Monday, October 27, 2008

Is Iran Getting Nervous About Its Nuke Program?


Hmmm....here's a story out of Reuters that is showcasing Iranian complaints that the six major countries in the U.N. that have been involved in Iran's nuclear sanctions haven't responded to the Iranian proposals and quite frankly, I see this whining by Iran as a good sign that they are starting to feel the heat. In other words, they haven't heard a word back on their assinine proposal and thus, they are getting a bit nervous. No new isn't always good news.

Here's some of the details of the article:


Iran's U.N. ambassador said on Monday that six world powers have never responded to Tehran's proposal for negotiations without pre-conditions aimed at resolving its nuclear stand-off with the West.
Instead, Iranian Ambassador Mohammad Khazaee told a meeting of the U.N. General Assembly, a small group of countries continued to insist that Iran halt its uranium enrichment program, a demand that he said violated international law.
"The 5+1 Group has yet to provide its response to Iran's proposed package," he said, referring to a proposal for talks delivered in May to the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council and Germany.
"The policy of few powers in insisting on suspension as a precondition for negotiations bears zero relation to realities and is an irrational and failed policy," Khazaee said.
He said that instead of imposing economic penalties on Tehran, which has been hit with three rounds of U.N. sanctions, "a solution that is based on realities ... should be pursued."
The reason that the 6 countries of Russia, China, France, Great Britain, Germany and the United States haven't responded is because the Iranian's proposal says that they will NOT stop enriching uranium during the negotiations. Simple as that. It is a critical piece to the U.N. proposal and one that the Iranians will not bend on.

So, there we have it. Iran chooses to continue the enrichment process, they get no response to their proposal and hopefully, Israel is set to take the damn nuke facility out with the blessings of at least the U.S. , Britain and France. Don't think for one minute that the Iranians don't think something is up. They feel it and this is a sign that their palms are getting sweaty.


Iran says snubbed by six powers on nuclear offer

In the counterproposal, Iran called for cooperation to combat "common security threats" such as terrorism, "militarism" and drugs, and for developing international uranium enrichment consortiums in various countries, including Iran, to foster nuclear energy for development.
Tehran has suggested such a consortium on its soil before, ostensibly to defuse fears it might covertly divert enrichment technology to bomb-making. But Western powers have rejected the idea, mistrusting Iran over its record of nuclear secrecy.
Khazaee dismissed suggestions that Iran's atomic ambitions were anything but peaceful and made clear that Tehran had no intention of compromising on the issue of uranium enrichment.
"The demand for the suspension of enrichment is illegal ... and in contravention of the provisions of the NPT (nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty)," he said. "The Iranian nation will never accept illegal demands."
Mohamed ElBaradei, director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna, told the assembly his inspectors were not in a position to verify that Iran is not engaged in any secret nuclear activities.
In comments that echoed ones he made last month to the IAEA board of governors, ElBaradei said Iran should help the agency clarify intelligence reports alleging it had previously engaged in research on how to manufacture an atomic weapon.
Khazaee dismissed the intelligence reports, which the IAEA received from the United States and several other countries.
"What has been characterized as alleged studies (of nuclear weapons) are nothing but fabricated documents given to the agency by a certain country," he said, adding that Tehran has never received copies of the intelligence reports.

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