Where have you been the last 50 years? The UN is totally useless. Most of its members are crooked tin-pot dictators from third world countries.
Posted on 08/03/2006 7:08:04 PM PDT by jmc1969
The United Nations Security Council this week passed a resolution that gives Iran a stark choice: suspend its uranium-enrichment activities or face possible economic sanctions.
There has been mounting alarm over Iran's nuclear activities. Tehran insists that it is merely exercising its right as a member of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) to develop a peaceful nuclear-energy program. That means carrying out all facets of the nuclear-fuel cycle -- including uranium enrichment and nuclear-fuel reprocessing, which can also be used to develop a nuclear bomb.
Arguing that it enjoys the right to peaceful nuclear technology, Tehran has suspended talks with the IAEA over the terms of inspections to determine the real state of its nuclear program. Britain, France and Germany have taken the lead in negotiating a deal; those countries, along with the United States put forward in June a package of proposals to settle the issue. Iran has said it will respond to the offer by Aug. 22.
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What a joke. This should be on the Comedy Channel.
"Stop! Or I shall yell stop again!"
So they threw away the yellow 2B and picked up a 4H pencil to draw the line...../sarcasm
Where have you been the last 50 years? The UN is totally useless. Most of its members are crooked tin-pot dictators from third world countries.
"U.N. takes a hard line against Iran"
What crap.
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