indeed.. their is tyranny and oppression in many areas.. in an interesting twist sometimes those who suffer from the same end up being the worst offenders of the same....
Iran 2
Sun, 2010-01-03 19:33
#52
Sun, 2010-01-03 22:40
#53
thank you sanizadeh for the link. i am still finding it does not actually quote the full text of the message however. all media are reporting that Iran wants sale or swap in batches. the spin elsewhere is that the 'west' wants the swap all at once to make sure Iran hands it all over- so they can't retain some to make a bomb in the meanwhile. some media have pointed out that it takes years to enrich uranium, so this is a fake concern of western countries. all the uranium would be transferred.
i was wondering if there was any more detail in what was said that could explain why there is such a standoff. it kind of seems like two cowboys facing off across a dusty street. just macho behaviour.
the other question i had was regarding the transfer of Iran's uranium with Russia or France for enrichment. Cameco here does business with Russia as per their website, and has a stated mission of becoming the world's pre-eminent processor. Also, if Canadian nuclear assets are sold off by Harper, Areva of France/North America could be involved in as its buyer. Areva was interested in bidding earlier, as was GE based in the US.
the point is that, whether Canada is directly involved or not at present, it could be, and it's looking like other companies/countries are simply pressuring Iran to give them profits by forcing Iran to use their facilities for the processing.
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and Fidel, your flippant comments around mental health conditions are offensive, as is your belligerent tone.
Sun, 2010-01-03 22:58
#54
And I am deeply offended by your anti-Cowboy, Russophobic, and thinly-veiled pro-NATO warmongering commentary. Because I happen to respect cowboys and Russians while harboring great disdain for war criminals and bad history telling in general.
Mon, 2010-01-04 08:46
#55
there is nothing Russophobic about stating the fact that proposals were to go through Russia, or France, while stating the fact that Canadian companies do business with uranium processors there, our CANDU wing is about to be sold off, possibly to those who are also bidding for Iranian processing, and thus we could be very directly involved in the transport of hazardous uranium around the planet. I am concerned about a) powerful leaders' blame game to cover for their real motive of corporate profits, which needs to be discussed, b) the fact that all of the actual words of Iran's option have not yet been made public, that events and statements are escalating when de-escalation of any nuclear conflict, anywhere, needs to happen, and c) the lack of the actual text of the statement contributes to a picture of conflict between cowboys which simply feeds stereotypes and one-upmanship. Perhaps I should have noted that real cowboys spend more time working together than facing off with guns. so the media presentation is entirely false.
Mon, 2010-01-04 09:12
#56
Agreed, thanks. And Zane Grey's cowboys (the only kind I ever identified with, very early on) were "straight shooters". But I am so afraid of what will happen if the straight goods are not laid out on those bargaining tables. It's beginning to look like our own CANDU heavy water technology was doomed from the start - too vulnerable to system failure - and we'll fall back on someone else's manufacturing (what else is new). But it would be wonderful to have Iran in the nuclear power club and the creation of a world nuclear power club as part of a movement toward a nuclear weapon free world.
Mon, 2010-01-04 12:38
#57
what are you talking about a "world nuclear power club"?? very scary.
I came to the thread here to say that Cameco, from it's own website states,
"The Port Hope facility is also the world's only commercial supplier of natural uranium dioxide (UO2) conversion services needed to produce fuel for Candu nuclear reactors." http://www.cameco.com/fuel_and_power/
They also do conversion with different uranium inputs creating other products with materials from trading partners around the world.
Whether or not CANDU reactors continue to be used per se, or replaced with whatever the new private owners want, the residents of this country will be subject to hazardous uranium transfers over which they have no control. The more uranium and reactors are privately owned and trade, the more they fall under the trade agreement provisions governing corporate and investor rights- which to date have trumped environmental regulation. Appointed, unelected WTO and NAFTA tribunals have consistently ruled in favour of polluting corporations. Its completely undemocratic, as well as sickeningly unhealthy.
