Posted on 12/13/2002 5:18:37 AM PST by Brian_Baldwin
By Paul Hughes
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran Friday dismissed U.S. accusations that two nuclear plants it is building could be used to make secret nuclear weapons and said it had already invited U.N. inspectors to visit the sites. "We don't have any hidden atomic activities. All our nuclear activities are for non-military fields," Iranian government spokesman Abdollah Ramazanzadeh told reporters on the sidelines of a political conference. He was responding to remarks by U.S. officials claiming that two nuclear sites near the central Iranian towns of Natanz and Arak, seen in commercial satellite photographs, were of a type which suggested Iran could use them to build a nuclear weapon.
Iranian officials said the comments by the unnamed U.S. officials amounted to "U.S. propaganda" and insisted international bodies were well briefed on its nuclear program.
The Vienna-based U.N. nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), said it was aware of the facilities being built in Iran and planned to inspect them in February.
Iran invited IAEA inspectors after informing the agency in September of plans to build nuclear power plants and related fuel facilities over the next 20 years, IAEA spokesman Mark Gwozdecky said. "The director general, with a team of technical experts, plans to make such a visit in February 2003," Gwozdecky told Reuters. "We don't jump to conclusions. We will visit shortly and determine for ourselves what the facilities are."
Ramazanzadeh told Reuters in Tehran by telephone there was no obstacle for an IAEA inspection team to visit the sites.
"I cannot discuss the date because some expert work should be done regarding the date," he said. "We have always said that our activities for peaceful usage of nuclear energy could be inspected."
SHOWDOWN
U.S. officials, who declined to be named, Thursday revealed their concerns about the sites in Iran. "It is true that there are two suspicious facilities in those locations in Iran. They were first publicly identified by an Iranian opposition group this past summer. They certainly are worth looking into," they said.
But Ramazanzadeh said the plants were not sinister, noting the one near Natanz was to conduct research into radioactivity.
But the disclosure raised a new challenge for President Bush as he tries to head off North Korea's nuclear weapons program as well as what Washington believes is an effort to develop nuclear weapons capability.
U.N. experts are also currently carrying out inspections in Iraq which the United States accuses of developing weapons of mass destruction. Bush earlier this year labeled Iran, Iraq and North Korea an "axis of evil."
The United States and Iran have been foes since student militants seized the U.S. embassy in Tehran during the 1979 Islamic revolution and held 52 Americans hostage for 444 days.
Tehran has been developing a medium-range ballistic missile experts say would be able to hit Israel.
The United States has also been at odds with Russia over its help in building a nuclear power plant at the southwestern port of Bushehr which Tehran expects to come on line next year. Speaking on condition of anonymity, a senior Iranian government official said Iran was negotiating with Russia to build several other nuclear power plants as well as Bushehr.
David Albright, president of the Washington-based Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS), told Reuters his organization was publishing its findings on the Iranian sites because it wanted the IAEA to inspect them.
ISIS reported on its Web site (www.isis-online.org/) that the complex near Arak appeared to include a plant to produce heavy water, a nuclear product that can be used either in civilian reactors or in the fuel cycle for making weapons. "There is concern that this effort to obtain a complete fuel cycle is aimed at developing the capability to make separated plutonium and highly enriched uranium, the two main nuclear explosive materials," it said.
Nuclear experts said even if Iran's two new sites turned out to be heavy water and fuel enrichment plants, that could point to a nuclear power program just as well as to the development of nuclear weapons.
"Even if they are heavy water and enrichment plants, Iran has a right to these. It's just that at a certain point they would have to declare them to the IAEA" for monitoring under a global nuclear non-proliferation pact, one nuclear expert said.
Iran is party to the nuclear non-proliferation treaty and has an agreement with the IAEA to safeguard against the diversion of civilian nuclear material for weapons.
"The IAEA has not detected any diversion of nuclear material (in Iran) declared and placed under our safeguard," the IAEA's Gwozdecky said.
Maybe we should unilaterally disarm like Nobel Peace Prize winner Jimmy Carter says.
Maybe we can find a peaceful solution.
And the answer, it’s the U.N.. This is a global organization that works for peace. They work for peace so hard, heck, they will even act as human shields to protect Iraq, North Korea, you name it, from U.S. aggression. You know, you can send U.N. “inspectors” to anyplace that U.S. aggression my strike. Then these inspectors can act as human shields – if the U.S. strikes, they will have to kill these inspectors. And then, of course, it’s war crime. So you put the inspectors anyplace where the U.S. may strike, in Iran, Iraq, North Korea, and you say, “you can’t bomb this place, because if you do you kill the inspectors along with the target ... and so, you will be condemned ... so don’t you do it, because global diversity is more important than global survival” ...
A peaceful solution. But what if the guy you are dealing with is a kook?
Like the guy in North Korea.
There isn’t really a peaceful solution with the “government” of North Korea, which is run by a mental case who thinks dogs talk to him. Besides being a communist, the mental case isn’t even that, he’s a mental case which thinks his daddy is a God and thus he is the son of God, who also happens to be the recipient of messages from dogs, which in one way in his own freaky mind makes him special since it seems most folks do not receive messages from dogs.
