Iran Ex-Atomic Head Says Nuclear Talks Urgent as Time Runs Out

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Source: Bloomberg

Time is running out for western powers and Iran to engage in constructive talks over the Persian Gulf country’s nuclear program, a former chief of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization said.

“We are reaching the end of the game,” Gholam Reza Aghazadeh, who resigned from the agency in July 2009 after leading it for 12 years, told the Islamic Republic News Agency in an interview published today. “Both the Islamic republic and Western nations must enter into serious negotiations.”

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Read more: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-07-02/iran-ex-atomic-head-says-nuclear-talks-urgent-as-time-runs-out.html

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"We are reaching the end of the game"
How would a moderate Republican of the 1980's end the game?

Obama and Chomsky agree - Obama would be considered a moderate Republican

"Obama: I Would Be Considered Moderate Republican In 1980s - ABC News"
http://www.democraticunderground.com/101793318

"Noam Chomsky: Obama Would Have Been Called a ‘Moderate Republican’ in Recent Decades"
http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/noam-chomsky-obama-would-have-been-called-moderate-republican-recent-decades

Note that the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and the Federation of American Scientists concluded:

"No sound strategic energy planning would prioritize nuclear energy in a country like Iran"

"Instead of enhancing Iran's energy security, the nuclear program has diminished the country's ability to diversify and achieve real energy independence."

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/04/03/us-iran-nuclear-report-idUSBRE93200620130403
http://carnegieendowment.org/2013/04/02/iran-s-nuclear-odyssey-costs-and-risks/fvui
http://blogs.fas.org/blog/2013/04/new-report-analyzing-irans-nuclear-program-costs-and-risks/

And for those who are unaware: nuclear energy isn't needed at all to stop global warming:

"Restricting nuclear power has little effect on the cost of climate policies"

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-10/pifc-rnp092812.php
http://www.pnas.org/content/109/42/16805.abstract

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1. Nobody actually believes they are enriching uranium purely for energy/medicine.

There are only those that know Iran will soon have nuclear weapons, and those that know they will but see no problem with it.

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2. There's a lot of denial about this, and some naive people who swallow the PR and propaganda. nt