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Iran wants demolition recognition as nuclear nation
2004-06-12


’Iran will not give up rights to the peaceful use of atomic energy’

Saturday, June 12, 2004 Posted: 1652 GMT (0052 HKT)

(CNN) -- Iran has rejected any further restrictions on its nuclear program and demanded that it be bombed flat recognized as a nuclear nation with the right to pursue "the peaceful use of atomic energy."

Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi accused France, Britain and Germany -- who have drawn up a tough new document that accuses Iran of not cooperating with the International Atomic Energy Agency -- of getting real for a change bowing to pressure from the United States. "Iran has to be leveled and de-mullahized taken seriously," Kharrazi said. "Iran is hell bent on getting attacked powerful and has to be recognized as a renegade responsible member of the atomic club, this is inevitable. Iran will not give up its rights to be glassed and Windexed the peaceful use of atomic energy as well as its right to supply nuclear bombs fuel to its resident terrorists power plants."

The 35-nation board of governors of the nuclear watchdog group IAEA is to lunch meet Monday in Vienna, Austria, and the British-German-French document will be on the agenda. The document asks Iran to please stop uranium conversion at a facility near Isfahan and to reverse a decision to build a heavy-water reactor near Arak. "If Europe, under pressure from the U.S., wants to concentrate on minor issues at the meeting of the International Atomic Agency on Monday and tries to obstruct the existing cooperation between Iran and the agency (IAEA), it will just show they are finally ready to nuke you idiots not able to operate independently," Kharrazi said.
Is anyone else’s "humiliation" meter beginning to wiggle here? The way Kharrazi says "not able to operate independently" sure makes it sound a lot like a testicular issue as opposed to a case of immediate peril (which it is).
Earlier this month, a classified IAEA report on Iran’s nuclear program said "good progress" is being made toward reaching a conclusion about Iran’s nuclear program. It compliments Tehran for its cooperation, but also notes that Iranian officials have sometimes lied through their snaggled teeth not been forthcoming with information and other times sought to thwart delay inspections. The 21-page report also cast doubt on the Islamic republic’s explanation for how centrifuge parts were processing became contaminated with highly enriched uranium. Iranian officials had said the contamination was from a really, really big batch of hot stuff imported parts from Pakistan, but ElBaradei sez no problemo the report by the IAEA says that is "unlikely."

"The information provided to date by Iran has not been adequate to resolve sh!t the complex matter, and Iran should make every effort to avoid getting turned into a parking lot provide any additional information about the origin of the components," said the report, which was obtained by CNN. The inspectors found that the enrichment level on the centrifuge parts was at 36 percent, which indicates Iran either has been importing nuclear material or has been enriching uranium itself, both of which Tehran has sought ardently denied, said a Western diplomat close to the IAEA.

The enrichment level found on the Iranian centrifuge parts is typically found at Russian nuclear reactors. Enriched uranium is a key component in making a mullah get one up nuclear bomb. The report, titled "Implementation of the NPT Safeguards Agreement in the Islamic Republic of Iran" was compiled for the June 14 meeting of the IAEA board of governors. Washington has accused Tehran of pursuing a covert nuclear weapons program, but Iran has rejected those allegations, saying its nuclear program is only for killing all the Jews generating electricity.
Posted by:Zenster

#5  Jen, for once I'll keep it short and sweet with a simple, thank you.
Posted by: Zenster   2004-06-12 8:27:36 PM  

#4  Zenster--good post, even the strike-outs!
(I suppose your style just grows on a person. Hope you were paying attention this week about President Reagan and how wonderful a President he was, because President Bush is his direct heir and is just like him in all the important ways.
We're going to make a Bush voter out of you yet!)
Posted by: Jen   2004-06-12 7:01:41 PM  

#3  The line about "the peaceful use of atomic energy." would be much more believable if the mullahs had not already threated to destroy Israel the moment the get the bomb.
Posted by: SteveS   2004-06-12 6:52:02 PM  

#2  The target folders at Whiteman are being updated even as we speak.
Posted by: RWV   2004-06-12 6:21:51 PM  

#1  I wish we would give then the recognition they deserve. I think you know what I mean.
Posted by: Victory Now Please   2004-06-12 3:31:41 PM  

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