World has very strong case to act against Iran, says Rice

[lovuian]

http://feeds.bignewsnetwork.com/?sid=330240

U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Friday there is a very strong case for a new U.N. sanctions against Iran after a report from the International Atomic Energy Agency faulted Iranian cooperation with the IAEA.

Senior diplomats from major world powers meet in Washington next Monday to discuss a sanctions move in the Security Council.

The long-awaited IAEA report credited Iran with increased cooperation in recent months in answering questions about its past nuclear activities.

However it said Tehran has expanded rather than halted uranium enrichment,and has failed to explain alleged explosives and ballistic missile work that may be linked to a nuclear weapons effort.
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Rice continues like a dog with a bone

[Lint Head]

1. Oh hell. Here we go again. Fear and war mongering.

:dem:

[rhett o rick]

2. Hold on to your butts, martial law is just around the corner. nm

[lovuian]

4. you know when i read this I thought the same

the election ain't going their way

[ConcernedCanuk]

9. "the election ain't going their way" - I disagree

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A lot of people have labeled the Republicans as stupid

They ain't.

I believe that the Republicans, let's put that another way, the PNACers

would rather not be in the limelight for the next decade

They already got the wars going that they wanted, so sit back and watch the Democrats try to make a silk purse out of the sows ear that they left them to manage.

Democrats will take the heat in the hell that is soon coming to the USA -

People forget where the problem came from, they will want solutions from the NEW government.

And that will be the Democrats IMO.

Then the electorate, as wise as they are, seeing that the Democrats can't undo all the PNACers damage in one term or two,

Will put the Republicans back in the WH

Bizzness as usual . . . .

[rhett o rick]

15. I disagree. I can't imagine a neocon or republican that is willing to sit back

and let the Democrats do anything. Power is an aphrodisiac. Power is the end point to these people. There can't be enough wars for them. Their goal is power and more power, not freedom, not security, not even money, it is power. They want dictatorial power which is the ultimate turn on for them. They are very close to having it now, why would they step back. Are they willing to let the Democrats spy on them?? I don't think so. They are embolden by their excesses of the last eight years and I believe willing to push it to the limit. Many said they wouldn't dare violate the Constitution and suspend habeas corpus but they did. Many think they won't invade Iran and declare martial law but I believe Cheney would. He isn't afraid and besides he will probably be in Dubai at the time.

[jasmine621]

3. The election will not be held. I can just imagine. nt

[grytpype]

5. 11 more months of this bullshit.

[lligrd]

6. Uh Rice, Don't Worry

We can just shoot it down, remember? Wasn't that your point just a few days ago? Now you clowns just run along and let a real President and staff handle it next January.

[lovuian]

7. Updates on Iran tense situation

hezzbolah really threatening israel

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1203605154085&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1203605150981&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

Specifically, the 11-page report obtained by The Associated Press suggested the agency was satisfied with answers provided by Iran on the origin of traces of enriched uranium in a military facility; experiments with polonium, which can also be used in a weapons program; and purchases on the nuclear black market.

It said that in those areas information given by Teheran is either "consistent with its findings (or) ... not inconsistent with its findings," suggesting it was content for now with explanations that these activities were not weapons-related.
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New sanctions on Iran are imminent'

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1203605154671&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

he latest UN report on Iran's nuclear program should pave the way for passage next week of a new UN Security Council resolution tightening sanctions on Teheran, the US ambassador to the UN said Friday.


US envoy Zalmay Khalilzad.
Photo: AP

The report released Friday by the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency confirmed that Iran has continued to enrich uranium in defiance of repeated UN Security Council resolutions demanding that it suspend the uranium centrifuge program, which could produce both civilian nuclear fuel and the material for a nuclear bomb.

"They're increasing their capabilities," US Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad noted. "Not only have the number of centrifuges increased, but they're working on a second-generation, if you like, a more capable centrifuge.

"Things are getting worse in terms of the enrichment part."

Britain and France introduced a council resolution on Thursday - with support from the United States, Russia, China and Germany - to expand and toughen travel bans and the freezing of assets for more Iranian officials linked to the nuclear effort.

For the first time it would also ban trade with Iran in so-called dual-use items, those with both nuclear and other applications, and authorize inspections of shipments to and from Iran that are suspected of carrying prohibited goods.
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Putin is going to be put on the spot

[Swamp Rat]

8. booga booga! ... When did Iran ever shoot down a spy satellite?

Or test a nuke? Or use a nuke to kill thousands of people?

[wildbilln864]

10. The world?! WTF?

The world won't join in any attack. It will be the US alone, imho.

[HuffleClaw]

11. good luck with that

they aren't gonna play that game again.

[Wizard777]

12. The worst part is this. Iran could end up nuking us because no one trusts Bush anymore.

Bush is now the boy that cried wolf threat to national security. I can't really think of a better reason to impeach him.

[McCamy Taylor]

13. The "strong case" is that David Rockefeller covets its oil

[Angry Mollusk]

14. The Republicans just love this campaign of purposeless killing

Let's hope there WILL be an election (as an unexpected terrorist attack might postpone things), and Bush will be out of the white house- And lets hope war monger McCain isn't elected, becuase he is foaming at the mouth for the chance to extend the campaign of killing into Iran...How many civilians will we kill in Iran? 100,000? 500,000? 1,000,000?

Supporters of the the war in Iraq don't seem to mind the reasons for being there have been discredited. There was no Iraq/911 connection, Iraq had no WMD, and thus was not a threat to us. Bush and his puppet masters would concoct a new justification to be in Iraq every time the old one was discredited...And as for getting rid of Saddam- The US put Saddam in power in the first place, and propped him up for years!
So I don't think these right wingers care if there is a reason to attack Iran- they just want the killing to continue.

I think at this point the radical right wing Republicans really don't care who we kill in the middle east, so long as the killing doesn't stop, and the people being killed are Muslim. I cannot even begin to tell you how many right wingers I have encountered who think we should 'nuke' Iran and kill everyone.
An attack on Iran may draw in Russia and China- and could destablize Pakistan and India, and lead to WW3....
But of course the rapture right wants Jesus to come back- so perhaps this is all about speeding up 'Judgement Day'.