Iran vs USA + Israel

[Haykakan]

Iran: U.N. can inspect nuclear facility

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran's nuclear chief says his country will allow the U.N. nuclear agency to inspect its newly revealed, still unfinished uranium enrichment facility.
Ali Akbar Salehi didn't specify when inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency could visit the site. He says the timing will be worked out with the U.N. watchdog.


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Iran's newly revealed site is said to be in the arid mountains near the holy city of Qom, inside a heavily guarded, underground facility.

The pilot plant will house 3,000 centrifuges that could soon produce nuclear fuel — or the payload for atomic warheads. Salehi spoke on state TV Saturday.

He says Iran has "pre-empted a conspiracy" against Tehran by the U.S. and its allies by reporting the site voluntarily to the IAEA.

[Haykakan]

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Atomic conference criticizes Israeli nukes
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VIENNA (AP) — Overriding Western objections, a 150-nation nuclear conference on Friday passed a resolution directly criticizing Israel and its atomic program for the first time in 18 years. Iran hailed the vote as a "glorious moment."
The result was a setback not only for Israel but also for the United States and other backers of the xxxish state, which had lobbied for 18 years of past practice — debate on the issue without a vote. It also reflected building tensions between Israel and its backers and Islamic nations, backed by developing countries.

Of delegations present at the International Atomic Energy Agency meeting Friday, 49 voted for the resolution. Forty-five were against and 16 abstained from endorsing or rejecting the document, which "expresses concern about the Israeli nuclear capabilities," and links it to "concern about the threat posed by the proliferation of nuclear weapons for the security and stability of the Middle East."

In an attempt to sway the assembly before the vote, U.S. chief delegate Glyn Davies spoke out against an "attempt to use this resolution to criticize a single country."

"Such an approach is highly politicized and does not truly address the complexities at play regarding crucial nuclear-related issues in the Middle East," he said.

While the conference has no enforcing powers, the result once again exposed the deep North-South divide gripping IAEA meetings.

The U.S. and its allies consider Iran the region's greatest proliferation threat, fearing that Tehran is trying to achieve the capacity to make nuclear weapons despite its assertion that it is only building a civilian program to generate power. They also say Syria — which, like Iran is under IAEA investigation — ran a clandestine nuclear program, at least until Israeli warplanes destroyed what they describe as a nearly finished plutonium-producing reactor two years ago.

But Islamic nations insist that Israel is the true danger in the Middle East, saying they fear its nuclear weapons capacity. Israel has never said it has such arms, but is universally believed to possess them.

The Muslim countries enjoy support from the developing world, which is critical of the U.S. and other nuclear weapons nations for refusing to disarm, and suspects that developed nations are trying to corner the market on peaceful nuclear technology to their disadvantage.

Israeli delegate David Danieli denounced the vote as "openly hostile to the state of Israel" and accused Iran and Syria of "creating a diplomatic smoke screen" to cover up their "pursuit of nuclear weapons."

But chief Iranian delegate Ali Asghar Soltanieh said the vote should serve as a warning to Washington and other supporters of the xxxish state.

"The U.S. Administration .... has received a message that they should not continue supporting Israel at any price," he told reporters.

Since the conference passed a harshly worded anti-Israel resolution in 1991, there has been annual Islamic criticism of Israel's nuclear program and its refusal to join the Nonproliferation Treaty. But — until Friday — the West had lobbied successfully against a vote, arguing they could damage hopes of a Middle East peace through negotiations.

Western diplomats had expressed hope on Thursday that a vote could again be avoided after the meeting adopted a resolution calling for a Mideast free of nuclear weapons in a near-consensus vote. One hundred delegations voted for, with only Israel against and 14 abstentions.

While Israel objected to a passage calling on all states in the region to adopt the Nonproliferation Treaty, it praised Arab willingness to compromise on other language in the document that it opposed

[KanadaHye]

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Looks like the cheese stands alone.... I could probably guess who the 14 abstentions were.

[KanadaHye]

Re: Iran vs USA + Israel

I think it's more like Iran vs. Israel + USA+ British Common Wealth

CNN
Iran fires off long-range missiles in latest test
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/...sts/index.html

CBC
Iran tests medium-range missiles
http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2009/0...ium-range.html

BBC
Iran tests longest range missiles
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8278026.stm

[Haykakan]

Re: Iran vs USA + Israel

The zionists(includes USA Israel and Britain) have invested too much into controlling the middle east to back away from Iran. The invasions of Iraq and Afgenistan were all part of the plot to bring down Iran and control that part of the world (those invasions effectively surrounded Iran). They will try to do as much damage as they can via senctions before attaking (just like they did in Iraq). The wildcard here is Russia. Without Russias help in the UN senctions are not gona happen and with it helping Iran a war will be very costly. Russia seems to have made a deal of some kind already, the missles in eastern eourope didn't dissapear out of good will. Should sections be imposed it will be Iraq2 the sequal. Russia made a deal over Iraq also but if it looses Iran it will be allowing its self to be surrounded by USA+Britain+Israel. If russia is still sovreighn and has not been overrun by zionists then it will make this scenerio very interessting but if Russia is compromised or bought off then Iran will go the way of Iraq. Iran shares strategic interests with Armenia and its demise would be devastating to Armenia thus i hope Iran prevails in whatever scenerio unfolds. I think Iran is where Russia will draw the line but we will see soon enough.

[KanadaHye]

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The zionists(includes USA Israel and Britain) have invested too much into controlling the middle east to back away from Iran. The invasions of Iraq and Afgenistan were all part of the plot to bring down Iran and control that part of the world (those invasions effectively surrounded Iran). They will try to do as much damage as they can via senctions before attaking (just like they did in Iraq). The wildcard here is Russia. Without Russias help in the UN senctions are not gona happen and with it helping Iran a war will be very costly. Russia seems to have made a deal of some kind already, the missles in eastern yourope didnt disapear out of good will. Should sections be imposed it will be Iraq2 the sequal. Russia made a deal over Iraq also but if it looses Iran it will be allowing its self to be surrounded by USA+Britain+Israel. If russia is still sovreighn and has not been overrun by zionists then it will make this scenerio very interessting but if Russia is compromised or bought off then Iran will go the way of Iraq. Iran shares strategic interests with Armenia and its demise would devastating to Armenia thus i hope Iran prevails in whatever scenerio unfolds.

I think this is the big picture that people fail to see... Afghanistan and Iraq weren't random choices for invasion. One is east of Iran, the other is west of Iran. Once military bases have been set up surrounding Iran, then a possible invasion can take place. Iran couldn't be attacked without military bases in proximity and Turkey wasn't all too cooperative with using its bases in the invasion of Iraq in the first place. I would be enriching uranium like crazy if I was being surrounded by imperial/fascist nut jobs as well.

[hipeter924]

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If NZ's last PM was in power we would have voted yes. Sadly we have some guy that shamelessly flirts with his banker friends in Wall Street, idolizes Bill Clinton, is married to Israel, and looks like a retard on TV. Personally I just try to deny the Labour Party (which had independent foreign policy) is no longer in power and wait 3-6 years till they are in power again. I just hope he doesn't insult the middle east and Iran or oil prices here will double.