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Iran: We will never develop nuclear weapons

While that's true, that's not a reason to build your facilities underground and hidden away when everyone knows what you're up to there. Iran even posted official pictures of nuclear activities at underground sites. Civilian facilities don't need to be hardened or protected like that.

They do when they are under a very real threat of being bombed by Israel.


Have they allowed inspections into all of their facilities? If not, that's not transparent. They're doing the same thing the Israelis did. And I don't think you're going to say the Israelis don't have a nuclear weapons program. Sure, we have missing gaps in intelligence, but when their behavior resembles the type of behavior from offenders like the Israels as well as the initial secret program South Korea tried, that doesn't suggest a purely peaceful operation. We have known peaceful civilian usage around the world. We know what that looks like. If Iran was actually going about a purely peaceful operation, their behaviors would resemble that of Argentina, not Israel.

Go ahead and provide your examples. Let's talk specifics.


Refinement has never been totally clarified under the NPT. It's been a sticking point since the agreement. Countries have complained that the US largely arbitrarily made the rules to which they're largely correct. But it still does not change the cost factor.

Iran could have saved billions by simply importing fuel. And that's outside of the sanctions. Remember that the sanctions only were US based. Nothing stopped Russia, French or others from agreeing to fuel arrangements. Iran under US sanctions before the round of banking sanctions would have had no problem getting such fuel agreements.

Whether or not they are covered in sanctions currently extant is completely irrelevant. Regardless, this is really just irrelevant to the discussion.
 
I'm liking this guy... at least via comparison to his predecessors.

Iran's president Rouhani: We will never develop nuclear weapons

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani told NBC News on Wednesday that the country will never develop nuclear weapons and that he has the clout to make a deal with the West on the disputed atomic program.

“In its nuclear program, this government enters with full power and has complete authority,” Rouhani told Ann Curry, NBC News national and international correspondent and anchor at large, in his first interview with a U.S. news outlet since his election.

“The problem won't be from our side,” he said at the presidential compound in Tehran. “We have sufficient political latitude to solve this problem.”

“We consider war a weakness. Any government or administration that decides to wage a war, we consider a weakness. And any government that decides on peace, we look on it with respect to peace.”​


This is not a shift in policy. Ahmadinejad made the same thing clear throughout his presidency.
 
Right.....because we held Syria to a standard......Oh wait, we let Russia take control of the Middle East. Wake up dude, this is typical Iranian rhetoric.

puhhlleeeze you are so bent. We threatened, got the best possible result with Russia and Syria being our bitch and fulfilling our demands. Russia already has had a base off Syria for a long time. You don't seem to know the region very well.

Like I already said, I'm hoping his shift to the left will allow the population, one that is very westernized for the region, to drive a wedge between their politicians and their ruling mullahs.
 
This is not a shift in policy. Ahmadinejad made the same thing clear throughout his presidency.

He's presenting a much more open and willing to communicate position. FAAAAARrrr more than Ahmadinejad.
 
He's presenting a much more open and willing to communicate position. FAAAAARrrr more than Ahmadinejad.

Neither one of them present anything. Ayatollah presents through his puppets.
 
I guess I'm just the more optimistic of the two of us.

No, not at all. I'm optimistic with you. I've never believed that Iran is building a nuke. But western/US propaganda works to further a long term US goal of "regime change" in Iran. As well as Libya, Syria and Iraq as Wesley Clark revealed, predicted and three countries can be crossed off his list as we presently work toward crossing off two more. It's a very big elephant in the room but some people don't see elephants.
 
No, not at all. I'm optimistic with you. I've never believed that Iran is building a nuke. But western/US propaganda works to further a long term US goal of "regime change" in Iran. As well as Libya, Syria and Iraq as Wesley Clark revealed, predicted and three countries can be crossed off his list as we presently work toward crossing off two more. It's a very big elephant in the room but some people don't see elephants.

How can they not see elephants when they are constantly throwing noisy and pointless temper tantrums in congress?
 
No. They drew that line. It's up to them to make themselves credible on that standard. Not our responsibility.

Make themselves credible to whom? Only the Russians and Iranians have any influence there now and I doubt that they're that interested in who gets gassed.

I tend to trust Putin over Obama in the Middle East now anyway.
 
Make themselves credible to whom? Only the Russians and Iranians have any influence there now and I doubt that they're that interested in who gets gassed.

