Posted on 02/28/2005 3:49:48 PM PST by F14 Pilot
ALGIERS (UPI) -- Algerian officials said Sunday Iran asked them to send a message to the United States that Tehran will defend its right to nuclear energy.
An official source told United Press International on condition of anonymity that the visit to Algeria last week by Hassan Rowhani, secretary-general of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, was aimed at "sending a clear message to Washington that Iran is ready to defend its right to possess nuclear energy for peaceful purposes."
The source said Rowhani asked for Algeria's support on the nuclear issue and to tell the United States his country "is not Afghanistan or Iraq because America waged a war against a group of scattered people in the mountains in Afghanistan and fought a war against a dictator unwanted by his people in Iraq."
Rowhani reportedly told Algerian officials the United States does not have the right to "determine who has the right to own nuclear energy and who doesn't."
Last week, Algerian President Abdul Aziz Bouteflika, who enjoys close relations with the United States and Iran, criticized "attempts by powerful nations to monopolize nuclear technology."
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Makes one wonder. A little saber rattling perhaps?
This is the cover story of the mass murdering Mullahs who watched the elections in Iraq with horrow and now the happenings in Beirut.
They know the power of Shock and Awe and democracy/freedom.
They had best make deals and leave for Paris and Moscow to spend their fortunes before they end up like the $oddomite and his stooges.
It isn't, of course, nuclear energy that is the issue, it's nuclear weapons and the fact that the mad mullahs have already threatened to use one on Tel Aviv. Not quite the same thing.
They really need to get some phone lines. :)
Yep!
Sounds like they're scared to me.
They really don't need a bomb-making reactor to provide Nuclear Energy for power generation. Any regular reactor would work just as well for that purpose!
That's the issue here! The people need to understand this!
If I was an Iranian mullah at this point in time I would be looking to build a nice bunker mosque in the desert. The democratic unrest in Lebanon is going to spread like wildfire and they will be out of there in less than six months. The winds are blowing and when Lebanon falls there will be no stopping them. This is as profound a change as when the wall fell in Berlin and probably the completion of a cycle.
Iran has required Payback from the USA for a long long time now .....do they think we have forgotten? we haven't
Will anything short of a military strike prevent Iran from developing a nuclear weapon? I don't think it's likely. What evidence do we have that incentives not to do so will work?
I'd say the mullahs are in a panic. After seeing what we did with Afghanisatn and Iraq, they know that if we pull the trigger they're history.
Baghdad Bob did the same right up until close to the end. I wouldn't be suprised if the elimination of Bushewr triggered an uprising against the mullahs. Even if it doesn't, that border with Iraq is a two way street. It's only a matter of time before we're supporting regime change in Iran from Iraq if it's not already happenening.
We broke off diplomatic relations a quarter century ago.
The backchannel for any necessary communications has often been the Swiss. Looks like a new channel has been opened.
The Iranian people are the most pro-American people there in the Middle East.
I say we should help them get their country back!
The Shah was an evil tyrant. Our dealings with him are nothing to be proud of. Carter should have leaned on him for Democratic reform (as we should of for The Emir of Kuwait)
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