YAWN, I'm sick of hearing it. Tell me when it's started pls.

"?Dumbo feather, pass it on, peoplez ....FRICK yeah & HOOROO ?"
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Israel heading towards becoming the world's largest parking lot.

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'World heading towards Iran confrontation'


IAEA Head Mohamed ElBaradei: Iran is building knowledge, situation is
deteriorating. We are unable to inspect Iranian facilities

Yaakov Lappin Published: 05.24.07, 14:26 / Israel News

LUXEMBOURG - The international community and Iran are "heading towards
confrontation" over Tehran's nuclear program, Mohamed ElBaradei,
Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
warned Thursday morning.

Defiance

Mostafa Mohammad Najjar warns West in comments coinciding with US
naval show of force off Islamic republic's coast

ElBaradei was speaking at a two-day conference in Luxembourg aimed at
"preventing nuclear catastrophe," organized by Russian Jewish Congress
Chairman Viatcheslav Kantor.

"Its very difficult to say how close a country is to nuclear weapons,"
ElBaradei said during a press conference. "Iran is expanding its
knowledge and capacity. It now has over 1000 centrifuges. I have
expressed concern over this because the Agency is unable to conduct a
robust and full inspection," he added.

"My current priority is to carry out a comprehensive inspection,"
ElBaradei said, adding that he estimated Iran was "three to eight
years" from being capable of producing nuclear weapons.

The IAEA chief has come under criticism in recent days for suggesting
that Iran has made so much progress on its nuclear program that the
world should accept as "fact" that Iran will have the independent
ability to enrich uranium.

On Wednesday, the IAEA released a report saying Iran was operating
1600 centrifuges independently. US officials have described the report
as "alarming," while Iran said the report was "devoid of any new
points."

"We could end up with a major confrontation," ElBaradei reiterated.
"Iran needs to listen to the international community and suspend
enrichment, but the international community also needs to engage Iran.
We need a comprehensive settlement," he added, saying, "the status quo
is unacceptable."

The IAEA head added that the issue represents "an emerging threat in a
region that is in an absolute mess right now."

Nuclear weapons expert Mark Fitzpatrick told Ynetnews that ElBaradei's
estimates may be too optimistic. "If everything goes smoothly for
Iran, it will be 2 - 3 years away from being able to produce nuclear
weapons," he said. "It seems Iran is on track to having 3000
centrifuges by the middle of this summer. It will take them about a
year to get a hold of the technical issues and another year to enrich
the uranium, hence my estimate of two years," he added.

Fitzpatrick noted that up until 2003, no less than 10 indicators were
found to strongly suggest that Iran's nuclear program had a military
purpose. "After 2003, all those signs stopped," he said. "Did the
Iranians stop? Or is it more secretive? There's no reason to believe
they stopped," he added.

'Attack on Iran would be catastrophic'

Meanwhile, speaking to Ynetnews, former UN weapons inspector Hans Blix
said a military strike on Iran would be a "catastrophic" option.

Blix, who is currently Chairman of the Weapons of Mass Destruction
Commission, said previous military operations at nuclear programs,
such as Israel's strike on Iraq's Osirak plant in 1982, served to slow
the nuclear program, but added that only a "durable occupation or
regime change" could ensure that the program is not restarted.

"In all likelihood, an attack on Iran would be catastrophic," Blix
said, adding that the strike would rally support for Iranian President
Ahmadinejad.

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Iran will resist 'any threat,' defense minister says


Mostafa Mohammad Najjar warns West in comments coinciding with US
naval show of force off Islamic republic's coast

Reuters Published: 05.23.07, 17:17 / Israel News




Iran will resist any threat and give a powerful response to its
enemies, the defense minister said on Wednesday in comments coinciding
with a US naval show of force off Iran's coast.



Mostafa Mohammad Najjar made his statement to mark the 25th
anniversary of the recapture of an Iranian port which was seized by
Iraqi forces during the two neighbors' 1980-88 war.

Nuclear Proliferation

'Iran could be year from nuke' / Yaakov Lappin

Ambassador Dore Gold: Tehran not far from obtaining enough fissionable
material to produce nuclear bomb

"Islamic Iran will resist ... any kind of threat and will give a
powerful answer to enemies and oppressors," he said, according to the
official IRNA news agency.

Earlier on Wednesday, nine US warships carrying 17,000 personnel
entered the Gulf in what navy officials said was the largest daytime
assembly of ships since the 2003 Iraq war.

US Navy officials said Iran had not been notified of plans to sail the
ships, which include two aircraft carriers, through the Straits of
Hormuz, a narrow channel in international waters off Iran's coast and
a major artery for global oil shipments.

Tension has been increasing between Tehran and Washington over Iran's
disputed nuclear work, which the West suspects is aimed at making atom
bombs. The United States also accuses Iran of fomenting instability in
Iraq. Tehran denies both charges.

Washington has said it wants a diplomatic solution to the nuclear row
but has not ruled out using force if that fails. Iran, which insists
its atomic plans are peaceful, says it will target US interests in the
region if it comes under attack.

Although Iran may not have the technology to match that of US forces,
experts say it could still cause trouble for shipping in the Gulf and
disrupt flows of crude in the waterway, through which 40 percent of
the world's traded oil is shipped.

An Iranian military commander accused the United States of working
against Iran ever since the 1979 Islamic revolution but that Tehran
was able to confront any enemy threats with its "special weapons and
equipment".

"If one day a war is about to happen, Iran will defend its borders
with more power than previous years," Alireza Afshar, described as
deputy for "defense propaganda", told Mehr news agency.

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