The people of Northumberland County, including Indigenous Councils who are very concerned, now have to face the building of a new nuclear waste disposal site, right near highway 401, with a flimsy liner whose half-life is far surpassed by the longevity of the radioactive waste it purports to 'cover'.
The leakage from Cameco's processing plant right on Lake Ontario continues to be a hazard for the lake and the historic waste continues to be a hazard for residents, and for groundwater, wherever it is dumped. The last thing we need is more radioactive carcinogenic uranium products transferred around, between any countries. More of it is sure to end up in our backyard, in some form or other, with current business practices and trade law.
Harper should never be allowed to privatize the nuclear industry, nor to expand the power of financiers in trade or banking regulation or procurement. He has to be voted out of office.
Mon, 2010-01-04 13:24
#58
Nuclear power in Canada amounts to a huge taxpayer-funded subsidy for an unsustainable old world economy as well as being totally unnecessary. Canada is a net exporter of massive amounts of hydro-electric power to corporate America dictating our national energy policy and like they want to do with Iran. Canada's vast energy reserves are siphoned off to that giant terrawatt lightbulb south of us, and our stooges have nothing to show for it but bottomless nuclear money pits in Ontario.
Mon, 2010-01-04 14:36
#59
You folks have not heard about the threat of atmospheric CO2. Everything on Earth and in political discourse in its neat little, historically irrelevant compartment, of course. Events from 1917 to 1945 are clearly the most meaningful for life on Earth today.
Iran, of course, is on the right course...if they can just place someone in charge who is not also concerned only with a narrow view of history (and Islam).
Mon, 2010-01-04 16:39
#60
We should be working to roll back the nuclear industry as a whole. The money from the civilian nuclear industry could go to clean alternative energy and conservation programs. Without the civilian nuclear industry providing the waste materials and conversion products for DU ammunition and nuclear weapons produced by the US and other countries, there wouldn't be any nuclear weapons.
The civilian nuclear industry, in its hazardous mining, processing, and waste disposal practices, and accidents, is becoming as much as threat to domestic and global health as nuclear bombs. Civilian nuclear production itself, in Canada and elsewhere, is a weapon against people and planet.
We should be limiting our own production, certainly not privatizing it.
Further, neither we nor our media should be promoting a situation where other countries are forced into expanded partnerships with private corporate uranium traders. The trade deal provisions- giving undemocratic power to a few private profiteers- get locked in with public-private-partnerships and cross-border trade. At least the people of Iran have a chance to keep their own nuclear industry under some kind of domestic control if they do their own processing.
As for oil issues, the uranium should be kept in the ground as much as oil should be kept in the ground.
Both are hazardous to the planet's health.
There are many alternatives, less costly to all.
Mon, 2010-01-04 17:01
#61
Iran, of course, is on the right course...if they can just place someone in charge who is not also concerned only with a narrow view of history (and Islam).
But Uncle Sam loves Islam and especially militant Islam according to US whistleblower Sibel Edmonds and a number of US, Canadian and commentators from Pakistan and Afghanistan. I think Iran has been forced between a rock and the CIA&Pentagon capitalists ever since they toppled Iran's democracy in the 1950's. The idea is to keep as many countries as backward and undemocratic and as under-developed and divided as possible. And there are many more examples than just Iran. It's become an established pattern.
Mon, 2010-01-04 17:20
#62
Your position may turn out to be the correct one, thanks.
Your love for Uncle Sam has been duly noted, Fidel.
Mon, 2010-01-04 19:34
#63
I like to think of it as love for history. I am not a professional, I admit. I only repeat what historians have written and people who've lived recent history in various countries have to say. I find there are sometiems glaring differences in history as recorded in text books published in Texas and NYC compared to the rest of the world, and often the largest differences are with countries where certain historical events are recounted. 9/11 is a good example where nationals of several countries were involved, and there is no real consensus as to exactly what happened.
Mon, 2010-01-04 21:46
#64
Frustrated Mess
I like to think of it as love for history. I am not a professional, I admit. I only repeat what historians have written and people who've lived recent history in various countries have to say. I find there are sometiems glaring differences in history as recorded in text books published in Texas and NYC compared to the rest of the world, and often the largest differences are with countries where certain historical events are recounted. 9/11 is a good example where nationals of several countries were involved, and there is no real consensus as to exactly what happened.
That would make you a student.
Sun, 2010-01-10 18:52
#65
Doug Saunders, the Globe's man in Europe and the Middle East appeared on Saturday's op-ed with the best-reasoned piece that I have come across. With the regime's killing of protesters on the holy day of Ashura - something which even the late much-hated Shah avoided doing - "everything has changed"..."And the excalating cycle of protests and repressions, very likely to reach a new plateau on the Jan. 16 anniversary of the 1979 revolution, has become something separae from the election unrest of last year.
"Before, people including me were trying to say that it's just a limited election dispute," says Ali Ansari, a respected historian of Iranian politics. The election no longer matters..."
Saunders points out that "This is not the Iran of 1979. It is thoroughly middle-class, with one of the east's highest university-education rates. There are 25.5 million registered Internet users in a country of 75 million; there are 50 million cellphone users. Iranians know very well what the alternatives are."
In summation he says"Iran has come close to a major transformation several times: In the mid-1980s, and then at the beginning of the last decade. Those movements were only halted by outside forces: Saddam Hussein's attack and the war that followed; George W.Bush's 'axis of evil,' which brought Mr. Ahmadinejad to power. To throw a bunker-buster bomb in the middle of democratic change now would be a historically wasted opportunity."
Sun, 2010-01-10 19:13
#66
Iran's problem isn't unique. The US is another country where a billionaire oligarchy prevent democratic alternative presidential candidates access to ballots. Obama fully understood that he would owe political favours to some of the same superrich Americans who guided dubya and hawks to power before him. The CIA should get the hell out of Iran and stop meddling.
Sun, 2010-01-10 19:53
#67
Clearly the work of CIA agents provocateurs, potting the rioters and fomenting real revolutionary spirit. Thanks, Fidel.
Sun, 2010-01-10 20:49
#68
Our trade partners also assisted one of those 'outside forces' Saunders identifies. Saddam was armed to the eye teeth by various western countries and their private enterprising weapons dealers including Canadian companies. There was some flap about Canadian Gerald Bull in the 1980s, a pawn of the CIA and weapons dealing sponsored by US hawk Barry Goldwater his bad self. Maggie and GHW Bush lied to their respective houses of parliament concerning who dealt with and supplied Saddam with high tech weaponry, chemical and biological WMD, military satellite information to step-up the organized murder of Iranians to a frenzied pace. I wouldn't trust the jackals. I don't think anyone does.
Mon, 2010-01-11 15:30
#69
What do you think is going to happen in Iran on the anniversary of the revolution, Jan. 16, Fidel? And, just for fun, what SHOULD happen?
Mon, 2010-01-11 19:50
#70
Iran Diplomat Says Was Tortured in US Custody
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=115897§ionid=351020101
"An Iranian diplomat who was detained by the US military in Iraq and held for more than two years, says that he was tortured while in American custody.."
Mon, 2010-01-11 20:19
#71
What do you think is going to happen in Iran on the anniversary of the revolution, Jan. 16, Fidel? And, just for fun, what SHOULD happen?
During the cold war it was said that if the red menace didn't exist as a threat to the west, then the CIA and US Military would have to invent it. Militant Islam was the perfect replacement enemy. Our warmongers prefer political reactionaries to revolutionaries. US and British fundamentalists prefer working with other fundamentalists and have worked hard to create it where there isn't any as a deterrent to social democracy. They love Ahmadinejad, and this is why US hawks will wage genocidal sanctions against Iran in order to unite Iranians under Ahmadinejad's rule and against the great satan. Iranians must also learn to love to hate, or do anything but rebel against the miltary-industrial complexers' valuable and irreplaceable enemies in Tehran.
Tue, 2010-01-12 10:02
#72
A physicis professor and (it's believed) supporter of the movement for change is killed by a bomb on his way to his university office this morning in Tehran. It would seem the forces of reaction are indeed serious. And Jan. 16 is shaping up to perhaps be a very interesting day. Just hope that they do more than rap the knuckles of the President's supporter who was judged guilty of killing some protesters by locking them into a present-day version of the Black Hole.
