Iran referred to U.N. Security Council.
By on Jan 30th, 2006 at 8:50 pm
Iran referred to U.N. Security Council.
AP reports that the permanent members agree Iran should be referred to the Security Council over its nuclear program.
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The day before the state of the union. Isn’t that convenient….
January 30th, 2006 at 8:59 pmWar is on the march
January 30th, 2006 at 9:01 pmOkay, let’s see how the trolls spin this one.
They have posted on here over and over how Bill Clinton was in power while “millions” of Iraqis died because of UN Sanctions.
So, how will they spin it when George Bush is in power while “millions” of Iranians will die because of UN Sanctions.
Let the spinning begin.
January 30th, 2006 at 9:30 pmThink about this a little , 23 million Iraqis , 80 million Iranians .
January 30th, 2006 at 9:31 pmMichDem,
Not to mention that Iran is the worlds fourth largest producer of oil. You know that stuff that the American people are addicted to. The president of Iran said “You need us more than we need you.” With Americans driving big gas guzzling SUVs, I would have to tend to agree.
Also, just how many Arabs do we have to piss off before there is truly a third world war?
January 30th, 2006 at 9:38 pmtoo bad Iran doesn’t have parents that can scold it for getting a referral…
January 30th, 2006 at 9:52 pmhe president of Iran said “You need us more than we need you.†With Americans driving big gas guzzling SUVs, I would have to tend to agree.
Perhaps … I don’t think, though, that this relationship is as one sided as he’d have us believe. It would be a “who will blink first” moment for sure. Maybe our “friends” in Saudi Arabia would have “our back” … likely not.
January 30th, 2006 at 9:53 pmI just wonder what army there sending to Iran? Seems like the U.S. army is spread pretty thin right now. Maybe Haliburton can get a no-bid contract to invade Iran?
January 30th, 2006 at 10:07 pmSee Gacomo, that is why I like you. You do see through most of the bullshit. You don’t always walk the company line and you question these guys. I think that I wouldn’t mind having you over for some ribs and a beer and a good old political debate. I-R-I is not invited.
I think that we are already sliding down a slippery slope and need to find some type of a braking system. We don’t have enough troops to send all across the world to take on everybody we disagree with or they disagree with us.
I was in the Army. I can tell you that after 4 months, 2 months of Basic Training and 2 months of Advanced Individual Training, and maybe 1 more month of extended training, the troops are considered combat ready. When I got out of AIT, there wasn’t anybody in my platoon who was ready to go fight in a war.
It isn’t like the movies. Everybody isn’t all hardcore. Everybody is ready to eat boot leather for dinner and kill. They are just guys and gals who want to serve their country.
Then they ship you out into a far off land to fight and die for our country. That isn’t what they want to do, but it is what they signed up to do.
These kids aren’t the same as the Special Forces, Green Berets or the Black Water guys. They are young people out of high school who aren’t really ready for the horrors of war.
I think we just need to cool our jets a little on the attack everybody plan that Bush and friends keep pushing.
How about letting some other country take over the attack first and ask questions later for a while.
January 30th, 2006 at 10:14 pmIran gives UN inspectors access to nuclear site:
UN nuclear inspectors have visited sites related to the former Lavizan military complex in Iran in what is a key concession in the UN investigation of the Islamic Republic’s contested nuclear program, diplomats have told AFP.
http://tinyurl.com/d9r73
Here we go again….
January 30th, 2006 at 10:28 pmRightPunch,
Giacomo and I have had many a debate without having mud slinging matches. He is nowhere near I-RIGHT-I and wwallace. Of course, if you try and back him in a corner, he will attack, but he doesn’t start conversations with attacks.
I would have to say “At least Giacomo’s wheel turn.”
January 30th, 2006 at 10:43 pmSomething that doesn’t seem to be getting a lot of MSM coverage is the fact that Iran intends on switching over to the Euro, in March 2006, as a trade currency for their oil sales…
http://www.energybulletin.net/12463.html
The only other OPEC country to make a similar economic move was Iraq.
Coincidence?
January 30th, 2006 at 10:49 pmWell,
DUH
AMERICA WAKE UP
January 30th, 2006 at 11:06 pm#13, that’s the aha moment, JPV, guess what happened to the last country that proposed selling oil in euros……?
