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Yemen supports IranÂ’s right to peaceful nuclear program
2006-08-13
SANAA - President Ali Abdullah Saleh said Yemen supports Iran’s right to enrich uranium for ‘peaceful purposes’, the official news agency Saba reported Saturday. ‘Iran and any other Islamic state has the right to own nuclear energy to use for peaceful purposes,’ Saba quoted Saleh as saying in talks with visiting Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki in Sanaa.
Iran has the right to develop peaceful uses. They signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and as long as they adhere to the rules and permit full inspection, they can build nuclear-powered electrical generating stations as they wish. That isn't the problem, and Mottaki knows it.
Mottaki also delivered a letter from Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to Saleh on ‘developments in the region, mainly the Israeli aggression on the Palestinian and Lebanese peoples’, Saba said.
Posted by:Steve White

#4  Iran has the right to develop peaceful uses. They signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and as long as they adhere to the rules and permit full inspection, they can build nuclear-powered electrical generating stations as they wish.

I must respectfully disagree. When a nation such as Iran has shown itself to be a terrorist sponsor, essentially declared open war against other UN members and continues to violate nearly every human right in the book, non-proliferation signatory or not, they HAVE NO BUSINESS even tinkering with nuclear technology of ANY SORT.

Having access to even partially purified uranium would still allow them to construct "dirty bombs" and such practical experience merely gives them a fast track education on the safe handling and storage of radioactive materials. All of which are things that no rogue regime should enjoy any benefit of.

Iran has been allowed to clothe itself in the trappings of international respectability (much like China) despite flouting its concomitant obligations to the world stage at every single turn. They deserve nothing more than what the Navy calls (referring to the meltdown of a nuclear submarine's reactor); Rapid Catastrophic Disassembly.
Posted by: Zenster   2006-08-13 17:40  

#3  for ‘peaceful purposesÂ’

This is the operative phrase here. It also sounds like a call for help, and a vote of no-confidence for the West.
Posted by: gorb   2006-08-13 03:55  

#2  And we have the right to declare Iran a nuclear test zone.
Posted by: SOP35/Rat   2006-08-13 01:46  

#1  Did Ahmadinejad's threat to turn the Persian Gulf into a "sea of fire" have something to do with the Yemen' boot licking?
Posted by: Snease Shaiting3550   2006-08-13 01:19  

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