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INDIA helping Iran with nuclear energy programme: foreign minister |
http://www.spacewar.com/2003/031213124946.ez8pyw4v.html
India helping Iran with nuclear energy programme: foreign minister
TEHRAN (AFP) Dec 13, 2003
Indian Foreign Minister Yashwant Sinha said Saturday his country has
been and would continue to help Iran in its controversial bid to
generate nuclear energy. "We have long record on peaceful uses of
nuclear energy," Sinha told reporters.
"We have nuclear energy plants in our country. There are other
civilian uses of nuclear energy ... most certainly between Iran and
India there would be collaboration, there is collaboration," he said.
The foreign minister, in Iran on a trip aimed at enhancing economic
and trade relations between the countries, made no further comment on
the details or the extent of Indian-Iranian nuclear cooperation.
The United States and Israel accuse Iran of using a nuclear energy
programme as a cover for a secret bid to produce nuclear arms, a
charge the Islamic republic fiercely denies.
Last month, the International Atomic Energy Agency condemned Iran for
18 years of covert nuclear activities although a report said there was
no clear evidence the country has been developing nuclear arms.
Russia is currently building a nuclear plant at the southern city of
Bushehr, and has been under massive US pressure to scrap its
assistance.
Sinha said his talks here had covered a range of economic issues,
including plans to supply Iranian gas to India via a proposed 3.5
billion-dollar pipeline that crosses Pakistan.
"I am very happy since it was possible for us to take important
decisions," he said of the talks.
"We talked about the gas pipe line, and I hope the study on the
feasibility of the pipeline will be over soon. We are looking at
various options. Only after the studies are over we can make concrete
decisions," he added.
During the week, Pakistan's high commissioner to India, Aziz Ahmed
Khan, promised to ensure the safety of the proposed pipeline. He said
Islamabad was willing to offer its guarantees over safety to help
revive a project long-delayed by security fears.
Negotiations on the 1,600-kilometer (1,000-mile) pipeline began in
1994 but no headway was made due to tensions between Pakistan and
India and the project's massive cost.
India has been reluctant to sign up for the project, as it fears
Pakistan could cut off fuel supplies to New Delhi if hostilities broke
out.
For Iran, which holds the world's largest gas reserves after Russia,
the Indian market is as important as the European market, which it
hopes to serve one day through a pipeline across Turkey.
India is a large importer of energy products, buying abroad nearly 70
percent of its annual requirements.
Sinha is here to attend the 13th session of the India-Iran commission
on bilateral trade and economic issues and hold talks with Iranian
President Mohammad Khatami, Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi and other
officials.
Khatami visited India this year as the chief guest of the January 26
Republic Day celebrations. Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee visited
Iran.
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| Title: Re: INDIA helping Iran with nuclear energy programme: foreign minister |
07 Aug 2004 10:43:22 AM |
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Subject: INDIA helping Iran with nuclear energy programme: foreign minister
From: (John Flogger)
Date: 8/7/2004 1:13 AM Eastern Daylight Time
Message-id: <c4c950f8.0408062113.4ec5e0ae@posting.google.com>
http://www.spacewar.com/2003/031213124946.ez8pyw4v.html
India helping Iran with nuclear energy programme: foreign minister
TEHRAN (AFP) Dec 13, 2003
Indian Foreign Minister Yashwant Sinha said Saturday his country has
been and would continue to help Iran in its controversial bid to
generate nuclear energy. "We have long record on peaceful uses of
nuclear energy," Sinha told reporters.
"We have nuclear energy plants in our country. There are other
civilian uses of nuclear energy ... most certainly between Iran and
India there would be collaboration, there is collaboration," he said.
The foreign minister, in Iran on a trip aimed at enhancing economic
and trade relations between the countries, made no further comment on
the details or the extent of Indian-Iranian nuclear cooperation.
The United States and Israel accuse Iran of using a nuclear energy
programme as a cover for a secret bid to produce nuclear arms, a
charge the Islamic republic fiercely denies.
Last month, the International Atomic Energy Agency condemned Iran for
18 years of covert nuclear activities although a report said there was
no clear evidence the country has been developing nuclear arms.
Russia is currently building a nuclear plant at the southern city of
Bushehr, and has been under massive US pressure to scrap its
assistance.
