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Iran expects atomic news on Tuesday night
Reuters
| April 11, 2006
Posted on 04/11/2006 12:44:36 AM PDT by HAL9000
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To: justa-hairyape
Not really. Remember, in the last century they've been fought over, meddled with or occupied by Britain, Iraq, the Ottomans, Russia and America. There is a point where you start making all crucial facilities on the basis that they will become targets...
Note that that does not endorse their policy, but if I was Iran I'd be building every major power or essential facility on the assumption that one of their psycho neighbours would intervene or target it at some future point...just think of Afghhanistan, Russia and Pakistan for starters. Plus they have no idea what future Iraqi regimes will be like.
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posted on
04/11/2006 6:20:29 AM PDT
by
Androcles
(All your typos are belong to us)
To: FreedomNeocon
It would not surprise me if the next head of the IAEA was Iranian. That's just how twisted things are at the UN.
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posted on
04/11/2006 6:28:43 AM PDT
by
SlowBoat407
(The best stuff happens just before the thread snaps.)
To: HAL9000
Well it's Tuesday night over there, what is the news?
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posted on
04/11/2006 7:44:47 AM PDT
by
bnelson44
(Proud parent of a tanker! (Charlie Mike, son))
To: Androcles
Iran knew that the world would suspect that any nuclear facilities could be used for weapons. If they were going to pour money into the facilities, they knew that they had to make sure these facilities would not come under suspicion. Now if building non-hardened nuclear facilities was considered risky because of possible attacks, the additional costs of the hardened facilities would have made the utilization of their own oil instead, the best economic choice. So they did not choose nuclear to have more oil to sell. They choose nuclear and the high costs of hardened facilities, because they did not care about the impression the world would have. Additionally, if the world suspects they are building nuclear weapons, the world will boycot their oil via UN sanctions. They knew this because the world was boycotting Iraq oil during this time.
To: justa-hairyape
I agree. Iran is out for nuclear weapons. But we shouldn't use the "they have too much oil for nuclear power" argument.
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04/11/2006 12:03:23 PM PDT
by
manwiththehands
("Rule of law"? We don't need no stinkin' rule of law! We want amnesty, muchacho!)
To: mkjessup
Mashhad was filled with pictures of red tulips last year.
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04/11/2006 7:32:35 PM PDT
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GOPJ
( Tolerance of evil is not a virtue.)
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