Posted on 12/24/2006 4:28:14 AM PST by maquiladora
TEHRAN, Iran (CNN) -- Iran's parliament passed an urgent measure Sunday that stipulates its members must decide within the next 48 hours whether to continue its membership in the United Nations' nuclear watchdog agency the International Atomic Energy Agency.
The move comes a day after the U.N. Security Council voted to impose sanctions on Iran for failing to suspend its nuclear program.
If Iran's parliament votes to withdraw from its voluntary membership they will produce the centrifuges without the IAEA's involvement.
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The question is whether to produce centrifuges without the IAEA's involvement, or with it.
I predict the IAEA staffers who enjoy those 5 star hotels during their "inspection visits" will be deeply saddened if they lose an excuse to visit Iran for rug buying trips.
Until the West proves otherwise, it deserves only contempt.
Interesting. Thanks for posting.
If we don't pulverize Iran's nuke and military sites by early '07 we deserve an Italian-style fisted hand not merely a finger. Once more, the words of Ayatollah Khomeini in the late 70s: "America cannot do a damn thing" will prove prophetic.
If we want to quiet down Iraq and the Middle East at large we must bomb Iran sooner than later. The Bush Doctrine should be modified to make the implementation of a regime change of any government that assists or harbors terrorists a requirement.
When Ahmedinejad says: "imagine a world without the USA" I will counter and say: "imagine a world without Iran's Islamo-fascism."
Here is how the world will look like very shortly after Knocking off Iran; a road map to spontaneous peace in many parts of the world :
1- Hamas will be orphaned leading the way to peace between Israel and the Palestinians by empowering Abbas and the moderates.
2- Syria will fold. Assad will try to save his chair by pulling a Qadhafi.
3- Hezbollah will be doubly orphaned leading to its destruction and the survival of the Lebanese democracy.
4- There will a quick victory in Iraq by knocking out the orphaned Sadr's Mahdi army thus saving many American and Iraqi lives.
5- There will be no more long range Iranian Shi'aa plan to force the conversion of 200 million Sunni Arabs to Shiites. This plan, if allowed, will eventually cause a huge Middle Eastern war and the inevitable disruption of oil flow to the whole world. This will force us to interfere militarily against a nuclear Iran which will be too late and too dangerous.
6- It will send an unambiguous message to our enemies and pseudo allies in the world, especially in the Middle East, to mind their own business, to end their financial and/or military support of terrorists, or face a regime change.
7- It will give the Iranian people a real chance to rid their country of the mullahs once and for all, especially when the Iranian military doesnt like to get decimated because of idiots running their country.
8- It will send an unambiguous message to the imams and mullahs in the world, especially in Western Europe and the US, to mind their own business, and end their radical activities or face deportation without due-process, together with their families, friends and acquaintances.
In the West, we have no time or money to investigate, convict, go through 10,000 appeals and then deport the culprits in the next generation! I for one dont want to pay for this type of due-process and I refuse to have those animals using our freedoms against us. Our message should be crystal clear: if you dont assimilate you gotta evacuate!
We cannot afford to listen to Mark Ginsberg, just heard him on FNC, who is advocating helping the anti-Ahmadinejad factions like we did with the Soviet Union because thats all we can do. My answer is a simple question: how long can we afford a Soviet-era-type cold war with Iran given our lack of good intelligence on when they will have a nuke? I wouldnt take a chance, would you?
Iran is the center of gravity in the war on terror. The PLO was the Godfather of modern terror, but Iran is today the chief and only state sponsor of it. But having said that, an Iran with nuclear weapons would be a disaster for the Middle East for humanitarian reasons and because of the impact on the world's oil supplies for the world. Iran takes on a whole new level of menace. It is emboldened today because if we fail to deal with its assistance to terrorists are we likely to confront it when its gone nuclear? I don't know, and I'm not yet confident that the American public can be roused to the dangers ahead. For over five years now, they've been fed a steady diet of defeatism and hyper partisan pessimism. We remember the gruff old coach Vince Lambardi for many things, but one was for his saying. One of them was: "If you think you're beaten, you are." This is what the DNC and MSM have done to the American psyche at a time when nothing could be further from the truth. But many Americans, even conservative Americans, behave like a beaten people who are sure the enemy is too difficult of a challenge. For the sake of freedom and posterity, we must meet this challenge.
We need to pulverize Iran's nuke and military sites N-O-W!!!!
I agree 100% with you!
Nancee
These two words scare tyrants more than an invasion. You can take that to the bank when it comes to Syria.
The death cult types of tyrants: you have to be merciful and painlessly accommodate them by sending them to hell!
Nancee,
Thank you, Merry Christmas and God Bless you and yours.
Nancee
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