Iran Says It Will Never Scrap Nuke Program

[ECH1969]

TEHRAN, Iran - Iran will never scrap its nuclear program, and talks with Europeans are intended to protect the country's nuclear achievements, not negotiate an end to them, an Iranian official said Wednesday.

The remarks by Ali Agha Mohammadi, spokesman of Iran's powerful Supreme National Security Council, are the latest in a hardening of his country's stance amid ongoing talks with European negotiators. They also reflect Tehran's possible frustration at the lack of progress.

We have the power to negotiate because we keep our (nuclear) achievements in our hands and we are negotiating to protect them," Mohammadi said Wednesday. "It's definite that we will protect our scientific achievements as a basic pillar, whether talks make progress or not."

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I can almost feel the draft starting as we speak.

[yinkaafrica]

1. This looks like good proof: they already have nukes

They bought some. They will make some, as well, if they
are not making them already. But I am quite sure they bought some.
Putin padded his retirement fund while fucking with the USA.

[Minstrel Boy]

2. And cue camera 2:

http://www.spiegel.de/img/0,1020,252254,00.jpg

[RockStar]

3. They have every right to protect themselves! Not every country wants to

be free and liberated.

[cliss]

4. This sounds strangely familiar with.....

North Korea. I recall reading something that Mr. Il said shortly after Iraq was invaded: "We have nukes, so the U.S. won't invade our country".

[noamnety]

5. So, that makes two of us, right?

Or are we scrapping our nuclear program?

[Mnstrl Rnbw]

6. Why is Dubya forcing them to do this?

I can't understand why the 'president' is surprised that North Korea and Iran are making nuclear weapons. Maybe they want to PROTECT their citizens from being bombed, tortured and have their oil stolen by Bush's cronies!

[robertpaulsen]

7. Here's a nightmare scenario where there may NOT be a draft for Iran.

Seeing that Iran is not going to back down to our threats, and we will probably not have Great Britain for help and certainly not NATO or the UN, there will probably be a US-Israel war against Iran. I used to think this would certainly mean a draft. But here's a scarier possibility:

MERCENARIES!

That's right, the war on Iran could end up being militarily "outsourced". Look what we've got:

The Center for Public Integrity: Outsourcing the Pentagon (http://www.publicintegrity.org/pns/default.aspx)

"In April <2002>, the Army told Congress that its best guess was that the Army had between 124,000 and 605,000 service contract workers. In October, the Army announced that it would permit contractors to compete for "non-core" positions held by 154,910 civilian workers (more than half of the Army's civilian workforce) and 58,727 military personnel."

"The Freedom of Information Act applies to "agency" records. Contractors, in this context, are not "agencies," even where they perform decisional roles. Similarly, government officials are subject to a body of conflict of interest provisions, pay caps, limits on political activity, and labor rules that do not similarly constrain contractors who perform similar, even the same, work."

http://www.sourcewatch.org/wiki.phtml?title=PMC

600,000+ mercenaries as of 2002. Why should we let bankrupting the economy get in the way of Dumbya keeping an election promise? Remember, killing people is fun!