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EU to Iran: We're sorry it had to come to this, but you leave us no choice but to set another deadline. And rest assured we've got many more with your name on them ... and we're not afraid to use them. From Reuters:
LAPPEENRANTA, Finland (Reuters) - The European Union agreed on Saturday to try to clarify Iran's stance on halting uranium enrichment within two weeks and U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan held talks in Tehran to try and settle the standoff.
Annan's visit to Iran takes place two days after the U.N. nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), reported Tehran had failed to meet the U.N. Security Council's August 31 deadline to suspend sensitive work.
The United States, which accuses Iran of seeking atomic bombs, said on Friday it was consulting European governments about possible sanctions against the Islamic Republic, but the EU signaled it wanted to see more dialogue with Tehran which says its atomic activity is aimed at producing power.
EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana will meet Iran's chief nuclear negotiator, Ali Larijani, next week to try to clear up ambiguities in Tehran's reply to the major powers' offer of broad cooperation if it stops the nuclear work.
"If the meeting goes well and Iran accepts the philosophy of the cooperation project we presented to it in June, I think we will be able to start a more formal negotiation," French Sunday newspaper Le Journal du Dimanche quoted Solana as saying.
Slovenian Foreign Minister Dimitrij Rupel said after the 25 EU ministers discussed the Iranian issue in Finland on Saturday: "We give Solana two weeks for his clarification talks."
But Solana told reporters: "There's no deadline, whenever we finish ... We are going to start in the coming days and I hope that it will be very short. We don't need many meetings."
Endless deadlines, or no deadline: same effect.
Other EU ministers said Solana would report back to them in Brussels on September 15 and they had agreed not to take any action against Iran before then.
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EU diplomats said the two-week timeline was determined largely by the fact that the bloc's 25 foreign ministers hold their next regular meeting on September 15, and the U.N. General Assembly convenes on September 19.
Posted by Marisol at September 2, 2006 5:10 PM
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Ahmadinejageddon must have been quaking in his boots when he saw this story coming straight outta the EU via FINLAND.
"Iran, we're not FINNished with you yet! We've got more deadlines than you've got suicide bombers!!!"
I swear, not that I have a PhD in History, but for Pete's sake, the comparisons with the run-up to WW2 are no longer similar: they're identical.
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at September 2, 2006 5:43 PM
I agree MadrassasippiBurnin. Here's a little more time for your nuke. Oh..you need more time? Ok...no problem, no problem at all, take all the time you need.
Posted by: BIRDDDOG at September 2, 2006 5:57 PM
So, Marmite I'madinnerjacket has just learned a whole new meaning for the term "Finlandisation"
I bet he's just off to buy a pair of brown trousers...
BTW - thanks for the name, whoever originally posted it. I love it, and I've used it elsewhere.
Posted by: Sir Henry Morgan at September 2, 2006 6:04 PM
B-Dog, I'm just looking forward to 11/8/06. As of this date, Bush has no further political concerns. Please George... pull the trigger.
"Imagine - no Islam. It's easy if you can."
- John Al-Lennon
Posted by: MadrassasippiBurnin at September 2, 2006 6:13 PM
"Imagine - no Islam. It's easy if you can."
above by MadrassasippiBurnin, that is a neat jingle.. can someone make it into a song now.. we can teach the kids to sing it in the school bus!
at September 2, 2006 6:18 PM
Zena, I propose we Google the lyrics to Al-Lennon's ballad of absurdity and see if we can weave some JW phrases and terms into the 'poetry' of the late John Lenin. Then we can post our versions and take votes for the better version, yet another exercise of democracy in the offensive against Islamism. LALALALALALALALALALALALALA
Posted by: MadrassasippiBurnin at September 2, 2006 6:23 PM
I have no doubt Iran was given the technology for the bomb from the Godfather of Pakistans nuclear program and they will have it soon enough there is nothing anyone can do about it.
America is too tied down in Iraq to go it alone and no one has the balls to go with them in Invading Iran and even if they did they would lose the fight you would see an insurgency that made Iraq look they a picnic and the casulties would get so high the western nations would quit.
Iran is going to get the bomb without a doubt,the question is what are they going to do with it,who else is going to recieve the knowledge of how to make the bomb,we are going to see a world where plenty of muslim countries have the bomb.
It is such a scary thought and to think we already have Pakistan with nuclear missiles ready to fly,imagine the facists in Pakistan taking power and imposing hardcore Islamic rule backed up with Nukes.
Posted by: stevenz at September 2, 2006 6:40 PM
If Iran isn't careful, the Europeans may get upset and draw a frowny face on the next sack of cash it sends to Hezb' Allah.
