So much for all that talk about how they just wanted nuclear power for peaceful purposes. If anyone believed it at all in the first place. From AP, with thanks to the Constantinopolitan Irredentist:
VIENNA, Austria - A document obtained by Iran on the nuclear black market serves no other purpose than to make an atomic bomb, the International Atomic Energy Agency said Tuesday.The finding was made in a report prepared for presentation to the 35-nation IAEA board when it meets, starting Thursday, on whether to refer Iran to the U.N. Security Council, which has the power to impose economic and political sanctions on Iran.
fox news just did a quikie on this story
There is nothing inconsistent with their aims to obtain nuclear weapons and Iranian claims that their nuclear program is for "peaceful" purposes..
I think the cynicism and poisonous sarcasm of the Muslim mind comes through loud and clear from Tehran... When they say "peaceful purposes" it doesn't mean what we, as Westerners, imagine the words to mean... To the Muslim mind, anything that empowers them, and prevents non-Muslims from interfering with their aspirations constitutes "peaceful purposes". In the same manner, anything that weakens Muslims, (real or percieved) and impedes Islamic goals and intentions is thought of as nothing short of WAR...
This is the binary world they must live in -- It's a mandatory prerequisite and organizing principal when your "religion" is such a broken compendium of inanities and lies...
Islam? GOOD.
No Islam? BAD.
More Islam? VERY GOOD.
Less Islam? VERY BAD.
Islam = PEACE
Dar al Harb = WAR
Muslim? GOOD.
"Infidel"? VERY VERY BAD...
Dead "Infidel"? VERY VERY GOOD...
etc...
What was the famous comment by another dictator? We will hang them with the rope that they sell to us. Anyone who would sell nuke plans to Iran, must be willing to trade World War III for a couple of bucks.
Well, they turned over the documents. But not before making enough copies of that I am sure.
opinion.jpost.com.--Jan 31,2006--says Iran not only holds illicit nuke document, but holds illicit nuke, or the immediate means thereto. Quotes Rafi Eitan, an older Israeli gentleman who long ago helped set up Shin Bet.
Looks like iran may be getting a case of the willies..
Iran threatens “crushing response” against attackers
Wed. 01 Feb 2006
Iran Focus
Tehran, Iran, Feb. 01 – Iran vowed on Wednesday to give a “crushing response” to an attack on any of its nuclear facilities.
“Any aggression against Iran’s peaceful nuclear installations will be met with a phenomenally explicit and crushing response from the Armed Forces”, Iranian Defence Minister Brigadier General Mostafa Mohammad-Najjar was quoted as saying, according to a statement issued by the Defence Ministry which was carried by state-run news agencies.
Mohammad-Najjar was speaking at a military site in the southern province of Bushehr.
.."phenomenally explicit"..well, now I'm tantalized.