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2005-09-18 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

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Posted by ed 2005-09-18 20:19|| || Front Page|| [7 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Foreign Minister spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi said Iran was not yet contemplating uranium enrichment but warned that it may change its mind if the country is hauled before the U.N.'s top decision-making body to answer questions about its suspect nuclear activities.

"If you tell us not to do it, we'll do it."

Yeah, like they really care what anyone thinks. I'm betting they'll test something -- possibly inside another country -- before the end of 2006.

Posted by Robert Crawford">Robert Crawford 2005-09-18 21:47|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2005-09-18 21:47|| Front Page Top

#2 If they do get the bomb, I hope they do test it (on their own territory).

That in itself will put an end to the UN, IAEA, EIEIO, and any other vowel agencies thought up by the UN. It will have the added effect of putting egg on the EU's face, dragging them into irrelevance (assuming they haven't already accepted the inevitability that tyrannical regimes, such as in Iran, will get the bomb sooner or later). If Iran gets the bomb, would it still matter anymore what the EU/UN says?

Posted by Rafael 2005-09-18 22:20|| 2005-09-18 22:20|| Front Page Top

#3 The entire sequence of events, an unbroken string missteps really, since the revelation of the Iranian nuke program has been surreal. It would be laughable - and panned, were it published as fiction. The "you just can't make this stuff up" thought has hit with almost every story - going back at least to mid 2003.

Once revealed, in August, 2002 by the "terrorist" org MKO (anti-Shah when founded, anti_Mullahs now), this Dec, 2001, article suddenly made real-world sense - not just the usual Islamic bravado and breast-beating we were accustomed to out of PaleoLand.

To be here, at this point, in this situation, just boggles. If there were two sane neurons to rub together in the entire pile of Black Hats and their minions, they would've kept below the radar. No one would've taken seriously the first reports of their nuke program if they had been cool, smart, cagey. But nope, they just couldn't contain themselves and lie low, they had to bray and bellow. Nukes are Islamic Viagra - or Cialis, if you prefer. Mad Mullahs. Never has a derogatory slur proven to be more accurate. Moron Mullahs would be true, too, but miss the vital element that makes these assholes uniquely dangerous: they are well and truly insane.

Posted by .com 2005-09-18 22:39|| 2005-09-18 22:39|| Front Page Top

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