Nuclear Iran

If Iran's nuclear program is purely for peaceful purposes, why the concealment? Why the defiance of the UN?

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[archdeaconj]

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence, that's perfectly true, but if you're looking for evidence and fail to find it, it's not something you can use to support your case. Like it or not, in the absence of any evidence that Iran is pursuing a nuclear weapons programme, the Iranians have every right - under the Non Proliferation Treaty - to develop nuclear energy. WHY, for goodness sake, are we not up in arms (so to speak) against Israel, who we know does have nuclear weapons?

[SteveWrathall]

Correction, they have the right to develop peaceful nuclear energy if they comply with IAEA inspections. They have not. Their behavior makes no sense if their program is purely peaceful.

Israel is a nation that has been fighting for its very existence for 62 years. It does not try to export radical Judaism worldwide.

[torbat1357]

iran dosnt need nuclear bomb fools, iran has some thing more powerfull than any weapones that you fools dont have and wont be able to undrestand it. thats why in 30 year s iran every day is going forward but you are not able to stop it.

[SteveWrathall]

So what is this "something more powerful"? Magic carpets?

[impartial1]

Bush had known NIE report almost one year before published. He told lie to Americans and the world.

1-Repubican 2008 election agenda is based on "war to terrorism"

2- AIPAC and Israel would not support him.

3- there is no major threat to US and Demotratic election agenda is better.

4- Israel is not a member of NPT, but Iran is.

[SteveWrathall]

There is nothing in this report that reassures. Iran is being allowed to play exactly the same shell game as North Korea did, in order to buy time to build NW.

[6642633]

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funny man like the way he twist his words

[archdeaconj]

Oh, I agree. I'd even go further in saying that there can be no exact translation from one language to another, even after careful regard to linguistic and situational context (and paralinguistic clues such as intonation, gestures and so on). That said, translating what he said as wanting to wipe Israel off the map rather than predicting the fall of the regime in power is taking a bleedin' liberty. Some mischief-makers have even taken it to mean driving the Israeli people into the sea.

[losghost]

@archdeaconj First: The Iranian government does not recognize the state of Israel, so regime is used.

Second: Farsi cannot be translated from a page. Nuance and context change things dramatically. The word ["ree-shih-KAN"], which literally translates into uprooting or pulling out from the roots. He used the word ["math"], which given the context, given as to how it's being used, it means disappearance.

There are many translations but they all come a vague point at Israel being "removed".

[archdeaconj]

I have looked into this matter of Iran threatening to 'wipe Israel off the map. The exact words, in Farsi, uttered by Ahmadinejad on 25 Oct. 2005 were: "Imam ghoft een rezhim-e ishghalgar-e qods bayad az safheh-ye ruzgar mahv shavad." Israel is not spoken of by name, only the regime occupying Jerusalem. There is no mention either of map or wiped out. Correct translation: 'The Iman said this regime occupying Jerusalem must vanish from the page of time.'

[losghost]

@archdeaconj

No one is against Israel because Israel has never publicly declared it wants to wipe another country off the map... unlike Iran.

Many of your other posts are very anti-israel, as it is your right to have an opinion, however biased and slanted that may be.

[archdeaconj]

Why?

[archdeaconj]

This is something you didnt hear about in the mainstream media but the International Atomic Energy Authority (IAEA) recently passed a resolution calling on Israel to join the Non-Proliferation Treaty and open up its facilities to nuclear inspection. The US tried to block it. Having failed to block it, the US voted against it. It passed anyway. Israels response? Two fingers to the IAEA.

[archdeaconj]

All this drum-beating and demonising of Iran is just by way of manufacturing consent for an eventual attack on Iran, possibly by the US but probably by Israel. Ordinary decent people would never consent to an unprovoked attack on a country, so they have to be sold a pretext. They have to be whipped up into a frenzy of fear and hatred of the Other. All that is needed is the fabrication some external threat. It works every time.

[archdeaconj]

Not exporting Judaism does not give Israel the right to nuclear weapons. Neither does fighting for its existence which hardly describes Israel. It is the Palestinians who are fighting for their existence. They now have only 22 percent of their original land. This is not the best land but the worst. Still the Israelis are not satisfied. They want all of it. First the Palestinians tried peaceful protests, now they try these bombs.

In which respect has Iran failed to comply with the IAEA?