Iran and nukes

Its only bad news if Iran is determined to stick to its refusal to honor the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. Like it or not, Iran signed it and based on the information available, they are breaking it. So either do as North Korea did and publicly break the treaty or submit to UN inspections to see that everything is alright, etc.

An airstrike by Israel would be illegal, but its quite understandable that they simply cannot allow nuclear weapons to be developed by nations vowing to destroy them.
 
The good news just keeps on coming

Iran delivers 'strategic missile'

TEHERAN - Iran added one more missile to its military arsenal and the defence minister said on Saturday his country was ready to confront any external threat.

Defence Minister Ali Shamkhani refused to give details about the missile for 'security reasons', but said on state-run radio that the 'strategic missile was successfully test-fired during military exercises by the Revolutionary Guards...

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Why shouldn't Iran go nuclear?
By Lawrence Smallman

As Washington funds a new generation of atomic bombs and argues the case for regime change in Iran, analysts say nuclear weapons must be an attractive option for the Islamic Republic to deter possible invasion.

A senior fellow at the UK's Royal Institute for International Studies, Dr Ali Ansari, adds that with the US military camped out on two of Iran's borders, "there is no logical reason" why it should not opt to create the ultimate deterrent...

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/1870DFA1-5FF1-4919-82A1-42D489CE0665.htm
 
Bear in mind, that is so exact true that if Iran is bombed by Israel then
the regime in Iran would be more powerful than ever before seen.

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The underlying problem (as already stated) is the Nulcear Nonproliferation Treaty, but lets throw that our for a moment.

The Muslim nations of the Middle East don't trust each other. If Iran develops nukes, everybody panics and has to run to get their own using any means necessary. Iran has NO OBVIOUS CAUSE to be walking this dangerous road, and if they succeed unopposed, they will greatly destablize the Middle East.
 
Don't worry, no body being anxious in the middle east other than you.
No doubt that the factor of Israel make cause to muslims together.
You never find out answers for your questions unless being unbiased.
Read more documents about the middle east's problems other than jews sources,if you would like to have objective visions.

One more thing,Western sources are upon base jews sources.
 
so xman, should we read the Hizzballah site? How about listning to some interpertation by Bagdad Bob? Why wont we ask Osama while we are at it? Do you think arab sources are unbiased?
 
Which country does make cause terrorism in the middle east in real?
Terrorism is a weapon of desperate people and the result of unfair politics.
Why? Which politics?
You jews are pretty successful on diverting of the real middle east problems.

Sherman, go on with lies and swervings.

http://www.palestiniantragedy.com/index.html
 

You make on more generalization like that(I dont care if its against blacks, whits jews, arabs, russians, chinese...what ever) and i will take action. Either way, the topic is Iarns Nukes and not the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. If you want to make comments on that matter, I made a toppic and we already used it....so do it in that topic. Any furhter off-toppics are highly unadvised.
 
Iran is preparing large amounts of uranium for enrichment, a process that can be used to make nuclear weapons, days before its promise to freeze all such activities takes effect, Western diplomats say.

"The Iranians are producing UF6 (uranium hexafluoride) like h**l," a non-U.S. diplomat on the governing board of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) told Reuters on Friday. "The machines are running."

Iran denied the information, which was confirmed by multiple diplomatic sources in Vienna.

"This is a sheer lie. I strongly reject it. In contrary, Iran is preparing itself to suspend production of UF6," Iran's top IAEA delegate Hossein Mousavian told Reuters in Tehran.

The apparent hasty production of large amounts of enriched uranium is bound to deepen suspicions over Iran, which Washington says is trying to develop nuclear weapons.

UF6 is the form of uranium that is fed into gas centrifuges, which purify uranium for use as fuel in nuclear power plants or weapons, by spinning at supersonic speeds.

Iran had promised the European Union after talks with Britain, France and Germany that it would freeze enrichment and all related activities as of Nov 22.

"The Iranians have produced some UF6 gas," said a Western diplomat close to the IAEA. "The EU three are apparently not too fazed by this."

IAEA chief Mohamed Elbaradei said on Monday in a report on his two-year investigation of Iran's nuclear programme that Tehran had not diverted any of its declared nuclear materials to a weapons programme.

But he did not rule out the possibility that other secret atomic activities existed.

Another diplomat described it as shocking news and said the IAEA's 35-member board of governors would have to seriously consider whether to report Tehran to the Security Council for possible sanctions.

"It is a grave matter that will have serious repercussions when we begin our (IAEA board) meeting on Thursday," a diplomat from another board state said.

Iran announced in September that it would process 37 tonnes of raw "yellowcake" uranium at its uranium conversion plant at Isfahan. Iran began processing several tonnes of yellowcake, but only produced uranium tetrafluoride (UF4), a precursor to UF6.

"It was only very recently they began making UF6," said one diplomat.

The 37 tonnes of yellowcake could produce sufficient UF6 for up to five weapons, if enriched to a point where it was of weapons-grade purity, experts say.

On Sunday, Tehran promised France, Britain and Germany it would freeze its enrichment programme in a bid to ease concerns that its nuclear plans are aimed at producing atomic weapons -- a charge it denies -- and to escape a referral to the U.N. Security Council when the IAEA meets on November 25.

