10.16.2004
Iran thumbs nose at EU nuclear diplomacy
Iranian officials refuse to relinquish its government's capacity to enrich uranium. This is despite guarantees of nuclear reactor fuel for its nuclear power plants. Without the capacity to produce enriched uranium, Iran cannot source its own material in the production of a nuclear warhead.
That is the bottom line.
"Iran says its nuclear programmes are peaceful and only to generate power." Yeah, and the only reason Zarqawi cuts off the heads of innocent victims, and Chechen cretins spill the blood of little boys and girls is because God is great.
Exceptionally comforting words...We live in a different world now. Iran is caught in a strategic pincer. Desperate mullahs are happy, as was Saddam, to talk to the enemy, to keep the enemy talking for as long as it takes to achieve nuclear threat status. Then, the ballgame changes...in spades.
The question at present is what happens when the current compliance deadline arrives?
Iranian officials refuse to relinquish its government's capacity to enrich uranium. This is despite guarantees of nuclear reactor fuel for its nuclear power plants. Without the capacity to produce enriched uranium, Iran cannot source its own material in the production of a nuclear warhead.
That is the bottom line.
"Iran says its nuclear programmes are peaceful and only to generate power." Yeah, and the only reason Zarqawi cuts off the heads of innocent victims, and Chechen cretins spill the blood of little boys and girls is because God is great.
Efforts to get Iran to abandon its enrichment activities have been a failure so far, yet prospects of imposing effective sanctions on Iran through the UN Security Council are uncertain to say the least, says BBC News Online's world affairs correspondent Paul Reynolds.
Exceptionally comforting words...We live in a different world now. Iran is caught in a strategic pincer. Desperate mullahs are happy, as was Saddam, to talk to the enemy, to keep the enemy talking for as long as it takes to achieve nuclear threat status. Then, the ballgame changes...in spades.
The question at present is what happens when the current compliance deadline arrives?
Correspondents say the US still favours UN sanctions against Iran, but that it is prepared to give the Europeans a final opportunity to negotiate a settlement before next month's deadline for compliance set by the International Atomic Energy Agency.
// posted by HunterByrd @ 12:47 PM 
