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Re: Iran's Nuclear Program Peaceful - United States Intelligence by Afam(m): 6:02pm On Dec 06, 2007
@Denex, Mckren & RichyBlack,

Please, have mercy on I-man, the guy has gone round the bend and he is not himself right now.

I beg you all not to continue to expose his stupidity before he will term it bullying.

@I-man the twister & turner,

The show goes on but be careful to know when the music stops playing.
Re: Iran's Nuclear Program Peaceful - United States Intelligence by Iman3(m): 6:05pm On Dec 06, 2007
@Afam

Your vacuous mind hasn't contributed one iota of substance to this topic.Anything beyond peddling inverters at Alaba market is beyond you.Don't you have any articles from mercenaries in your in box? Anyone who doesn't draw wages from the Arab world? grin grin
Re: Iran's Nuclear Program Peaceful - United States Intelligence by Nobody: 6:06pm On Dec 06, 2007
Afam:

@Denex, Mckren & RichyBlack,

Please, have mercy on I-man, the guy has gone round the bend and he is not himself right now.

I beg you all not to continue to expose his stupidity before he will term it bullying.

@I-man the twister & turner,

The show goes on but be careful to know when the music stops playing.

the guy na pure mad-man not I-man

I no just wan put mouth since
Re: Iran's Nuclear Program Peaceful - United States Intelligence by denex: 6:06pm On Dec 06, 2007
I-man

you trained fictionalizer, please prove to me that China is a Dictatorship. Maybe I'll have to start a different thread from this, but anywhichway, I'd like you to tell me what makes China a dictatorship. Or is it simply because they do not bow down to the USA?

Your mind is too narrow. How can people clearly vote their leaders into Government and some bunch of morons thousands of miles away will claim that they are undemocratic? Do you even know the meaning of democracy? It is a system of government installed and operated by the people. It does not mean a system of government approved by the USA.
Re: Iran's Nuclear Program Peaceful - United States Intelligence by Afam(m): 6:12pm On Dec 06, 2007
I-man:

@Afam

Your vacuous mind hasn't contributed one iota of substance to this topic.Anything beyond peddling inverters at Alaba market is beyond you.Don't you have any articles from mercenaries in your in box? Anyone who doesn't draw wages from the Arab world? grin grin

Lesson 1

It is better not to contribute to a debate if you are not sure than for you to contribute and show the world how stupid you are.

Lesson 2

Building and selling a product that is in high demand is a better way of earning a living than engaging in online scam.

Lesson 3

Throwing around big words don't make you intelligent, your opinions and views on issues will do a better job.

Enjoy!
Re: Iran's Nuclear Program Peaceful - United States Intelligence by RichyBlacK(m): 6:13pm On Dec 06, 2007
[size=16pt]Lavrov: 'No proof Iran had nuke program'[/size]
Associated Press , THE JERUSALEM POST Dec. 5, 2007

Russia's foreign minister said Wednesday there was no proof that Iran has ever run a nuclear weapons program, and praised Teheran for its readiness to cooperate with the United Nations nuclear watchdog.

"Data that we have seen don't allow to say with certainty that Iran has ever had a nuclear weapons program," Sergei Lavrov said when asked to comment on the US intelligence report saying that Iran suspended its efforts to develop nuclear weapons in 2003.

He said he was referring to the intelligence data which Washington had provided to Moscow as part of a dialogue on Iran over the past few years.

Lavrov indicated that the US acknowledgment that Iran halted a suspected nuclear weapons bid in 2003 undermined Washington's push for a new set of UN sanctions against Iran.

"We will assess the situation regarding a new UN Security Council resolution taking into account all these factors, including the public US confirmation that there is no information about the existence of a covert nuclear weapons program in Iran," Lavrov told reporters after talks with his Armenian counterpart.

"We have no information that such efforts had been conducted before 2003, even though our American colleagues said it was so," Lavrov said.

Russia and China, another important ally of Iran, have grudgingly approved two sets of limited UN sanctions against Iran over its refusal to suspend uranium enrichment. But the Kremlin has bristled at the US push for tougher measures, saying they would only widen the rift.

Lavrov said the International Atomic Energy Agency should continue its work in Iran to clarify all outstanding issues related to Tehran's nuclear program.

"Naturally, we will need a full clarity," he said. "We support the IAEA's activities, which the IAEA and Iran have pledged to actively pursue. We support Iran's determination to do that , and we will determine our future steps based on professional expert conclusions of the IAEA."

On Tuesday, Russia's President Vladimir Putin told Iran's top nuclear negotiator, Saeed Jalili, that Tehran's nuclear program should be transparent and remain under control of the UN nuclear watchdog.

Lavrov said that Putin urged Jalili to fully cooperate with the IAEA, answer all its questions and also meet international demands to freeze its uranium enrichment program.

