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Subscribe to RSSDUBAI - Iran acknowledged on Tuesday that it was converting some of its higher-grade enriched uranium into reactor fuel, a move that could help to prevent a dispute with the West over its nuclear program hitting a crisis in mid-2013.
Conversion is one way for Iran to slow the growth in its stockpile of material that could be used to make a bomb. That stockpile is currently projected to reach a level intolerable to Israel in mid-year, just as Iran's room for negotiation is being limited by a presidential election in June.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry addresses the current situation surrounding negotiations with Iran over its nuclear program.
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast was asked at a weekly news conference about a Reuters report that Iran has converted small amounts of its 20-percent enriched uranium into reactor fuel.
"This work is being done and all its reports have been sent to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in a complete manner," he was quoted as saying by the state news agency IRNA.
It was Iran's first acknowledgment that it had apparently resumed converting into fuel small amounts of uranium enriched to a concentration of 20 percent fissile material.
Iran's production of that higher-grade uranium worries the major powers because it is only a short technical step away from the 90-percent purity needed for a weapon.
On-off negotiations with the major powers and four rounds of U.N. Security Council sanctions have failed to persuade Iran to stop its enrichment activities, and the IAEA has been refused full access to investigate other suspect elements of the nuclear program.
Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta tells Chuck Todd as Iran continues to enrich uranium there are indications they want to increase their nuclear capability.
Iran denies that it is seeking a weapon and says its nuclear program serves only peaceful purposes such as electricity and the production of medical isotopes.
Critical mass
But Israel, widely believed to be the only nuclear-armed country in the Middle East, has indicated that Iran's stockpile will reach a level in June at which it considers it must attack to stop Iran acquiring enough fissile material for a bomb. With a presidential election taking place that month, Tehran's room to make concessions to foreign powers is limited.
A U.S. official sought to reassure Israel this week on the determination of President Barack Obama, due to visit the region shortly, to curb Iran's nuclear program, according to an Israeli official who declined to be named.
Rose Gottemoeller, acting U.S. undersecretary of state for arms control and international security, "reiterated the Americans' commitment to preventing a nuclear Iran, and their worries about regional proliferation, were Iran to go nuclear," said the official, who met Gottemoeller.
Iran averted a potential crisis last year by converting some 100 kg of its 20-percent enriched uranium into fuel, suggesting to some that it was carefully keeping below the threshold set by Israel, while still advancing its nuclear technology.
It is not believed to have enriched uranium beyond 20 percent. A fuller picture is unlikely until a new IAEA report on Iran's nuclear activity, due by late February.
At schools, in shops, and on the streets of big cities and small towns, daily life plays out in Iran.
Separately, officials from the IAEA are due to hold talks in Tehran on Wednesday in the hope of restarting their long-stalled inquiry into Iran's nuclear program.
The U.N. agency, whose mission is to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons, has been trying for a year to negotiate a so-called structured approach with Iran that would give its inspectors access to sites, officials and documents.
The IAEA especially wants access to the Parchin military complex southeast of Tehran where it believes explosives tests relevant for nuclear weapons development may have taken place and been subsequently concealed, allegations that Iran denies.
'Ready for deal'
Mehmanparast said Iran was ready to come to a "comprehensive agreement" with the IAEA if Tehran's nuclear rights were recognized. Part of this agreement could include a visit to Parchin, he said.
But Fereydoun Abbasi-Davani, head of the Atomic Energy Organisation of Iran, on Tuesday criticized the IAEA's handling of documents related to Iran, signaling the continued mistrust between the agency and Tehran.
"Unfortunately their system is not sufficiently secure," Abbasi-Davani said, according to the Iranian Students' News Agency (ISNA). "They need to be more careful in their interactions with Iran."
Last year Abbasi-Davani accused the U.N. agency of a "cynical approach" and mismanagement, and said "terrorists and saboteurs might have intruded" into the agency.
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Headline:
"Hitler says German intentions peaceful; tells world not to worry, says Jews are welcome."
I first thought this was an Onion headline.
Tenth century desert mindset Shiites' Ayotollahs and rulers are not as smart as Hitler and Nazis.
Just examine: they are not able to handle their pal, Assad against Sunni Syrian rebels.
Even after a decade of battles and sending 14 years boys to battle holy war, they could not defeat Saddam!
The Republican right will continue to insist that Iran is a bigger threat than North Korea. I'd laugh if it weren't so serious.
