TEHRAN, Iran, May 28, 2008

Iran Threatens To Reduce Nuke Cooperation

Angry Over Critical Report From U.N. Nuclear Agency, Lawmakers Chant "Death To America"

  • Iranian former top nuclear negotiator, Ali Larijani, left, who is newly elected as a lawmaker, listens to Saeed Jalili, top nuclear negotiator, during the opening ceremony of Iran's new parliament, in Tehran, Iran, Tuesday, May 27, 2008. Photo

    Iranian former top nuclear negotiator, Ali Larijani, left, who is newly elected as a lawmaker, listens to Saeed Jalili, top nuclear negotiator, during the opening ceremony of Iran's new parliament, in Tehran, Iran, Tuesday, May 27, 2008.  (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

(CBS/AP)  Iran's new parliament speaker Ali Larijani warned Wednesday that Tehran could impose new limits on its cooperation with the U.N. nuclear watchdog after a critical report from the agency.

Larijani, formerly the country's top nuclear negotiator, was overwhelmingly elected as parliament speaker Wednesday. Moments later, he told parliament that a new report by the International Atomic Energy Agency was "deplorable."

The unusually strongly worded report issued Monday said Iran may be withholding information needed to establish whether it tried to make nuclear weapons.

"We recommend them not to clandestinely keep passing Iran's nuclear dossier between the IAEA and 5-plus-1 group. This parliament won't allow such deception," Larijani told an open session of parliament broadcast live on state-run radio.

He was referring to IAEA reports and permanent members of the U.N. Security Council plus Germany. The council has imposed three sets of sanctions against Iran for its refusal to halt enriching uranium - a process that can be used to generate electricity or nuclear arms.

"Should this behavior continue, the parliament...will set new limits on cooperation with the IAEA," Larijani said.

His comments drew chants of "God is great" and "Death to America" from the chamber.

The tone of the IAEA report, suggesting Tehran continues to stonewall the U.N. nuclear monitor, revealed a glimpse of the frustration felt by agency investigators stymied in their attempts to gain full answers to suspicious aspects of Iran's past nuclear activities.

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Should this behavior continue, the parliament... will set new limits on cooperation.

Ali Larijani, Iranian Parliament speaker
Iran has previously described its cooperation with the agency's probe as positive, suggesting it was providing information requested by agency officials.

Iran's state-run ISNA student news agency reported Tuesday that the IAEA report was "the 12th time IAEA has confirmed Iran's nuclear program is peaceful."

The agency, which serves as a mouthpiece for the government, quoted Ali Asghar Soltaniyeh, Larijani's replacement as nuclear negotiator, as saying: "Once again it has been explicitly emphasized that there are no evidence that Iran's nuclear activities or materials have been deviated toward military intentions."

ISNA did not refer directly to the IAEA's accusation that the Islamic Republic is refusing to provide information about what investigators believe are suspect past efforts, but said the agency had complained about incomplete information, "due to the U.S. pressures".

In the past, Iran had extensive voluntary cooperation with the IAEA beyond its obligations under the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, including allowing IAEA inspectors to visit its military sites as a goodwill gesture to build trust.

But Tehran ended all voluntary cooperation with the IAEA, including allowing snap inspections of its nuclear facilities, in February 2006 after being reported to the U.N. Security Council.

Ever since, Iran has limited its cooperation to only its obligations under the NPT. The treaty does not require Iran to allow short notice intrusive inspections of its facilities.

Larijani didn't specify what measures the parliament would take, but it could include further scaling back cooperation by not responding to questions originating from Western intelligence agencies.

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by shanev137 May 28, 2008 5:47 AM PDT
First!

$50 Euros says that we won''t even have an election in November.

