Iran Rules Out Talks on Its Nuclear "Rights" »
Posted By israeligirl1 2 months, 2 weeks ago in NewsIran's president on Monday snubbed U.S. President Barack Obama's end-September deadline to talk to world powers on its disputed nuclear program, saying in his opinion discussion on the issue is "finished." He added - "Iran will continue its disputed nuclear work and will never negotiate on its "obvious" rights.
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hyperbola2 months, 2 weeks ago
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Perhaps we should do something about our own (and Israeli) hypocrisy first. How many international inpsections of our uranium enrichment sites do we allow? Certainly we DO NOT enrich uranium to bomb-grade and certainly we DO NOT fabricate nukes. Neither do either we or the israelis make explicit or implicit threats to nuke other countries.
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Here is what a Reagan Republican says about the situation.
Why Not Crippling Sanctions for Israel and the US?
In Israel, a country stolen from the Palestinians, fanatics control the government. One of the fanatics is the prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu. Last week Netanyahu called for “crippling sanctions” against Iran. The kind of blockade that Netanyahu wants qualifies as an act of war. Israel has long threatened to attack Iran on its own but prefers to draw in the US and NATO.
Why does Israel want to initiate a war between the United States and Iran?
Is Iran attacking other countries, bombing civilians and destroying civilian infrastructure? No. These are crimes committed by Israel and the US.
Is Iran evicting peoples from lands they have occupied for centuries and herding them into ghettoes?
No, that’s what Israel has been doing to the Palestinians for 60 years.
What is Iran doing?
Iran is developing nuclear energy, which is its right as a signatory to the Non-Proliferation Treaty. Iran’s nuclear energy program is subject to inspections by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), which consistently reports that its inspections find no diversion of enriched uranium to a weapons program.
The position taken by Israel, and by Israel’s puppet in Washington, is that Iran must not be allowed to have the rights as a signatory to the Non-Proliferation Treaty that every other signatory has, because Iran might divert enriched uranium to a weapons program.
In other words, Israel and the US claim the right to abrogate Iran’s right to develop nuclear energy. The Israeli/US position has no basis in international law or in anything other than the arrogance of Israel and the United States.
The hypocrisy is extreme. Israel is not a signatory to the Non-Proliferation Treaty and developed its nuclear weapons illegally on the sly, with, as far as we know, US help.
As Israel is an illegal possessor of nuclear weapons and has a fanatical government that is capable of using them, crippling sanctions should be applied to Israel to force it to disarm.
Israel qualifies for crippling sanctions for another reason. It is an apartheid state, as former US President Jimmy Carter demonstrated in his book, Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid. ...
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Wolfie20072 months, 2 weeks ago
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How did Iran get these obvious rights? Yeah, we should not try talking to them any longer and make plans to bomb their nuclear sites to hades. Oh yeah, Obama is president so I guess we will keep jawboning them until they bomb Israel to hades, instead. Then what next Western Europe or the US if they have a big enough missile?
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Dionys2 months, 2 weeks ago
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"How did Iran get these obvious rights? "
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When they decided to not break any international laws.
"Yeah, we should not try talking to them any longer and make plans to bomb their nuclear sites to hades."
As we're a nation of LAWS, what LAW would you base a pre-emptive attack against a country that has broken no international laws concerning its nuclear power development?
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cherev2 months, 2 weeks ago
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Excellent. Netanyahu wanted to link one-sided, suicidal concessions to the Arabs to Obama's help in preventing Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons. He no longer has that fig leaf to hide behind. If he caves into Obama now, his days are numbered....and he knows it.
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Besides, he could not have helped but notice that Obama isn't doing so well at home these days. Independents are evidently beginning to see what Conservatives saw all along. Now Obama, desperate for a win, will increase the pressure on Netanyahu to capitulate to the Arabs and sacrifice Jewish lives for Obama's "peace".
Netanyahu failed once before - when Bill Clinton pressured him to make sacrifices for mass murderer Arafat's peace - and it cost him the premiership. Did he learn his lesson or will more Jews have to be horribly and brutally murdered just so Obama can look better?-
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Dionys2 months, 2 weeks ago
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Tumultuous2 months, 2 weeks ago
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If Ahmadinejad is open to discussion as he states, Iran should be willing to meet for talks on the nuclear program before the United Nations General Assembly meeting. However, Ahmadinejad doesn't play by rules dictated to him by the U.S., so Iran's attendance is unlikely. Ahmadinejad is an unreasonable man. The U.S. shouldn't expect him to respond with reason. Dissidence is more in line with his character.
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entrepreneurboss2 months, 2 weeks ago
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What is the issue if Iran is going for nukes ? I mean US, Russia, China, India, Pakistan, Isreal, France are some special?
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If Iran is stopped from making nukes, then every country should denuke herself, otherwise it is not justified and does not make sense. Definitely Russia & America should take the 1st step, so others can follow. -
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cherev2 months, 2 weeks ago
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"What is the issue if Iran is going for nukes ?
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The issue is that Iran intends to use the nukes for genocidal purposes. Did you miss that or are you OK with genocidal intentions towards Israel?
"I mean US, Russia, China, India, Pakistan, Isreal, France are some special?"