Russia has taken a careful stance on Iran, where it is building a $1 billion nuclear reactor, seeking to preserve economic and political ties with Teheran without angering the West. During his trip to Iran in October, Putin promised that Russia would complete the Bushehr plant, but refused to say when it could begin operations.
Re: Iran's Nuclear Program Peaceful - United States Intelligence by Nobody: 6:19pm On Dec 06, 2007
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No wonder him get plenty yahoo contact LOL

Guy make you go find work!!!!!!!!!!!
Re: Iran's Nuclear Program Peaceful - United States Intelligence by RichyBlacK(m): 6:26pm On Dec 06, 2007
Afam:

@Denex, Mckren & RichyBlack,

Please, have mercy on I-man, the guy has gone round the bend and he is not himself right now.

I beg you all not to continue to expose his stupidity before he will term it bullying.

@I-man the twister & turner,

The show goes on but be careful to know when the music stops playing.

@Afam,

Leave I-man, let him continue to twist, turn, fumble and wobble!
Re: Iran's Nuclear Program Peaceful - United States Intelligence by RichyBlacK(m): 6:58pm On Dec 06, 2007
[size=16pt]Iran nuclear report divides reporters[/size]

World media reaction to the US intelligence report suggesting that Iran had suspended any nuclear weapons programme is divided.

IRAN

Jomhuri-ye Eslami

The report proves that Iran's nuclear activities are totally clear and peaceful, so the act of sending Iran's nuclear dossier to the UNSC was totally illegal and happened for political not technical reasons. The report stresses that Iran had sought nuclear weapons until 2003 and then halted its activities because of diplomatic pressures. This is the point that [US President George W] Bush is trying to use in order to increase pressure on Iran.

Iran

The release of certain parts of the intelligence report regarding Iran's nuclear activities has weakened the position of anti-Iran countries at the 5+1 talks, and instead it has strengthened the position of China and Russia. This situation will create an atmosphere in which keeping Iran's nuclear dossier on the UN Security Council agenda will be very difficult. However we cannot believe that America will drop its hostile policies against the country because it is obviously controlled by the Zionists.

Qods

One point in the report that we cannot close our eyes to is the allegation that Iran sought nuclear weapons until 2003. It means that Iran has the intention of and knowledge to build nuclear weapons and has halted its programmes because of international pressure. Although the report explicitly confirms the [International Atomic Energy Agency] IAEA reports, it implicitly tries to follow previous objectives against the country.

Sharl Kamlah in Arabic-language Al-Vefagh

Tehran never sought these weapons. It does not need a US report to acquit it. The latest CIA report was enough to say that Iran's credibility is clear. However, the US intelligence report with its accurate facts did not only embarrass Bush's administration but also dealt a painful blow to the policy of this administration at a very critical and harmful time. In spite of this, it is obvious that Bush will only use the report to attest to his viewpoint that says that pressure has borne fruit. And hence more pressure should be applied to make Iran halt its programme once and for all.

Tabnak news website political review blog.

The harm caused by the IAEA report is less than that of [National Intelligence Estimate] NIE report. The agency has never presented any evidence that shows Iran's deviation from a peaceful nuclear programme.

Jorgeh satirical blog

Instead of spending millions of dollars on CIA spy games, you could have asked us from the start.

ARABIC

London's Al-Quds Al-Arabi

A strike against Iran is still probable, US antagonism towards Iran will not subside completely. What worries Washington and Tel Aviv is Iran's growing expertise in the field of nuclear technology. The line between military and peaceful use of enriched uranium is very narrow.

Yasir al-Za'trah in Jordan's Al-Dustur

The report will certainly have a negative effect on Bush's efforts to mobilise US public opinion to support a decision for war [against Iran]. But this does not mean that war has become a marginalised possibility. In brief, as long as Bush is in the White House, it will be difficult to disregard the possibility of war, regardless of its form, content and duration. This also does not mean that a Democrat president will be lenient in handling the issue.

Hasan al-Barari in Jordan's Al-Ghad

The release of the report will weaken his [Bush's] ability to make the international community proceed on the issue of imposing sanctions on Iran. However, it cannot be imagined that Bush will accept this relapse, because the decision to go to war is the most likely and because [Iranian President Mahmoud] Ahmadinejad keeps stating - all the time - that Iran has the right to produce nuclear energy.

Ahmad Ziban in Qatar's Al-Rayah

Not everything that US intelligence says is true. Therefore not everything that came out in the recent intelligence report on Iran is necessary 100% correct; i.e. there is nothing that proves that Iran had a programme for producing nuclear weapons that was halted in 2003.

Hasan Madn in United Arab Emirates' Al-Khalij

It shows how the current US administration despises the whole world. The Iranian president has the right to appear today happy and rejoicing because the intelligence report offered him a gift on a golden plate not only to present to his critics inside the ruling elite in Iran, but also to continue his hardline approach in managing the discord with Washington.

