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Tuesday, November 30, 2004

More On The UN Wet Noodles

As I pointed out before, the UN and the European Union are getting absolutely nowhere with Iran.

BBC - A top Iranian official has claimed a "great victory" over the US after the UN said it would not punish Iran's nuclear activities with sanctions.

Hassan Rohani said Iran would never give up its right to nuclear power.

He stressed its freeze in uranium enrichment was only temporary during talks with European countries.

The UN atomic agency IAEA has welcomed Iran's offer to freeze enrichment in a statement on Monday that did not mention any threat of future sanctions.

Washington had been pushing for Iran to be censured by the UN Security Council.

Mr Rohani said the "whole world had turned down America's calls".

"We have proved that, in an international institution, we are capable of isolating the US. And that is a great victory," Mr Rohani said.

He added that the US representative at the IAEA meeting in Vienna "was enraged and in tears, and everybody said that the Americans had failed and we had won".

It was Iran's first direct comment on the nuclear controversy since the IAEA resolution on Monday.


I've said it before and I'll say it again: Iran sounds like a dandy exit strategy for Iraq.

Comments

Avatar for Andrew

Rob, I am totally for invading Iran if their behavior continues.  But I was wondering about something you continually say… “Iran sound like a dandy exit strategy for Iraq.” Well then what would the exit strategy be for Iran if we invade them?  I just don’t think its right to use the invasion of another country as an “exit strategy”.  It seems like a short term fix for a long term problem and that’s definitely not what we need.  Maybe I’m looking into your word choice too deeply, though.  Anyway, I think that if we invade Iran we shouldn’t look at it as an exit strategy, but rather a matter of security.

Andrew on November 30, 2004 at 11:12 am
Avatar for Michael

I think bottom line is that we don’t allow Iran to obtain a Nuclear arsenal. 

That can be achieved by not invading, but by a few well placed missles at labs and engineering facilities.

Michael on November 30, 2004 at 06:11 pm
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