Sinha said his talks here had covered a range of economic issues,
including plans to supply Iranian gas to India via a proposed 3.5
billion-dollar pipeline that crosses Pakistan.
"I am very happy since it was possible for us to take important
decisions," he said of the talks.
"We talked about the gas pipe line, and I hope the study on the
feasibility of the pipeline will be over soon. We are looking at
various options. Only after the studies are over we can make concrete
decisions," he added.
During the week, Pakistan's high commissioner to India, Aziz Ahmed
Khan, promised to ensure the safety of the proposed pipeline. He said
Islamabad was willing to offer its guarantees over safety to help
revive a project long-delayed by security fears.
Negotiations on the 1,600-kilometer (1,000-mile) pipeline began in
1994 but no headway was made due to tensions between Pakistan and
India and the project's massive cost.
India has been reluctant to sign up for the project, as it fears
Pakistan could cut off fuel supplies to New Delhi if hostilities broke
out.
For Iran, which holds the world's largest gas reserves after Russia,
the Indian market is as important as the European market, which it
hopes to serve one day through a pipeline across Turkey.
India is a large importer of energy products, buying abroad nearly 70
percent of its annual requirements.
Sinha is here to attend the 13th session of the India-Iran commission
on bilateral trade and economic issues and hold talks with Iranian
President Mohammad Khatami, Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi and other
officials.
Khatami visited India this year as the chief guest of the January 26
Republic Day celebrations. Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee visited
Iran.
Doing Insurance business in the Garden State
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| User: "Thelasian" |
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| Title: Re: INDIA helping Iran with nuclear energy programme: foreign minister |
08 Aug 2004 06:31:20 PM |
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Among the smoke-and-mirror and fear-mongering innuendo, these are some
facts about Iran's nuclear program that aren't being mentioned:
1- The Bushehr reactor-which was started under the Shah with US
support-is not a weapons proliferation threat since it is a lightwater
reactor which is under IAEA safeguard. Even the IAEA itself admits
that much.
Proof:
UN clears Iran nuclear facility
The head of the UN's International Atomic Energy Agency has said
Russia's nuclear co-operation with Iran is no longer a matter of
concern.
(SOURCE: BBC Online Tuesday, 29 June, 2004)
2- According to Article 4 of the Non-Proliferation Treaty, Iran has an
"INALIENABLE RIGHT" to possess nuclear technology. Several other
nations use the same technology too, such as Brazil and Holland and
Japan. Note how the articles conflate a nuclear "weapons" program with
a "nuclear program"
3- Iran needs nuclear energy despite possessing extensive oil and gas
because of rising domestic consumption and the reliance on the sale
oil and gas for earning hard currency. In fact the Stanford Research
Institute advised the Shah's government that Iran could not rely on
oil and gas for energy way back in the mid 1970's. Other nations which
have extensive oil and gas resources also have nuclear energy - such
as Russia and the USA. Iran has also been experimenting with
geothermal energy and wind-turbines, as well as building its largest
hydroengery dam.
4- There is in fact no evidence of an actual nuclear WEAPONS program
in Iran, as admitted by the IAEA itself - there is only the INFERENCE
that Iran COULD ONE DAY POSSIBLY use the legitimate technology to
build a weapon of it desires to do so. Needless to say, ANY TECHNOLOGY
"could" be used to make nukes, and so could any country.
Proof:
"IAEA: No evidence of Iran nukes
VIENNA, Austria (AP) -- The U.N. nuclear watchdog agency has found "no
evidence" Iran is trying to make nuclear weapons...
SOURCE: AP Monday, November 10, 2003
" 'The United States has no concrete evidence of a nuclear-weapons
program,' Albright told me. 'It's just an inference. There's no
smoking gun.' "
SOURCE: New Yorker by SEYMOUR M. HERSH Issue of 2004-06-28
5- The bombing of Iraq's Osirak reactor did not signficantly affect
Iraq's nuclear program, since the centrifuge sites were not bombed. If
anything it encouraged them to speed up the process. But in any case,
Iran has signed the Additional Protocol which permits IAEA inspections
anywhere-anytime, and Iraq had not.
6- Attacking Iran's nuclear installations will prove once and for all
to the people of Iran the necessity of obtaining nuclear weapons as a
deterrence.
