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| Iran says committed to nuclear pact. Yeah right. |
| 2003-09-15 |
| EFL. Iran moved Monday to cool fears it might follow North Korea and quit an international treaty intended to halt the spread of nuclear arms. Nuclear legs, on the other hand
Tehran, accused by Washington of secretly developing the capacity to produce nuclear weapons, also said it would go ahead with talks with the International Atomic Energy Authority (IAEA) on a protocol permitting snap, short notice inspections. Iran’s ambassador to the IAEA, Ali Akbar Salehi, stormed out of an IAEA board session Friday after a tough, U.S.-backed resolution giving Tehran until October 31 to give full details of its nuclear plans. Over the weekend, Germany’s Der Spiegel magazine published an interview with Salehi in which he said Tehran could leave the IAEA and the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). But the head of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization told delegates from the IAEA’s 136 member countries that Tehran had no intentions of withdrawing from the 1968 pact. "Iran is fully committed to its NPT responsibilities, not only because of its contractual obligations, but also because of its religious and ethical considerations," said Gholamreza Aghazadeh, who is also a vice president. Then his lips fell off and his nose grew. Washington, which labeled Iran a member of an axis of evil with North Korea and pre-war Iraq), lobbied hard to get the tough IAEA resolution passed. |
| Posted by:Katz |
| #1 Keep 'em on the defensive. Blocking inspections by the IAEA and saying that they have nothing but peaceful uses of atomic energy makes as much sense as Sammy's show to the UN for WMD. They should read the Sammy Scriptbook and learn something vicariously.....but they won't. They want an Islamic Bomb™. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2003-9-15 1:48:37 PM |