View Full Version : Iran nearly off the hook.
Ace42
11-15-2004, 01:47 PM
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4013321.stm
Somone should tell that asshole Capone that his personal prejudice is starting to look slightly more ludicrous.
ASsman
11-15-2004, 02:41 PM
Monday, November 15th, 2004
Iran Agrees to Temporarily Suspend Uranium Enrichment
Iran has agreed to temporarily suspend all activities connected with uranium enrichment as part of a deal with the European Union to avert any U.N. Security Council sanctions. We speak with Iranian professor and former diplomat Mansour Farhang. Iran has announced it will temporarily suspend uranium enrichment. In a letter to the UN nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency, Iran said it would suspend all activities connected with uranium enrichment as part of a deal with the European Union to avert any U.N. Security Council sanctions.
On Sunday, Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman said the suspension would be in force until a final settlement is reached but stressed that the freeze was only temporary. He said, "Accepting the suspension is a politically motivated move."
The European Union wants Tehran to give up activities like uranium enrichment permanently. In return the EU could offer Iran incentives including help with a civilian nuclear program and a possible trade deal. Iran has said it will never give up enrichment technology and has denied US accusations that its atomic energy program is a front for developing nuclear weapons capability.
If the enrichment freeze is verified by IAEA inspectors, diplomats said there was almost no chance that Washington could succeed in referring the Iran case to the Security Council when the IAEA board meets on Nov. 25.
The IAEA plans to circulate a crucial report today that summarizes its two-year probe of Iran's atomic program. The report was held up for days while negotiators from Iran and the European Union struggled to break the deadlock in talks.
* Mansour Farhang, Iranian-born author and former diplomat. He served as revolutionary Iran's first ambassador to the United Nations and working as a mediator in the early months of the Iran-Iraq war. He left Iran as a dissident in 1981 and now teaches international relations and Middle Eastern politics at Bennington College, Vermont. He is the co-author of "U.S. Press and Iran: Foreign Policy and the Journalism of Deference" (Univ. of California, 1987) and the author of "U.S. Imperialism: From the Spanish-American War to the Iranian Revolution" (South End Press, 1981).
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/11/15/1448202
Whois
11-15-2004, 02:47 PM
"Fuck THAT! Bomb'em anyways" - Boosh/Cheney/etc
"Fuck THAT! Bomb'em anyways" - Boosh/Cheney/etc Yeah, no matter what Iran does, the US government is gonna find some excuse to attack (oil). 'Nuclear bomb' is failing, 'Regime Change' next, like some horrible, international Parlour Game.
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