IAEA has raised the most accurate and complicated questions, Iran has conducted the best cooperation, and the IAEA report will prove Iran's nuclear program is peaceful," Mr. Ahmadinejad said, according to the Iranian Student News Agency.
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Or if we must stay, let’s create a new organization, whose membership is solely limited to democracies with a proven record of free elections.
A new alliance against the forces of third world despots, tin horn dictators, Islamic fundamentalists and the communist enslavers - all of whom conspire within the walls of the Cesspool in Turtle Bay to destroy the freedoms we enjoy.
Elbaradai/IAEA can not be partial, he’s married to a radical iranian woman connected to corrupt regime. His stomping for Iran has been evident many times, and one day everybody will find out that it is too late to stop Iran, becasue they already have the bomb.
Not to forget he’s Egyptian himself.
Anglo-sphere:
US, UK, Australia, New Zealand, India, Denmark, Poland, Czech Republic and the prairie provences of Canada.
France gets a probationary role as observer with no voting rights.
I really think the U.S. should take the lead in delivering as many atomic bombs to Iran as they would like. Then we would no longer need to worry about them developing their own. Plus it would provide valuable training for our bomber crews in case we wanted to provide the same type of assistance to the North Korean nuclear program.
This is shaping up to be a NATO thing, even if nobody says it. It seems to falling across NATO lines, and given that NATO countries (Denmark, Britain, etc.) have been impacted by terrorism, it’s not surprising.
Say we or the Israelis attack Iran, what if Iran retaliates be releasing biological weapons like plague or smallpox?
That would spoil the Christmas holidays, don’t you think?
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