They are trying to placate the international community. Do they really think the Saudi are going to put up with a nuclear Shiite country. Never mind the Isreali...I wouldn't be surprised if the Saudi are secretly cheering on Isreal. Don't forget the enemy of my enemy is my friend.
The Iranians are walking a tightrope...always probing for what they can get away with. The only way to deal with bullies like Iran is to draw a line and stick to it. Their goal is to rule the Mideast and all the oil with it. I wouldn't be surprised if the Jew hating line is just a ruse to create space with the Moslem countries so that they can continue to develop nukes so that they can use them as they choose.
Hitler's programs were not monitored by the international community. Hitler built a huge German war machine. Iran has no such military war machine. The comparison is ridiculous.
Iran, as a signer of the NPT, agreed to let the international community monitor all of it's nuclear enrichment, thus ensuring Iran would not and could not conduct a nuclear weapons program. Iran has been in full compliance. Enough said.
All the wailing by Israel and Zionists in the US is nothing but false propaganda, designed to make a case for another war for Israel. Sorry, We are not buying it.
Ralph H,
Thanks for your view, but I think you are wrong.
How do you explain Iran's rhetoric? Denying the holocaust, calling for the destruction of Isreal...I don't hear Isreal wanting to eliminate Iran. I hear Isreal taking Iranian rhetoric at face value and preparing to defend (albeit by preemptive action) itself from a country that has vowed to eliminate it. Maybe my ears are not tuned, but I don't hear the other Arab countries speaking up to eliminate Isreal...granted they don't love Isreal, but they are not speaking up.
ED,
Who TF ever said that?
Good comparison Old Time Dem of Iran in the same league as Nazi Germany.Pathological pyschotic murderers ,terrorists and BIG liars.The nazis waved their Mein Kumpfs and the Iranians the Koran.Both brainwashed and both extremely brutal and murderous.! Time to get the Ayatollahs,the Rev Guards and the whole Islamic Revolution very dead in their bunkers like we did to Adolph.Iran is made of the same cloth!
Dick,
It is a matter of the volume of rhetoric from the Right wing. It's 99:1 for Iran.
And if you want to address brainwashing, Bart, consult your mirror.
Old Time Democrat,
"Hitler says German intentions peaceful; tells world not to worry, says Jews are welcome."
Remember at his 1933 chancellorship victory speech he also said he would give the office up as he took it in four years? Then highjacked the government, promoted racial profiling and built up the biggest damn army in the world......Creepy
I always wonder which of our elected officials will try that one day. I hope the difference would be that our military would not follow any of his/her orders.
The official international monitoring community didnt exist back then but you are wrong - the world was watching and monitoring Hitler and the Nazi party. Iran has a large military. Not as extensive as what Hitler was building up but then again Hitler wasnt on the doorstep on making an atomic bomb so he needed an extensive military build up. It is a valid comparison.
Enough said? Iran signed the NPT but doesnt allow inspectors in at all. What good is signing anything if you dont abide by it? Iran has snubbed the IEA every chance they get. Full compliance? I think not.
Another war for Israel? Where was the first one? We went to war in Iraq & Afghanistan over Bin Loadin and terrorists (and oil but w/e) but they had nothing to do with Israel. Even gulf war 1 was due to Saddumb invading Kuwait and the ARAB community asking for our help.
Me thinks you be Iranian Ralph.
Jonathan you are either dumb as a stone or posting propaganda. The IAEA has been inspecting Iran's enrichment facilities right along. The IAEA is only entitled to monitor enrichment, which is does.
The comparison between Germay's war machine and Iran's almost non existent air force, navy and armor is night and day. Germany had one of the finest air forces and navies ever assembled up to that time.
The war in Iraq was planned and sold by Zionists, led by Paul Wolfowitz and Douglas Feith, who planned the war while working for Sharon. They wrote the paper A New beginning -A Plan For securing the Realm, which called for using American power to facilitate regime change in Iraq and install a leader who would be friendly to Israel.
Zionist
warmongers like Ken Adelman and the Zionist Washington Post pushed the war in
an editorial titled, “Cakewalk in Iraq.” Jewish supremacists Richard Perle and
Paul Wolfowitz told you that Iraq would “Welcome us as liberators.” Iraq became
the longest war in American history. Here is a report from USA Today: “Pentagon
officials estimated for the first time Wednesday that up to 360,000 Iraq and
Afghanistan veterans may have suffered traumatic brain injuries.” Now that’s
not counting tens of thousands who have suffered maiming, amputations, or death
in this war based on lies.
