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| Iran offers to share nukes with other Islamic states |
| 2005-09-15 |
| Iran is ready to share its nuclear technology, considered to be a front for bomb-making by "The Islamic Republic never seeks weapons of mass destruction and with respect to the needs of Islamic countries, we are ready to transfer nuclear know-how to these countries," the official IRNA news agency quoted Ahmadinejad as saying. Washington and its allies say Iran has failed to provide full and timely information about its nuclear program and are alarmed that Tehran last month broke U.N. seals at a uranium processing facility. A vote on sending Iran's nuclear case to the U.N. Security Council may be taken at a meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency's (IAEA) board on September 19. However, Western diplomats acknowledge that many non-aligned countries and the IAEA itself oppose referring Iran at this stage. Seeking to avert referral to the Security Council, which could impose sanctions, Iran is engaged in intense lobbying for support from non-aligned countries at the U.N. summit. Iran insists it has every right as a signatory of the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty to develop a full atomic program to generate electricity. "We have firmly decided to use this technology for peaceful purposes within the framework of the NPT, international regulations and cooperation with the IAEA," IRNA quoted Ahmadinejad as saying. "Peaceful" uses in the same way that Islam is a Religion of Peace™ Like Iran, Egypt has been accused of carrying out undeclared nuclear work which Cairo says was linked solely to peaceful applications such as power generation and desalinization. Iran, which received much of its own nuclear know-how from Islamic neighbor and nuclear weapons power Pakistan, says it wants to produce at least 6,000 MW from nuclear power by 2021 with eventual plans to generate 20,000 MW from atomic reactors. |
| Posted by:Jackal |
| #6 He means with the soon to be Islamic States of France and Germany. Luckily, though Europe has a strong defense force, because they're going to need one. They're on their own. |
| Posted by: macofromoc 2005-09-15 15:40 |
| #5 The mullahs haven't got us worked into a tizzy yet, so they're upping the ante. Another reason to be glad Kerry didn't get elected. |
| Posted by: Bobby 2005-09-15 14:50 |
| #4 I thought their plan was to "share" with Isreal. |
| Posted by: Secret Master 2005-09-15 14:09 |
| #3 Sharing's good. Let's share ours. (Though perhaps not quite the way they'd want....) |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2005-09-15 14:03 |
| #2 looking for friends and apologists in the UN/UNSC/IAEA/MSM |
| Posted by: Frank G 2005-09-15 13:11 |
| #1 sigh. we problee gonna end up asharin owrs with iran to. |
| Posted by: muck4doo 2005-09-15 12:49 |