Bush will enact Executive Order 51 staging a coup d''itat and won''t leave office for years.
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by pixelslinger May 28, 2008 5:53 AM PDT
"$50 Euros"

It''s rare that someone convinces me that they are too dim to even bother reading before the fifth word.
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by ahrats May 28, 2008 6:30 AM PDT
If reporting on the Iranian parliment is true "Death to America" then there is only on choice, bomb the nuke plant now as well all their weapon making factories. We do not need to invade Iran just give them a reminder what america can do, if we so choose. Of course to do this we will have to take out their air forces and possible their navy as well.
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by ioweign May 28, 2008 6:45 AM PDT
No shocker here. Of course the libs believe in Iran though when it comes to their nuclear program.

Posted by Repent6 at 06:24 AM : May 28, 2008

You know this how ?

Are you getting your info from the same source as the Iraqi WMDs?

Would you like to buy a bridge too...


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by carlmn2 May 28, 2008 6:48 AM PDT
You would have to be crazy to believe this report. These are the same lies that were printed before Iraq. Iran has gone beyond what is required in the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty. they have earned the right to enrich uranium.
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by carlmn2 May 28, 2008 6:49 AM PDT
You would have to be crazy to believe this report. These are the same lies that were printed before Iraq. Iran has gone beyond what is required in the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty. they have earned the right to enrich uranium. Finally, this is about Oil & Israel. Stop being STUPID!
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by carlmn2 May 28, 2008 6:50 AM PDT
You would have to be crazy to believe this report. These are the same lies that were printed before Iraq. Iran has gone beyond what is required in the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty. they have earned the right to enrich uranium. Finally, this is about Oil & Israel. Stop being STUPID!
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by underdogus May 28, 2008 7:00 AM PDT
Chant "Death To America"
Ahmadinejad your day''s are numbered.....tic,tic,tic
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by rafterman1 May 28, 2008 7:02 AM PDT
===You would have to be crazy to believe this report.===
Posted by CarlMN2

Since the UN has not been very sympathetic to the Bush administration in the past, and even the UN is saying Iran has been playing games, I am willing to believe this report.

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by underdogus May 28, 2008 7:11 AM PDT
B.astards,cowards,traitors,and libs! PREPARE FOR WAR!!
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by fibonacci_gr May 28, 2008 7:29 AM PDT
underdogus really lives for war - what incredible passion
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by arrestbush1 May 28, 2008 7:38 AM PDT
This is all ***. Bush just wants a reason to attack Iran. If Bush attacks Iran we the people should attack the entire Bush family.
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by underdogus May 28, 2008 7:48 AM PDT
prometheus41,fibonacci_gr,ArrestBush1...a b.astard,a coward,and a traitor!..
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by demslie May 28, 2008 7:55 AM PDT
This is all ***. Bush just wants a reason to attack Iran. If Bush attacks Iran we the people should attack the entire Bush family.

Posted by ArrestBush1

According to the UN, (Not a friend of America), IRAN is the world greatest supporter of terrorism. These information does not come from BUSH. IRAN has financed the murder of thousands world wide and is supporting terrorsts in the middle east, Africa, Asia and at least 25 countries around the world and has caused the deaths of thousands of women and children in IRAQ and countless deaths of US Soldiers. And today IRAN wants to build and supply terrorist organizations with nuclear weapons for genocide on a world class scale. And yet, the only thing terrorist loving America Hating Democrats like ArrestBush1 are angry about is George Bush. This is the new "Change for America" that IRAN, Al Qaeda and Democrats are promising us.
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by willymack May 28, 2008 7:56 AM PDT
Stop and try to think. I know this is a challange for some of you that simply like to hear your self rave. Why would Iran object to allowing UN inspectors to inspect their presumeably peaceful use of Nuclear power? Do they think their poor country has a monopoly on Nuclear energy knowledge? No, simply put, they are extortionists, that know you all hate Bush and would sell your own mother for peace at any cost. When Bush is gone, your tax dollars will be extorted to support their dictatorial regiem while they finance terrorists. Move to North Korea ...... climate is better and you love rice anyway.
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by arrestbush1 May 28, 2008 8:11 AM PDT
demslie you are ignorant.
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by arrestbush1 May 28, 2008 8:14 AM PDT
whoops, maybe it''s jamesm12341 that''s ignorant not demslie
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by underdogus May 28, 2008 8:16 AM PDT
freakout1013 ,fibonacci_gr,ArrestBush1...
a b.astard,a coward,and a traitor!..
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by jlmcscanner May 28, 2008 8:27 AM PDT
How on earth is the US ret*rded storm troopers going to attack Iran? You can''''t even beat Iraq and they have no airforce, navy or missiles. Iran already beat you, Iraq, and the EU. And you are more ret*rded now than you were then.


