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2005-03-16 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Iran offers US share in nuclear programme: report

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Posted by Steve White 2005-03-16 00:00:00|| || Front Page|| [7 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Failure to abandon any sensitive nuclear activities would see Iranâs case referred to the U.N. Security Council, which could impose sanctions, US officials say.

This is starting to look awfully familiar.

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2005-03-16 1:14:48 AM|| 2005-03-16 1:14:48 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Hossein Kazempour
Sounds like his name came from Fred's anonymous comments name algorithm. The number is missing. It should be 7734, which is "hell" upside down, see:

Hossein Kazempour7734

Posted by Alaska Paul 2005-03-16 1:49:58 AM|| 2005-03-16 1:49:58 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Bribing the wrong country. Try calling Chirac and TotalElfFina.

Posted by ed 2005-03-16 2:50:05 AM|| 2005-03-16 2:50:05 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Total are only offering 70-30.

Posted by Jake-the-Peg 2005-03-16 4:59:35 AM|| 2005-03-16 4:59:35 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 I will take completely open,unfettered access to alll nuke and nuclear related plants and industries instead.

Posted by raptor 2005-03-16 6:34:46 AM|| 2005-03-16 6:34:46 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 This is just another "muddy the waters to buy more time" move. They must be getting close to having a bomb because they are pulling out all the stops to gain time. I think W should take them up on it just to see their reaction.

Posted by Spot 2005-03-16 8:14:35 AM|| 2005-03-16 8:14:35 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 "All your plants are belong to us."

Posted by SR71 2005-03-16 8:29:44 AM|| 2005-03-16 8:29:44 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 Share? Lol!

It's simple: we got the best German Scientists at the end of WW-II. We built the nuke program that worked, first - I saw the movie. The only way the Russkies ever got one was by stealing it from us and our Germans... here the movie was all wishy-washy and namby-pamby about it cuz it was made by LLL PC Twitters from Hollyweird, after all. So I read some books and know better than the Hollyweird Producers and Directors - they stole it and we burned the right fucking asshole spies for it. And then we went and shared with our allies. Duh. So Khan and the PakiWaki's got theirs by the same route as the Russkies, though they stole it from our lax pissant soon-to-be-non-allies and they just up 'n gave it to the Mad Mullahs. A Muslims First, thingy.

Why would we want to be party to a start-up operation by ham-handed amateurs? We have the best nuke pgms on the planet - and we don't even need to import Germans, anymore. Shit. these boys are spitting in the wind, as usual, jumping up 'n down, waving their arms, hoping we'll look where they point, rather than where our experience and intel tell us.

Sorry, boys. You're fooked.

Posted by .com 2005-03-16 8:31:41 AM|| 2005-03-16 8:31:41 AM|| Front Page Top

#9 The Iranian Ayatollahs are obviously throwing up anything against the wall to see if it sticks. Muhammadan spin has an entrainment value same as the Russian and Chinese communists (capitalist running dogs) used too. What's not funny at all is these Allah intoxicated flakes might soon have nukes to back up their adventurism and ravings.

Posted by sea cruise 2005-03-16 8:48:22 AM|| 2005-03-16 8:48:22 AM|| Front Page Top

#10 #2 Hossein Kazempour
Sounds like his name came from Fred's anonymous comments name algorithm.

Or on an NYC hack liscence

Posted by sea cruise 2005-03-16 8:49:55 AM|| 2005-03-16 8:49:55 AM|| Front Page Top

#11 Finally! I've had this image for a long time.

Posted by .com 2005-03-16 9:04:53 AM|| 2005-03-16 9:04:53 AM|| Front Page Top

#12 Wait a minute guys. This sounds like a good deal. If we are half owners than we get to staff half the employees at all levels and at all facilities. Now if I recall rightly there are a lot of nuclear trained folk in the Army Navy and Air Force (don't know about the Marines) right?

This would make inspections pretty easy, no?
Now, all these folk would have to live there on bases or something. And they'd have to interact with the locals.....

