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01 Aug 2005 11:50:46 PM |
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Iran Says It Will Break UN Seals.... (Hey, Colon Odor, more outrageous copyright infringement!) |
I am scared I have no permission to reprint this NYT article. I face fines
and a prison term for violation of copyright. Woe is me...
Doc ;-0
Iran Says It Will Break U.N. Seals Placed at a Nuclear Plant
By NAZILA FATHI
Published: August 2, 2005
TEHRAN, Aug. 1 - Defying the warning of European leaders, Iran said Monday
that it was removing the seals placed by the United Nations nuclear agency
at one of its nuclear sites to restart activities there.
European diplomats said that if Iran did go ahead and resume the nuclear
activities, then they would have little choice but to ask for the agency,
the International Atomic Energy Agency, to place the issue before the
United Nations Security Council for possible political and economic
sanctions.
A senior Iranian official, Ali Aghamohammadi, said technicians were going
to break the seals to the uranium ore conversion plant in Isfahan on
Monday afternoon in the presence of the inspectors from the International
Atomic Energy Agency, who are currently in Iran, the IRNA news agency
reported.
By the end of the day, however, it could not be determined whether Iran
had actually broken the seals.
In Berlin, a German Foreign Ministry spokesman said at a news briefing
that the German foreign minister, Joschka Fischer, had warned that the
decision was a miscalculation by Iran.
In a strongly worded statement, the British Foreign Office said that if
Iran were to act on its threat and resume nuclear activities, negotiations
between Iran and Europe would probably be halted.
Iran agreed nine months ago to freeze all its enrichment-related
activities for as long as talks with Germany, France, Britain and the
European Union continued. The United States maintains, and the European
countries had come to agree, that Iran intends to make nuclear weapons.
Iran maintains that its nuclear program is for peaceful energy purposes.
Mr. Aghamohammadi said Iran's decision to restart a nuclear facility was
made after the European foreign ministers notified Iran in a letter that a
proposal to Iran concerning incentives for it to permanently dismantle its
suspected nuclear weapons program, possibly including nuclear fuel and a
trade package, would be made in Paris on Aug. 30, although Iran said its
deadline had been the end of July.
European diplomats said Monday that they had wanted to wait to present a
proposal until after the new Iranian president is sworn in on Wednesday,
and the French Foreign Ministry said in a briefing on Monday that the
proposals would be presented before Sunday.
Iran says it is keeping its freeze on another, more advanced, process in
the program to enrich uranium, which can lead to making nuclear fuel for
power plants, or if enriched to high levels, for making nuclear weapons.
The International Atomic Energy Agency had urged Iran not to remove the
agency's seals from any nuclear equipment at Isfahan until it dispatches
more inspectors and installs additional surveillance equipment. An agency
spokeswoman, Melissa Fleming, said Monday that the process could take a
week to 10 days.
"We would want to account for every gram of nuclear material," she said.
"We would want to be certain that no material is being diverted."
Ms. Fleming denied a statement by an Iranian government spokesman that the
agency's director general, Mohamed ElBaradei, had agreed to make the
inspectors and equipment available in two days. "There's been no such
shortening of the time period the I.A.E.A. would need," she said.
While the agency's response to Iran was cautiously written focusing mostly
on technical matters, Ms. Fleming said the agency considered Iran's
voluntary suspension of uranium activities to be "essential" in its effort
to solve the riddles in Iran's past nuclear activity. Suspending
enrichment freezes a nuclear site, she said, and makes it easier to
investigate. Monitoring the process would also use up the time of
inspectors, who could focus on other elements of the nuclear program.
In Tehran, Mr. Aghamohammadi said the decision to resume work was made in
a meeting by Iran's supreme religious leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei; the
departing president, Mohammad Khatami; the president-elect, Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad; and other senior leaders.
At the conversion plant in Isfahan, the uranium ore known as yellowcake is
turned into UF6, or uranium hexafluoride gas, which can later be fed into
centrifuges to be enriched.
Mr. Aghamohammadi said Monday that the UF6 gas produced at the plant in
Isfahan would be stored under the supervision of the International Atomic
Energy Agency. The products made of UF6 will be given to a third country
in return for yellowcake, he added.
"We will keep the suspension on enrichment and we hope we can continue our
negotiations with Europe," Mr. Aghamohammadi said.
"We hope our decision would be interpreted with good will," he said,
adding that the country's national pride had been hurt after its nuclear
work was stopped under pressure for two years.
Mark Landler contributed reporting from Berlin for this article, and
Graham Bowley from London.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/02/international/middleeast/02iran.html
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02 Aug 2005 05:07:31 PM |
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Doc wrote:
I am scared I have no permission to reprint this NYT article. I face
fines and a prison term for violation of copyright. Woe is me...
Doc ;-0
Iran Says It Will Break U.N. Seals Placed at a Nuclear Plant
By NAZILA FATHI
Published: August 2, 2005
TEHRAN, Aug. 1 - Defying the warning of European leaders, Iran said
Monday that it was removing the seals placed by the United Nations
nuclear agency at one of its nuclear sites to restart activities there.
Well, why wouldn't they? The only super power in the world has
essentially indicated by their actions that it's a-okay to ignore the UN.
Woods
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| User: "Doc" |
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03 Aug 2005 04:53:07 AM |
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Doc wrote:
I am scared I have no permission to reprint this NYT article. I face
fines and a prison term for violation of copyright. Woe is me...
Doc ;-0
Iran Says It Will Break U.N. Seals Placed at a Nuclear Plant
By NAZILA FATHI
Published: August 2, 2005
TEHRAN, Aug. 1 - Defying the warning of European leaders, Iran said
Monday that it was removing the seals placed by the United Nations
nuclear agency at one of its nuclear sites to restart activities there.
Well, why wouldn't they? The only super power in the world has
essentially indicated by their actions that it's a-okay to ignore the
UN.
Woods
Pakistan has had nukes for 7 years, and is headed by a military dictator.
Many of the terrorists originate from Pakistan. It has a long history of
being politically and economically unstable. Musharoff has survived at
least two assassination attempts (that I know of). The US is selling it
F-16s which can carry nuke missiles.
So, why all the sweat over Iran? Why all the concern? O I L .... baby... O
I L.
China recently made a bid for Unocal (the Afghanistan pipeline people),
but political pressure resulted in Chevron taking over. (The US wants it
all!)
Fahd has just died. The S.A. monarchy's direction is uncertain. Reports
are that his son is pro-US, but there are persistent reports, too, that
the royal family is at odds with how much US influence they will accept.
S.A. is #1 oil producer, of course. What will the US do if S.A. turns
anti-American (aside from the terrorist community, that is)?
Syria is being pressured by the US. (A Mediterranean oil port, piped in
from Iraq?)
Trouble brews in the Sudan - long a strategically important chunck of
desolation, especially the southern most part that borders Somalia.
More attacks on US and the native allies in Afghanistan. Karzai has
narrowly escaped assassination.
A reputed hard-liner takes the helm in Iran. Controversy swirls around his
anti-American protest background.
A hard-liner, parroting the Rove bird, settles into the US Ambassadorship
of the UN -- an organization he once severely criticized as basically
worthless.
And, of course, in Iraq...a bottomless pit.
And...the big concern is that Iran will committ national suicide by
unleashing its (future) nuke arsenal on the West? LOL...Or, is it the
concern of the Bushies and their corporate friends to get Iran "online"
(like Iraq and Afghanistan) before Iran has an effective WMD deterence,
making it nigh impossible to launch an invasion, or dangerously subvert
the government?
Doc
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