1938 Alert from Iran Focus, with thanks to JE:
Tehran, Iran, Mar. 25 – Iran’s hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad declared on Saturday that the Islamic Republic will obtain nuclear capabilities by the end of the new Persian year (ending: March 21, 2007), the official state news agency reported.“Our enemies want to prevent us from making progress through widespread propaganda but, God willing, this year will be the year that the Islamic Republic of Iran will obtain complete nuclear energy for peaceful purposes”.
Sure. Peaceful purposes such as bringing peace to the Middle East by annihilating Israel.
Bomb them into the stone age.
It appears that Iran is accelerating its testing of its gas fueled centrifuges, instead of doing a series of tests. It should be clear that Russia and China have only one objective....stall, stall and then stall some more. We should assume that they are never going to agree on anything. Recent news regarding Russia passing intelligence to Iraq in the early stages of the invasion should convince people beyond any doubt that Russia is intent on sabataging anything we try.
We should start to impose sanctions immediatley with whatever coalition of the willing we can convince. Sanctions have a slight chance of convincing some in the regime that the disruption in their economy is not worth it. But this would take time, and the clock is rapidly ticking away, and the home team has no time outs left.
Bomb them into the stone age.
Posted by: Foehammer at March 26, 2006 10:07 AM
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Israel has Iran in its sights and will not allow them to obtain nuclear fuel.
Hi Texican,
I don't believe Israel should have to go it alone. They must have help from us.
Pulling out of Iraq should be on the agenda and this will distract Iran anyway.The West needs to look after its own dirty laundry not Iraq's.
I keep thinking ....silk purse and sows ear when I think of Iraq....well most of the middle east really.
Iran, apparently, only has sufficient domestic sources of fissionable materials to give about 7 years worth of electrical power as opposed to 250 years' worth of petroleum reserves. If so, there's not a way in the world that Iran is developing technology for peaceful purposes.
Ahmadinejad's time-line boast may also prove equally disingenuous. Work on the nuclear project started much earlier than originally thought -- early 1990s, despite claims to the contrary to the IAEA.
Ahmadinejad meant bicycle.