Iran Nuclear Watch: Chirac – OK If Iran Has One or Two Nukes?

French President Jacques Chirac (C), Russian President Vladimir Putin and German Chancellor Angela Merkel review the troops. Iranâ€™s nuclear ambitions and the need to secure Russian energy supplies to the EU were expected to dominate a summit in an elegant chateau north of Paris between the leaders of France, Russia and Germany (September 2006)

New York Times: Chirac Unfazed by Nuclear Iran, Then Backtracks

President Jacques Chirac said this week that if Iran had one or two nuclear weapons, it would not pose a big danger, and that if Iran were to launch a nuclear weapon against a country like Israel, it would lead to the immediate destruction of Tehran.

The remarks, made in an interview on Monday with The New York Times, The International Herald Tribune and Le Nouvel Observateur, a weekly magazine, were vastly different from stated French policy and what Mr. Chirac has often said.

On Tuesday, Mr. Chirac summoned the same journalists back to Ã‰lysÃ©e Palace to retract many of his remarks.

Mr. Chirac said repeatedly during the second interview that he had spoken casually and quickly the day before because he believed he had been talking about Iran off the record.

â€œI should rather have paid attention to what I was saying and understood that perhaps I was on the record,â€ he said.

So, President Chirac of France has been complicit with Iran in the STALL GAME that has enabled Iran to advance its uranium enrichment program?

Wonder what the Brits and the rest of the European Union have to say?

And the P-5-Plus-1 talks were WORTHLESS?

But, isn’t that what Flap said the first time……?

French President Jacques Chirac speaks during an interwiev at the French Europe1 radio studios, Monday Sept.18, 2006 in Paris. Chirac said that he has very good relations with U.S. President George W. Bush, while stressing that France cannot be submissive to the United States.

The tape-recorded, on-the-record interview was conducted under an agreement that it would not be published until Thursday, when Le Nouvel Observateur appears on newsstands.

On Monday, Mr. Chirac began by describing as â€œvery dangerousâ€ Iranâ€™s refusal to stop producing enriched uranium, which can be used to produce electricity or to make nuclear weapons. Then he made his remarks about a nuclear-armed Iran.

â€œI would say that what is dangerous about this situation is not the fact of having a nuclear bomb,â€ he said. â€œHaving one or perhaps a second bomb a little later, well, thatâ€™s not very dangerous.

â€œBut what is very dangerous is proliferation. This means that if Iran continues in the direction it has taken and totally masters nuclear-generated electricity, the danger does not lie in the bomb it will have, and which will be of no use to it.â€

Mr. Chirac said it would be an act of self-destruction for Iran to use a nuclear weapon against another country.

â€œWhere will it drop it, this bomb? On Israel?â€ Mr. Chirac asked. â€œIt would not have gone 200 meters into the atmosphere before Tehran would be razed.â€

Clue One to Chirac:

Tehran may be NUKED anyway. Natanz for sure and Istahan and Bushehr and Arak.

Chirac is either going SENILE, is an imbecilic FOOL or mistakenly gave up his countries secret bottom line on Iran’s nuclear weapons development program. Hell, perhaps France is selling them the material and the technical know-how? They supplied Saddam Hussein, remember?

It was unclear whether Mr. Chiracâ€™s initial remarks reflected what he truly believes. If so, it suggests a growing divide with American policy, which places the highest priority on stopping Iran from gaining the capacity to produce nuclear weapons.

Mr. