Thursday - August 24, 2006

Evil Designs

The dance continues. The UN fiddles while Iran burns - with desire for a nuclear bomb. These talks/negotiations/resolutions/threats are going absolutely nowhere and yet the US, the UN, EU and everyone continues to let Iran play for time while feverishly working on a nuclear program. Has everyone lost their freakin’ mind? The Mullahs and the President of Iran are slightly mentally unstable. They are living in the 7th century and if they obtain nuclear weapons they will use them ... if for no other reason than to prove they are a “world power”. So why does everyone let this continue? Riddle me that ...

Iran Nuclear Issue May Head Next to U.N.
_{(FORBES) - 08.24.2006, 08:28 AM}

The United States is working with European allies and other governments over a possible U.N. response to what the Bush administration characterizes as Iran’s inadequate answer to demands that it cease uranium enrichment. Iran maintains it has offered “positive and clear signals” to resolve the dispute over its nuclear program, but could face U.N. sanctions unless it reverses course and agrees to a verifiable halt to enrichment activities that can be a precursor to the manufacture of nuclear weapons.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Thursday that Iran’s response is missing a “decisive sentence” on whether Tehran will suspend uranium enrichment and appears unsatisfactory. “We are still examining it, but from everything that I hear we cannot be satisfied,” Merkel said in an interview with N24 television.

French Foreign Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy saids Iran must suspend uranium enrichment if it wants to return to negotiations, but Russia’s foreign ministry said it would continue to seek a negotiated solution and China appealed for patience and more dialogue. The State Department acknowledged that Iran considered its proposal to be a serious one and promised to “review it.”

But the U.S. statement issued Wednesday went on to say that Iran’s response to a joint offer of U.S, and European trade and other benefits if the enrichment program was halted “falls short of the conditions set by the Security Council” - full and verifiable suspension of all uranium-enrichment activity. “We are consulting closely, including with other members of the Security Council, on next steps,” it said. The United Nations has set a deadline of next Thursday for a formal reply by Tehran.

Posted by The Skipper     on 08/24/2006 at 08:57 AM   
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