Posted on 11/15/2005 6:53:51 PM PST by nuconvert
Iran warns UN nuclear watchdog ahead of key meeting
Nov 15, 2005
Iran's top nuclear negotiator issued a blunt warning to the UN atomic watchdog, saying more pressure on the Tehran over its controversial nuclear activities would have "consequences".
The International Atomic Energy Agency is to meet from November 24, with Iran running the risk of being sent to the UN Security Council amid suspicions it is using a nuclear energy drive as a cover for weapons development.
But Ali Larijani, quoted by the ISNA news agency, said a Security Council referral "would have consequences on Iran's cooperation, and would not be good for Iran's cooperation".
"If they put too much pressure on Iran, Iran will be forced to work differently," he said in the latest of a string of warnings to the IAEA and its 35-nation board of governors.
Iran, which maintains it only wants to make electricity, has already threatened that if its case is sent to New York it would limit access to IAEA inspectors and abandon a freeze on uranium enrichment.
Enrichment is a process used to make reactor fuel, but it can also be diverted to make the core of a nuclear bomb.
Larijani also said that if the IAEA "bases its work on legal and technical considerations", the next report by agency director Mohamed ElBaradei "will be positive" for Tehran.
Iran triggered the latest standoff in August when it effectively broke off negotiations with Britain, France and Germany on a package of incentives for restraining its nuclear plans and resumed uranium conversion activities it had suspended a year ago.
Conversion is a precursor to enrichment, and the IAEA board has called on Iran to return to a full freeze. Iran says it is willing to negotiate, but not suspend all of its activities.
An IAEA resolution passed on September 24 also stated that Tehran was in "non-compliance" with the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).
A finding of non-compliance is an automatic trigger for taking the matter to the Security Council, which can impose sanctions, but could be difficult to implement because it has no support from Russia or China, which both have veto power on the Council.
Iran says the demand to freeze nuclear works goes beyond the framework of the NPT, which permits such work if for peaceful purposes.
Larijani also responded to reports that US intelligence officials have shown IAEA members a stolen Iranian laptop computer containing nuclear weapons designs.
"This is a systematic procedure: every time, before an agency meeting, they try to blow up a crisis," he told ISNA.
Nuke 'em.... nuke 'em till they glow.
An excellent suggestion, and then...have the winds hover over the area, so that others aren't affected.
I am so tired of games with Iran and North Korea that the situation is no longer worthy of analysis.
It's just boring. Wake me up when they finally nuke us, okay?
The prevailing winds blow east.... a win-win situation if I ever heard one!
Also, we have these "new" munitions called "neutron bombs"; they kill lots of people but the radioactivity is non-persistant, and the fallout is nearly non-existent.
But Ali Larijani, quoted by the ISNA news agency, said a Security Council referral "would have consequences on Iran's cooperation, and would not be good for Iran's cooperation".
And they are cooperating how?
In other words they are threatening to do what they are
doing now.
We ignore them at our peril.
"And they are cooperating how?"
That's what the regime would like everyone to think.
Hey mullahs, do tell!
Yes, and being a threat to humanity has "consequences" too, you Islamazi scumbags...
Somehow, I do NOT think you will survive OUR consequences...
Iran's top nuclear negotiator issued a blunt warning to the UN atomic watchdog, saying more pressure on the Tehran over its controversial nuclear activities would have "consequences", and they won't be in the form of some useless Resolution or some pathetic Letter of Centure either... they will be ACTIONS!!! enjoy.
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