Iran: No Stopping Uranium Enrichment

Foreign Minister Calls Demand To Halt Program "Illegal", But He's Ready To Talk

(AP)  Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki reiterated Tuesday his country would never again suspend uranium enrichment — a move that the United States says is essential for Washington-Tehran negotiations.

"Demands that Iran halt enrichment are illegal and illegitimate and based on an incorrect political strategy. This (suspension) will never materialize," the official Islamic Republic News Agency quoted Mottaki as telling a conference in the capital Tehran.

However, Iran is prepared to negotiate about its nuclear program "without any preconditions," he said.

Iran suspended enrichment activities in 2003 as a goodwill gesture toward negotiations with Britain, France and Germany, but it resumed the process in January 2006 when it concluded that the talks were leading nowhere.

Enriched uranium is used to fuel nuclear reactors but uranium enriched to a high degree is used to make atomic bombs.

The United States and some of its allies object to Iran's enrichment process because they believe it is secretly trying to build nuclear weapons.

Iran denies this, saying its enrichment is solely so that it can be self-sufficient in fuel for its Russian-built nuclear reactor.

U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice reiterated this weekend that she would negotiate with Mottaki as soon as Iran had suspended enrichment.

But Washington's making suspension a precondition for talks was criticized by two opinion-makers at a conference on international security in New York on Monday.

Former chief U.N. weapons inspector Hans Blix said the U.S. condition for negotiations was "humiliating" for Iran.

"This is in a way like telling a child: first you will behave and thereafter you will be given your rewards," Blix said.

And a former U.S. State Department official, Richard Haass, who now heads the Council on Foreign Relations, said the call for stopping enrichment should not be allowed to "torpedo diplomacy."

But Haass also criticized Iran for defying the U.N. Security Council, which has repeatedly called on Tehran to stop enrichment.

The Security Council's Big Five members plus Germany began talks on Monday on taking further steps against Iran after the International Atomic Energy Agency reported that Iran had ignored demands for a suspension and instead had expanded its enrichment program.

In December the Security Council imposed limited sanctions on Iran.

[tbweb]

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Hugo Chavez are what happens to the world when common street thugs come to power! The world is left with no choice but to deal with them in a manner they are use to and in a language they understand. God help us all.

[karlimhof]

GW Bush and Dicky Cheney are what happens to the world when common street thugs come to power!

Everyone should take a look at what Ahmadinejad really said about Israel;

"Juan Cole, a University of Michigan Professor of Modern Middle East and South Asian History, translates the Persian phrase as:

The Imam said that this regime occupying Jerusalem (een rezhim-e ishghalgar-e qods) must [vanish from] the page of time (bayad az safheh-ye ruzgar mahv shavad).[8]

According to Cole, "Ahmadinejad did not say he was going to wipe Israel off the map because no such idiom exists in Persian" and "He did say he hoped its regime, i.e., a Jewish-Zionist state occupying Jerusalem, would collapse."[

The building of the BUSH case for war against Iran, starts again, with a lie.

[bluestardad]

President Bush is holding Hostage all the America Troops in the Iraq War Theater by indicating that if Congress Cuts funding for the His Iraq War Plan he will leave the troops over there anyway without supplies and equipment they need, instead of bringing them home. Is that anything other than kidnapping or hostage taking? Supporting the Troops does not mean Supporting the War in Iraq or the Bush Idea of the War in Iraq! There is a difference! It is bad enough that the Bush Administration sent the troops to Iraq on false pretences, ill equipped and ill prepared with no end game plan. The Rovian spin of a Congressional Vote against the Bush Iraq war scenario is a vote against the Troops just validates the Bush Administration resolve to Hold the Military Troops Hostage to his Iraq war plan regardless of the will of America and its elected representatives. Bush In one hand is touting the Red, White, and Blue war on Terror against everyone who attacked us on 911 and on the other hand he is funding Al Qaeda to destabilize other governments in the Middle East! Here is the stream read it yourself!

http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/070305fa_fact_hersh

Just copy up to the Hersh on the news stream this web site is adding a n on the end of the paste!

