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Iran halts key nuclear work to avoid sanctions
2004-11-23
Su-u-u-ure they did. EFL.
Iran on Monday suspended sensitive nuclear activities that could be used to make a bomb in a move likely to thwart U.S. efforts to report the Islamic Republic to the U.N. Security Council for possible sanctions. Washington wants Iran to face sanctions, accusing it of trying to develop atomic bombs under the veil of a nuclear power project. But the EU has taken a softer line, persuading Tehran to stop sensitive activities in return for better ties. Oil-rich Iran denies it is trying to develop a nuclear arsenal and says it just wants to generate electricity.
"We're simple peasants, really!"
"Today the whole enrichment process has been suspended," Iran's Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi told CNN. U.S. President George W. Bush reacted to the announcement with mild scepticism. "Let's say, I hope it's true," he said. Mohamed ElBaradei, head of the U.N. International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), confirmed the freeze. "I think pretty much everything has come to a halt right now. We're just trying to apply seals and make sure everything has been stopped," ElBaradei told reporters in Vienna.
Attaboy, Mo, those seals really work well.
Operations at an Isfahan facility readying raw "yellowcake" uranium for the enrichment process had also stopped, he said. IAEA inspectors are verifying the suspension and plan to confirm it has been fully implemented at Thursday's IAEA board meeting which will discuss a draft EU resolution on the issue. Iran never fully suspended the programme after making a similar promise to France, Britain and Germany in October 2003.
Posted by:Steve White

#10  smn, have you considered that maybe Israel can't reach out and whack Iran sufficiently violently and comprehensively?

I'm concerned EU politicians are calculating that Israel will eventually and devastatingly be attacked by Iran. It wouldn't be the first time the EU acts against the interests of Jews. I don't think EUniks realize what Israel could and would do in such circumstances (the lack of response to Saddam's missiles during GW I was bad and misleading in that respect).

I think the liberation of Kuwait 1991 and Iraq 2003 have saved us from certain WMD-based war provoked by Saddam. I'm worried Iran has been left free to pursue its own mad purpose in the last 25 years.

What will happen if (when) the US starts bombing Iran? will we lose the support of the UK? or will Blair sack Jack Straw? just before running for his own re-election? I suppose we need to have the elections in Iraq first. Then what happened in Fallujah may seem to be small compared to what will happen in Iran. I hope.

Much Much Faster, please.
Posted by: Kalle (kafir forever)   2004-11-23 10:02:14 AM  

#9  careful JM - you're conjuring up a Sylwester thread intervention
Posted by: Frank G   2004-11-23 9:42:53 AM  

#8  ooohhhh......UN sanctions, how very frightening for Iran.
Just like farting in thier general direction.
Posted by: JerseyMike   2004-11-23 9:09:12 AM  

#7  All of this wrangling back and forth only puts Israel in the 'hot seat' as the Wild Card to watch! Israel WILL strike Iran even if it knows it's preemptive targets won't achieve regime change;(hedging their bet, the US backs it's ally) for the subsequent retaliative offense!

Israel will 'trigger the web' that will subdue our "catch"!
Posted by: smn   2004-11-23 4:16:39 AM  

#6  Iran halts what? Now where is that friggin bridge I have to sell...

The sooner this affair gets over with by precision strikes, the better for all involved, xcept moollahs. Well, it'd better for them too, they just don't know it.
Posted by: Cornîliës   2004-11-23 3:09:16 AM  

#5  They've never stopped - anything. They've never slowed down - anything. Total farce, total disinfo, total lies, total joke - and it's on every wanker who thinks they've have any effect whatsoever on the Mad Mullahs - especially the E3. Elbaradai is either complicit or imbecilic - either way, a fool and tool.

There is only one course of action that will belay their acquiring a nuke and using it: their eradication. Then the joke will be funny. Damned funny.
Posted by: .com   2004-11-23 2:48:19 AM  

#4  In a few weeks the mullahs will state something like 'for energy purposes' they needed to once again continue with their nuclear 'energy' program. The U.N. will allow for further extentions etc. Meanwhile methods of total regimé change is underway, without U.N. involvement.
Posted by: Mark Espinola   2004-11-23 2:24:03 AM  

#3  ElBaradei... ElBaradei...

Isn't that the UN employee, who by the way was the former head of Egyptian nuke program, who recently leaked disinformation in order to manipulate the US Presidential Election?

When shall he meet his effect?
Posted by: Kalle (kafir forever)   2004-11-23 1:53:15 AM  

#2  Boy, threats of triggering UN sanctions....I'll bet the MMs are shaking in their curly toed slippers. Meanwhile, the olde Hex is a-spinnin' merrily away in the centrifuges.
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2004-11-23 12:56:38 AM  

#1  Iran halts key nuclear work to avoid sanctions

And, they initiated a sales campaign on an "original" Omar Khayyam manuscript, complete with Times New Roman superscripts.
Posted by: BigEd   2004-11-23 12:06:01 AM  

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