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Weapons-grade uranium found in Iran

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emeraldctyangel

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Yes, Iran is quite cooperative. :rolleyes:

NPT parties must demand that existing cases of noncompliance be resolved. In recent years, four NPT parties have sought nuclear weapons in violation of their nonproliferation obligations. In December 2003, Libya made the strategic choice to renounce weapons of mass destruction and to fulfill its obligations under the NPT. Iraq's new government has also pledged to honor international nonproliferation conventions.

But North Korea continues to threaten the world. Since the last Review Conference in 2000, it expelled international inspectors, announced its withdrawal from the NPT, and, most recently, claimed to have manufactured nuclear weapons. The Conference should condemn North Korea's egregious behavior. North Korea must cease and declare all past nuclear activity and dismantle its nuclear programs completely, verifiably and irreversibly. We will seek support for a continuation of the Six Party Talks as the current best approach for resolving this issue peacefully through negotiation.


Since 2000, we also learned of the numerous NPT violations committed by Iran, in the course of that country's clandestine pursuit of nuclear weapons over the past two decades. Iran refuses to abandon its effort, despite numerous IAEA Board of Governors resolutions calling on Iran to adhere to its obligations and fully disclose its activities. Iran will attend the Conference and will be a great source of controversy and division. The Iranian regime will attempt to justify its two decades of lying and of failing to disclose its nuclear activities, while claiming the right to have sensitive nuclear technology despite its violations. Of course, Iran has no legitimate need for this technology. We will document Iran's long history of deception and violations. Any casual reading of IAEA reports and resolutions dealing with Iran's safeguards obligations over the past few years will reveal countless failures, breaches and violations. Iran hid behind the NPT for many years while it claimed to have only a peaceful nuclear program. The United States supports the EU-3 [European Union-Three: France, Germany, and Britain] effort to obtain certain objective guarantees that Iran is not trying to use a civilian nuclear program to provide cover for a weapons program. http://www.state.gov/t/ac/rls/rm/45419.htm
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emeraldctyangel

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Originally posted by KenH:
No. The article stated: "Still, they said, further analysis could show that the find matches others established to have come from abroad."
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Nice.

Ken uses the old pot smokers defense...'it aint mine man, some dude crashed here last night and left his enriched uranium here, I SWEAR!'

Right.
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KenH

KenH

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The testimony of a Bush administration official carries very little weight with me. I don't trust any member of the Bush administration any farther than I can throw him.
 
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Joseph_Botwinick

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Originally posted by emeraldctyangel:
</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by KenH:
No. The article stated: "Still, they said, further analysis could show that the find matches others established to have come from abroad."
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Nice.

Ken uses the old pot smokers defense...'it aint mine man, some dude crashed here last night and left his enriched uranium here, I SWEAR!'

Right.
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</font>[/QUOTE]Well, we all know Ken's feeling about pot .
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Joseph Botwinick
 
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Joseph_Botwinick

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Originally posted by KenH:
The testimony of a Bush administration official carries very little weight with me. I don't trust any member of the Bush administration any farther than I can throw him.
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What's this? Is your Condi crush over?
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Joseph Botwinick
 
KenH

KenH

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Originally posted by Joseph_Botwinick:
What proof would you like and how do you think we should go about getting that proof without snap inspections?
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Well, the Bush administration claims that Iran has been working on this project decades and they have just now been able - so Iran's president claims - to enrich uranium to a very low level.

At this rate maybe we'll need to be concerned about Iran being able to construct a nuclear weapon, if it wants to build one, by the year 2100.

Proof would be evidence that satisfies the following:

1. Iran is actually trying to build a nuclear weapon.

2. Iran will use a nuclear weapon if it builds one in a first strike against the U.S. or one of our allies.
 
carpro

carpro

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Originally posted by KenH:
</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by Joseph_Botwinick:
What proof would you like and how do you think we should go about getting that proof without snap inspections?
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Well, the Bush administration claims that Iran has been working on this project decades and they have just now been able - so Iran's president claims - to enrich uranium to a very low level.

At this rate maybe we'll need to be concerned about Iran being able to construct a nuclear weapon, if it wants to build one, by the year 2100.

Proof would be evidence that satisfies the following:

1. Iran is actually trying to build a nuclear weapon.

2. Iran will use a nuclear weapon if it builds one in a first strike against the U.S. or one of our allies. </font>[/QUOTE]Your standard #2 is impossible to meet until you see the mushroom cloud.

But I suspect that's the way you want it. ;)
 
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Joseph_Botwinick

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Originally posted by KenH:
</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by Joseph_Botwinick:
What proof would you like and how do you think we should go about getting that proof without snap inspections?
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Well, the Bush administration claims that Iran has been working on this project decades and they have just now been able - so Iran's president claims - to enrich uranium to a very low level.

At this rate maybe we'll need to be concerned about Iran being able to construct a nuclear weapon, if it wants to build one, by the year 2100.

Proof would be evidence that satisfies the following:

1. Iran is actually trying to build a nuclear weapon.

2. Iran will use a nuclear weapon if it builds one in a first strike against the U.S. or one of our allies. </font>[/QUOTE]Ok. You answered the first part of the question. Now, tell me this: How do you think we should go about getting that proof without snap inspections?

Joseph Botwinick
 
KenH

KenH

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I'll leave that up to the experts at the IAEA who know what kind of inspection regime that they need to do their jobs.
 
KenH

KenH

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No, in this situation I trust the IAEA inspectors. Short of going to war with Iran and destroying the U.S. and world economies as the price of oil soars to at least $150/bbl. trusting the IAEA to do its job is really all we can do. Now the U.S. and the EU and Russia helping with the negotiations would be a huge plus. But we must rely on the expertise of the IAEA to inform us as to whether Iran remains in compliance with the NPT.
 
carpro

carpro

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"...it's amazing if you step back and think about it that the main concern of the world right now is what we're going to do about the Iranian program, not what the Iranians are going to do."

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The Iranian strategy is working, with the willing complicity of the UN and the EU.
 
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