Tue, 2010-01-12 12:41
#73
Why is it this thread reads like two groups who refuse to listen to the actual arguments being proffered. Seems to me there are two undeniable sets of facts that are not mutually exclusive. The Americans are doing everything they can to destabilize the Iranian government and the Iranian people don't trust either the current government or the Americans and are out in the streets on their own.
Arguing that one or the other of these scenarios is right is missing the point. The real question to me is how are these realities playing out because it seems to me they are both happening in lock step.
Tue, 2010-01-12 13:16
#74
Why is it this thread reads like two groups who refuse to listen to the actual arguments being proffered. Seems to me there are two undeniable sets of facts that are not mutually exclusive. The Americans are doing everything they can to destabilize the Iranian government and the Iranian people don't trust either the current government or the Americans and are out in the streets on their own.
That's a fair assessment of the situation IMV. Although I am not sure whether they really want to completely destabilize (as opposed to a farce show) and how much the Ahmadinejad government has really hurt US or Israel, recalling that Daniel Pipes (and many other Israeli commentators) had stated before election that Ahmadinejad's re-election would be greatly to Israel's benefit.
Tue, 2010-01-12 19:31
#75
A physicis professor and (it's believed) supporter of the movement for change is killed by a bomb on his way to his university office this morning in Tehran. It would seem the forces of reaction are indeed serious. And Jan. 16 is shaping up to perhaps be a very interesting day. Just hope that they do more than rap the knuckles of the President's supporter who was judged guilty of killing some protesters by locking them into a present-day version of the Black Hole.
George, do you think the USA - our largest trade partner in crime - does not have excecutive death squads running around the world bumping people off? Secret prisons for torture? Who advised the Shah to create the dreaded SAVAK? BRAC in Havana? Tonton macoutes in Port Au Prince? DINA in Santiago? Etcetera?
George, we're talkin' ruthless mofos at this level of politics. Gangsters with nukes actually. And right brutal bloody bastards they have been.
Wed, 2010-01-13 04:52
#76
Pipeline Geopolitics: Major Turnaround, Russia, China, Iran Redraw Energy Map
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=16932
"The inauguration of the Dauletabad-Sarakhs-Khangiran pipeline in early January connecting Iran's northern Caspian region with Turkmenistan's vast gas field may go unnoticed amind the Western media cacaphony that it is 'apocalpys now' for the Islamic rgime in Tehran.
We are witnessing a new pattern of energy cooperation that dispenses with Big Oil.."
Wed, 2010-01-13 21:02
#77
"The semi-official ISNA news agency quoted Tehran prosecutor Abbas Jafari Dolatabadi as claiming foreign spy agencies were involved" in the bombing death of the Iranian physicist Masoud Ali Mohammadi on Tuesday. Although everyone else said that Ali Mohammadi had no known ties to Iran's nuclear program, and whose work was entirely theoretical, Iran's state TV said "since Ali Mohammadi was one of the scientists of physics and nuclear energy, most probably intelligence services and elements of the Mossad and CIA had a hand in this association. Iran's Foreigh Ministry also accused Israel and the U.S. of involvement.
According to the story by Brian Murphy and Nasser Karimi, out of Tehran, "Iran also directed suspicion at the People's Mujahedeen Organization of Iran," the exiled opposition group living in isolation in the desert of eastern Iraq. "Tabnak, a conservative website close to Iran's ruling extablishment, said the group carried out the attack under direction of Isreli agents."
The physics progessor had publicly backed Iran's opposition leader, Mir Hossein Moysavi before the June, 2009 presidential election.
A cut and dried case against the CIA and Mossad, obviously. :D
Wed, 2010-01-13 21:04
#78
A few things are known for sure.
Both the US and the Iranian governments have spy agencies that are willing to kill to further their states objectives and all spies lie if it is too their advantage. Good luck in figuring out from the other side of the world whose nasty operatives committed this murder.