SO DO SOMETHING EXCEPT SIT ON THE COMPUTER AN COMPLAIN! Write Congress Now! Let them know you are aware of the Secret funding of our enemies! http://www.visi.com/juan/congress/

[formrusmcsgt]

"Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki reiterated Tuesday his country would never again suspend uranium enrichment %u2014 a move that the United States says is essential for Washington-Tehran negotiations."

The US, like Israel, regularly employs this disengeuous approach designed to give the appearance of a desire to negotiate with an enemy.

Just as Israel insists that the Palestinians disavow violence prior to negotiating with them, the US insists that Iran give up it's program prior to negotiations.

Well kids, if the goal is to negotiate a solution, how can anyone expect the other side to provide the solution as a precondition for talks?

Is the US willing to provide a promise of non-intervention to Iran as a condition for talks? Probably not, yet the US insists that Iran fold it's hand ahead of time or there's nothing to talk about.

If Iran folds it's hand there's nothing to talk about anyway, at least from Iran perspective, not to mention Iran gives up it's main bargaining chip in return for what? A conversation?

This approach is not a serious attempt at diplomacy. Anyone who says "give me what I want ahead of time and then we'll talk" is not expecting anything to come from the offer.

It is sheer posturing designed to give the appearance of diplomatic intent and is offered knowing full well that the terms are so outrageous that it will be rejected out of hand.

[bluestardad]

formrusmcsgt; true and well spoken!

[formrusmcsgt]

bluestardad -

Thank you, Sir.

[tbweb]

The only reason Iran is acting cocky like that is because Russia and/or China must have promised them military support if the U.S. attacks! It's most likely Russia since they have already armed Iran with Tor-1's and SS21's despite pending sanctions and the Russian foreign minister is always asking why the U.S. keeps mentioning military action. The cold war looks like its back whether the U.S. likes it or not. The Russians have too much free time, maybe the U.S. should arm Chechnia to keep them busy!!

[formrusmcsgt]

The only reason Iran is acting cocky like that is because Russia and/or China must have promised them military support if the U.S. attacks! It's most likely Russia since they have already armed Iran with Tor-1's and SS21's despite pending sanctions and the Russian foreign minister is always asking why the U.S. keeps mentioning military action. The cold war looks like its back whether the U.S. likes it or not. The Russians have too much free time, maybe the U.S. should arm Chechnia to keep them busy!!
Posted by tbweb at 07:33 AM : Feb 27, 2007

Agreed that Iran knows that they can count on Russia and China on the security council as those two countries are no more interested in faciliting US domination of the world than Iran is.

Iran also knows that Bush is a paper tiger in regards to any serious military options as the US is bogged down in Bush's failures in Afghanistan and Iraq with no end is sight on either front.

Iran also knows that after Bush thumbed his nose at the UN and many of our allies regarding Iraq,that he will be hard pressed to get any support fo an international force.

Bush is bluffing with his cards face up on the table. No wonder Iran tells him, "so what?"

[lars008-2009]

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[formrusmcsgt]

I also respectfully urge my political leaders to actively oppose media efforts which embolden my enemy while demoralizing American support at home.
Posted by lars008 at 07:47 AM : Feb 27, 2007

I see you're still calling for censorship, eh lars?

You have a real problem with the citizens of this country knowing the truth about Iraq, don't you?

[lars008-2009]

The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life. Theodore Roosevelt

[lars008-2009]

formrusmcsgt ........ no haji.... you and cbs and 60 miinutes do...... otherwise they would have told us about this other group..... typical......

[antoniof123]

George and *** are not common street thugs, they are business men. Street thugs know when to get out if it gets to hot. This group acts like it is a board room and they can do as they please because they are the bosses. That is the way the corporate world works. Businesses could never do a better job then the US government look at what happens when you put business men in charge they feel as though they can do anything they want and just past the cost on the to the consumer. I do not know about you but after the savings and loan and now Iraq I am tired of picking up the tab after the Republicans leave me with the bill. How long to pay this mess off we haven't even finished paying off the savings and loan yet.