The first Gulf war was a setup by George Bush, who sent april Glaspie to tell Saddam the US would have no problem with Iraq attacking Kuwait. Kuwait was stealing Iraq's oil by slant drilling.
The Mossad was providing much of the false intelligence aganist Iraq. Want proof? Just ask.
No more wars for Israel.
Next you will tell me Israel doesn't want the US to attack Iran. You Zionists are liars and war mongers.
You are right Jonathan; ralph is Iranian and a supporter of the ayatolah theocratic dictatorship, a jew hater, and is designated to post radical jihadist propaganda on the internet. That is his job. He has no clue what the word "zionist" mean, but he repeats it often enough, just like his master ahmadinejad. We don't buy his lies anymore.
The North Korean program is hand-in-hand with the Iranian program.
You can rely on Ralph to side with anyone who doesn't like Jews. The more they hate Jews and Israel, the more Ralph likes 'em.
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RalphH: Hope you replied Jonathan F and not I.
farideh: We exchanged some posts and replies. Hope also meant Jonathan F.
He did. Ralph is an idiot. Anyone that uses Zionist is either muslim or a moron. I bet you beleive the Jews control world events too. (Post edit - I reread your post after posting this and guess what - I was right. You are a moron.)
Since when is posting facts considered propaganda? Go google it. You are brainwashed.
My reply was to Jonathan F.
Farideh, please list the Iranian propaganda you claim I post.
I post facts about Iran's legal enrichment of uranium and how all of Iran's enrichment is monitored by the IAEA. How does that constitute propaganda? I am an America and you are an Israeli. How dare you question my citizenship.
Steven -Try to substanciate your claim that the N Korean program is hand in hand with that of Iran. Bet you cannot. You Zionists just throw stuff out there, hoping someone will swallow your false propaganda.
No more wars for Israel.
USA never had to fight any wars for Israel. Israelis have always fought and won their own battles just fine.
USA does however give them money asking them to hold back in return.
May be this time they wont, that will be bad news for Iran.
The Iranians should allow access to all their nuclear instillation's on 2 conditions. (1) :Lifting of all sanctions. (2) Within 1 year Israel must accepted inspection of their nuclear instillation's. If after the 1 year is up and Israelchange their mind, then the Iranians can kick the inspectors out and go back to what they were doing, without the sanction being placed again.
MCR,
Why #2? You do know they have nuclear weapons, don't you? Are you equating Israel with Iran? Do you truly believe that Iran and Israel have the same standing in the world?
Israel has a right to exist and have nukes for defensive purposes.
"But Israel, widely believed to be the only nuclear-armed country in the Middle East, has indicated that Iran's stockpile will reach a level in June at which it considers it must attack to stop Iran acquiring enough fissile material for a bomb."
At the same time, Israel is trying to make a big deal about WMDs in Iran as it did with Saddam before each Iraqi wars.
Israel should focus on Gaza. If it wants to eliminate Hezbollah, it should attack Hezbollah leaving Syria and Iran alone.
It was Pakis, a strategic US ally, who gave stolen nuclear technology to Iran.
Also Iran can get as many nukes as it wants from Pakis.
Israel and Jewish lobby in the US should not join hands with oil rich Sunni rulers, oil companies and their lobbyists and invent some fantasy stories for sanctions on Iranian oil and attacking Syria and Iran.
They should have patience.
Packistan has nuclear weapons, with the technology given to them by North Korea. North Korea just popped another one. Their are nuclear weapons all over the former Soviet Union. The greatest transfer of wealth since the Spanish Conquest has been the purchase of oil by west from the middle east. They have the money to buy nuclear weapons but they also know if they ever used one they would cease to exist. One will just piss some country off, if you can't destroy the country they will destroy you. Every time we do something in the middle east there are unintended consquences. The war in Iraq resulted in the Shia superstate that is Iraq and Iran. Lybia is now home for terrorists that fight in Mali. Nobody is going to attack Israel at a minimum they have over 50 nuclear devices and are crazy enough to use them.. Nobody has to nuke the US we are over extended, 25th in the world for infrastructure, our educational system is coming apart and we have a dysfunctional govt. that can't deal with the debt which will be the final straw. We need to quit being the Israeli attack dog.