Wed, 2010-01-13 22:21
#79
Good luck in figuring out from the other side of the world whose nasty operatives committed this murder.
Who in their right minds would send a covert death squad to murder Iranian scientists, or dozens and dozens of Iraqi scientists, Hussein's former bureaucrats, academics and doctors for that matter? If the Russians were involved, we would know exactly who did it, we can be sure. In this case, it's a total caper.
Thu, 2010-01-14 01:31
#80
Good luck in figuring out from the other side of the world whose nasty operatives committed this murder.
This is a most bizarre case. Even inside Iran most have a hard time coming up with a motive for his murder by any side. Not an amateur job either, based on the reports by Iranian media.
Thu, 2010-01-14 04:09
#81
Let's see now...[url=http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=13603]these guys[/url] are looking pretty good for it. $50 billion for black ops, or what they admit to anyway. The Pentagon still won't submit to a federal audit because the books are so cooked. Or at least, not until 2016 they've said. McChrystal was promoted from his role as head of JSOC, Bush's excecutive death squad, to heading up the military.
Thu, 2010-01-14 11:34
#82
Fidel while America is the leading suspect in my mind as well, I also still believe in the legal principle that just because we know they have murdered others doesn't necessarily mean they committed this specific murder. On a jury I would likely in a civil suit say that the balance of probabilities favours the Yanks and thus rule against them but in a criminal case I don't see any beyond a reasonable doubt type of evidence.
Thu, 2010-01-14 14:15
#83
Principles, sminciples...you understand what you are undermining here, k'51? :D
Thu, 2010-01-14 14:55
#84
I think US taxpayer funded hitmen did it to help out Ahmadinejad. They really do admire him and wanna protect him from democratic forces in Iran. Pentagon capitalists want to see more 'death to America' protests broadcast around the world. They love it when that happens. And the energy companies and speculators love Ahmadinejad, too. cha-ching big time. It's all about free markets.
Wed, 2010-02-10 19:47
#85
Canada to Push G8 For More Iran Sanctions
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=118368§ionid=351020104
Iran Summons Canada Over Ex-Ambassador's CIA Links
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=118360§ionid=351020101
Fri, 2010-02-12 10:17
#86
Remarkable paucity of news and comment on events in Iran, today. I doubt that condition will prevail, unfortunately.
Perhaps this BBC story partly explains the phenom:
Three major international broadcasters have strongly condemned Iran for its "deliberate electronic interference" in their broadcasts.
The BBC, Deutsche Welle and Voice of America said the jamming began on Thursday as Iran marked the 31st anniversary of the Islamic Revolution.
They said Iran was broadcasting freely around the world while denying its own people programmes coming from outside.
Earlier, the US accused Iran of using a "near-total information blockade".
A state department spokesman said there were strong indications that the telephone network had been taken down, SMS messages blocked, and internet communication "throttled".
"Iran has attempted a near total information blockade," PJ Crowley said.
" We will not stop broadcasting accurate and impartial news and current affairs into Iran "
Joint statement by the BBC, Deutsche Welle and Voice of America
"It is clear that the Iranian government fears its own people."
White House spokesperson Robert Gibbs meanwhile said that the web giant, Google, and other internet service providers had been "unplugged" in Iran.
Reporters Without Borders says the blocking of Google's Gmail e-mail system takes the drive to control cyber-space to a new stage.
But the organisation claims that most Iranian internet users know how to sidestep censorship and access blocked websites.
Correspondents say a number of governments - notably China and Burma, as well as Iran - make strenuous efforts to block modern internet communications among their opponents.
'Accurate and impartial'
The BBC, Deutsche Welle and Voice of America said the Iranian authorities' jamming was affecting services on the Hotbird satellite, which covers audiences across Europe and the Middle East.
These include BBC Persian Television, the Voice of America Television Channel in Persian and Radio Farda; and Deutsche Welle's Television and Radio services. BBC World News - the English-language channel - was also jammed.
"We condemn any jamming of these channels. It contravenes international agreements and is interfering with the free and open flow of international transmissions that are protected by international treaties," the broadcasters said in a joint statement.
