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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (185833)	4/27/2006 7:00:52 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

And yet.. here again we find Putin and Hu Jintao protecting Ahmadinejad's intransigence and aggressive threats and undermining the UNSC. Shades of 2002-2003 again, except France hasn't opted to join in yet... This IS NOT THE WAY to get the full and focused attention of Iran's government that they are going down the wrong path (more on that in my next post): Russia and China warn UN not to antagonise Iran By Daniel Dombey in Sofia Published: April 27 2006 17:45 \| Last updated: April 27 2006 17:45 Russia and China on Thursday warned against escalating the dispute over Iran’s nuclear programme. The call came on the eve of an eagerly awaited report on whether the country has met United Nations demands. The US and the European Union believe Friday’s report by Mohamed El Baradei, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, will set the stage for a UN Security Council resolution, since there is little chance that Tehran will meet the council’s demand for “full and sustained suspension” of uranium enrichment, which can produce weapons-grade material. But on Thursday Vladimir Putin, Russia’s president, warned against too great an intervention by the Security Council – a path Moscow feels could lead to confrontation. “We think that the IAEA must continue to play a key role and it must not shrug off its responsibilities to resolve such questions and shift them on to the UN Security Council,” he said at a summit with Angela Merkel, German chancellor. European officials argue that, far from sidelining the IAEA, any action by the council would seek to bolster its authority. The Chinese government also called for restraint. Moscow and Beijing, which have growing energy and economic links with Iran, fear that a UN resolution might be used to justify military action at a later stage. The US has stepped up efforts to assuage such concerns. “Forcible change of the Iranian regime is not the objective of American policy,” Philip Zelikow, a top adviser to US secretary of state Condoleezza Rice, told the Financial Times. “Right now, we haven’t completed implementing a diplomatic strategy. That diplomatic strategy involves underscoring to the Iranian regime the costs of its behaviour.” US and EU diplomats hope to win Security Council backing for a resolution on Iran by mid-June. Such a resolution would not involve sanctions but would probably set out a new deadline for Iran to halt nuclear enrichment. Mr ElBaradei has been pushing Iran for a “technical break” in uranium enrichment to allow negotiations over the nuclear programme to resume. news.ft.com

To: Hawkmoon who wrote (185833)	4/27/2006 8:58:34 PM
From: jttmab	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Wow.. so now I have to guess what you're proposing? You can if you want, but that wasn't the question I asked. we have no control over them because we've permitted them to have the keys to the M.A.D. house. One thing we learned from history is that MAD worked. And now we've got an arms race and every nation in the region seeking nuclear weapons, while Iran has a shield from behind which they can pursue their aggressive and subversive activities towards other nations in the region. You're a little late with that idea. Iran is looking around and sees Israel, Pakistan, and India with nukes. Pakistan is looking at India, knowing full well they haven't a shot in the world of winning a conventional war against India. Then Bush goes and helps India in it's ability to pruduce more enriched uranium. Of course Pakistan is going to look into building more nukes. What if this was Adolf Hitler and he was seeking the nuclear fuel cycle? Do you think we could trust him to only use it for peaceful purposes? This isn't Adolf Hitler. Hitler died. BTW. Iran just received a missile shipment from North Korea. Is that another failure of our intelligence capabilities or did Bush do nothing to stop it. [Don't try any international law BS, the Administration has stopped other vessels on the open seas.] jttmab