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Iran threatens to quit NPT
2005-09-21
Iran's top nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani has warned that Tehran could quit the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty if it is subjected to the language of force. He said Iran would link its oil trade and other economic business with individual countries based on their support for Tehran in the international standoff over its nuclear activities. "We don't want the path to become more difficult. But if you want to use the language of force, Iran will be left with no choice, in order to preserve its technical achievements, to get out of the framework of the NPT and out of the framework of the additional protocol, and resume enrichment," Larijani said on Tuesday.

He was speaking at a news conference in Tehran that coincided with efforts by Britain, France and Germany to bring Iran before the UN Security Council over "breaches" of international atomic safeguards. "If, in the IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency), they want to talk to us in the language of humiliation, threat or introduce the so-called trigger mechanism or take it to the UN Security Council, we will revise our stance on the additional protocol (to the NPT) and enrichment," Larijani said.
Posted by:Fred

#12  My surprise meter hasn't moved at all. Must be broken.
Posted by: Chris W.   2005-09-21 20:10  

#11  Woid
Bar.
Posted by: Shipman   2005-09-21 17:56  

#10  Iran threatens to quit NPT

Seems to me there's no difference whether they're in or out. A treaty means nothing to them where their nuclear aims are concerned.
Posted by: Bomb-a-rama   2005-09-21 13:48  

#9  Funny you should use mein kampf. I thought about the chamberlain/hitler negotiations when I saw the NKOR thing yesterday. About how Hitler would make a concession, then a demand (sudetenland came to mind)
Interesting negotiating tactic. We are gonna let the NKOR's starve a while so they can think about it.
Iran should quit the NPT. The Afgans want us out anyway, so we need something for idle hands to do...
Posted by: flash91   2005-09-21 10:06  

#8  We don't want the path to become more difficult either, but if you keep talking about disrupting the
world oil market we may just set your ass on fire.
These sandy assholes need a major attitude adjustment, we have let them talk shit for about 3 years now and I think it is high time to put a stop to it. They are the new bully on the block, problem is they don't have the ass to back it up, so the puff up and play tough. When, I say when are we going to show some balls and make a move that scares the shit out of them and makes them straighten up?
Posted by: Whaiter Spoluting1369   2005-09-21 09:16  

#7  We'll need to lose a city to an Iranian nuke first before it does

That won't be enough.

By reacting so slowly and timidly to the anthrax attacks, we've announced to the world that our deterrence threats are empty. We no longer have the guts to defend ourselves, and the world knows it.
Posted by: Robert Crawford   2005-09-21 07:31  

#6  Keep dreaming mac, its a sweet dream for sure, but a dream none the less.
I've long been convinced that the resolve required to do such a thing just doesn't exist in this country. We'll need to lose a city to an Iranian nuke first before it does and then there will still be the lunatic left and MSM there to undermine any defense efforts. Get used to a nuclear armed Iran.
Posted by: JerseyMike   2005-09-21 07:00  

#5  I hope we've got Tehran, Qom, Bushehr, Tabriz, Khorramshahr and any nuke sites we or the Israelis know of already pre-targeted with MIRVed nukes. We're eventually going to need them and it will probably be sooner rather than later. I suspect that it will only take one Axis of Evil country being burned down to nuclear bedrock for the rest of the world to learn that threatening Israel or America with nukes isn't such a good idea. My vote is for Iran, but NKor is awfully tempting as well.
Posted by: mac   2005-09-21 05:51  

#4  Pose by Ali Larijani usually proceeded by a doctor saying, "turn your head to the side and cough." Or, "how's it hangin?"

Moreover, Iran quit NPT about the tine they started secret nuke programs (circa 1980s)
Posted by: Captain America   2005-09-21 03:46  

#3  Wanna pull out of the NPT, Iran? No sweatskis, go ahead. Simplifies negotiations, even with the EUniks. Everyone with a brain knows where you stand, even the EUniks. And how they deal with you and you linkage with other countries to OIIIIIILLLL will let us know how they stand with you AND with us.
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2005-09-21 01:36  

#2  Ah yes, here it is... page 598 of the paperback version of The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich:

For two whole days I sat with my Government and waited to see whether it was convenient for the Polish Goverment to send a plenipotentiary or not... But I am wrongly judged if my love of peace and my patience are mistaken for weakness or even cowardice... I can no longer find any willingness on the part of the Polish Government to conduct serious negotiations with us... I have therefore resolved to speak to Poland with the same language that Poland for months past has used towards us...


They say Mein Kampf is widely read in Dar al Islam.
Posted by: 11A5S   2005-09-21 00:38  

#1  Mullahspeak, Clintonspeak, and Leftspeak for "I DEMAND THE USA ATTACK AND INVADE ME - VOTE FOR HILLARY AND SOCIALISM = CAPITALISM"!?
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2005-09-21 00:11  

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