Here’s your deep thinker on the subject
It goes like this:
January 30th, 2006 at 11:07 pm1. oil priced in Euros -> world starts buying Euros to buy oil and sells dollars to do so
2. World stops loaning money to Americans to buy pieces of plastic shit from China, and to buy pizzas and houses from each other
3. Dollar drops like a brick
4. Interest rates skyrocket, credit card rates go with them
5. House price bubble bursts, Americans walk away from houses, credit cards, declare bankruptcy but with new handy-dandy credit laws from Chimpy find themselves in a spot of legal bother
6. US economy, currently propped up by free-spending Americans, swirls, once, twice and then disappears down the toilet
6. Welcome, once again, to the 1930s
#15, or do you think Chimpy will nuke someone before he lets that happen?
January 30th, 2006 at 11:09 pmBottom line–Iran has done NOTHING ILLEGAL. Which is more than we can say about War Criminal Bush and his Israeli friends (who have nuclear weapons). Iran hasn’t attacked anyone, but come to think of it, the U.S. has, but referral to the U.N.? Not for God’s chosen race.
January 30th, 2006 at 11:15 pmSooner the better, The Islamic regime needs to to get it right. The Islamo fascist in Iran have been Brutilizing the Iranians for 26 years , Now the tables are begining to turn, The sooner the nuclear facilities in Iran are destroyed the better The world will be.
January 30th, 2006 at 11:29 pmNuclear energy for Iran “YES”, not under the Islamic Regime.
Reza,
January 30th, 2006 at 11:38 pmWell, aren’t we being a little judgmental here? Any other governments you don’t like in this world of ours? A little bigoted toward Muslims, aren’t we? Sure, you’re an approved neocon fascist. Nothing to worry about. Your phone calls won’t be bugged.
What is the UN Security Council actually going to do? First, doesn’t China and Russia sit on the council? If so, we all know, their first consideration is themselves. Both have made deals with Iran for oil. Are they going to jeopardize their oil agreements with Iran? Especially China, who will eventually consume 80% of the world’s oil, and the rest of us will have to fight over the other 20%.
January 30th, 2006 at 11:39 pm#20 nancy, you may be right. If the US has to ‘buy’ the Russian and Chinese abstension, it may be pricy. The key is what possibly can the Russians and Chinese have in common with the US position. I notice that blackmail on the nuclear energy deal for India was the approach there.
January 30th, 2006 at 11:48 pm#18, so Reza, you sound like you know a it about Iran, do think bombing Iran will unite Iranians in a national response or start an internal struggle to overthrow the current government? How long do think it will take to close the Straits of Hormuz, cutting off 30% of the oil supply and turn Southern Iraq into a bloodbath? Do you think this is a smart move on Chimpy’s part or not?
January 30th, 2006 at 11:53 pmSo, we gonna buy off China with the money we borrowed from them. Isn’t that called kiting?
January 31st, 2006 at 12:09 amWhen all is said and done, the end result with Iran,(or any other country) is going to be what all the parties involved, have for hidden agendas. We aren’t ever going to know the truth about any of it, unless it’s 20 yrs down the road. Again, it’s a game of power and corruption, but on a world-wide scale. Who’s going to scratch who’s back and for what, is the question. Sadly, there are no noble causes here. Iran will be painted as black or as white, as the people who have control want Iran to look. Information and news will be scripted and manipulated. There will be secret meetings, between enemies and allies, and the only losers are going to be the people of the world.
January 31st, 2006 at 12:12 amSpudge,
January 31st, 2006 at 12:24 amAin’t that money that we spent in Walmart you’re talking about? So we’re going to buy off China, with money we borrowed from them (kiting), that they got from Walmart and Dell Computer, so that we can nuke China’s main oil supplier–damn, it’s not easy being a war criminal any more.
Nancy L.,
January 31st, 2006 at 12:28 amOh, there’s not too much hidden about us and Iran. We’ve been meddling in their affairs for fifty years, overthrowing their government, supporting the repressive Shah, supporting Iraq’s invasion of Iran–they’ve got ample reason to hate us.
Another report I read said the passports were used to enter Iran. I guess we will hear about some ‘evidence of nuclear activity’ soon.
The German Federal Intelligence Service (BND) has provided the Mossad espionage agency with German passports used for carrying out missions in the Middle East, the German newspaper Koelner Stadtanzeiger reported Saturday.