Sati Nur-al-Din in Lebanon's Al-Safir

The report contained nothing new of which the entire world is not aware. Iran does not have a military nuclear programme. The bomb is forbidden by Islamic law and according to a clear fatwa by Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

Adnan Ali in Syria's Al-Thawrah

The position of US President George Bush on the report submitted by his intelligence agencies, which asserts the peaceful nature of the Iranian nuclear programme, attracts one's attention and cannot be explained except from two perspectives: either President Bush, as with his case over the Iraq war, is setting escalation with Iran as a target, or else Bush, and this is the second possibility, wanted to camouflage a possible change that might be under way in his administration's management of the crisis with Iran; and wanted once more to use intelligence agencies to pass this change.

Talal Awkal in Palestinian Al-Ayyam

The US-Iranian tension is subsiding after the statement made by the national security adviser, which was compatible with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) report, stating that Iran had frozen its military nuclear programme in 2003. The United States, despite Israeli instigation, is starting to say that it prefers a diplomatic solution in dealing with Iranian nuclear dossiers.

Palestinian Al-Quds

US President George Bush stands alone in the United States in warning against the Iranian nuclear danger while the US intelligence reports stress the opposite. So where does he get his information and evaluations. It is noteworthy that Israel is the only country in the world that stands with Bush and stresses the Iranian nuclear danger. So is this a coincidence, or do they have common reasons to heat up the front with Iran?

Nahid Munir al-Rayyis in Palestinian Filastin

Sixteen US intelligence agencies took part in drafting the report which admitted that Iran had stopped its military nuclear programme back in 2003. This report compliments the report presented by the IAEA's chief [Mohamed] ElBaradei. Only two people in the world, Bush and [Israeli Prime Minister Ehud] Olmert, did not like that and insist the report is not correct. They still see the Iranian nuclear programme as very dangerous, and would like to mobilise the entire world to exact vengeance on Iran.

ISRAEL

Ha'aretz

The American intelligence report has changed nothing fundamental - except that Israel's strategic importance has decreased regarding the Iranian threat. The report establishes that if Iran wants to produce a bomb it can do so, and if it doesn't want to, it won't. This evaluation may have a restraining effect in internal American politics. But in Israeli politics it should cause the opposite reaction, because any weakness in the American approach, which is bound to affect Europe, endangers Israel.

Jerusalem Post

If one were looking for a new definition of chutzpah, it would be hard to do better than the latest US National Intelligence Estimate on Iran. This document declares that Iran successfully hid its military nuclear programme from the US for years, while claiming "moderate confidence" that Iran is not hiding such a programme now. The NIE may obscure but does not change the fact that the Iranian menace will grow and the world will become a more dangerous place, until the regime falls or is forced to back down. Through a politically tainted effort to sow unwarranted complacency, the agencies charged with advancing America's security and interests have delivered a terrible blow to their own mandates.

RUSSIA

Kommersant

[b]Kommersant has learnt from its sources in Washington that the US intelligence report which repudiated the White House's position on the Iranian problem was the result of a struggle between factions in the Bush administration. According to our sources, the report was essentially inspired by former President George Bush Sr, who was keen to outplay Vice-President Richard Cheney's faction and protect his son from fresh failures. However, there has been no softening in the US position on the Iranian problem. Yesterday the White House confirmed that a draft document on fresh sanctions against Iran would be tabled at the UN Security Council in the very near future, It's worth noting that the UN Security Council's working schedule for the rest of the year, which was released on Tuesday, includes the issue of nuclear non-proliferation, focusing on the "Iranian nuclear file". However, at the same time there is no specific date in the Security Council's work plan for consideration of the Iranian issue. That means that any member of the UN Security Council could initiate a discussion at any moment, presenting its partners in the Security Council with the necessity of making a final choice.
[/b]
Igor Kryuchkov in Gazeta

The US president believes that it is important that, according to the report, Iran abandoned nuclear research for military purposes because of increased international pressure.

Vadim Markushin in Krasnaya Zvezda

The visit to Moscow by Secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council Saeed Jalili, the US intelligence report on Iran's nuclear programme, as well as President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's participation in the summit of the Persian Gulf countries - all these extraordinary facts as a whole have created a new perspective on the relations between the world community and the Islamic republic.

CHINA

Li Xuejiang in Renmin Ribao

The judgment made by the report that Iran suspended its nuclear weapons programme long ago is after all a good thing that will make people feel comforted. It will greatly ease the tense atmosphere which is nearing confrontation between the United States and Iran, as it has undoubtedly deprived the war-mongering US hawks of a reason and excuse to start war, and their clamour for war can only die down. If they "cry wolf" loudly again as before, not many people will pay attention even if they shout themselves hoarse.

Lao Ren in Renmin Wang

The contents of the report can only make people ask: Why is the CIA always making mistakes on important issues? The Iraq war was also launched by the US government on the basis of CIA intelligence. The so-called intelligence that "Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction" was proved wrong by the facts. Could the US intelligence agencies be worried that they will have to shoulder responsibility for the use of force against Iran?

Institute of American Studies' Yuan Peng in China Daily

It could provide a pretext for the administration to de-escalate tension and avoid a military conflict with Tehran, Currently, the Bush administration has neither enough troops nor adequate international support to launch such a war.

