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October 03, 2004 Iran to Kerry: Drop Dead Iran's Mullahs Rejects Kerry Nuclear Proposal Iran on Sunday rejected a proposal by U.S. presidential candidate John Kerry who has suggested supplying the Islamic state with nuclear fuel for power reactors if Tehran agrees to give up its own fuel-making capability. Foreign ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi said it would be "irrational" for Iran to put its nuclear program in jeopardy by relying on supplies from abroad. "We have the technology (to make nuclear fuel) and there is no need for us to beg from others," Asefi told a weekly news conference....

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Iran dismissed Sunday a proposal by the U.S. presidential candidate John Kerry who suggested providing Tehran with nuclear fuel for its power facilities if the Islamic state agrees to abandon its own fuel-making activities. Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi said that it would be "irrational" for Iran to jeopardize its nukes program by depending on supplies from abroad. "We have the technology (to make nuclear fuel) and there is no need for us to beg from others," Asefi said at a weekly news conference. “This suggestion is good for countries that do not have this technology, but we...

COUNTDOWN TO ELECTION DAY Kerry would still supply Iran with nuclear fuelRemark in debate was not slip-up, campaign website lists same policy Posted: October 2, 2004 3:20 p.m. Eastern By Joseph Farah © 2004 WorldNetDaily.com WASHINGTON – Even while top Iranian officials are calling for the development of nuclear weapons within the next four months, Sen. John Kerry insists as president he would provide Tehran with the nuclear fuel it wants for a pledge to use it for peaceful purposes only. During the debate with President Bush Thursday, Kerry remarked that the U.S. should have given Iran the nuclear fuel...

The London Financial Times reports that, according to "unnamed diplomats and a Kerry adviser," top EU officials from Germany and the Netherlands are lobbying the Bush Administration to adopt John Kerry's position on Iran and its nuclear program. High-level meetings were held with both the White House and the Kerry campaign last week. The European proposal offers Iran a guaranteed supply of nuclear fuel for its civilian reactors with all waste products to be returned and closely monitored. Iran would pledge to end development of its own enrichment plants that could be used to make nuclear weapons. According to the...

Monday, September 27, 2004 Kerry on Iran Posted: September 27, 20041:00 a.m. Eastern By Joseph Farah © 2004 WorldNetDaily.com In recent weeks, John Kerry has crossed the line from the traditional American position of "loyal opposition" in his fierce and self-contradictory criticism of President Bush's policies in Iraq. He crossed that sometimes blurry line in a free society to the point where he is endangering Americans' lives and giving aid and comfort to the enemy. The man who urged pre-emptive military action in 1997 and who voted to authorize the invasion now says a policy of regime change was all wrong –...