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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (185710)4/27/2006 8:30:59 AM
From: jttmab  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
I guess it all depends on what rhetoric Ahmadinejad comes out with next...

I don't think there is any sword rattling rhetoric that would result in the UNSC putting in a blanket statement of "all necessary means". They learned that lesson. They might settle for it if there were also words that explicity required a UNSC vote of which "necessary means" would be used.

Maybe Rummy could get a hold of Curveball to see if he has any photos of semis being used as mobile uranium enrichment facilities. I'd bet that Israel could produce a good quality forged document of the an Iranian effort at weapons development.

I don't know if you saw it, but the Russians have asked the US for proof that Iran has a nuclear weapons program. I suspect that we have less proof of that than we had on Iraq's WMD.

And given that Ahmadinejad has threatened to wipe Israel off the map, they already have sufficient "casus belli" to attack Iran.

Actually he hasn't. He predicted that Israel would be off the map. He didn't say Iran was going to do it. Nor has the Iranian government said they want nuclear weapons, in spite of what Bush has said to the contrary.

There is no hope of coming to a lasting agreement with Iran as long as the west insists that Iran has no right for development of the full nuclear energy cycle. Which is a right they have under the NPT.

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