China Foreign Affairs University's Gong Shaopeng in China Daily

US strategy towards Iran has always been changing dramatically, I've repeatedly warned that countries should think twice about negative consequences before deciding to follow US dealings with Iran. I believe people will take my advice this time.

EUROPE

Omid Nouripour in Germany's Der Spiegel

The Apocalypse has been postponed for now. Given the time that has been won, there is no chance for Bush to set military action in motion against Iran in his last 12 months in office. Now the international community can plan further negotiations with greater care.

The correct balance between incentives and pressure must be found. It was ever more difficult to maintain that balance in the last talks between the USA, Russia, China, France, Britain and Germany.

France's Le Monde

The US intelligence services' report on Iran published on Monday, 3 December, is sufficiently ambiguous not to allow the secret service to be accused of error or an attempt at massaging the information, Despite its nuances and even contradictions, the report confirms the strategy used hitherto by the West, and followed by Russia and China. It confirmed that the military programme was stopped by international pressure, and that enriching uranium in centrifuges would "probably" be the way Iran would choose to obtain the fissile material needed to make a bomb, The American report underlines the reasons for the mullahs' stubbornness over uranium-enrichment: thanks to enrichment, Iran does not rule out any assumptions for the future, including a nuclear weapon.

TURKEY

Sami Kohen in Milliyet

According to the report, Iran once worked on a nuclear weapons programme, but suspended this activity in 2003 due to international pressure, Bush started the Iraq war with the claim that [former Iraqi leader] Saddam [Hussein] had been producing weapons of mass destruction. It was later revealed that this was not true and that the CIA had misled or was itself misled. Now this report disproves the previous reports and claims about Iran's nuclear activities and consequently acquits Iran.

Soli Ozel in Sabah

After the announcement of this report, it has become more difficult for the Bush administration and/or Israel to initiate a military operation against Iran. In fact, it has become impossible. Looking at it from this angle, it might even be claimed that this report, which was prepared by the intelligence institutions, aimed to prevent Bush and especially Vice-President [Dick] Cheney - the king of the hawks - from dragging the country into a new adventure.

Ibrahim Karagul in Yeni Safak

The report has been an enormous blow to the US administration. The Bush administration has taken the option of intervention against Iran off the table. This caused great joy in Iran. The world has come to the point of accepting Iran's thesis and Tehran has won the nuclear struggle.

PAKISTAN

Pakistan

US President Bush has said that despite the consensus report of the US secret agencies, his viewpoint about Iran has not changed. Mr Bush's tenure as president is going to expire in a year, and the chances of success for his Republican party are decreasing day by day. This is a golden opportunity for Mr Bush to trust the reports of his intelligence agencies and resolve issues with Iran amicably.

BBC Monitoring selects and translates news from radio, television, press, news agencies and the internet from 150 countries in more than 70 languages. It is based in Caversham, UK, and has several bureaux abroad.
Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/middle_east/7130553.stm
Re: Iran's Nuclear Program Peaceful - United States Intelligence by naijaking1: 8:25pm On Dec 06, 2007
The American intelligence report has changed nothing fundamental - except that Israel's strategic importance has decreased regarding the Iranian threat. The report establishes that if Iran wants to produce a bomb it can do so, and if it doesn't want to, it won't. This evaluation may have a restraining effect in internal American politics. But in Israeli politics it should cause the opposite reaction, because any weakness in the American approach, which is bound to affect Europe, endangers Israel



The sound of disappointment from Bolton, Senator Lieberman, Dick Cheney, and some elements in Israel cannot be overlooked.
Re: Iran's Nuclear Program Peaceful - United States Intelligence by Iman3(m): 12:22pm On Dec 10, 2007
denex:

I-man

you trained fictionalizer, please prove to me that China is a Dictatorship. Maybe I'll have to start a different thread from this, but anywhichway, I'd like you to tell me what makes China a dictatorship. Or is it simply because they do not bow down to the USA?

Your mind is too narrow. How can people clearly vote their leaders into Government and some bunch of morons thousands of miles away will claim that they are undemocratic? Do you even know the meaning of democracy? It is a system of government installed and operated by the people. It does not mean a system of government approved by the USA.

Do you sincerely believe that the people of China freely elect their leaders? shocked grin Every country on earth conducts elections,every single nation state holds elections but the mere holding of elections doesn't make a country a democracy.

To debate this issue with someone who has a patently dysfunctional intellect as you do will be pointless.
Re: Iran's Nuclear Program Peaceful - United States Intelligence by Seun(m): 7:02pm On Dec 10, 2007
Re: Iran's Nuclear Program Peaceful - United States Intelligence by RichyBlacK(m): 7:48pm On Dec 10, 2007
@Seun,

That was hilarious!

The Bush-Cheney cabal would do anything to push their agenda of enriching defense companies and contractors.

