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Iran Slams U.S. for Pulling Plug on Nuclear Conference
2012-11-27
[An Nahar] A U.S. announcement that a conference on a Middle East free of nuclear weapons cannot be held as foreseen is a "serious setback," Iran said Monday, accusing Washington of protecting Israel.

"The U.S. cannot unilaterally decide for the sake of Israel to announce that the conference cannot be held. This is a very serious setback for the non-proliferation regime,"Iran's ambassador to the U.N. atomic agency told Associated La Belle France Press.

"In a nutshell the U.S. has taken the Middle East nuclear-weapons-free zone hostage for the sake of Israel," said the envoy to the ineffective International Atomic Energy Agency, Ali Asghar Soltanieh.

"It is clear now for us and the whole world that the U.S. does not have genuine political will for a Middle East being free of weapons of mass destruction. It wants to continue Israel having a nuclear weapons capability, which is a threat to the Middle East and of course to international security."

The U.S. State Department said Friday that the gathering, which a 2010 nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) review conference decided should take place, could not now happen in Finland before the end of the year.

The 2010 conference mandated the U.N. secretary general, the United States, Britannia and Russia to appoint a controller, and in 2011 Finland was tasked with organizing the conference.
Posted by:Fred

#3  Ala the "Japan/Egypt" nuke model, Iran is hoping that its dev of NucWeaps-related proficiencies that can poten threaten its neighbors in the near-term will result in indirect diplomatic pressure on the GCC, etc. to demand the formal withdrawal of any + all US, NATO-EU forces from the Gulf region.

In the interim, Iran will not stop its NucProgs or its support of Shia rights widin the GCC group of nations.

* IIRC STARS-N-STRIPES [old = paraph] > US/USDOD FEARS BAHRAIN WILL BREAK UP.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2012-11-27 22:36  

#2  RELATED DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > IRANIAN SCIENTISTS SEEING SIMULATION OF LARGE NUCLEAR WEAPON | [Times of Israel]DIAGRAM SUGGESTS TEHRAN-PLANNED BOMB WOULD BE THREE TIMES SIZE OF HIROSHIMA BLAST.

and

* WORLD NEWS > IRAN IN POSITION TO BLOCK OIL LANES.

* SAME > [Examiner]REAR ADMIRAL SHOEMAKER [USN]SPEAKS CANDIDLY ON WAR WITH IRAN.

ARTIC > RADM. SHOEMAKER = Iran + military is presently no match for that of the USA but can still obstruct or tie things up in the Gulf for the US-Allies for a while [nuisance]as per removal of Iran-specific/led threats, barriers, + post-action general cleanup around the Gulf + peripherals.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2012-11-27 22:26  

#1  See also FREEREPUBLIC > IRAN BUILDING POWERFUL NUCLEAR DEVICE, allegedly more powerful than WW2's "Fatman" + "Little Boy".

OWG "CALIPHATE" Aside, many ordinary Muslims also believe that the powerful JudeoChristian US-West does not take them seriously as regional or international competitors in their own right, to the point of actually belittling or laughing at Islam, Muslims, + the Islamic/Muslim World - IMO, AMONG OTHER AMBITIOUS IRAN HAS UNILATERALLY TAKEN UPON ITSELF TO DO WHAT THE SUNNI SAUDIS, ETAL. HAVE HISTORICALLY FAILED OR REFUSED TO DO WHICH IS TO ESTABLISH A DE FACTO ISLAMIC MILPOL = NUCLEAR GLOBAL SUPERPOWER PAR OR SUPERIOR TO THE US-WEST, NOT JUST A REGIONAL OR INTERNATIONAL POWER ["Great" Power].

The only question is whether the Global Jihad [Nuclear?] will attack + destroy "post-US" wannabe Rising China before it attacks + destroys the US-West.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2012-11-27 19:26  

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