Posted by: Jeff Bargholz at September 2, 2006 6:59 PM
Al Crapa is sounding off again..last week it was Iran and now they are being quite. Now it will be North Korea's nuke test here in a few weeks. Just like their missle tests, there was activity and then about a month later they pushed the button. NK has been to quite lately. I expect to hear from them again now.
Posted by: BIRDDDOG at September 2, 2006 7:44 PM
Why'd the eu have to be so rude to the impecably dressed dinnerjacket? Wouldn't a 5 or 6 month extension been more in line with the tough stance that's going to be taken? As that staunch anti-realist Sting once sang, "Bombs away...".
Thanks for the laughs - some of those posts had me rolling! (LALALALALALALALA....and now, like the once-proud(?)country, I'm FINNished!, etc.!).
:-)
at September 2, 2006 7:47 PM
Another warning another wake up call - sadly I think the world is going to need a huge wake up call, maybe a few of them. Hope there will be something left to fight for and with, besides death so we don't have to live as slaves
Posted by: Aprilyn at September 2, 2006 9:31 PM
This is straight out of the Team America movie.
A few nuclear weapons would not be the end of the world though. This is an interesting site that calculates bomb effects, previously posted by others.
For reference, Hiroshima was about 15 kilotons. If you believe the models and make the assumption that Iran's weapon would be similar, about 75 city blocks would be wiped out.
Our blinders would be knocked off as well.
at September 2, 2006 10:00 PM
Definition of a Diplomat: "Diplomat-They tell you to go to Hell, and you thank them for it."
Patriot 1/17
Posted by: Patriot_1/17 at September 2, 2006 10:03 PM
"I have no doubt Iran was given the technology for the bomb from the Godfather of Pakistans nuclear program"
Posted by stevenz
Are you referring to Dr. Khan?
at September 2, 2006 10:05 PM
"This is straight out of the Team America movie."
Dirk dirk allah, mohamed jihad. :)
at September 2, 2006 10:25 PM
John Lennon's finest:
Imagine there are no Muslims
It's easy if you try
No burkas below us
Atop us only stinky hijabs
Imagine all the Hezbots
Living only to slay...
Imagine there's no Islam
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no death cult too
Imagine all the Mullahs
Living life in Krapistan...
You may say I'm a schemer
But I'm only one of a billion or so
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will be free of jihadist scum
Imagine no one possessed by Muhammad
I wonder if you can
No need for kidnappings or beheadings
A brotherhood of man (and woman!)
Imagine all the Qaeda
Not scaring (or scarring!) the entire world ...
You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll convert to anything but Islam
And the world will live as one (less the Umma)
at September 2, 2006 11:26 PM
Patriot_1/17 i can,t remember his name he admitted spreading the technology around and is under house arrest but has never been charged because he is a hero to the people of Pakistan for getting them the bomb,the authorities wouldn,t touch him he is to popular.
Posted by: stevenz at September 3, 2006 7:12 AM
The EU is all about a few recycled communists and liberal elitists greasing their palms and f**king the people like the good old days of the Soviet. The EU is evil, Dinnerjacket is evil, long live the anglosphere - what more do I have to say.
Posted by: FREE LEE at September 3, 2006 8:58 AM
So what happens when those two weeks are up? Easy. We give them yet another two weeks - another line in the sand for them to cross, followed by another and another. No wonder the Iranians think we're too yellow to act, because we have proved it over and over again. They think they can play for time to run Bush to the midterm elections which are only nine weeks away, and hope he loses control of both houses to leave him a lame duck. This is the 1930s all over again. We know about the appeasement and peace in our time at Munich in 1938, but plenty of appeasement went on before then - not least of which was the undoing of the Versailles Treaty between 1933-36 by creating a Luftwaffe, a Navy, expanding the sise of the Reichswehr from its then limit of 100,000 to several hundred thousand, remilitarising the Rhineland, building tanks - and the fact that Hitlergot away with all of this encouraged him to go for more - like union with Austria, and the shameful annexation of the Sudetenland followed by the rest of Czechoslovakia, and it wasn't until the summer of 1939 that people had had enough of appeasement, and saw the truth of Churchills much-ridiculed words over the previous five years and more.
Today, on Filmfour, there was a film called "Reach for the Sky" - a true story about Sir Douglas Bader, the tin-legged Battle of Britain fighter ace and one of the bravest people this country has produced. If he could see how craven the West has become today, he would be appalled. Gone are the days when we produced men like him who battled through adversity and the pain barrier to become a hero. Instead, we produce treacherous skunks like Galloway, who brazenly side with the enemy, and dysfunctional leftie scruffs who march down our streets sporting Hizbollah flags, and calling for the deaths of our troops and the extinction of Israel. Such vermin would have been hanged as traitors during Sir Douglas' heyday in 1940.
Posted by: Spirit Of 1683 at September 3, 2006 2:23 PM
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