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Posted by freakout1013 at 07:52 AM : May 28, 2008


You are a freakin` loser.. you will be so shocked when we USA destroys the little iranian terrorists in terhan and kill that scumbag leader of theirs...don`t think so ??? Where`s Saddam and Milosivec and all the pathetic little terrorists that we have killed and captured.You losers will be shocked when we get really pissed off and nuke them and end this once and for all.
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by jlmcscanner May 28, 2008 8:54 AM PDT
LMAO!!!! Yea, right through Baghdad and Syria, and Iran, and Venezuela...ha ha ha! Terrorists? You are the terrorists. What are those films with Osama and Zawharii? Why they got woodies? Coming down the mountain? Oh, wait, I think we better go back up... Oh Osama! Oh Ayaman! kiss kiss kiss....


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Posted by freakout1013 at 08:35 AM : May 28, 2008
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You are just another loser foreigner and that is why we will always be US and you will always be them, yes the ones we watch on the news as pathetic wretches.GO BACK under your rock and live like it was 1000 yrs ago.Dumb loser foreigner .....
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by underdogus May 28, 2008 8:59 AM PDT
freakout1013 ,fibonacci_gr,ArrestBush1...
a b.astard,a coward,and a traitor!..
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by springzyp May 28, 2008 9:01 AM PDT
The Republican Guards and Irainian Military defend Iran. You are the ones who are pathetic. Over stuffed spoiled pathetic nazis.
some young and handsome men @ WEALTHY CHAT.com are interested in it as well. Meanwhile, they want to find a rich woman to support and pamper with. Go @ WEALTHY CHAT.com
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by mudrose-2009 May 28, 2008 9:03 AM PDT
NUKE THE BASTARDOS BEFORE THEY NUKE US.
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by jlmcscanner May 28, 2008 9:03 AM PDT
freakout1013,

You are a POS muslim loser and I look forward for the days when we will nuke you backward little men that are afraid of their women and that is why you hold them down.BTW your all terrorists by heart and are sowing the seeds of your own destruction.Total Annihilation through a nuclear fireball will be yours in the near future.Primitive loser.
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by underdogus May 28, 2008 9:06 AM PDT
freakout1013-Jihad Ahmadinejad get ready for a 1001 degree coming soon you b.astards!!
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by reedtaz73 May 28, 2008 9:08 AM PDT
Why threaten with nuks when America is trying to prevent Iran from making them? Some of you guys sound silly.
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by jlmcscanner May 28, 2008 9:08 AM PDT
You number one nazis. The toilet is broke on the commie/nazi space can you super glued together in the upper atmosphere. Or as you like to lie and call it space. Better send up Lisa and her diapers. She can be new US and A super hero - Diaper Women. Better drink more beer and send up some more cans incase the world gets sick of you and you need to escape.



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Posted by freakout1013 at 09:01 AM : May 28, 2008

You muslim scum and those like you can only dream of having a space station like we do, that is why you are stuck on the ground living like rats.I also love the fact the we the USA (Greatest Superpower in Human History) Landed in the MOON that is the cresent symbol of islam...hahahahahahahaha.I can see it now...bye bye muslim loser in a vaporized trail of nuclear smoke......
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by reedtaz73 May 28, 2008 9:14 AM PDT
Golden peanut goddess? *** it....nuke the knuckle dragger!
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by jlmcscanner May 28, 2008 9:17 AM PDT
Primitive loser.
Posted by jlmcscanner at 09:03 AM : May 28, 2008

Elijah discover electricity in 9th century BC. And he even cooked dinner with it. The knights templars stole it. Ben Franklin burn his key and couldn''''t get back in the house...lol.