[karlimhof]

It is sheer posturing designed to give the appearance of diplomatic intent and is offered knowing full well that the terms are so outrageous that it will be rejected out of hand.
Posted by formrusmcsgt

I enjoyed your piece - it's right on the spot !

But you also said : Bush is bluffing with his cards face up on the table. No wonder Iran tells him, "so what?"


Are you so sure he's bluffing? And if all those heavy bombers we sent to Israel not so long ago together with so-called "bunker-busting", were part and parcel of the "plan" ??

[tuckerndfw]

Iran has as much right to nukes as the US or any other nation. And, given the fact the US & Israel have both threatened to attack Iran, it would appear they desperately need them to fend off the credible threat posed by the US & Israel.

[karlimhof]

The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life. Theodore Roosevelt

Posted by lars008

...things that will destroy sanity...lars008

[karlimhof]

to fend off the credible threat posed by the US & Israel.
Posted by tuckerndfw

Yes, but that threat has existed for a long time. It only could become a reality when neocon forces gained power in American & Israel (likud, now katima) at the same time.

What is happening before our eyes was not born yesterday.

[lars008-2009]

iran has as much right to be nuked as any other terrorist state............

just like the frog guy says.......

Chirac threatens nuke terror for terrorism
http://www.indymedia.ie/article/73926

Chirac: Nuclear Response to Terrorism Is Possible
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/19/AR2006011903311.html?nav=hcmodule

[acauble1]

Sadly, we might have to live with a nuclear Iran in the near future.

The U.S. surely does not have the resources to commit to an attack on Iran. Airstrikes alone would not be totally effective, and all they would do is temporarily suspend Iran's enrichment activities. Their resolve to move forward would only be strengthened if we attempt a half-*** attack of any kind.

We also risk the fact that Russia and China will come to Iran's aid, militarily speaking. If that happens, the result would be worse than any single potential terrorist attack with a 'dirty' bomb. Imagine several hundred nuclear warheads raining down on all parts of the world because of the arrogance of the West against Iran!

If the U.S. redirected it's budget to sealing our borders, inspecting EVERY shipping container, as well as security at every public transportation hub in this country, then worrying about a nuclear Iran wouldn't be neccessary. Kill the tax cuts of 2002, redirect our soldiers out of Iraq and put them on the borders and the ports of our own country. Basically, lets get our country's priorities straight for once!

[lars008-2009]

karlimhof.... the fascist nazi Islamic muslim collaborator.....

don%u2019t you just hate these stupid silly little fascist nazi Islamic muslims pretending to be liberal Americans%u2026%u2026 and begging for the usa to leave iraq%u2026..lol%u2026.. they must be really getting their arses kicked%u2026. Hahahahahahaha

[scott4261]

Ahmadinejad really has very little power after the last elections in Iran. And in case the nutjob chorus doesn't know: the majority of Iran's population is under 35 and very westernized. To start a war with Iran would be a colossal mistake.

And if you need any further convincing, look at how well the wars are going in Iraq and Afghanistan.

[karlimhof]

begging for the usa to leave iraq%u2026..
Posted by lars008


we're not begging wimp, we're ordering.

[lars008-2009]

karlimhof.... get used to it haji..... the coalition forces will be in iraq and afghanistan for many many decades.......

i knew you were a stupid silly little fascist nazi Islamic muslim haji..........

don't you have some wives to beat, sisters to kill, lttle girls to rape and kill haji...... better yet why don't you just blow yourself up and get your 72 virgin piglettes.......oink oink........ happy year of the pig haji........ hahahahahaha

[scott4261]

..... the coalition forces will be in iraq and afghanistan for many many decades.......
Posted by lars008 at 09:04 AM

---------

Yeah, because of the actions of the most incompetent president in the history of the United States of America! Oh, lars, WHERE THE HELL IS BIN LADEN?

You go ahead and ride with W over that cliff, you nutcase!

[lars008-2009]

don%u2019t you just hate these stupid silly little fascist nazi Islamic muslim monsyters........

