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To: philv who wrote (22716)	3/20/2005 8:29:51 AM
From: sea_urchin	Respond to of 81111

Phil > the big question in my mind is will Iran risk ending up like her neighbour, or will she pull back at the very last moment? Meanwhile, it seems to me that diplomacy is taking the upper hand. From your article: >>However, to the chagrin of America's neoconservatives, the diplomatic process is continuing. The announcement last week of new, US-backed incentives for Iran - including civilian aircraft parts and support for Iranian membership of the World Trade Organisation - is designed to break the impasse by peaceful means. If Iran fails to respond, the issue is expected to go to the UN security council later this year where it is likely to become deadlocked, freeing Israel to take unilateral action.<< But my own opinion is that if Iran wanted nuclear weapons it could have bought/made them long ago. And, they would not necessarily be in a place Israeli commandos could find them. iwar.org.uk paxchristi.org.au >>Abdul Qadeer Khan, the 'father' of Pakistan's nuclear weapons, which gave Pakistan nuclear parity with India in 1998, was pardoned by the Pakistani government after he confessed on television that Khan Research Laboratories had been selling nuclear secrets to Iran, Libya and North Korea over the past fifteen years*. The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Mohamed El-Baradei, has called it "the tip of the iceberg" and has warned that nuclear proliferation is a mortal danger and that "we risk self-destruction." << * Libya has dropped the idea, N.Korea has N-bombs and Iran is a question mark. Meanwhile, Russia and Iran have signed an agreement for a second reactor -- and to appease anyone who is concerned about the possibility that enrichment could be used to make material for a bomb, have undertaken to return all spent fuel to Russia aljazeera.com >>Earlier this week, Iran and Russia signed an agreement to return spent nuclear fuel at the Busher nuclear power plant, a move seen as paving the way for Iran to get its first reactor up and running. According to the agreement, Russia will provide the fuel needed to run the Bushehr plant, but the spent fuel will be sent back to it to make sure Tehran doesn’t extract plutonium from it, enough of which could be used to make an atomic bomb.<< Sure, Israel is concerned that every Muslim is a potential terrorist and therefore they should all be killed to ensure Israel's safety, but I would think it would be far easier, cheaper and definitely less bloody if Israel would simply close down some/most of its settlements in the West Bank and Gaza which are the bone of contention. The big question in my mind is how many innocent Muslims, and others, including Americans, have to be killed, injured, maimed and how many Islamic countries destroyed to further the ideological fantasy of a few hundred thousand Zionist bigots who regard someone else's land as theirs?