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| Iran breaks UN seal on nukes |
| 2004-07-28 |
| Iran has broken seals placed on nuclear centrifuges by U.N. inspectors and resumed work on the equipment, raising fresh fears that a deal to keep Tehran from joining the world's nuclear-armed powers has collapsed. Diplomats at the Vienna, Austria-based International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the United Nations' lead agency on nuclear proliferation, confirmed yesterday that Iran had resumed construction of centrifuges, a key part of the nation's nuclear program. The equipment can be used to produce the material needed for atomic bombs. Iranian officials reportedly broke the IAEA seals on the centrifuge equipment late last month. Diplomats told reporters that Iran has stopped short of using the centrifuges to begin production of enriched uranium for the bombs, a step that clearly would violate Iran's obligations under the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. State Department spokesman Adam Ereli said U.S. officials had not confirmed the Iranian move independently but that it fit with what the Bush administration considers a clear pattern of cheating by Iran's Islamic government on its nuclear pledges. "Iran's commitment to cooperating with the IAEA, to put it kindly, remains an open question," Mr. Ereli said, "given its past failures to follow through on promises made to the [IAEA] board of governors." Paul Leventhal, president of the Washington-based Nuclear Control Institute, said the Iranian decision was "clearly provocative" and a direct challenge to diplomatic efforts to rein in its nuclear programs. "The Iranians only confess to what they are caught doing, so we don't know how much more there is to learn," he said. "Iran has been playing a very dangerous cat-and-mouse game, constantly testing how much they can get away with." |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |
| #16 "This would be known as the Carrot-With-No-Stick approach." No this is known as your carrot stuffed up your ass buy Moose Limbs effect. You are non-believers you may be lied to, killed , enslaved all quite proper and plain in the Koran I imagine. If Islam is just like NAZI ideology. If you read Hitler's Mein Kampf the result if put into action would be plain to you (and was in hind sight.) Then if you read the Koran would not you see the same thing? There are no good live NAZIs. How can there be any good live Moose Limbs? Will Europe will be over run by Islam because they are just as blind to it as they were to Hitler? I ask this question of those with a better intelect than I have. |
| Posted by: FlameBait93268 2004-07-28 7:43:11 PM |
| #15 I fear that soon Iran will soon have Nuclear weapons...hocus pocus and presto...just as Pakistan did. One day they don't, the next day they do. I've seriously tried to think my way through this, but I have yet come up with a solution. I had previously proposed a large scale military raid, hold the ground just long enough to know that the destruction was complete...apologize profusely, and with a wave of the hand say, "See you guys later," and just get the hell out. But as I mull on this, I am fairly sure that this wouldn't work either. Anyone else have any effective ideas on this? Straight out war with Iran does not seem to be an option. So, in the end, just let Iran have the Nuclear Weapons...what can be done? |
| Posted by: Traveller 2004-07-28 7:28:42 PM |
| #14 Despite the disclosures, British diplomats said Iran and the three European powers will hold a previously scheduled meeting later this week at an undisclosed European location. "We still firmly believe that this is the right way to achieve our goal," a British Foreign Office official told Reuters news agency yesterday. This would be known as the Carrot-With-No-Stick approach. |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2004-07-28 3:44:30 PM |
| #13 That would be Mucki excellent poem yesterday... |
| Posted by: Shipman 2004-07-28 2:20:44 PM |
| #12 excellent poem yesterday.... but it looks like someone blew up you blog! |
| Posted by: Shipman 2004-07-28 2:20:03 PM |
| #11 Hey leave Gatorboy alone he has class.:) Impossible, he claims to be OB positive. :> |
| Posted by: Shipman 2004-07-28 2:18:32 PM |
| #10 that was say in tombstone to. |
| Posted by: muck4doo 2004-07-28 1:43:24 PM |
| #9 Hey leave Gatorboy alone he has class.:) |
| Posted by: djohn66 2004-07-28 1:20:39 PM |
| #8 ORANGEBLUE |
| Posted by: Dragon Fly 2004-07-28 11:02:09 AM |
| #7 LOL Gator boy! |
| Posted by: Shipman 2004-07-28 10:47:24 AM |
| #6 Don't joke with the Army of Steve. |
| Posted by: Mr. Davis 2004-07-28 10:16:16 AM |
| #5 Ah, er, um...I was joking Steve. |
| Posted by: Dragon Fly 2004-07-28 10:11:10 AM |
| #4 Steve...that sound's familiar. Johnny Cash? Ark of the Covenant? It's Revelations. The movie you heard it quoted in was "Pale Rider". The young girl was reading her scriptures and looking out the window, saw Clint Eastwood on a pale horse, and quoted the last line "and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him." If you know the movie, truer words were never spoken. |
| Posted by: Steve 2004-07-28 10:07:49 AM |
| #3 I would hazard a guess that the program ebbs and flows in correlation with how Kerry is doing in the polls. |
| Posted by: Tom 2004-07-28 9:25:05 AM |
| #2 Steve...that sound's familiar. Johnny Cash? Ark of the Covenant? |
| Posted by: Dragon Fly 2004-07-28 9:13:25 AM |
| #1 Iran has broken seals And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see. And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. |
| Posted by: Steve 2004-07-28 9:07:31 AM |