I tend to trust Putin over Obama in the Middle East now anyway.

Of course you do. You are an extreme partisan who always puts party before country.

Quote worthy by the way.
 
I'm liking this guy... at least via comparison to his predecessors.

Iran's president Rouhani:


Iranian President Hassan Rouhani told NBC News on Wednesday that the country will never develop nuclear weapons and that he has the clout to make a deal with the West on the disputed atomic program.

“In its nuclear program, this government enters with full power and has complete authority,” Rouhani told Ann Curry, NBC News national and international correspondent and anchor at large, in his first interview with a U.S. news outlet since his election.

“The problem won't be from our side,” he said at the presidential compound in Tehran. “We have sufficient political latitude to solve this problem.”

“We consider war a weakness. Any government or administration that decides to wage a war, we consider a weakness. And any government that decides on peace, we look on it with respect to peace.”​




Iran doesn't need to develop nuclear weapons, the USA did that back during WWII. And not only did we develop them we tried them out on Japan.

All that Iran has to do is make them, and they are well on their way to doing that.
 
Iran doesn't need to develop nuclear weapons, the USA did that back during WWII. And not only did we develop them we tried them out on Japan.

All that Iran has to do is make them, and they are well on their way to doing that.

They are not well on their way to making nukes.
 
Of course you do. You are an extreme partisan who always puts party before country.

Quote worthy by the way.

No, i always put country before politics but have no confidence whatsoever in Barrack Obama, and have no reason to alter that opinion. BHO is not the personification of the United States or its interests though apparently you feel otherwise.
 
Iran doesn't need to develop nuclear weapons, the USA did that back during WWII. And not only did we develop them we tried them out on Japan.

All that Iran has to do is make them, and they are well on their way to doing that.

Your correct in that first sentence which gives the US no credibility to a bitch about the second.
 
No, i always put country before politics
but have no confidence whatsoever in Barrack Obama
, and have no reason to alter that opinion. BHO is not the personification of the United States or its interests though apparently you feel otherwise.




Whether or not you have confidence in President Obama means absolutely nothing to me.

In any case Obama will be in the White House until another Democrat takes his place in 2017 whether you like him or not.




"Better days are coming." ~ But not for today's out of touch, running out of time, GOP.
 
They are a lot closer to making nukes than the people in Papua New Guinea are.

Do you want to argue that point?

I for one wouldn't argue that point with you. But only if you mean that making nuclear energy puts you closer to making a nuclear bomb than making coal energy.
 
No, i always put country before politics but have no confidence whatsoever in Barrack Obama, and have no reason to alter that opinion. BHO is not the personification of the United States or its interests though apparently you feel otherwise.

Oh yes he is where ME policy is concerned. He just got outsmarted by the fox for the time being anyway.
 
Whether or not you have confidence in President Obama means absolutely nothing to me.

In any case Obama will be in the White House until another Democrat takes his place in 2017 whether you like him or not.

Yes, I know. Watching such a rapid decline of a democratic Superpower is rather interesting to watch but there is also a tinge of sadness as well.

Mark Steyn: Next stop, banana republic | banana, republic, government - Opinion - The Orange County Register
 
Oh yes he is where ME policy is concerned. He just got outsmarted by the fox for the time being anyway.

He is in way over his head and every world leader knows and understands that. New alliances will be made to deal with the coming new world order and it seems Putin will accept the mantle as the man who will be making the major decisions. America will be leading from ever further behind.
 
I'm liking this guy... at least via comparison to his predecessors.

Iran's president Rouhani: We will never develop nuclear weapons

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani told NBC News on Wednesday that the country will never develop nuclear weapons and that he has the clout to make a deal with the West on the disputed atomic program.

“In its nuclear program, this government enters with full power and has complete authority,” Rouhani told Ann Curry, NBC News national and international correspondent and anchor at large, in his first interview with a U.S. news outlet since his election.

“The problem won't be from our side,” he said at the presidential compound in Tehran. “We have sufficient political latitude to solve this problem.”

“We consider war a weakness. Any government or administration that decides to wage a war, we consider a weakness. And any government that decides on peace, we look on it with respect to peace.”​



It would take some years of promises-proven-true before I'd begin to believe anything an Iranian prez says, absent a large helping of salt.


They've been saying this all along; the problem is the way they are going about refining uranium argues that they ARE going for nuclear weapons.
 
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