He has a nuke, and wants more. He will use the nuke on his own starving people if it looks like he may be forced to move out of his palatial residence. I mean, could you imagine the freak out having to walk around in the street in the cold with those peasants who will maybe even touch his body or something, and he will definitely want to nuke these germs before they do that, and besides he knows they aren’t even going to help him when the dog starts to disturb his nap or someone tries to muff the son of God’s hair.
I mean, no one, NO one, is allowed to touch his hair.
The demonic dogs are everywhere, and he knows who they work for. The little green man. And he may have to use nukes on any of those demonic dogs who are working for that little green man who keeps bugging him when he tries to eat his porridge in the morning. He won’t eat noodles like some of those peasant Koreans do, he’s, well, different. Maybe one of those talking dogs, which can even communicate to him without even being in the same room, maybe they live in other countries, and that could be pretty much anywhere - the North Pole where Santa Claus lives, or the wasteland of the Kalahari, Russia, could even live in China. But for sure, as he knows, there are folks in his own country and in South Korea who are working with the evil demonic dog who disturbs his breakfast and they may have to be nuked.
During the Clinton Administration, while B. J. Clinton was busy getting blow jobs, the weapons technology, the nuke tech et all, went from “global” firms based in the U.S. and doing “business” with China, and the nuke nookie that goes along with the tech went from China to Pakistan and then to North Korea and about a hundred plus defense analysts said so but it wasn’t worth the media coverage by the phony liberal news to mention what everyone knew because they were too busy running Clinton’s defense fund and reading us the DNC newsletter. Iran is getting the nuke, and as soon as Bush gets his dream of a Palestinian State, which he keeps promising them every time they commit terrorist attacks on Jews, give it about one year of this Palestinian State and their Islamic friends will make sure that Palestine has a nuke too.
I mean, it’s a high priority to them, to Islamic Fascism, getting the nuke to the PLO, almost as high a priority as killing all the Jews. Everything is global today, all the “corporations” are telling us they are no longer U.S. companies doing business globally but instead they are now global businesses who just happen to be headquartered in the US - and it’s the same with the Islamic terrorists, and they say as much, that the idea, now that they are better armed then ever and even more embolden in this global village, isn’t just to kill the Jews in Israel, but to kill the Jews everywhere, all over the world. Kill the Christians next.
I mean, you get one Islamic state, then another, and another, and another, and each is getting their nukes, and pretty soon you got nukes surrounding all them Jews, and them Christians too, and you can really nuke them all. In fact, the whole idea of a Palestinian State isn’t the Palestinian State at all - the whole idea is to kill Jews, just like the suicide bomber, and they will sell their Palestinian State on a dime if it meant all the Jews were to be gassed. And so, the real idea of a Palestinian State is the same idea as a Palestinian martyr - and that is, the Palestinian State is just another martyr, and you create this Palestinian State and you strap a nuke on this Palestinian State and then this Palestinian State commits a nuclear suicide with the idea of blowing up all the Jew neighbors along with the martyr of the Palestinian State. Get it?
And you see, that is exactly what will happen.
The holocaust in slow motion of the Jews becomes not just a daily thing, but an hourly thing. Now we are starting to see the holocaust in slow motion of Americans as well. After all, isn’t that what they shout? Death to the Jews, Death to America? And, each time they kill Jews by committing suicide, Bush responds by saying he wants to reward their murder with a Palestinian State. And then they get it. And then the Palestinian State itself commits suicide, and went it blows itself up with nukes it takes out Israel in the process. Mission accomplished. Because the mission never was a Palestinian State. The mission was to kill Jews. They will do the same to us, only the demographics aren’t as convenient as killing the Jews. But they are working on that.
So, we have a lot bigger problems than whether Trent Lott is a racist. But, watching CNN, listening to the ABC radio news which basically is an operative for anything that is against America, you wouldn’t think so. We have to spend all of our time, spin all of our wheels, on these other issues. Like what Trent Lott said at a roast for Strom. That’s the big news, that’s the point. The point is, like the phony liberal news wants us to understand, is, we committed piracy when we checked that unmarked North Korean ship and found those Scuds. My God, what a horrible thing we did - as PBS says, America doesn’t have any right to check that ship, we have committed a horrible crime. I mean, it’s unmarked, the North Koreans lied and said it’s cement, the Yemenis say it legit biz, and it’s perfectly normal to run legit biz that way, I mean all the global corporations do the same thing, they put nuke tech and stuff on unmarked ships, they call it cement, and they sell it to China. It’s just business. I mean if it wasn’t just business, why go through all the effort to hide what you are doing? You need to hide it, because when it’s legit, and big money, well, you got to secure it from your competitors. It’s called corporate security.
And in today’s global economy, corporate security is a lot more important than national security.
Maybe we can just merge our global economy with the global Islamic movement.
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