Can't wait till 01/20/2009.
Re: Iran's Nuclear Program Peaceful - United States Intelligence by Iman3(m): 8:13pm On Dec 10, 2007
The NIE Report:The complete and original copy grin

Dear Mr. President,

We are honored to present you with the latest National Intelligence Estimate, dealing with the satellite sighting referred to in our previous Intelligence Memo (IM) #3267.

Respectfully,

(redacted)

NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE ESTIMATE #765 – EYES ONLY

This NIE reflects the consensus of 16 intelligence agencies, although we can't remember the names of all of them.

Please note the following definitions used in this report:

SLAM-DUNK CONFIDENCE – We have at least two facts to back up the opinions we already had.

SO-SO CONFIDENCE – We have only one fact, or an almost-fact, to back up our opinions, but if we're wrong we can say we had only so-so confidence, so it's good cover.

ITSY BITSY CONFIDENCE – We don't know anything about it, but we know what we want to push you to do.


OVERALL SUBJECT:

On 1 April, 2007, 1541 hours local time, an animate object was observed by satellite as it moved slowly through an area near the Iranian nuclear enrichment plant at Natanz. It looked like a duck, walked like a duck, ate like a duck, and, as revealed by enhanced sound surveillance (ESS), quacked like a duck.

KEY JUDGMENTS:

We judge with SLAM-DUNK CONFIDENCE that it's not a duck.

We assess with SLAM-DUNK CONFIDENCE that Iran suspended the breeding of ducks in 2003, in response to a complaint by a grandma that ducks were mussing her flowers.

We judge that this demonstrates that Iran is pragmatic, and sensitive to pressure from national and international interests. We assess with SO-SO CONFIDENCE that Iran did a cost-benefit analysis before suspending duck breeding, and determined that the presence and utility of ducks did not outweigh the concerns of grandmas.


Source:http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=OTg2MDY3NWZiNTAxZTgzMGYzNjMzZGExOGM5ZmQ0OGU=
Re: Iran's Nuclear Program Peaceful - United States Intelligence by Iman3(m): 11:41pm On Dec 10, 2007
Iran 'hoodwinked' CIA over nuclear plans

British spy chiefs have grave doubts that Iran has mothballed its nuclear weapons programme, as a US intelligence report claimed last week, and believe the CIA has been hoodwinked by Teheran.


Analysts believe that Iranian staff, knowing their phones were tapped, deliberately gave misinformation

The timing of the CIA report has also provoked fury in the British Government, where officials believe it has undermined efforts to impose tough new sanctions on Iran and made an Israeli attack on its nuclear facilities more likely.

The security services in London want concrete evidence to allay concerns that the Islamic state has fed disinformation to the CIA.

The report used new evidence - including human sources, wireless intercepts and evidence from an Iranian defector - to conclude that Teheran suspended the bomb-making side of its nuclear programme in 2003. But British intelligence is concerned that US spy chiefs were so determined to avoid giving President Bush a reason to go to war - as their reports on Saddam Hussein's weapons programmes did in Iraq - that they got it wrong this time.

A senior British official delivered a withering assessment of US intelligence-gathering abilities in the Middle East and revealed that British spies shared the concerns of Israeli defence chiefs that Iran was still pursuing nuclear weapons.


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/12/09/wiran109.xml
Re: Iran's Nuclear Program Peaceful - United States Intelligence by RichyBlacK(m): 7:29am On Dec 11, 2007
The same British spy chiefs who misled the world with their 45 minutes claim (http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A15697-2004Feb28?language=printer) about Iraq?

Make we hear word abeg!

1. Iran's current nuclear program is for peaceful purposes!
2. Iran has every right to nuclear technology!
3. Mere suspicion can NEVER be grounds to prevent Iran from exercising its right!
4. Knowledge can NEVER be restricted in the two dimensions that matter - time and space. With time ALL HUMAN KNOWLEDGE will be known, and ALL who seek it will get it!
5. What Baba God could not or did not do, that's what mere humans like some idiotic Americans are trying to accomplish - the restriction of knowledge in time and space from those who seek it.
Re: Iran's Nuclear Program Peaceful - United States Intelligence by Nobody: 12:59pm On Dec 11, 2007
Oh dear!!!!!!!!!!!

I think say na President Bush plan the NIE release, now e don become say na Iran hoodwink CIA??

By the way why people wey get nuclear bomb dey blackmail Iran for developing nuclear technology?
Re: Iran's Nuclear Program Peaceful - United States Intelligence by Iman3(m): 2:33pm On Dec 11, 2007
RichyBlacK:

The same British spy chiefs who misled the world with their 45 minutes claim (http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A15697-2004Feb28?language=printer) about Iraq?

This is an example of your warped logic.If the fact the British intelligence has "misled" the world before undermines their claims,that equally applies to the new claims of the US intelligence services. So neither can be trusted either way.In effect,you believe any intelligence report which says anything that aligns with your world view.

2. Iran has every right to nuclear technology!
3. Mere suspicion can NEVER be grounds to prevent Iran from exercising its right!