The paper quoted a former senior official in the German intelligence service as saying that Mossad agents used German passports for undercover operations in Middle Eastern countries, which he did not name.
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=671553
January 31st, 2006 at 12:58 amDon,
Only if that “we” is you and a mouse in your pocket. I can proudly say that I have never given one dime to Walmart.
But, you are correct in everything else in your post. The Globalization of the Earth is not a good thing. People think it is a good thing, but considering that America’s claim to fame was that we are the innnovators. America is the land of people with all of the great ideas. That went away a long time ago.
America is now the country of the underfunded and undereducated. We are the lowest of the rung when it comes to graduating math, science and computer experts. We used to be the leader. Why are we falling behind?
What I am tryin gto say is that America does not lead anymore. We are so focused on making a few people rich and discarding the rest, that we have a really, well, dumb, population compared to the other emerging countries.
I am called a traitor and told I hate America, because I want things to improve. Why is that?
I want to be number one again.
January 31st, 2006 at 2:51 amWhen is America going to be referred to the UN for human rights violations?
January 31st, 2006 at 2:59 amChris or starting a war of agression in Iraq?
January 31st, 2006 at 3:05 amCris and Clif, my guess is when Bush and his buddy Bolton are removed….Blessings
January 31st, 2006 at 5:54 amSo, how will they spin it when George Bush is in power while “millions†of Iranians will die because of UN Sanctions.
Let the spinning begin.
Comment by SpudgeBoy
Spudge,
Not to worry…
Somehow I see China, Russia and the rest of the “civilized” world (no Euro-thugs need apply) coming to Iran’s aid…
The Bushite/Blair/Chirac/Merkel et al. hypocrisy will not stand…
January 31st, 2006 at 8:21 amThe sooner the nuclear facilities in Iran are destroyed the better The world will be.
Nuclear energy for Iran “YESâ€, not under the Islamic Regime.
Comment by Reza #18
Reza,
Your last name wouldn’t happen to be Pahlavi would it?
January 31st, 2006 at 8:23 amThe day before the state of the union. Isn’t that convenient….
Comment by mikevotes
And I’m sure no one in Freeper-land will need their Viagra this week thinking about how tough we’re getting, not even considering that China and Russia agreeing to this is world’s away from them agreeing to impose meaningful sanctions.
January 31st, 2006 at 9:06 amnot even considering that China and Russia agreeing to this is world’s away from them agreeing to impose meaningful sanctions.
Comment by Verchiel #34
Verchiel,
Russia and China are posturing, playing the game the old-fashioned way…
But ultimately they’ll vote with their own economic self interests…
Note: NYT article from yesterday says that w/in two years mostly all foreign troops will be drawn down from Iraq…
Who’s going to fill that void?
January 31st, 2006 at 12:35 pm#35, big papa, I agree however I think Russia is not only posturing but also punitively punishing Iran for supporting Georgia. Iran has started supplying Georgia with natural gas following an appeal by Tbilisi after Russia cut their methane supplies. check out antiwar.com for details. Russia and China will ultimately vote in their own economic interests just like every country does.
January 31st, 2006 at 1:07 pmAgain, it bears repeating, IRAN HAS DONE NOTHING ILLEGAL. IRAN IS A SIGNATORY TO, AND IN FULL COMPLIANCE WITH, THE NUCLEAR NON-PROLIFERATION TREATY. (Which is directly opposite of Israeli conduct.)
http://www.antiwar.com/prather/?articleid=8397
January 31st, 2006 at 1:57 pmIraq redux. Let’s make it appear as the diplomacy efforts failed so we can bomb/invade the crap out of the country.
January 31st, 2006 at 3:03 pmI see that The Bush Admin is now speaking about IRANS nuclear program, BUSH will BE using that Tonight at his PROP campaign, or SOTU address,
where did the IRANIAN intelligence come from?
so far the IAEA has agreed with it as nuclear secrets weret was sold on the ‘Black Market’ and hasnt denied the Origins, or the Validity of the Material found on the laptop;
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060131/ap_on_re_mi_ea/nuclear_agency_iran
Separately, U.S. intelligence — revealed last year, based on information found on a laptop computer reportedly smuggled out of Iran — suggested that Tehran’s scientists were working on details of nuclear weapons, including missile trajectories and ideal altitudes for exploding warheads.