Diplomats said they had expected Iran to freeze the programme as of last Sunday, the day the deal was reached. But technically Iran had the right to continue conversion work until Monday, diplomats said.

A Bush administration official said the allegations added to concerns about Iran's nuclear intentions.

"The reports today further illustrate why we are concerned about Iran complying with its commitments," said a senior U.S. official.

Britain said the main focus was that the IAEA verifies Iran is implementing the agreement by suspending enrichment.

"The key to this agreement is the implementation and part of that is the Iranian pledge allowing the IAEA to verify that they have implemented the suspension," a British Foreign Office spokesman said.

Iran's U.N. ambassador was not available for comment.

Iran's Foreign Ministry on Friday also rejected claims by U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell that Tehran had been working on ways to deliver an atomic warhead on a missile.
 
Just read this today.
Sorry I don't have the LINK, I copied it from a Chinese forum.

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Time to Engage Iran?

by Patrick J. Buchanan
Iran does not want a clash with the United States. And unlike Milosevic and Saddam, neither of whom wanted a war, either, Iran is determined not to give the neoconservatives the pretext to launch one.

This is behind Tehran's grudging acceptance of the British-French-German initiative to arrest Iran's nuclear program by forcing a shutdown of its facilities for enriching uranium. Iran claims the fuel was to be used in power plants. America says – and Europe fears – that any Iranian facility that enriches uranium for power plants could also be used to enrich uranium for atom bombs.

As of today, there is no hard evidence that Iran has a bomb or the fissile material to build one, or the operating facilities to produce the plutonium or highly enriched uranium needed to create one. But there are reasons to believe Iran is entertaining a nuclear option.

First, its nuclear program had been kept secret. Second, given what happened to neighboring Iraq, the mullahs, in facing President Bush, might well prefer the nuclear ambiguity of a North Korea's Kim Jong-Il to the nuclear nakedness of a Saddam Hussein.

Third, Iran is surrounded by nuclear neighbors, many of them hostile. U.S. forces are in Turkey, Iraq, the Persian Gulf, the Arabian Sea, and Afghanistan. Pakistan has nuclear weapons, as does India. Russia, which occupied northern Iran after World War II, is a great nuclear power, as is China. Israel, which has threatened to destroy Iran's nuclear facilities, has hundreds of nuclear weapons.

But there are also arguments for Iran's not going nuclear. While having a bomb might deter some enemies, to be caught secretly building one could provoke Israel or the Americans into a preemptive strike, and the Saudis and Turks into building their own bombs. How would that make Iran more secure?

However, if Iran would suffer grievously in a war with the United States – losing its nuclear facilities, navy, and air force, and being set back years – it is hard to see how America would benefit.

U.S. strikes would likely unite the Iranians behind the regime, and retaliation might come in the form of "volunteers" for a Shia uprising in Iraq and attacks on U.S. interests across the Middle East. Pro-American governments could be destabilized and an oil boycott imposed that could send prices to $70 or $80 a barrel.

But if neither we nor Iran would benefit from war between us, is there common ground on which we might stand to attain a cold peace?

Indeed, there is. Iran has already benefited from the U.S. ouster of the detested Taliban and Saddam, and it would surely not object to a Shi'ite government in Baghdad. And we both have a vital interest in a Persian Gulf kept open. Yet, the conflicts between us cannot be minimized.

First, the Iranian revolution is a failure, having created neither a great nor universally respected nation. Unlike the French Revolution, it has been unable to export or replicate itself. Twenty-five years after the fall of the shah, no nation looks to Iran as a model or inspiration. Twice, Iranians have voted in landslides for reformers to ameliorate mullah rule.

But while Tehran has an incentive to integrate the nation into the modern world, any such integration would dilute revolutionary purity and zeal, and could further estrange the regime from the people.

What makes détente with America almost impossible is that the ayatollah's revolution was as much anti-American as anti-Shah. Enmity toward the "Great Satan" legitimizes the regime. But should America suddenly no longer be an enemy, but a partner, Iran's people might ask: Why not open our country up to tourism, trade, and cultural contact with America? For communist Europe, that was the end.

What are the elements of coexistence between us?

Return to Iran of the billions she is owed by the United States, an end to U.S. sanctions and an invitation into the World Trade Organization. For America, it would require an end to Iran's sponsorship of terror, cooperation in Iraq, and restraint on Hizbollah as we try to broker a peace between Palestinians and Israelis.

As for its nuclear program, the United States could ensure Iran's access to peaceful nuclear power in return for a verifiable agreement not to build nuclear weapons. The problem? Iran may believe having a bomb is a better guarantor of her security than any U.S. promise. And, frankly, who could blame them?

As for the neocons' insistence on "regime change" in Iran, that is a deal-breaker, which is why Israel and the neocons have made it their non-negotiable demand. They don't want a deal. They want a war.

But what is best for America?

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Better not engage Iran militarily...no way! Not with the Iraq Situation close by! By then, the US would technically start dominating the Middle East.
 
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