Stop being an ignoramus.Iran's NPT obligations require it to enable full and unhindered monitoring of its nuclear projects,an obligation,which even the IAEA,hardly a minion of Bush,asserts that Iran is yet to comply with.Until it does,it will always operate under a cloud of suspicion.

4. Knowledge can NEVER be restricted in the two dimensions that matter - time and space. With time ALL HUMAN KNOWLEDGE will be known, and ALL who seek it will get it!
5. What Baba God could not or did not do, that's what mere humans like some idiotic Americans are trying to accomplish - the restriction of knowledge in time and space from those who seek it.

Your usual windy drivel.
Re: Iran's Nuclear Program Peaceful - United States Intelligence by RichyBlacK(m): 5:41pm On Dec 11, 2007
I-man:

This is an example of your warped logic.If the fact the British intelligence has "misled" the world before undermines their claims,that equally applies to the new claims of the US intelligence services. So neither can be trusted either way.In effect,you believe any intelligence report which says anything that aligns with your world view.

So all Western intelligence amount to nought! Away with all of them!


Stop being an ignoramus.Iran's NPT obligations require it to enable full and unhindered monitoring of its nuclear projects,an obligation,which even the IAEA,hardly a minion of Bush,asserts that Iran is yet to comply with.Until it does,it will always operate under a cloud of suspicion.

I will forgive the insult - just for now. I did not insult you, so try to make your points without insults. If you insult me again, I'll take it to the next level with you. You've been warned!

Iran has always made the details of its program accessible to the IAEA. However, the West keeps putting pressure on the UN nuclear watch dog to make Iran look bad. Iran has not restricted inspections and have been open about each step of its program. The problem is that the West can't deal with the fact that a nation that is not one of their subjects is bold enough to talk about having a nuclear program, even if for peaceful purposes.


Your usual windy drivel.

Knowledge cannot be restricted. No matter what Bush and his cabal of death do.
Re: Iran's Nuclear Program Peaceful - United States Intelligence by Iman3(m): 6:06pm On Dec 11, 2007
Iran has always made the details of its program accessible to the IAEA. However, the West keeps putting pressure on the UN nuclear watch dog to make Iran look bad. Iran has not restricted inspections and have been open about each step of its program. The problem is that the West can't deal with the fact that a nation that is not one of their subjects is bold enough to talk about having a nuclear program, even if for peaceful purposes.

This is where you irritate me.That Iran has not fully complied with its NPT obligations,is a matter which is well known and has been frequently noted by the IAEA.Look at the facility at Natanz.It was only when an opposition group revealed it in 2002,that the world knew it was a nuclear facility.

Why hide things when you have nothing to hide.Iran voluntarily signed the NPT,it has to fully comply with it and not play cat and mouse games with the IAEA
RichyBlacK:

I will forgive the insult - just for now. I did not insult you, so try to make your points without insults. If you insult me again, I'll take it to the next level with you. You've been warned!

Anu ofia grin grin grin
Re: Iran's Nuclear Program Peaceful - United States Intelligence by RichyBlacK(m): 2:57pm On Dec 12, 2007
[size=16pt]Iran, IAEA in new talks to clear nuclear doubts[/size]
Mon Dec 10, 2007 8:09am EST

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran and a team from the U.N. nuclear watchdog started a fresh round of talks on Monday in Tehran to resolve doubts about the Islamic Republic's nuclear work, Iranian media reported.

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) delegation arrived in Iran's capital on Sunday, less than a week after a U.S. intelligence report said Iran halted its nuclear weapons program in 2003.

Iran denies ever having had such a military program but welcomed the report that contradicted the U.S. administration's assertions that Tehran was actively working on a nuclear bomb.

"The nuclear negotiations started on Monday morning and will last three days," the semi-official news agency Fars reported.

Iran and the U.N. body agreed in August on a timetable to answer outstanding questions about nuclear activities which Tehran says are aimed at generating electricity.

Previous rounds of talks dealt with centrifuges used to enrich uranium and other issues. The new talks are expected to focus on questions about particles of arms-grade enriched uranium found by IAEA inspectors at Tehran's Technical University.

"The talks will be focused on the source of contamination," the report said without elaborating.

Enriched uranium can be used both for fuelling power plants and, if refined much further, for making bombs. But Iran says it wants to refine uranium only as an alternative source of electricity so it can export more of its oil and gas.

The IAEA said in a report last month Tehran was [size=14pt]cooperating[/size] but not proactively. IAEA director Mohamed ElBaradei said Iran was making "good progress" in solving questions about its plans.

The U.N. Security Council has imposed two sets of limited sanctions on Tehran for its refusal to halt enrichment, the part of Iran's program that most worries the West.

Last week's U.S. report released by the 16 intelligence agencies is expected to complicate U.S. efforts to push through new U.N. sanctions against Iran over its atomic work.

U.S. President George W. Bush said after the report that Iran still remained a danger because it was mastering technology with a military use.