Police protect girls forced to convert to Islam
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=437871&in_page_id=1770

[musty2u]

Turn the place to glass

[karlimhof]

the coalition forces will be in iraq

posted by lard008

what coalition forces do you refer to? oh yeah, 150 bulgarians and 200 poles from Cheney's "new Europe"! A joke - and besides the brits are also on the way home if you didn't notice.

I think with this dwindling "coalition", you better sign up to help defend america - you know, fight over there, instead of here. Go for it - lard !

[acauble1]

"To start a war with Iran would be a colossal mistake."

scott4261:

I agree, but everything that this president has done in the past 6 years has been a colossal mistake!

The best George W could wish for is a diplomatic solution to Iran, similar to the one being forged with N. Korea.

[calliope6]

CBS NEWS BLACKOUT ALERT!! !The number of crucially important stories that CBS (and the rest of the mainstream news) is blacking out is growing daily right now in order to promote "Bush War # 3." While CBS presents discredited "nuke news" about Iran as headlining "fact," here are some stories that have been systemmatically blacked out this week: 1. Five top US generals announced that if Bush gave the order to attack Iran, they would quit as the intelligence has been cooked and this war would be devastating to the middle east AND the US. 2. Seymour Hersh, celebrated investigative journalist, revealed Bush's plan to strike Iran within 30 minutes of his order - the public and Congress having NO say. Hersh also revealed that the White House is actually funding Al Qaeda fighters to foment trouble in Iran. 3. Facts emerging from the Libby trial show that Bush and Cheney were likely directly involved in leaking a CIA agent's name to the press in order to silence criticism of the dubious "evidence" for war against Iraq. All of this should be headlines. So where are they in CBS?
For some real news, check out www.huffingtonpost.com

[acauble1]

karlimhof:

I recently saw the entire list of 'coalition' countries and the amount of "forces" they sent to Iraq, (I can't remember which news site it was). Most of it was an absolute joke, (as you referred to earlier).

I swear, a piddly-diddly country could send in a boy-scout troop and a contingent of janitors and they'd be referred to as part of the "coalition"!

Pathetic!

[lars008-2009]

karlimhof..... your still alive haji???
what you do not believe your mullah's bs about the 72 virgin......... piglettes haji..... hahahahahaha oink oink....... happy year of the pig haji...... you better hurry up before all them virgins piglettes are gone haji......lol

[musty2u]

Just look at that pathetic little *** in the picture; I have flushed better things down the crapper.

[panhandlpete]

The TERRORISTS (whomever they are or where ever they may be) have already won against the United States.
We are no longer the GREAT free society that existed before this Administration took power. We are so free that we must feel like prisoners.....produce ID's every time you fly, sell, buy or enter buildings. Every American citizen will be in a goverment database in the near future (including their DNA), and maybe even some of the illegals that are here.

There is an agenda for this effort and it is not making us secure. If it were, then why is so much effort going into the American Union to have open borders with Mexico and Canada?

Iran is a headline stealer from the real issues at home. If truth be known, Iran probably has already purchased nuclear weapons from Russia.

[lars008-2009]

The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life. Theodore Roosevelt

[tbweb]

I was thinking about the U.S. Government and acknowledge mistakes were made but I still don't want our Government to fail, I still want our Government to do well and be successful. Then I started thinking about my Iranian friends here in the U.S., the ones I went to college with and the merchants I do business with. I love all my Iranian friends, we all have a lot of fun and they are cool to hang out with! But at the risk of stereo typing my Iranian friends, they all have one thing in common. They are all HOT-HEADS!! My Iranian friends have a shorter temper than my Italian friends. If you didn't know them well you would think they were crazy! If the U.S. attacks Iran I have a feeling the Iranians is the U.S. will be a problem! I think the Iranians in the U.S. will do stupid reckless things. The U.S. had better consider the Iranian backlash is the U.S.!! Iranians are buck wild and do crazy sh*t big time!! If the U.S. attacks Iran I know they will freak out and do all kinds of crazy sh*t!! Its just their personality, Iranians are very passionate about what they believe in, religion or otherwise!