DM57,
I think you have it backwards. Pakistan provided N. Korea with nuclear technology. In 1990, Abdul Qadeer Khan exchanged the uranium enrichment technology for missile technology (from Wikipedia). Wikipedia goes on to say that he also provided China and Iran similar technology. As an aside, I was surprised that N Korea had missile technology in 1990...must have been short range tactical because their long range strategic capability is just now being developed.
MCR you have moral dyslexia and see things upside down.Iran is like nazi Germany and Israel. the U.S.Europe and some others countries are like the allies who finally defeated them.Stop standing on your head..THis is 1936-37 in Europe when Hitler could have been stopped.Iran must be confronted and NOW!
DM47: What is the new name to Packistan?
People have called Pakistan Porkistan, Banistan, Killistan and names.
It is Pakis, who sold the stolen nuclear technology to Iran, N. Korea and Libya's Gadhaffi.
Comparing Iran to Nazi Germany is evidence of Right wing brainwashing.
"Iran says it is converting uranium, easing bomb fears"
Oh then....well, (insert awkward silence here)....I guess everythings cool then.
Iran says its all good peeps. We can finally breathe easier.....dip$hits....honestly.
Ed,
"Comparing Iran to Nazi Germany is evidence of Right wing brainwashing."
I am a rightwinger who agrees whole heartedly with you. The shadow cast by the Iranians is much much smaller than the sickness the Germans introduced into civilization in the 1900s.
The difference, however, is that damn nuke thing....in combination with the Iranian Pres spewing off about killin jews and all, the topic is worthy of the attention of the world. Any time somebody says they will pop off a nuke they should be taken at their word and dealt with siwftly.
Though, in all fairness, between the Soviet Union and the US in the cold war days, enough nukes were set off to sterilize the world in the interest of science....I can partially see the Iranian arguement....they just need to, ya know, not want to kill jews and everything would prob be cool.
Troy,
One thing to keep in mind is that leaders in the area are full of bluster. It is mostly directed to influence their own people .They make outlandish claims about their power but as evidenced in the aftermath of Iraq, the claims do not hold up to scrutiny. It is much the same with Iran.
Then why are they adding 3,000 additional advanced centrifuges? They are going for a bomb.
And I am sure you are some parasite that doesn't pay taxes and sits at your community college trying to be the "expert". They are not a threat to the US we have thousands of bombs and let Israel put their big boy pants on and fight their own battles. Stupid fool you don't know crap.
DM--sorry to have triggered your liberal hysteria, but your insults are unbecoming and childish. They are going for a bomb, and when they get one we will see a rush to go nuclear throughout the region. Saudi Arabia will not stand idly by. Priceless.
I vote we supply them all with enough nukes to exterminate eachother, then go in after the radioactive dust settles and take the oil.
DM,
"And I am sure you are some parasite that doesn't pay taxes and sits at your community college trying to be the "expert". They are not a threat to the US we have thousands of bombs and let Israel put their big boy pants on and fight their own battles. Stupid fool you don't know crap."
You are kind of sounding a bit like a stupid fool that "don't know crap" yourself. Like, how to speak English and all.....classic community college characteristic....sorry CC peeps. I know some of you are smart....just not this guy. lol
Procrustes, on the other hand, has a bit of a poetic articulate nature about him. I'd rather read his essay.
Why would we not believe they are telling the truth. They always do----------don't they???????????? We should also believe N. Korea........why would they lie????????
Iconoclast -have we caught Iran insome lies? If so, please list them?
Procrustes - 3000 centrifuges is nothing. They are being monitored, so tell us how Iran will beat the system, which is designed to stop nuclear weapons. Concentrate on Israel, the country that is the greatest danger to world peace.
Prominent Israeli military historian, Martin van Creveld, in 2010 said Israel could
find itself one day forced to exterminate the European continent using all
kinds of weapons including its nuclear arsenal if it felt its demise neared,”
and stressed that “Israel also considers Europe a hostile target.”
“We have hundreds of nuclear warheads and
missiles that can reach different targets in the heart of the European
continent, including beyond the borders of Rome, the Italian capital,” Creveld
said, adding that most of the European capitals would become preferred targets
for the Israeli air force.
He reiterated “Israel’s ability to destroy the
whole world whenever it felt its existence would be doomed to extinction.”
That my friends is the definition of crazy. Van Creveld has close ties with the Israeli military.
Ralph: "Iconoclast -have we caught Iran insome lies? If so, please list them?"
'There was no halocaust. '
That's a pretty big lie.