European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana told reporters in Brussels that the bloc would pursue its line of offering negotiations to Iran over inducements to halt uranium enrichment while backing moves towards U.N. sanctions.

(Writing by Reza Derakhshi; Editing by Charles Dick)

http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSSAL02659220071210?pageNumber=2&virtualBrandChannel=0
Re: Iran's Nuclear Program Peaceful - United States Intelligence by RichyBlacK(m): 3:06pm On Dec 12, 2007
@I-man,

You can see that the IAEA says Iran is cooperating, though not proactively.

I would not expect any country to be proactive in cooperating with a body like the IAEA that is heavily influenced (to the detriment of Iran) by the West.

How proactive has the US or Israel been in cooperating with IAEA? Will they even allow the IAEA inspect their nuclear facilities?

Please stop spreading lies against Iran.
Re: Iran's Nuclear Program Peaceful - United States Intelligence by Afam(m): 5:21pm On Dec 12, 2007
Iran need not be proactive, it should in fact be reactive.

What of nations that are neither proactive nor reactive as regards nuclear weapons that they build as they like - Israel, India & Pakistan, these nations refused to even recognize the NPT talk less of signing it.

What of those that have actively developed nuclear weapons - US, Britain, France, Chine, Russia?

Make them go siddon for dirty.
Re: Iran's Nuclear Program Peaceful - United States Intelligence by Iman3(m): 1:12am On Dec 20, 2007
Afam:

Iran need not be proactive, it should in fact be reactive.

The NPT requires each signatory to be pro-active.

Afam:

What of nations that are neither proactive nor reactive as regards nuclear weapons that they build as they like - Israel, India & Pakistan, these nations refused to even recognize the NPT talk less of signing it.


If you voluntarily enter into an agreement,you have to abide by your agreement and not point to people who are not parties to the agreement. This is pure common sense

What of those that have actively developed nuclear weapons - US, Britain, France, Chine, Russia?

They developed theirs prior to the NPT and have a special status under the NPT.

RichyBlacK:

@I-man,
You can see that the IAEA says Iran is cooperating, though not proactively.
I would not expect any country to be proactive in cooperating with a body like the IAEA that is heavily influenced (to the detriment of Iran) by the West.

How proactive has the US or Israel been in cooperating with IAEA? Will they even allow the IAEA inspect their nuclear facilities?

Please stop spreading lies against Iran.

You are a guff merchant.

To try to absolve Iran on grounds that "its cooperating,though not proactively",is an absurdly clumsy attempt at semantics.The NPT requires proactive cooperation otherwise it would become a worthless piece of paper.

A classic example is the Natanz question.Iran never notified the IAEA that this was a nuclear plant,however,once an opposition group exposed this,Iran allowed the IAEA to inspect it. Iran was under an obligation to notify the IAEA ab initio,not wait till it was caught before cooperating.

Your allusion to Israel and the US exposes your monumental ignorance of the core issue-you are not bound to do what you are not bound to do.You can keep copying and pasting articles off the net,your posts are a case study of an inverted pyramid of piffle.You start with a conclusion and try to mold your "facts",actually a load of piffle, into the initial conclusion.

Iran could have simply exercised the option not to enter into the NPT.That it was entitled to do,it chose not to but instead, to utilise the advantages of being a NPT signatory while playing hide and seek with the IAEA.

PS:Interesting article:http://opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=110011011
Re: Iran's Nuclear Program Peaceful - United States Intelligence by RichyBlacK(m): 3:17am On Dec 20, 2007
Bush backs move by Russia to send uranium to Iran

By James Blitz in London
Published: December 18 2007 02:00 | Last updated: December 18 2007 02:00


George W. Bush, US president, last night backed Russia's decision to supply Iran with its first consignment of nuclear fuel for a civilian power reactor, arguing that the move meant the Iranians no longer needed to enrich uranium themselves.

Moscow's sudden decision to deliver the fuel is a significant boost for Iran's plans to generate electricity from its own civilian nuclear programme at Bushehr in the south of the country. However, Tehran insisted yesterday that it would still not be suspending its uranium enrichment plans.

Instead, senior Iranian officials said the uranium enrichment programme at Natanz must continue if Iran was to construct and operate more reactors.

The US and many of the world's main powers believe Iran's uranium enrichment programme is aimed at producing a nuclear weapon for the country.

However, the recent publication of a US intelligence report stating that Iran stopped military work on the nuclear programme has seriously slowed the Bush administration's attempt to have a new raft of sanctions against Iran agreed at the United Nations.

Russia's decision to consign 80 tonnes of uranium fuel rods to the Bushehr reactor was taken after consultations with the US and did not appear last night to have irritated Washington.

Instead, Mr Bush argued that the consignment meant Iran had no need to engage in enriching its own uranium since it had access to nuclear fuel from external sources. Commenting on Russia's decision, he said: "If the Russians are willing to do that, which I support, then the Iranians do not need to learn how to enrich."