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Posted by freakout1013 at 09:14 AM : May 28, 2008

Is that what your primitive imam taught you ????? HAHAHA LOLLOLOLOL

What a shame Arabs were great before they were brainwashed by islam fairytale.
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by samrensho May 28, 2008 9:25 AM PDT
If they don''t cooperate then nuke ''em Danno. A neutron bomb just kills the people, then we take the oil.
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by jlmcscanner May 28, 2008 9:25 AM PDT
freakout1013,

Here is some education for you

Thales of Miletos conducted a series of experiments into static electricity around 600 BC, from which he believed that friction rendered amber magnetic, in contrast to minerals such as magnetite, which needed no rubbing.Thales was incorrect in believing the attraction was due to a magnetic effect, but later science would prove a link between magnetism and electricity.

Read that you dumb muslim of you can.OH and use spell check next time.
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by tbweb May 28, 2008 9:46 AM PDT
Iran Threatens To Reduce Nuke Cooperation, then reverse it and let Nuke Cooperation Reduce Iran!
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by jlmcscanner May 28, 2008 9:47 AM PDT
freakout1013,


You are so dumb it is scary,you will blieve anything your brainwash backward culture teaches you.Sorry a.s.s muslim
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by jlmcscanner May 28, 2008 9:57 AM PDT
freakout1013,

How`s the Golan Heights...oh that`s right you muslims lost that territory and every war since the crusades.LOLOLOL.How do you like looking at the moon (Your symbol) and knowing the stars and stripes are on it FOREVER.HAHAHA
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by jlmcscanner May 28, 2008 9:59 AM PDT
You want to make people hate who every you want to invade and steal their stuff.


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Posted by freakout1013 at 09:37 AM : May 28, 2008


You don`t have any stuff
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by dsr57 May 28, 2008 10:03 AM PDT
How on earth is the US ret*rded storm troopers going to attack Iran? You can''''t even beat Iraq and they have no airforce, navy or missiles. Iran already beat you, Iraq, and the EU. And you are more ret*rded now than you were then.

Posted by freakout1013

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Before I start.. Listen, I''m NOT saying I''m for the war, I''m just making a common sense point.

The reason were Not "Winning" as you put it is because were not fighting a WW1 or WW11 type war, we ousted a head of state and trying to not destroy the entire country, you can bet your azz that if we were just there to Annihilate Iraq then it would be done, but were fighting insurgents that blend with the rest of the society.

Again before you all start on me about some dumbsh!t I''m not saying I''m for the war , just a point is all
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by jlmcscanner May 28, 2008 10:04 AM PDT
Hey Repent6,

I bet freak is a muslim convert probaby named Bob Jones from the bronx.
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by dsr57 May 28, 2008 10:05 AM PDT
Bite me you canaanite atheist nazi monkey

Posted by freakout1013

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I usually get mad when people use the word Nazi in their posts but that phrase is just HILARIOUS ! ! ha ha ha ha ha ha
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by jlmcscanner May 28, 2008 10:12 AM PDT
An atheist??????????? HA HA HA! I''''m a Muslim. Old school, when things ended with an ''''i''''. You don''''t get it. You are still in your evolution. Go get some braces for you donkey teeth. Might help speed it up.



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Posted by freakout1013 at 10:08 AM : May 28, 2008

Hey freak... your real name is Bob Jones I bet and you were born here and have no sense of self worth or identity so you converted to islam.LMAO !!!!!!!!!!!!1
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by jlmcscanner May 28, 2008 10:15 AM PDT
My mother try to take me to get baptised at the Roman crusader church to fit in with the neighbors, but I got sick on father donkey humper and had to go home.


