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Iran: The next crisis?
After Iraq, Iran is shaping up to be the next major crisis in the Middle East.
| Comes as a surprise, huh? |
The question is whether Iran is trying to build a nuclear bomb.
| Ummm... Lemme think... Yes. Next question. |
"Iran has decided to resume research and development in the enrichment of uranium," sources who track Iranian activities claimed to News Online. "It now has time on its side to acquire the capability. It is racing forward."
| The ayatollahs threw off the mask of sweet reason in the elections, didn't they? They don't even bother to pretend anymore. |
"There has been a pattern of cheating the world and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and of trying to disguise its true intentions under the pretence of needing energy for civilian purposes. Iran wants to produce nuclear weapons," asserted the sources, who spoke on condition that they were not identified. Iran's case is that it needs nuclear power and has to make the fuel itself as it cannot rely on outside sources, as many countries do. It denies that it intends to make the bomb. It is a member of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and therefore is committed not to do so.
| And, boy howdy, that means they won't... |
According to the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, Israel has started a diplomatic offensive to win support for its view that Iran is trying to develop nuclear weapons. If Israel becomes convinced that Iran is going down that road unstopped by the United Nations, it could one day take unilateral action, as it did when it bombed Iraq's nuclear reactor in 1981. The Israeli cabinet is reported to have been told that Iran could make a bomb by between 2007 and 2009.
| I'd imagine they'll act prior to that, but not as soon as we've been expecting here... |
Posted by: tipper 2004-07-27 |
| http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=39102 |
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