http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080214/ap_on_re_mi_ea/nuclear_iran_7

The diplomats said Washington also gave the IAEA permission to confront Iran with at least some of the evidence in an attempt to pry details out of the Islamic republic on the activities, as part of the U.N. nuclear watchdog's attempts to investigate Iran's suspicious nuclear past.


Iran is under two sets of U.N. Security Council sanctions for refusing to suspend uranium enrichment, which it started developing during nearly two decades of covert nuclear activity built on illicit purchases and revealed only five years ago.

Since then, IAEA experts have uncovered activities, experiments and blueprints and materials that point to possible efforts by Iran to create nuclear weapons, even though Tehran insists its nuclear project is peaceful and aimed only at creating a large-scale enrichment facility to make reactor fuel. Its leaders consistently dismiss allegations that they are interested in enrichment for its other use — creating fissile material suitable for arming warheads.

Instead of heeding Security Council demands to freeze enrichment, Iran has expanded its program. On Wednesday, diplomats told the AP that its new generation of advanced centrifuges have begun processing small quantities of the gas that can be used to make the fissile core of nuclear warheads.

I thought Iran was fully cooperating. http://ayonae.ro/images/smilies/rolleyes.gif

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080214/ap_on_re_mi_ea/nuclear_iran_7





I thought Iran was fully cooperating. http://ayonae.ro/images/smilies/rolleyes.gif

Nothing in that report proves that they are currently after nuclear weapons. The IAEA has time and again said they have found no evidence to the contrary... Any evidence from the historically dishonest Bush Administration should be taken with a grain of salt.

The UN also has no right to suspend the rights of a nation who has signed the NPT to halt civilian nuclear enrichment. They can remain as defiant as they want.

1. I think people now post this stuff just to get a rise out of Jedd, and then to feel self-righteous about slamming every statement he makes.

on that note, lets not ever use the words "historically" Jedd in our collective arguments/conversations typically it doesnt work in Iran's favor.

1. I think people now post this stuff just to get a rise out of Jedd, and then to feel self-righteous about slamming every statement he makes.

on that note, lets not ever use the words "historically" Jedd in our collective arguments/conversations typically it doesnt work in Iran's favor.

In your eyes...However in most of the worlds, History is actually in Iran's favor

define most of the world?

define most of the world?

To everyone other then the US, Iran's history is not tainted. Simple fact is that they are hated by America because of the hostages taken when they stormed the embassy.

There isn't much in their history that negatively affected the rest of the world.

Iraq invaded them due to a weak government, lack of a military and disdain for their policies, or am i mistaken by the American version of history.

London
The leaders of Europe can no longer pretend that they don't know what Iran is up to. A leaked internal document prepared for the European Union's foreign ministers warns that it is probably too late to prevent the Iranian government from acquiring nuclear weapons. "At some stage we must expect that Iran will acquire the capacity to enrich uranium on the scale required for a weapons programme." The document also admits that efforts to impede the Iranian nuclear program have failed. "In practice . . . the Iranians have pursued their programme at their own pace, the limiting factor being technical difficulties rather than resolutions by the U.N. or the [International Atomic Energy Agency]." Nor do the limited sanctions announced by the U.N. Security Council hold out any hope: "The problems with Iran will not be resolved through economic sanctions alone."



doesnt sound like Europe is happy with them..i found two examples without really looking, are you sure most the the world looks favorable at Iran historically?

Iraq invaded them due to a weak government, lack of a military and disdain for their policies, or am i mistaken by the American version of history.

Sadaam attempted to invade them due to a weak government, lack of a military, and for more Oil. He couldn't have cared less for their policies.

doesnt sound like Europe is happy with them..i found two examples without really looking, are you sure most the the world looks favorable at Iran historically?

What does Europe not wanting Iran to develop Nuclear weapons have anything to do with Iran's actions in History?

Show me the actions, not the bandwagon of people trying to stop Iran's nuke program.

Many countries backed Iraq in the Iran/Iraq war, still doesn't show Iran taking any action against other countries in history. Many of the countries that have assisted against Iran in the past have done so under US pressure.

Like Saudi Arabia would give up all its benefits to stand with Iran...

Here we go again -=)

Iranian government aborts striking gay African-American babies for their stem cells on Abraham Lincoln's birthday. Cheney calls it progress for Iraqis. (www.not-a-real-link.commie)

Might as well have it all in one thread.

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doesnt sound like Europe is happy with them..i found two examples without really looking, are you sure most the the world looks favorable at Iran historically?

Public opinion surveys up through the end of 2003 showed huge majorities favoring the Palestinians over Israel, by 2 to 1 or 3 to 1 in the large countries and by 10 to 1 in some smaller ones. In the US, surveys showed 3 to 1 to 4 to 1 support for Israel over the Palestinians in the same period. The number of Europeans supporting the Palestinians dropped after the electoral victory by Hamas, but support for Israel did not increase. In a survey last year, Europeans named Israel the most dangerous country in the world, with the US and Iran tied for second! The media is least hostile to Israel in Germany (with greater care taken to not cross the line to anti-Semitism given the Germans' ignoble history), and most hostile in Britain, France, and Spain.
Source (http://www.americanthinker.com/2007/01/why_europe_abandoned_israel_1.html)

Europe doesnt like Iran very much for a variety of reasons. If you're going to put weight in their collective opinion, however, you should be aware of how they feel about other countries we tend to like. http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t257/evanluerding/emot-patriot.gif

Each time I see this thread heading, I want to make a new thread titled: "AMD does not link Iran...."