7- Currently, Iran has signed the Nonproliferation Treaty and its
nuclear installations are all under IAEA safeguards - unlike North
Korea.
8- If Iran is attacked, Iran will withdraw from the Non-Proliferation
Treaty (as it is legally do pursuant to Article X) and will start
working on a nuclear weapons program in earnest. Centrifuge sites will
pop up like mushrooms all over the country - too many to be bombed -
and the IAEA inspectors will not be around to check them. Within 6
mos, the first nuclear test will occur, and within a year Iran's
missiles will be armed with nuclear warheads
9- The people of Iran will rally to support their government if Iran
is attacked, as their nationalism is stirred by such an act. Iran's
decision to develop nuclear deterrence will occur with the full
support of the people of the government too, so changing governments
will not change the decision to build nukes.
10- There are already many Iranians who believe that Iran should
withdraw from the NonProliferation Treaty since the US has failed to
abide by ITS obligations under the same treaty, and Iran is surrounded
by nuclear-armed or nuclear-capable states that threaten Iran's
security.
So yes, by all means, go ahead and bomb Iran and see what happens.
insurancenj@aol.com (InsuranceBroker) wrote in message news:<20040807114322.11708.00002645@mb-m11.aol.com>...
Subject: INDIA helping Iran with nuclear energy programme: foreign minister
From: (John Flogger)
Date: 8/7/2004 1:13 AM Eastern Daylight Time
Message-id: <c4c950f8.0408062113.4ec5e0ae@posting.google.com>
http://www.spacewar.com/2003/031213124946.ez8pyw4v.html
India helping Iran with nuclear energy programme: foreign minister
TEHRAN (AFP) Dec 13, 2003
Indian Foreign Minister Yashwant Sinha said Saturday his country has
been and would continue to help Iran in its controversial bid to
generate nuclear energy. "We have long record on peaceful uses of
nuclear energy," Sinha told reporters.
"We have nuclear energy plants in our country. There are other
civilian uses of nuclear energy ... most certainly between Iran and
India there would be collaboration, there is collaboration," he said.
The foreign minister, in Iran on a trip aimed at enhancing economic
and trade relations between the countries, made no further comment on
the details or the extent of Indian-Iranian nuclear cooperation.
The United States and Israel accuse Iran of using a nuclear energy
programme as a cover for a secret bid to produce nuclear arms, a
charge the Islamic republic fiercely denies.
Last month, the International Atomic Energy Agency condemned Iran for
18 years of covert nuclear activities although a report said there was
no clear evidence the country has been developing nuclear arms.
Russia is currently building a nuclear plant at the southern city of
Bushehr, and has been under massive US pressure to scrap its
assistance.
Sinha said his talks here had covered a range of economic issues,
including plans to supply Iranian gas to India via a proposed 3.5
billion-dollar pipeline that crosses Pakistan.
"I am very happy since it was possible for us to take important
decisions," he said of the talks.
"We talked about the gas pipe line, and I hope the study on the
feasibility of the pipeline will be over soon. We are looking at
various options. Only after the studies are over we can make concrete
decisions," he added.
During the week, Pakistan's high commissioner to India, Aziz Ahmed
Khan, promised to ensure the safety of the proposed pipeline. He said
Islamabad was willing to offer its guarantees over safety to help
revive a project long-delayed by security fears.
Negotiations on the 1,600-kilometer (1,000-mile) pipeline began in
1994 but no headway was made due to tensions between Pakistan and
India and the project's massive cost.
India has been reluctant to sign up for the project, as it fears
Pakistan could cut off fuel supplies to New Delhi if hostilities broke
out.
For Iran, which holds the world's largest gas reserves after Russia,
the Indian market is as important as the European market, which it
hopes to serve one day through a pipeline across Turkey.
India is a large importer of energy products, buying abroad nearly 70
percent of its annual requirements.
Sinha is here to attend the 13th session of the India-Iran commission
on bilateral trade and economic issues and hold talks with Iranian
President Mohammad Khatami, Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi and other
officials.
Khatami visited India this year as the chief guest of the January 26
Republic Day celebrations. Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee visited
Iran.
Doing Insurance business in the Garden State
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