'We need nuclear capability for power' while sitting on huge oil reserves sounds like another.
Hey Steve, who cares if someone doesn't believe the holocaust figures. It isn't a threat to anyone and it doesn't constitute a lie. I personnally do not give a care who does believe or doesn't believe it, the decision belongs to the individual. Maybe he has more evidence than you and I.
Back in the day, when the Shah was in power, the US was building Iran a nuclear energy power plant. They had oil then, but we still saw their need for nuclear energy. They now have a brand new plant, built by Russia, which requires fuel.
We have oil and gas, yet we also have many nuclear power plants. Iran, as a signer of the NPT, is entitled by international law to have nuclear energy and to produce their own fuel. Israel is not so entitled, because they would not and will not sign the NPT. Israel is a rogue nation, much like N Korea, only worse. Israel has attacked many more countries than N Korea.
Iranian ralph -
Your mission, instead of continue lying for the ayatollahs, should be encouraging the ayatollahs to leave other countries alone and STOP forcing themselves on other governments and STOP subverting other governments and STOP overthrowing secular governments and installing radical theocratic terrorists - like Iran.
Try that for change because your lies don't fly anymore.
farideh - Please list the governments which you claim Iran is subverting. Iran supports the Syrian government. They also support Lebanon. Tell us what government they have overthrown or even attempted to overthrow. You can't name one. Your arguements are plain stupid and lack any evidence
Tom Friedman wrote in a column today, that Iran actively opposes the Taliban. Maybe that is what you were thinking.
By "supports" you meant "controls", right?
Iran will be back to 1,000,000 years BC within 6 months--compliments of a determined Israel and a cowering Obama.
Is this the same Israel that sent jon pollard to the us, or murdered the us sailors on the liberty. I am sorry they are such a great ally, how man died in Iraq, Afghanastan, Vietnam, Korea. They have been a country for all of those wars. Lets see, Brits died in every war but Vietnam, Aussies in every single one, Canadains in every one but Vietnam, they are our allies.
Do you honestly believe that British never spied on us?
Everyone spies on everyone, that's how politics work.
Liberty was an accident, everyone knows it, and only islamists try to claim other vice.
And Israel offered to help in Iraq and Afghanistan, US rejected their help for political reasons.
Yes, Israel is an ally to USA, they supply intelligence to US, share their tech discoveries, and provide training in fighting terrorism, the area in which they have more experience than anybody.
All the islamist attempts to discredit Israel in the eyes of American are idiotic, and become more pathetic with every act of Islamic terrorist and every speech of Iranian leaders.
"On-off negotiations with the major powers and four rounds of U.N. Security Council sanctions have failed to persuade Iran to stop its enrichment activities"
Oil rich Sunni rulers, oil companies, extremist Jewish lobbys and their lobbyists stage managed similar dramas before each Iraqi war.
All invented stories on Saddam's Iraq like "dangerous chemical weapons", "WMDs", "killing of children and women", "about to attack Israel" and so on proved to be pure hoax.
We should ignore barks by Iran. Saddam was barking equally well or better some times!
If we are looking the other way on Paki nukes, what is the big deal about Iran getting nukes?
Iran can get as many nukes as it wants from Pakis.
Just remove sanctions on Iranian oil; crash oil prices and reduce our and Europe's economic problems; and be ready to carpet bomb Iranian nuke areas either directly or through Israel.
Any day, Israel can wipe out Iranian nukes! Just our help to Israel would be more than enough.
Jonathan - Iran is well within it's rights to conduct it's enrichment of uranium. They signed the NPT. Israel doesn't like the fact that Iran is learning how to enrich, but that is just tough for Israel.
The alleged threat from Iran is also a pure hoax. We should remove the sanctions. They do nothing except inflict hardships on the Iranian people.
Let's hear it from UN then.
Iran gets nuclear weapons and everyone and their dog wants to go to war with them. North Korea explodes a THIRD nuclear device, and the world does nothing.
Iran has carried out terrorist attacks on 6 continents and are war criminals in their interventions masss murder threats to other sovereign U.N members .N Korea is dangerous but is not in the same category as Iran which has several officials already indicted in International and Argentinian courts for mass murders. both in Argentina and Lebanon.No one wants to minimize N Korea but Iran is a much more clear and present danger for their region and the whole world. Their international atrocities are all over the net.N Korea while barking loudly is not in the same category!Both have to be watch VERY closely but Iran is more like Hitler in its expansionistic threats.They must be stopped now.With N.Korea..and attack on them is at the moment not necessary With Iran.unless they change drastically, there is very little more time!