"The Iranian authorities are using the same satellite services to broadcast freely around the world including broadcasts in English and Arabic; at the same time they are denying their own people programmes coming from the same satellites from the rest of the world," they added.
On Thursday, a day-long security clampdown in the Iranian capital Tehran succeeded in preventing large-scale opposition protests as the nation commemorated the Islamic Revolution.
The opposition turnout was dwarfed by huge crowds at the state-run celebrations in the centre of Tehran.
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad addressed the rally, saying Iran was now a "nuclear state" ...
Fri, 2010-02-12 11:05
#87
'Referendum, Referendum', this is the People's Slogan
http://palestinethinktank.com/2010/02/12/nonviolent-protest-continues-ac...
"The coup d'etat government of Iran must step down as the constitution must be rewritten according to the wishes of the people. That is what the people of Iran are demanding on the 31st anniversary of their 1979 revolution.."
Sun, 2010-02-21 09:42
#88
Again, all (relatively) quiet on the Iranian front, but could we "use up" this thread for some kind of sporadic attempts at continuity in postings, NDPP?
Mon, 2010-02-22 13:51
#89
Will US-NATO Start WWIII By Attacking Iran? (vid)
http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=17720
"What Iran says hardly matters because the US is planning for war.."
Tue, 2010-02-23 13:30
#90
Excellent analysis of the "Orientalism and Imperialism" of the forces supporting "democracy" in Iran while pushing regime change. Edward Herman scores again
http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2010/hp200210.html
Sat, 2010-02-27 02:17
#91
re: Peterson and Herman
An Iranian Socialist Replies to Ed Herman and David Peterson:
http://louisproyect.wordpress.com/2010/02/22/an-iranian-socialist-replie...
Iran and Cultural Imperialism
http://louisproyect.wordpress.com/2010/02/24/iran-and-cultural-imperialism/
Jundallah arrest proves timely for Iran
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/LB26Ak01.html
"The fact is that Tehran has put Washington on the back foot at a critical juncture. Rigi is bound to spill the beans - he may already have begun - and much is going to surface about the covert activities by the US forces based in Afghanistan to subvert Iran by hobnobbing with Jundallah, which, incidentally, is also known to have links with al-Qaeda.."
Sat, 2010-03-20 20:50
#92
Iran's Natural Gas Riches: US Knife to the Throat of World Future Energy
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=18176
"In this context of a major realignment in the world's energy economy - once where there will be a continguing diminshed role for the US - Washington's blustering rhetoric about democracy and peace and war on terror or alleged Iranian can be seen as a desperate attmpt to conceal its fear that it stands to be a big loser.
Encircling Iran with wars and threatening gas to poison the world's top future gas customer - China - is the real deal. US actions are more accurately seen as putting a knife to the energy arteries of a world economy that it will no longer be able to dominate.."
Sat, 2010-03-27 16:26
#93
Father of Iran's Turkmen Carpeting Dies
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=121801§ionid=351020105
"The veteran carpet designer, researcher and father of Turkmen carpetry in Iran, Niazjan Niazi passed away at the age of 86. Niazi revived some 800 different Turkmen patterns. The intricate and unique designs of these rugs derive mainly from various Turkmen tribes, such as the Yomut, Ersari, Saryk, Salor and Tekke.."
Turkmen Carpets:
http://www.turkishculture.org/pages.php?ParentID=64
Niazjan Niazi RIP
Fri, 2010-04-02 01:23
#94
An Iranian Socialist Replies to Yoshie Furuhashi
http://louisproyect.wordpress.com/2010/04/01/mina-khanlarzadeh-replies-t...
"It's time to stand firmly behind Iranian people and support them in their struggle against both international and domestic aggression and atrocities, instead of portraying them as powerless puppets of US/Israel or masochistic senseless ones who enjoy or are numb to domestic human rights abuses. It's time to stop taking away the history of the socio-political struggle of Iranian people and stop portraying them as a blank canvas on which the imperialists can write their wishes.."