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Posted by freakout1013 at 10:13 AM : May 28, 2008

I hit a nerve !!!!!! I knew it you are a phony convert.......
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by joecoolswat May 28, 2008 10:29 AM PDT
"Iran Threatens To Reduce Nuke Cooperation"

how about

"USA Threatens To Reduce Nuke Facilities to Rubble"
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by guad07rg May 28, 2008 10:32 AM PDT
How on earth is the US ret*rded storm troopers going to attack Iran? You can''''''''t even beat Iraq and they have no airforce, navy or missiles. Iran already beat you, Iraq, and the EU. And you are more ret*rded now than you were then.

Posted by freakout1013
If Iran want nuclear power, I say lets give it to them.
How many Megatons would you like with your fries?
Also if the god you worship in the Koran is soooo
powerful. Why does he need fleapickers like you to
slit the throats or people like you. By the way your
virgins are calling..BAAAAAAHHHH
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by jlmcscanner May 28, 2008 10:37 AM PDT
Following the Ottoman Turks and nazis? The Palestinians say the Hebrews took their land, but they took it from the Hebrews in Hebron and Jerusalem. So, it''''s even now. Palestinians? They are Arabs. Israelites just like the Hebrews. I know what is right. I don''''t listen to canaanite nazi donkeys propaganda. Go sell your war *** to yourself and have a civil war. The northern yanking monkeys vs. the southern bunging donkies and leave the Middle east alone. You don''''t need oil. Just drill you fat arses. Fat is resurve energy. You can power the two militaries and have enough for your suv and still need a diet.


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Posted by freakout1013 at 10:31 AM : May 28, 2008


Poor little powerless muslim, go back and live like it was 1000 yrs ago..you primitive p.o.s.
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by jlmcscanner May 28, 2008 10:47 AM PDT
Just remember you outsourced everything, so maybe your nuke gonna fly like a boomarang?




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Posted by freakout1013 at 10:40 AM : May 28, 2008

Just one...that`s correct one Trident Submarine an take all your cities out....can you say Hiroshima ???
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by factsearcher May 28, 2008 10:49 AM PDT
Should this behavior continue, the parliament... will set new limits on cooperation.

Ali Larijani, Iranian Parliament speaker

As if they weren''t buying time to complete their nuclear arsenal... or maybe it''s done!

Between these clowns paying the watchdogs under the table and Russia announcing a threat to US about the missile defense in Europe... what do you think is going on?
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by factsearcher May 28, 2008 10:54 AM PDT
Stop talking about religion...which is one of the reasons for these primitives to fight.....
And stick to the subject of Iran and the nuke arsenal..
I don''t read many postings condemning...ummmh!
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by factsearcher May 28, 2008 10:59 AM PDT
freakout..
quran (pbuh)
allah (pbuh)

what''s pbuh?
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by factsearcher May 28, 2008 11:00 AM PDT
Repent6,
As I said in my posting... religion fanatics are the reason for these primitives to fight.... so I agree with you... but this article is about Iran''s nukes...
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by factsearcher May 28, 2008 11:02 AM PDT
repent6
i don''t think pbuh is what you said... just read where and to whom he wrote it..
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by factsearcher May 28, 2008 11:08 AM PDT
Oh! agreed!
But do you truly think you''re even going to make the smaller dent on his/her ideas of fanatism?
Not even to the ones that move to the US to live... where they can see, fell and experience some diversity and freedom of expression.. of thoughts..
They are extremist radical brainwashed since they are born and oppressed of freedom in so many ways.
So, I prefer to stick to the subject without entering into their primitive world of fanatism

Indeed it is, and as I said, the reason Iran wants nukes is to wipe out Israel and attack the USA, because Israel is predominantly Jewish and the USA is predominantly Christian, and the Muslim "holy" book the Quran calls for the destruction of all Jews and Christians.

The reason Ahmadenijad wants nukes is so he can attack Israel in hopes of hastening the arrival of his "12th imam" or "islamic messiah" called the "mahdi" in shiite islam.

This all has to do with fundamental Islam factsearcher. That''''s why Iran wants nukes! So they can try to eliminate the Jews and Christians!

Add it up.

Posted by Repent6
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