Iran:Nuclear work to resume

Miami Herald--AP article ^ | 6/20/2004 | Ali Akbar dareini

[keysguy]

This article indicates a vaccuum of power, consequently Iran has no fear of being stopped. They will continue their nuclear quest to build a bomb. Likely this is due to devisive opinions in the U.S with the rats making us and ununified country due to their quest to win an election. Basically the dems will allow Iran to become a nuclear nation in order to win an election. They are preventing the country from being unified in stopping Iran. There is no chance GW will go into Iran and stop the Mullahs without most of the nation behind him.

[risk]

I'm not sure that he won't make it a campaign issue. But if Israel decides it needs to do the job first, it might change the equation. I sometimes hope the Iranian students will do it, in the sense of seizing power and ending the program.

[MeekOneGOP]

The link to your article:

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/world/8967246.htm?1c

[San Jacinto]

You're comments are right on the mark. Right now is the perfect time for any of our overseas enemies to act against us. No matter what they choose to do, they know the democrats and media cohorts will simply spin it to hurt Bush and prevent the Admnistration from taking action.

[keysguy]

Good point but you have to admit the rats severely hurt our potential to go into Iran should it become necessary. Not to mention it's almost unprecedented not to have a united country during a time of war.

[keysguy]

Its a very scary scenario.

[MeekOneGOP]

Since I don't find the source on the MUST EXCERPT list., here is the full text:

	Posted on Sun, Jun. 20, 2004
	Iran: Nuclear work to resume Iran's top nuclear official said the country plans to resume nuclear activities it suspended under world pressure and is considering restarting uranium enrichment. BY ALI AKBAR DAREINI Associated Press TEHRAN, Iran - Iran will resume some nuclear activities it suspended under world pressure and is considering restarting uranium enrichment, its top nuclear official said Saturday, defying a resolution from the U.N. nuclear watchdog that rebuked Iran for past coverups in its nuclear program. Iran also rejected demands by the U.N. group to stop building a heavy-water nuclear reactor and halt operations of a nuclear conversion facility in central Iran. ''Iran will reconsider its decision about suspension and will do some uranium activity in the coming days,'' Iran's top nuclear negotiator Hasan Rowhani said. Rowhani did not say what activities would be resumed. Chief among the suspended activities was the building of parts for centrifuges used in the enrichment process. Resuming uranium enrichment could spark a crisis in international attempts to resolve questions of Iran's nuclear program. The United States accuses Iran of trying to develop nuclear weapons, while Iran insists its program is peaceful, aiming only to produce energy. GLOBAL REBUKE On Friday, the International Atomic Energy Agency passed a resolution rebuking Iran for not cooperating enough in the probe into its nuclear program. The European-drafted resolution said the IAEA ''deplores'' that ''Iran's cooperation has not been as full, timely and proactive as it should have been'' -- angering Tehran. Rowhani said Iran would continue to work with the IAEA and allow inspections of its facilities. ''If they have any ambiguities, problems or want to visit sites, they can raise it with us and we will solve it,'' he said. ``We won't lose our patience toward inspections. The more they inspect, the more the world will learn Iran has not diverted from a peaceful nuclear path.'' HASAN ROWHANI, Iran's top nuclear negotiator He said Iran would inform the agency on any resumption of activities. ''Whether we are going to resume enrichment -- meaning injecting gas into centrifuges -- we haven't decided yet,'' he said. ``Perhaps we will continue suspension of injecting gas into centrifuges for some time, but we will end suspension of some other measures in the coming days.'' INSPECTIONS Last year, under IAEA pressure, Iran suspended enrichment and some other activities and opened facilities to inspections. In a deal for the suspension, Britain, Germany and France promised to make it easier for Iran to obtain advanced nuclear technology. Rowhani accused those countries of breaking what he said was their promise to help close the Iranian nuclear issue at the IAEA. In February, according to Rowhani, the three European powers promised to work toward closure by June if Iran stopped making centrifuges, as it did in April. ''The promise was broken by the Europeans. Therefore, we can't be committed to our promise,'' he said. A top lawmaker said Saturday that the Iranian parliament may not approve unfettered inspection of Iranian facilities by IAEA. ''IAEA's continued negative stance . . . would give the parliament extra reason not to approve the Additional Protocol to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty,'' the official Islamic Republic News Agency quoted Alaeddin Boroujerdi, the head of the parliament's National Security and Foreign Policy Committee, as saying. Under the protocol, Iran has to agree to unfettered inspection of its nuclear facilities without prior notice. Iran's government has approved it, but it cannot become law without parliament's approval.

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[keysguy]

Thanks for the help. This is my first post I really didn't know how to do it. Sort of winging it.

[MeekOneGOP]

You're welcomed. And welcome to FreeRepublic.com ! :^D

[risk]

They also hurt their chances at getting reelected. Bush promised that the war on terror would take a while. He may have been thinking about how many election cycles we'd have to clear before we have voted out the requisite number of Baghdad Jim McDermotts and Patty Patty 'Osama Mamma" Murrays.

[hershey]

Maybe we can 'accidentally' bomb their nuke factories. Or, if Israel perceives a threat from that direction, they might take action. I don't think Iran gets a free pass on this.

[keysguy]

"the war on terror taking a while"--if anything takes longer than a news cycle--two weeks hold your breath.

[keysguy]

Sounds real good to me!

[risk]

"the war on terror taking a while"--if anything takes longer than a news cycle--two weeks hold your breath.

Ah, you're feeling cynical today. Maybe this will encourage you:

I've heard reports that only 1/3 of American colonists wanted a revolution. There were 300 Spartans at Thermopylae. Gideon was told by God to select his best men -- and he took on 135,000 with his 300.

We will win because our cause is just and righteous. We will win beacuse each of us has the light of 10,000 suns burning in our eyes -- the light of liberty.

We will win because like the Greeks at Salamis, we fight for something better than religion: we fight to choose our own.

The suicidal Japanese defenders of Tarawa and beyond were amazed at the stream of hi-tech Marines slogging out of the cold waters of the Pacific to root them out of their bunkers with an array of engineering techniques and petrochemical "devices." They were told that Americans weren't willing to die for anything. But we were. And we are. But more than that, they will be shocked by our passion for living.

So will those who oppose us in our cause.

[Physicist]

Maybe we can 'accidentally' bomb their nuke factories.

Maybe we can very ostentatiously raid them, with American boots on Iranian soil over a course of days or weeks, only leaving when assured of their permanent inoperability. Screw Iranian sovereignty, screw international outrage, screw UN resolutions, screw Democrat/press caterwauling, screw public opinion. This is serious.

[We Happy Few]

Predictions, please, on the date when Israeli jets preemptively bomb the relevant Iranian nuclear facilities.

[risk]

An invasion of Iran would assure the president of reelection. I think he's more scrupulous than to use that tactic. I hope he does whatever is right no matter what he thinks the election outcome will be.

[keysguy]

Great stuff, my cynicism is on the wane.

[keysguy]

Not soon enough for me.

[keysguy]

The Germans wouldn't like that and the French would shed tears.