The US and Israel are special.
"If Iran is stopped from making nukes, then every country should denuke herself, otherwise it is not justified and does not make sense. Definitely Russia & America should take the 1st step, so others can follow."
Following your suggestion to it's "logical" conclusion, the US should disarm entirely and wait for the world to follow its lead if we are to have peace. Of course, if some thug nation takes advantage of our disarmament to attack and annihilate us, well, that's a price you're willing to pay.
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beavith12 months, 2 weeks ago
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we've gone over this a dozen times. the NPT allows for the peaceful development of nuclear technology right up until they turn the last screw on their bombs. that's when they violate the NPT. if they declare themselves a nuclear state, at that point, technically, they never violate the NPT.
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the IAEA has to watch what they say as a functional arm of the UN. anybody, with the most rudimentary understanding of nuclear science or nuclear technology, understands what the iranians are doing. its the same process the indians and pakistanis did, with the added twist that they have been waving their centrifuge technology in the face of the world.
the pakistanis and indians diverted used nuclear fuel for the extraction of plutonium, while they worked up the technology and military reactors to make more using heavy water. the iranians have a heavy water plant up and running that can take low enriched uranium to plutonium.
building a Pu weapon is a fairly tricky engineering issue, but the big holdup is getting the Pu.
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most_reasonable2 months, 2 weeks ago
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For many years the two great nuclear powers, the United States and the Soviet Union maintained a balance because of the theory of mutual nuclear destruction. Stalemate!
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However when dealing with a Muslim country and philosophy that enables and encourages children and raped girls become suicide bombers. That attacks fellow Muslims because of a disagreement that occurred over a thousand years ago. That blind school girls because of their audacity to want an education; that kill Muslim pilgrims on their way to worship.
Then you have a different playing field.
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earthlingerer2 months, 2 weeks ago
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The regime in Iran is VERY conservative... that said, you can't talk to them without some kind of deal that will benefit them more than those against them.
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I feel much better about the prospects of Iran having nuclear weapons, as opposed to Israel, where it has been openly stated that the nation targets all of the european capitals, as well as US cities. At least Iran is a member of the NPT.
It seems that they follow the law, as it is written.
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most_reasonable2 months, 2 weeks ago
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"I feel much better about the prospects of Iran having nuclear weapons, as opposed to Israel, where it has been openly stated that the nation targets all of the european capitals, as well as US cities."
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Can you give us a source for that, and pointing to your ass is not really a source.
"It seems that they follow the law, as it is written."
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Justice4All2 months, 2 weeks ago
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It might be difficult to talk with Iran. But if we suggest disarming both Iran and Israel we might accomplish something.
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It would be better to have both Israel and Iran disarmed rather than armed. But the worst scenerio is to have only one country to posses WMD's as Israel currently does.-
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Daylight2 months, 2 weeks ago
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It might be difficult to talk with Iran. But if we suggest disarming both Iran and Israel we might accomplish something.
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It would be better to have both Israel and Iran disarmed rather than armed. But the worst scenerio is to have only one country to posses WMD's as Israel currently does.
I don't think even that will satisfy Iran because America has been the main unqualified supporter of Israel which mean America will always come to the rescue of Israel. The best option is to dismantle Israel altogether or the Western powers stop supporting Israel completely. Let Israel defend itself or fight with its neighbors and be destroyed by its own self. As long as Israel is there in the Middle East there won't be peace in the region. Before the creation of Israel, Muslims, Jews and Christians lived in complete peace for thousands of years.
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weathwoods2 months, 2 weeks ago
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Iran is a signatory to the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty. She wants to build nuclear reactors for peaceful purposes. Americans are quick to call these people backward, but when they want modern energy sources, we say, Nyet! Israel refuses to sign the nonproliferation treaty. She has made veiled threats about nuking all the major capitals of the world if she is threatened. We should fear Israel, not Iran.
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snake282812 months, 2 weeks ago
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FINE THEN-LET ISRAEL WIPE OUT IRAN'S NUKE CAPABILITIES AND HOPEFULLY THE U.S. WILL HAVE A DEAF EAR WHEN IRAN COMPLAINS THAT THEY HAVE JUST BEEN ATTACKED BY ISRAEL;FURTHERMORE, ISRAEL HAS EVERY RIGHT TO RESTRICT ANY NUKE PRODUCTION CAPABILITIES IN IRAN, ESPECIALLY WITH THE RHETORIC THAT HAS COME OUT OF IRAN
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Daylight2 months, 2 weeks ago
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It might be difficult to talk with Iran. But if we suggest disarming both Iran and Israel we might accomplish something.
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It would be better to have both Israel and Iran disarmed rather than armed. But the worst scenerio is to have only one country to posses WMD's as Israel currently does.
I don't think even that will satisfy Iran because America has been the main unqualified supporter of Israel which mean America will always come to the rescue of Israel. The best option is to dismantle Israel altogether or the Western powers stop supporting Israel completely. Let Israel defend itself or fight with its neighbors and be destroyed by its own self. As long as Israel is there in the Middle East there won't be peace in the region. Before the creation of Israel, Muslims, Jews and Christians lived in complete peace for thousands of years.
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