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Iraq defends Iranian nuclear program
DarkStar11
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Well, this is somewhat interesting. Would Saddam's regime have supported Iran's nuclear program?
from http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/05/26/iraq.iran/index.html
Iraqi Minister Defends Iranian Nuclear Program
'Every country has right' to nuclear technology, Zebari says
Friday, May 26, 2006; Posted: 6:56 p.m. EDT (22:56 GMT)
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Iran has a right to develop nuclear technology and the international community should drop its demands that Tehran prove it's not trying to build a nuclear weapon, Iraq's foreign minister said Friday.
"Iran doesn't claim that they want to obtain a nuclear weapon or a nuclear bomb, so there is no need that we ask them for any guarantee now," Hoshyar Zebari said after meeting with his Iranian counterpart, Manouchehr Mottaki.
Iran's nuclear ambitions are "an international issue," Zebari said. "In our beliefs, it is a matter of principle. Every country has the right to have its nuclear technology, every country like the Islamic Republic or any other country, since it is for peaceful purposes."
Zebari did say that Iran's nuclear program must be monitored by the U.N. nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency.
He also called for a diplomatic solution to the standoff between Iran and the West.
"We have agreement that we need to deal with this issue politically, peacefully and diplomatically," Zebari said. "We know that the wise Iranian administration will be able to resolve this issue."
Iran in February ended its voluntary cooperation with the IAEA, which included ending surprise inspections of nuclear facilities.
Iran claims it is enriching uranium to create nuclear power. But the United States and other Western countries have accused the Islamic republic of pursuing nuclear weapons. The U.N. Security Council has demanded that Iran cease enrichment activities, but Iran has refused.
World powers -- including permanent Security Council members Russia, China, France, Britain and the United States -- met this week to discuss the possibility of an incentives package to entice Iran into abandoning its nuclear-enrichment program, according to U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton. He did not elaborate in his comments Thursday to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
Whether incentives will sway Iran is uncertain. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad already has likened one incentives package to trading candy for gold.
Iran's U.N. Ambassador Mohammad Javad Zarif said Thursday that Iran wanted to negotiate directly with the United States on the matter and said that Iran would not be force-fed a solution. Incentives, or the carrot-and-stick approach, will not be effective, he said.
"It's not whether Iran likes carrots," he said. "Iran likes respect. Iran demands respect. If there is to be a solution in Iran, Iran has to be part of the solution. We don't expect others to cook for us something and then present it to us and then tell us, 'Eat it or else.' This is not the way Iranians do international business."
Also Friday, Iran expressed support for Iraq's national unity government, asked for the release of 72 Iranian inmates held in Iraqi prisons and declared its willingness to take part in the reconstruction of Iraq, according to the Islamic Republic News Agency.
from http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/05/26/iraq.iran/index.html
Iraqi Minister Defends Iranian Nuclear Program
'Every country has right' to nuclear technology, Zebari says
Friday, May 26, 2006; Posted: 6:56 p.m. EDT (22:56 GMT)
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Iran has a right to develop nuclear technology and the international community should drop its demands that Tehran prove it's not trying to build a nuclear weapon, Iraq's foreign minister said Friday.
"Iran doesn't claim that they want to obtain a nuclear weapon or a nuclear bomb, so there is no need that we ask them for any guarantee now," Hoshyar Zebari said after meeting with his Iranian counterpart, Manouchehr Mottaki.
Iran's nuclear ambitions are "an international issue," Zebari said. "In our beliefs, it is a matter of principle. Every country has the right to have its nuclear technology, every country like the Islamic Republic or any other country, since it is for peaceful purposes."
Zebari did say that Iran's nuclear program must be monitored by the U.N. nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency.
He also called for a diplomatic solution to the standoff between Iran and the West.
"We have agreement that we need to deal with this issue politically, peacefully and diplomatically," Zebari said. "We know that the wise Iranian administration will be able to resolve this issue."
Iran in February ended its voluntary cooperation with the IAEA, which included ending surprise inspections of nuclear facilities.
Iran claims it is enriching uranium to create nuclear power. But the United States and other Western countries have accused the Islamic republic of pursuing nuclear weapons. The U.N. Security Council has demanded that Iran cease enrichment activities, but Iran has refused.
World powers -- including permanent Security Council members Russia, China, France, Britain and the United States -- met this week to discuss the possibility of an incentives package to entice Iran into abandoning its nuclear-enrichment program, according to U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton. He did not elaborate in his comments Thursday to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
Whether incentives will sway Iran is uncertain. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad already has likened one incentives package to trading candy for gold.
Iran's U.N. Ambassador Mohammad Javad Zarif said Thursday that Iran wanted to negotiate directly with the United States on the matter and said that Iran would not be force-fed a solution. Incentives, or the carrot-and-stick approach, will not be effective, he said.
"It's not whether Iran likes carrots," he said. "Iran likes respect. Iran demands respect. If there is to be a solution in Iran, Iran has to be part of the solution. We don't expect others to cook for us something and then present it to us and then tell us, 'Eat it or else.' This is not the way Iranians do international business."
Also Friday, Iran expressed support for Iraq's national unity government, asked for the release of 72 Iranian inmates held in Iraqi prisons and declared its willingness to take part in the reconstruction of Iraq, according to the Islamic Republic News Agency.
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Im gonna have to agree with Iraq on this one.
One country has no right to tell another country what weapons it can or cannot have. Any attempt by the US to stop Iran from doing what it wants within its own borders is a slap in the face to their soverignity.
Just as Mexico trying to tell us what to do with illegal immigrants is a slap in the face to ours.
No country has any right to tell any other country what they can or cannot do within their own country.
If we leave Iran alone, they will leave us alone, or at least thats what I beleive.
And if they do try anything stupid with their new toy, rest assured I will support turning Iran into the worlds largest glass sculpture (read: nuking the country into oblivion such that all the sand turns to glass)
Thank you, President Bush.
You create a democracy in Iraq, you get a country allied with the Islamic radicals in Iran.
Thank you, President Bush.
What a bunch of ungrateful people. Here we sacrifice over 2,400 American lives, give them the American apple pie, Mom, and American Hero and what do they do? What they wish. Hurrumphh.
each other in a ten year war a while back. IF the
WHACKOS in Iran get their new 'Iraqi vaporizer'
I'd imagine that Iraq isn't going to go around
shooting off their mouths with anti-Iranian
rhetoric at this time!