Condoleezza Rice, US Secretary of State, said: "The United States has been supportive of the Bushehr project in the last couple of years because we believe that it is exactly the kind of effort that could provide for Iran a civil nuclear program without the fear of the proliferation risk."

However, Gholam Reza Aghazadeh, head of Iran's atomic energy organisation, rejected the argument, saying more fuel was needed for a second power station under construction. "The fuel for this power station must come from Natanz," he said.

The US has been resistant in the past to the idea of Russia providing the fuel, saying the focus of international policy needs to be on isolating Iran. However, White House spokesman Gordon Johndroe said yesterday US officials had been in contact with the Russians over their plans.
Re: Iran's Nuclear Program Peaceful - United States Intelligence by RichyBlacK(m): 3:38am On Dec 20, 2007
I-man:


You are a guff merchant.

To try to absolve Iran on grounds that "its cooperating,though not proactively",is an absurdly clumsy attempt at semantics.The NPT requires proactive cooperation otherwise it would become a worthless piece of paper.

A classic example is the Natanz question.Iran never notified the IAEA that this was a nuclear plant,however,once an opposition group exposed this,Iran allowed the IAEA to inspect it. Iran was under an obligation to notify the IAEA ab initio,not wait till it was caught before cooperating.

Your allusion to Israel and the US exposes your monumental ignorance of the core issue-you are not bound to do what you are not bound to do.You can keep copying and pasting articles off the net,your posts are a case study of an inverted pyramid of piffle.You start with a conclusion and try to mold your "facts",actually a load of piffle, into the initial conclusion.

Iran could have simply exercised the option not to enter into the NPT.That it was entitled to do,it chose not to but instead, to utilise the advantages of being a NPT signatory while playing hide and seek with the IAEA.

PS:Interesting article:http://opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=110011011


I-man or, better still, I-fool:
I now know without a doubt that you're one of the most stupid imbeciles on Nairaland. Mumu like you, aren't you aware that the US is a signatory to the NPT? Does it pro-actively cooperate with the IAEA? Israel is not a signatory because it has a made a self-assessment and concluded that it (Israel) will not be able to keep to the terms - what do you expect from a nation that still practices apartheid? Israel's secret nuclear program is only secret to some fools in the Knesset. What did the evil government of Israel do to Mordechai Vanunu, who exposed Israel's nuclear program? Nonsense! You turn away your glaucoma-infested eyes from Israel's nuclear program but want Iran to pro-actively cooperate with the US-influenced IAEA. Idiot! No sanction, no amount of threat from the zombie called George W. Bush, nothing will stop Iran from achieving its goal of building nuclear power plants for peaceful purposes. And if Iran chooses to extend her program to nuclear weapons, so be it! After all, rogue states like Israel have secretly developed nuclear weapons, then why can't peaceful countries like Iran have nuclear weapons to defend themselves from countries run by thugs - Israel and the United States. Rubbish!
Re: Iran's Nuclear Program Peaceful - United States Intelligence by RichyBlacK(m): 3:46am On Dec 20, 2007
RichyBlacK:

Bush backs move by Russia to send uranium to Iran

By James Blitz in London
Published: December 18 2007 02:00 | Last updated: December 18 2007 02:00


George W. Bush, US president, last night backed Russia's decision to supply Iran with its first consignment of nuclear fuel for a civilian power reactor, arguing that the move meant the Iranians no longer needed to enrich uranium themselves.



Does he have any other option? Sanction Russia? grin

Russia WILL continue to support Iran in her bid to join the nuclear club. Unlike Israel, that had to hide, cheat, lie, torture, and imprison its way to the nuclear table, Iran will get there in the full glare of Western bullies. Strong support and encouragement from the East - China and Russia, will prevent the megalomaniacs in the current White House from doing all but support the ongoing revolution!
Re: Iran's Nuclear Program Peaceful - United States Intelligence by Iman3(m): 7:11pm On Dec 20, 2007
RichyBlacK:

I-man or, better still, I-fool:
I now know without a doubt that you're one of the most stupid imbeciles on Nairaland. Mumu like you, aren't you aware that the US is a signatory to the NPT?

I guess this is why many Nigerian graduates are called "half-baked graduates" grin How could the US have a special status under the NPT if they were not party to it?

I-man:

They developed theirs prior to the NPT and have a special status under the NPT.

Is the US in breach of its NPT obligations?No Not even Iran has attacked the US for breaching NPT obligations

Is Iran in breach? Yes. The IAEA has confirmed this.

Only a phenomenally stupid person can question Israel's co-operation with the IAEA.It has no obligation to the IAEA under the NPT.Also,the US,alongside the other 4 permanent members of the UNSC enjoys a special status under the NPT. Its like ranting about a goalkeeper picking up the ball,in the 18, with his hands from a header while bemoaning the fact that other players aren't so allowed. . . . . . .its an intoxicating combination of ignorance and idiocy.What next? Why is Israel and the US not co-operating with G-Unit?

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