The diplomats said the United States recently declassified the information and passed it on to the IAEA, which, in turn, forwarded it to Iran and asked for an explanation. Washington’s cooperation with the agency was part of its attempt to prove that Iran was interested in making weapons, said one of the diplomats who is familiar with the IAEA investigation.
The developments were revealed just hours after a surprising agreement by the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council to advise that Iran be hauled before the powerful body over its disputed nuclear program.
The group agreed that the IAEA “should report to the Security Council its decision on the steps required of Iran, and should also report to the Security Council all IAEA reports and resolutions as adopted relating to this issue.”
China and Russia, longtime allies and trading partners of Iran, agreed to a statement that calls on the IAEA to transfer the Iran dossier to the Security Council — the start of a protracted process that could end in sanctions for Tehran.
The IAEA’s 35-nation board meets in Vienna on Thursday. Diplomats accredited to the agency said that with opinion leaders Russia and China on board, most — maybe all — of the board nations would likely approve Security Council involvement. Past referral attempts had run into stiff opposition from some influential board members.
January 31st, 2006 at 5:03 pmSo by BUSH concentrating on WMD that didnt EXIST, and ignoring IRANS program for a YEAR, if the Information is Accurate (a found laptop..pause).
Once again BUSH admin has ignored the Obvious and Weakened National Security
January 31st, 2006 at 5:06 pmSo two things:
1- Shouldn’t we be concerned with the “nuclear black market” (whatever that is), and;
2- We don’t like Iran having plans for a nuclear weapon, but it’s OK that the Associated Press has a copy of it.
Did I misread something?
January 31st, 2006 at 5:07 pmGeorge W. Bush the Great King of Vacations
January 31st, 2006 at 5:09 pmWeakener of and Rights & Privacy
& Weakened National Security
#
So two things:
1- Shouldn’t we be concerned with the “nuclear black market†(whatever that is), and;
2- We don’t like Iran having plans for a nuclear weapon, but it’s OK that the Associated Press has a copy of it.
Did I misread something?
Comment by Mikey — January 31, 2006 @ 5:07 pm
when the Russian Economy Collapsed Many Went without pay in the Ranks of Science and Military and this became available on the black market. You would thin Bushco would be looking at that. They were planningon IRAQ war since 1993 with Cheneys plan “a Clean BreaK” The Story about the notebook computer is at the link provided above.
I dont know if the AP has a copy of it or not,if the do I would be Interested to hear about it, I have a reference (htm) to a DOCUMENT sent to IAEA by a Diplomat, about IRAN with small amounts of Plutonium, but it wasnt am American Ambassador, Ill try to find that Link..
The Second thing;
January 31st, 2006 at 5:18 pmone might consider how many nuclear scientists exist worldwide and the Notebook computer pales in question.
#43, Thanks. I just went back and re-read the article. The AP has a full copy of a report that discusses the plans, not the plans themselves. My mistake.
January 31st, 2006 at 5:23 pmcant find the site heres what I copied a little while back. As you see this has been known for years, The UN released it 6-2005
doesnt say the Diplomat. speculating this is prolly LINKED to the above News of the notebook PC
U.N.: Iran Has Used Plutonium for Years
January 31st, 2006 at 6:57 pmWednesday, June 15, 2005
IAEA: N. Korea Could Make Five or Six Nukes
VIENNA, Austria — Iran (search) has acknowledged it worked with small amounts of plutonium, a possible nuclear arms component, years longer than it previously admitted, according to a confidential U.N. report made available Wednesday to The Associated Press.
The report, which could be delivered as early as Thursday to a board meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency (search), also said Tehran received sensitive technology that can be used as part of a weapons program earlier than it originally said.Marked “highly confidential,” the report to the IAEA was made available by a diplomat accredited to the agency who demanded anonymity because he is not authorized to release such information to the media.
Re: The purloined laptop (obtained by unknown US intelligence sources)
New York Times reporters William J. Broad and David E. Sanger repeatedly characterize the contents of computer files as containing information about a nuclear warhead design when the information actually describes a reentry vehicle for a missile. This distinction is not minor, and Broad should understand the difference between the two objects, particularly when the information does not contain any words such as nuclear or nuclear warhead.
Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi said: “The baseless claim made us laugh. We do not use laptops to keep our classified documents.”
http://www.commondreams.org/views05/1117-30.htm
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