Bart - Stuff your false propaganda. A couple of Jewish officials in Argentina got together and charged Iran or Hezbollah, after a botched investigation of some locals. That whole episode is so stupid it is actually laughable.
If you want to stop Iran, join the IDF and have a ball. Just don't try to involve the USA.
iranian ralph -
Now Argentina is pro jewish because you don't like their investigation?? You are trying so hard to put a wedge between Israel supporters and USA, it is obvious and ridiculous. Israel has done their own defense in the past, not one US soldier has ever served on an Israeli soil - unlike muslim wars. The truth bothers you doesn't it?
farideh - I got my information on the attack of the synagogue in Argentina from Wikipedia. It was 2 Jewish officials who started blaming Hezbollah months after the botched investigation of their own people.
What possible motive would Hezbollah or Iran have to be in Argentina, where they do not even speak the language?
Yeganeh Torbati Yes I am going to believe some one with a name like that-and MSNBC. You bet.
Racist much?
So somebody explain to me why a country like Iran would ostensibly need nuclear power. First of all Iran doesn't seem like a first world country where practically everyone has electricity - I'm pretty sure your typical mid-sized city in the USA uses more power in one day than all of Iran uses in a month.
Second, why would a country loaded with oil, wind, and sunlight (they are in the friggin desert, you know) also need nuclear power?
Burning oil to generate electricity is stupid, and wasteful. Oil is only used in this way in extreme conditions like parts of Alaska where there is no alternative. Iran Has lots of uranium and a reactor. They want to have low cost electricity throughout their country, just like everybody else.
Americans have been trained to hate Iran for more than 30 yrears now, but only a small percentage know why Iran hates America.
You really dont' read much do you and obviously have never been outside of the US. Stupid fool, if you are going to have an enemy at least know something about them. Otherwise shut your trailer door and shut up.
DM57,
Please stop with the personal attacks and stick to the issue. I don't blame Iran for wanting nuclear energy. I believe they have other motives which scare me.
Let's simplify everything:
We don't do anything because we don't have to pre-empt everything.
We will wait till some nuclear disaster strikes and then we'll react.
The Iranians' 'technological breakthroughs' all seem to indicate they are master story tellers, but seriously lacking in actual scientific ability. The US actually helped Iran set up their first nuclear reactor in 1957 (you probably didn't know that), and since then, even with a running reactor, Iran has been totally unable to comprehend the entire process and expand on it. France supplied Iran with nuclear assistance in the 1970's before the Shah abdicated, but they haven't been able to capitalize on that, either. North Korea has shared their nuclear expertise with Iran since the middle of the 1990's, but Iran still has no real grasp of what they are doing. What makes this scary is that, when Iran finally does make a nuclear device, they won't understand how it works and will immediately sell it to Al-Qaida to use somewhere else. That is the real problem -- not Iran gaining nuclear weapons, but Iran supplying nuclear material for 'dirty bombs' to all their terrorist buddies. One tactical nuke deployed deep in the Iranian desert (with previous warning and a date and time), would show the Iranian regime what they are fooling with and how it could seriously screw up their camel herding and oil drilling if they manage to detonate one accidentally in one of their own ports or big cities.
But if Iran is presenting an opportunity for diplomacy, should we not try. I mean, give it a fair chance. I mean, rather going there with demands that make us seem superior, though we may be, could we go with propositions of some sort of partnership? Excuse me if I am naive. But so we have forums.
If the fellow you met at the bar bent you over and dry-raped you, then apologized and offered to take you out to make up for it, then bent you over and dry-raped you, then apologized and offered to take you out to make up for it, then bent you over and dry-raped you, then apologized and offered to take you out to make up for it - and what point would you say "No, you'll not dry-rape me again!"
Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Dumbfukistan - they're all the same. They lie to us, befriend us, betray us, lie to us, befriend us, betray us... how many times do we let them do this before we say "No more"?
"This is not a suicide vest, suicide is wrong. This is the Jacket of the Holy Martyr."
The best thing that could ever possibly happen is for a plague to wipe all life from that part of the world overnight. Then there could be peace in the rest.
Know Middle East, No Peace
No Middle East, Know Peace
What is a nuclear reactor, except an above-ground bomb? Anyone remember Three-Mile Island, Chernyoble, or Fukishima? How much anyone want to bet Iran builds a reactor near and upwind of Israel, knowing full well when, not if, it fails and blows, that crap is headed right that way?