[shingles1]

calliope6 - there's also Cheney warning Pakistan to get it's act together on dealing with Al Qaeda OR ELSE THE DEMOCRATS will cut off funding. Sort of a "good cop/bad cop" routine. Which logically then leads to the realization that this means he just acknowledged that the Democrats will be tougher on fighting terrorism that this Administration has been.

[lars008-2009]

panhandlpete..........
you mean it is worse than when franklin d roosevelt locked up all the japanese in america during ww2 skippy........ bush hasn't locked up all the muslims in america skippy..... but you already know that......

[musty2u]

Whimps is more like the term for these jokers. They are not warriors. We have absolutely no reason to fear the fanatic little fools. They are led by a stooge. Waving arms and shouting do not soldiers make. Some of the comments I read here lead me to believe instead of sitting at a computer you should go play with your jacks with the rest of the little girls

[tbweb]

--Musty2U

The real problem is the majority of the Iranian people like the U.S.!! The Iranian Government is the problem, not the majority of the Iranian population, that's the problem with attacking Iran!!

[kaili3]

Iran is a country that lives to kill Americans and I hope Bush nukes them before we get nuked.
And by the way, one of you said Iran has a right to nukes because they need them to defend themselves because we have them.
We have never threatened Iran until they started *** with us. They have no problem killing us,
why should we not kill them.
Nuke them!

[tbweb]

--kaili3

You are right, Iranians do live to kill Americans, but its only about 40% of the population. What about the 60% that like the U.S.? Do we take it out on all of them?

[musty2u]

Yep

[tuckerndfw]

We have never threatened Iran until they started *** with us. They have no problem killing us,
why should we not kill them.

Posted by kaili3 at 09:44 AM : Feb 27, 2007


Here you go, Sparky, educate yourself:


"Operation Ajax (1953) (officially TP-AJAX) was a covert operation by the United Kingdom and the United States to remove the democratically elected nationalist[1] cabinet of Iranian Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadegh from power, to support the Pahlavi dynasty and consolidate the power of Mohammed Reza Pahlavi in order to preserve the Western control of Iran's hugely lucrative oil infrastructure[2]."

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Ajax

Mohammad Reza Pahlavi became fondly known as the "Shah of Iran" and after over 25 years of his brutal dictatorship, the Iranian people overthrew him in 1979.

Installing a brutal dictator, who was far worse than Saddam Hussein ever was, could be considered threatening to the Iranian people.

But, don't feel badl, ignorance is a trait commonly shared by all Bush bootlickers.

[kaili3]

Some of you people really believe Iran is nothing
to be afraid of. I hope you all feel the same way when we get nuked, then tell me how much you love that stupid country.

[kaili3]

Honey I do not care how many of them 'love' us.
The majority hate us , Iran should be xx out because they will do it to us soon enough.
Personally, I think he is trying to get us to attack him first, then he is justified in using
nuclear weapons.

[kaili3]

Go screw yourself tuckerndfw

[kaili3]

and by the way,Sparky as you like to call me,
What I'm saying is Recently. No one has bothered them in recent years. I believe they are trying to taunt us into battle. I'm afraid if Bush does
not do something we are going to die.

[us_infidel]

Go ahead, Iran....develope it. And the second we can trace a nuclear weapon of any kind back to your pathetic country, we will bomb you from air, land, and sea for the next 10 years. Fair enough?

[kaili3]

Hey,I like you USinfidel,my thoughts exactly, if
they want to mess with us ,I say we give it back and 10 times harder.

[tuckerndfw]

What I'm saying is Recently. No one has bothered them in recent years. I believe they are trying to taunt us into battle. I'm afraid if Bush does
not do something we are going to die.

Posted by kaili3 at 10:09 AM : Feb 27, 2007

Iran poses no threat to the US. Your fears would be better focused on the lunatic in the White House. He is a far more serious threat to the US & world than anyone else.

Attacking Iran will only increase the threat of "terrorism" against US targets by another 1,000% and is a stupid idea since Iran wants to be an ally, not an enemy.