Monday, September 13, 2004

Failed Diplomacy. Example: Iran

While the US shut its mouth on Iranian question, the euro powers were supposed to put a lid on this one. Two years and several 'agreements' later, the power (euro)trio of Britain, France and Germany let this one slide:

Iran to resume uranium enrichment: top diplomat

TEHRAN, Sept. 13 (Xinhuanet) -- Iran's top diplomat to the United Nations nuclear watchdog meeting said on Monday in Vienna that Tehran would resume uranium enrichment despite the European Union's urge to halt it permanently, the official IRNA news agency reported.
"Uranium enrichment is Iran's legitimate right, just like the rights enjoyed by all other members of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)," Hossein Mousavian, spokesman of the Iranian delegation to the ongoing IAEA meeting, said at a press conference.
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"We have done more than our obligations to build trust, having committed no illegal move at all in our peaceful nuclear activities," Mousavian added


Not included in this text: The speech about how Iran would bomb Israel the second it constructs a bomb:

Nuclear Weapons Can Solve the Israel Problem
Rafsanjani said that Muslims must surround colonialism and force them [the colonialists] to see whether Israel is beneficial to them or not. If one day, he said, the world of Islam comes to possess the weapons currently in Israel's possession [meaning nuclear weapons] - on that day this method of global arrogance would come to a dead end. This, he said, is because the use of a nuclear bomb in Israel will leave nothing on the ground, whereas it will only damage the world of Islam.


Sleep tight and don't let the Islamists bite.

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