Granted, I'm giving the credit for being a bit more clever than they likely are, but you never know... sometimes those sun-baked nuts come up with some pretty ingenious BS... after all, they sold Islam and Oil to the world.. why not "We're really sorry, it was an accident"?
What amazes me is that the same people who yell anti-semite if you ever question Israel are some of the most racist people I have ever heard. The last country to support South Africa was Israel, so who taught who aparteid?
To call Israel "apartheid" one indeed has to be either an antisemite or extremely stupid, there is no third explanation available.
What amazes me more is how few people actually know anything about these blood-thirsty, genocidal people. By their very own "holy laws" or Mitzvahs, they are commanded to commit genocide and murder. But don't take my word for it, you can read them yourselves either here:
596 Destroy the seven Canaanite nations Deut. 20:17
597 Not to let any of them remain alive Deut. 20:16
598 Wipe out the descendants of Amalek Deut. 25:19
or here: http://www.aish.com/h/sh/se/48945081.html
Destroy seven nations and not let any of them remain alive - absolutely no different than what Hitler attempted, except this is based on their own scripture, and Hitler was just a nut.
And to "wipe of the descendants of Amalek" - the "holy approval" of the murder of an entire bloodline?
To quote John Doe: "Only in a world this @!$%#ty could you even try to say these were innocent people and keep a straight face."
And yet, as a nation, we rush to their aid, we pity them, and so many of the christian churches revere and hail them... and it makes me all the more glad to be a pagan.
I have no "holy tenants" to commit murder, or genocide, or to judge the beliefs of others. Rather, I am given a simple to charge - to care for the land, the animals, the water, the air, to offer aid where I can, and prevent harm, to take not more than I need, and replace what I take, that there may always be plenty for all.
The destruction of Canaan was over 3000 years ago, in the era when tribes were wiping each other out on daily basis and motivated by the fact that Canaanites were making human sacrifices.
To use that as an excuse for the crimes committed against Jews centuries later and to call Jews in general "blood-thirsty, genocidal people", one needs to be indeed a product of "a world this @!$%#ty", or perhaps just a peace of "@!$%#t".
Well, that's great news. We can take Iran off the "Things to Do List" and move on. That was easy, and to think of all the fuss we made over the Iranian weapons program.
The nuclear bomb idea was postulated by paper work that a first year graduate student wouldn't take credit for. As for destruction of Israel statement,that was the translation by our news media not what was actually stated. Always wonder why Israel is not a signer of the NPT.
Once more in the in the coming yrs. we will have a war between Israel and the Arabs over which side has the right invisible man in the sky. And if the conflict has nukes involved the religious world could reach a new high water mark for people killed in the name of God.
If Iran REALLY wanted to upset Israel they would instead announce they were converting lead unto Gold.
GOOD One!
+1 because you used the word "unto".
Oops my goofed Jeff :-\
Amazingly,,After years of intense scrutiny, investigations, Satellite surveilance that
can literally read a radioactive isotope from space, Other than accusation by Israel
We still have absolutely NO solid evidence that shows Iran is even contemplating
creating a nuke nor any other type of WMD. Does this sound familiar to anyone??
tell me why again that we trust what Iran says???
Or Israel?
Here we go again; israel thinks it must attack Iran, israel thinks US must do it so that Israelis do not suffer any casualties..
Sounds like a plan, a very good plan indeed....Except one problem; We cannot control/punish our own brat children (israel) at home while we are attempting to punish neighbor's children.
WTF?
That's because our own children did not do anything to be punished for, while our neighbors are threatening our home.
I'm pretty good at Farsi, and the actual quote is "We're all done building our nukes and even had some left over to sell to North Korea, so we decided to convert the leftover uranium to reactor fuel."
I can't believe everyone doesn't do what we order them to do.
The secondary headline should be: Iran fearful of Israeli pre-emptive strike to turn Tehran into radioactive glass, smartly backs down.
Of course, reactors do indeed produce a fair amount of Pu-239.... which is also works just fine as bomb material. I think we'll keep our eyes on Iran, and not just trust them at their word.
"Iran says it is converting uranium, easing bomb fears"
In a related story, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast's pants spontaneously burst into flames, immediately after the announcement. Iranian news sources also spotted pigs flying. Details at 11.