Sun, 2010-04-18 18:09
#95
Iran Slams US as 'World's Only Atomic Criminal'
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/04/17-5
"Only the US government has committed an atomic crime. The world's only atomic criminal lies and presents itself as being against nuclear weapons proliferation, while it has not taken any serious measures in this regard.."
Mon, 2010-05-03 18:29
#96
N.Beltov
Yea, when even the uncle-Sam-bootlicking-for-profit-press states something like this, it becomes patently obvious that what US imperialism wants is to exterminate anyone who disagrees with them. The US is a rogue state and should be expelled from the community of nations. Pronto.
Ahmadinejad devoted much of his half-hour speech to the huge U.S. nuclear arsenal, denouncing the Obama administration's refusal to rule out the use of those weapons."Regrettably, the government of the United States has not only used nuclear weapons, but also continues to threaten to use such weapons against other countries, including Iran," Ahmadinejad said. ...
Ahmadinejad invited President Barack Obama to join a "humane movement" that would set a timetable for abolishing those and all other atomic arms, weapons he called "disgusting and shameful."
The US admitted to having around 5,000 active nuclear weapons and many thousands more on the block for dismantling.
As the Iranian president spoke, the U.S. delegation, of working-level staff, walked out of the General Assembly hall, joined by several European delegations, including the French and British. Lower-level Iranian officials sat through Clinton's later speech.
Ahmadinejad is a right-wing demagogue whom all freedom loving Iranians would like to see out of office. But the "liberal" President of the US refuses to rule out the use of nuclear weapons against other people. Which one is the lunatic??!!
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USA! USA! How many kids did you kill today!!
Tue, 2010-05-04 14:10
#97
[url=http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=18951]US Threatens to Nuke Iran and Anyone Else it Feels like Nuking.[/url]
Iran and the NPT
by Shirin Ebad
The 2010 nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference will convene from 3-28 May 2010 in New York. This year's conference - as with previous years' - promises to be yet another battle between the developing and the nuclear-armed nations. The US insists that the NPT needs to be rewritten so as to place greater limits on what it calls "nuclear weapons proliferation" whilst the developing nations say that the concern over proliferation is being used as a pretext by the US to avoid its own obligations under the same treaty to disarm its own nukes and to share nuclear technology with everyone else. This year, the same conflict will likely continue, and the US (and the US media) will of course try to blame it on Iran when in fact the emphasis on disarmament is shared by a number of countries called the New Agenda Coalition that includes Brazil, New Zealand and Egypt, and is not limited to Iran. /.../Under the terms of the NPT, the US and other nuclear-armed countries that have signed the NPT are obligated to 1- work towards disarmement, 2-share nuclear technology with other signatories, and 3- not share nuclear technology with non-signatories such as India and Israel. Also, in addition to these treaty commitments, in 1995 the US promised (again) not to use nuclear weapons against non-nuclear armed countries (known as the Negative Security Assurance) and is also bound by international law and UN Security Council Resolution not to threaten other countries with nuclear weapons.
[url=http://www.ww4report.com/node/8526][color=black]Obama threatens to nuke Iran?[/color][/url] WW4Report.com
Thu, 2010-05-06 17:43
#98
N.Beltov
Sun, 2010-05-16 01:58
#99
UK Vows to Back US Against Iran
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=126537§ionid=351020101
"Days after the establishment of a new British government, Foreign Secretary William Hague vows to work with the US against Iran, going so far as to consider military action against Tehran. Iran says any punitive measures against its nuclear work would be legally baseless and unfair as the country's nuclear program is being fully monitored by the International Atomic Energy Agency.."
Sun, 2010-05-16 04:43
#100
Iran confirms six new death sentences for opposition activists:
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/afp/100515/world/iran_opposition_trial_1
Meanwhile, the French national arrested after the protests gets a $285,000 fine and freed:
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/afp/100516/world/iran_france_diplomacy_1
Sun, 2010-05-16 08:03
#101
Incredible silences, hereabouts, after announcements of the number of people sentenced to hanging, following their incarceration, gentle inquiries into their activities, and their eventual confessions as enemies of Islam. Anything, of course, for solidarity with the Mullahs. God is Great.