[NormsRevenge]

Reuters has been working overtime to forestall any attack on Iran through whatever channels they can use to do so, not that one is forthcoming, Right?

[jimbo123]

Who decided to put a muzzie in charge of the IAEA anyway?

[EQAndyBuzz]

Why blow up the reactor? Just destroy Irans abililty to produce oil. Doesn't impact us except for a buck or two more at the pump.

However, China would be in economic ruins as would the EU.

We are going about this all wrong.

[rod1]

Same old song from the Islamic-nuclear-weapons promoting ElBadari. He and Blix have overseen the most danerous of proliferation of weapons into the hands of nutjobs the worlkd has seen for some time.

So clearly the U.N. will give them, some more awards.

[Dog Gone]

ElBaradei has had his chance. What exactly is his track record of success?

[NormsRevenge]

Former Iranian President Mohammed Khatami is seen on a large video screen at the World Economic Forum in Davos, January 25, 2007. (Sebastian Derungs/Reuters)

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Iran's Khatami calls for calm heads in nuclear row
Stella Dawson

DAVOS, Switzerland (Reuters) - Former Iranian President Mohammad Khatami on Thursday called for calm heads to reduce building tensions between the United States and his country over its nuclear program.

"I hope that they would be good enough in managing the situation. We deeply need patience and understanding and not to get too emotional," Khatami said at the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos.

Tehran and Washington have collided head-on over Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's decision last February to resume the country's uranium enrichment program, reversing a more than two-year pause under Khatami's government.

Iran says it needs nuclear power to generate electricity but the West is concerned it is secretly seeking an atom bomb.

In December, the United Nations voted to impose sanctions on Iran's trade in sensitive nuclear materials and technology to try and stop enrichment work that could produce bomb material.

This week, Iran banned 38 International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspectors from working in the country. On Tuesday it said it was still cooperating with the U.N. watchdog, which has a pool of about 200 inspectors qualified to check Iranian sites.

Khatami declined to comment on the decision to ban the group of IAEA inspectors, whom diplomats said were all Westerners.

The United States has urged Iran to sit down for talks on its nuclear program or face tougher sanctions if IAEA chief Mohamed ElBaradei tells the Security Council in a report due on February 21 that Tehran is not complying with U.N. demands.

Ahmadinejad has called the U.N. resolution a "piece of torn paper" and vowed to press ahead with the nuclear program.

Khatami also threw his support behind the U.S. Iraq Study Group proposal for the Bush administration to involve Iran in regional talks about the future of Iraq.

"Rather than confrontation, it would be better to cooperate and have dialogue with Iran and Syria," Khatami told reporters after attending a panel discussion on the outlook for Iraq.

[C210N]

ElBaradei seems to be an expert concerning a catastrophe WRT Iran, but probably has no problem with an Iranian nuke hitting Israel or Iraq (w/ US forces there). That would not be a catastrophe.

[lawdude]

Properly done, and attack would not leave enough resources to manufacture a stick match!

[Brilliant]

It would be a catastrophe, but if its done right, it will be a catastrophe for them.

[NormsRevenge]

Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna, Mohamed ElBaradei gestures while speaking during a session 'Stopping the Spread of Nuclear Weapons' at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Thursday Jan. 25, 2007. The tumult in the Middle East and the ongoing crisis between Israel and the Palestinians will take center stage Thursday at the World Economic Forum's annual meeting. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)

[oneolcop]

"An attack on Iran would be catastrophic..." -for the mullahs

[FreedomNeocon]

If the worthless CLOWN Mohamhead ElBaradi doesn't want us to HAVE to attack Iran to prevent them from developing nuclear weapons, perhaps he should not have been a fucking joke for the entire time he has held the office at the IAEA.

You made you bet Mohamhead... now lie in it.

[jacob allen]

So maybe taking out Iran from the air is the key to winning the war on terrorism.

[sgtbono2002]

****An attack on Iran would be catastrophic and encourage it to develop a nuclear bomb, ****

Yeah like they arent trying to make one now.

Like the man says , Make the attack right and they wont be making anything that even resembles a Nuclear bomb.

[piasa]

Reuters has been working overtime to forestall any attack on Iran through whatever channels they can use...

Flipping through available channels now :

Channel 11 : Vincent Cannistraro

Channel 21 : James Abourezk

Channel 13 : Harold Ickes

Channel 36 : Pat Lang...

[COBOL2Java]

IAEA chief says attack on Iran would be catastrophe

Yeah, our soldiers will never be able to cope with those Iranian winters....oh wait.

[operation clinton cleanup]

"I hope we will stop speaking about a military option and focus on finding a solution," ElBaradei said.

"We" being the United States or Iran?

[Cyclops08]

The UN is gonna freak if Israel has to drop a bomb on Damascus.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

We all believe a guy named Mohammed, right ?

[Gay State Conservative]

"It would be absolutely counterproductive, and it would be catastrophic,"

You 9th Century knuckledraggers all stick together,don't you Abdul!

1)An attack,done right,would be very productive,indeed.

2)Yes,an attack would be difficult and would cause difficulties but,done correctly,it would *PREVENT* a catastrophe,not cause one.

[Mad Federalist]

We don't have to call it an attack. The US could conduct simultaneous above ground nuclear tests in Iran for peaceful, educational purposes, in the vacinity of their current nuclear and military installations.