pittspilot
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Sindawe said:Back on topic: As I said before, Iran as informed the IAEA that they are going to resume enriching uranium, and that the IAEA needs to take the steps to put monitors in place to observe the enrichment activities. All these actions are the steps that are supposed to happen under the NPT. Iran is playing by the rules they agreed to, and rules the U.S. stated it would respect and observe. If the U.S. feels it is no longer bound by the NPT, why should any OTHER nation feel bound by it?
As for Iran's supposed Nuclear Weapons program, where is it? What evidence is there of such, other than the assertions coming out of the Bush Administration?
You see the trouble is that while you buy the English version, I watch what the Iranian government says within its borders
Example (http://memritv.org/search.asp?ACT=S9&P1=805)
Was this guy just saying this for a laugh?
The simple fact is that Iran is going for nuclear weapons. They have zero reason for peaceful nuclear power. Why would they with the natural gas reserves they have? Natural gas is a much cleaner, cheaper and more efficient energy source then nuclear.
And look at this from the Iranian point of view. They have the Yanks next door. The Americans wacked Saddam in a little over a month, something they never were able to pull off, while suffering horrendous casualties on their side. The Mullahs surely do not want a ????e majoritarian democracy right next to them, considering the unhappiness of their population. The only way to grab power back is to become nuclear capable. It makes complete sense.
And so does the manner in which they are going about it. They need time. So they are getting it by negotiating with the Europeans who have no other choice but to negotiate since they do not have a military option.
Iran is a hellish problem. There is no way that the Israeli's can tolerate a nuclear Iran. One of the most powerful politicians in Iran was recently publicly speculating that wacking the Jewish nation was well worth a few hundred thousand muslim casualties. That kind of talk makes me nervous. But what can the Israeli's do?
We choose to ignore this problem when it first became plainly apparent in 1979. They kicked us in the shins in Beiruit, and have done some other crappy stuff. We choose to ignore the threat, and now it has become such a problem that there is a stiff price to pay to fix the problem.