(Yup, it's more 'news' from AlJazeera. Look, we need to laugh!)
Iran dismissed Sunday a proposal by the U.S. presidential candidate John Kerry who suggested providing Tehran with nuclear fuel for its power facilities if the Islamic state agrees to abandon its own fuel-making activities.
| First they had to stop laughing. |
Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi said that it would be "irrational" for Iran to jeopardize its nukes program by depending on supplies from abroad. "We have the technology (to make nuclear fuel) and there is no need for us to beg from others," Asefi said at a weekly news conference. "This suggestion is good for countries that do not have this technology, but we do not need their generosity and help." He added.
| An Iranian thanking Kerry for "generosity and help" should be in the next Repub ad in a purple state. |
The United States claims that Iran is planning to use its nuclear reactors to develop atomic bombs. Tehran insists that it is strictly seeking the peaceful generation of electricity from nuclear power.
The U.S. President George Bush wants Iran's dossier to be sent to the United Nations Security Council for possible sanctions over its nuclear program. But Kerry says that he would test Iran's intentions by supplying it with nuclear fuel for its power reactors if Tehran ceased its efforts to make its own fuel and returned the spent fuel after use. In his debate with Bush, Kerry said that the United States should have joined a British-French-German initiative that aimed at getting Iran to agree to halt activities related to the enrichment of uranium.
Asefi also said that Iran could not trust any agreement with the West to supply it with reactor fuel.
This guy figured that out all by himself..
| And quickly, too. Bright boy. |
"What guarantees are there? Will they supply us one day and then, if they want to, stop supplying us on another day?" he said.
U.S. Undersecretary of State John Bolton stressed the Bush administration's tough line on Iran, in remarks published in Germany's Welt am Sonntag newspaper on Sunday. "We are not considering any military intervention at the moment.
Note the wording here 'at the moment', no wonder the mad mullahs are going bonkers lol
But our position is that we should not exclude any option from the start. Iran must understand that our policy red line is the acquisition of nuclear weapons," he said. "The most important thing at the moment is to get Iran on to the agenda of the UN Security Council to demonstrate that the international community won't accept it acquiring nuclear status," he added.
Iran is allowed to enrich uranium for peaceful purposes under the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. It has rejected repeated calls by European countries to freeze its nuclear fuel-cycle activities.
(What a glowing report that was :) |