Posted by AlanC 2005-03-16 9:21:34 AM|| 2005-03-16 9:21:34 AM|| Front Page Top

#13 Uh oh, Alan seems to think the MM bait is "real". Better get his pills, Ethel, before he starts packing, heh. ;-)

Not a chance in the world this was, in any sense of the word, a "serious" offer. Just more rope-a-dope stalling and obfuscation, as Spot pointed out in #6.

Posted by .com 2005-03-16 9:35:12 AM|| 2005-03-16 9:35:12 AM|| Front Page Top

#14 .com
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The ratio of vowels to consonants in pretty high there for the typical NYC hack license

Posted by sea cruise 2005-03-16 10:10:29 AM|| 2005-03-16 10:10:29 AM|| Front Page Top

#15 :)

Posted by .com 2005-03-16 10:20:17 AM|| 2005-03-16 10:20:17 AM|| Front Page Top

#16 AlanC: Yeah, that's the first thing I thought too. This "offer" was made by an energy advisor. I don't think he's got the actual authority to see it through, even if Bush took him up on it (which he won't).

Posted by shellback 2005-03-16 10:55:20 AM|| 2005-03-16 10:55:20 AM|| Front Page Top

#17 I say hand the MM snakes a mongoose.

"the United States offered Iran economic incentives to try to persuade it to scrap nuclear work which could be used to make atomic bombs"

In other words, this is your last chance before this situation ends up in the Security Council. I already know which way John Bolton is swaying. The next step after the SC, should be scarier for the MM's.

Posted by Poison Reverse 2005-03-16 11:04:01 AM|| 2005-03-16 11:04:01 AM|| Front Page Top

#18 Cheez Whiz guys, I thought that you were all smart enough to see the "facetious" "/facetious tags there. ;^)

But it would still be a lot of laughs to take them up on it with a 50/50 demand and that our military types get to run our half.

Re: rope a dope.....since we all know that GW is a master, and the MMs seem to use this (at least when dealing with the nEUtered) what kind of fight do you get? Unfortunately I think that MMs have the clock on their side since their plans go forward as we speak.

Posted by AlanC 2005-03-16 11:04:02 AM|| 2005-03-16 11:04:02 AM|| Front Page Top

#19 AlanC - I was just funnin' - no offense intended - I know you know, lol!

As for the clock, my take is simple... There are 3 main options:

1) Airstrikes on all know facilities involved in nuke (and prolly missile) production. This could be US or Israel, though the latter would be, by capabilities and logistics, much more limited in scope / effectiveness.

2) Decap + #1. Take out the MM's, the Rep Guard, the Doodah Council, Basij, Army, Navy, Air Force, everything that has anything to do with MM power. Maybe even their Toyota Dealerships, the pricks.

3) Cooperate with internal unrest to overthrow the MM's and apply any part of #1 / #2 that is mutually agreeable... Special note here: to be honest, I don't doubt we will probably just do #1 and #2 regardless of whether they agree to them or not, as #1 MUST be done and #2 would probably be agreeable anyway... arm and assist the "revolution" cooperatively.

So time isn't a show-stopper, it's the chair we'll choose when the music stops playing.

My take. Worth exactly what you paid for it, lol!

Posted by .com 2005-03-16 11:14:37 AM|| 2005-03-16 11:14:37 AM|| Front Page Top

#20 The MMs are playing a world class game of chicken. They are betting that we or Israel don't wack the plants. Meanwhile they are moving forward. It's gonna be showdown time, soon. The Bushehr reactor will have to be wacked before it is loaded with fuel, for one thing. Then you have the other track on the uranium concentrators. Both tracks have to be killed. There is no way to stop the inevitable chain of events unless the MMs are toppled, or the plants are destroyed. That is why we call them MMs.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2005-03-16 11:16:17 AM|| 2005-03-16 11:16:17 AM|| Front Page Top

#21 Hey .com, wish this was a funny situation.

My take is that we'll do #1 when the music stops and then try and use #3 to accomplish #2.

I'm not crazy about targeting the leaders without a more concrete PR push then that they're bad guys.

As a spy novel I read many years ago said...we don't kill them just because they're bad, cause how would we know when to stop?

Posted by AlanC 2005-03-16 1:26:19 PM|| 2005-03-16 1:26:19 PM|| Front Page Top

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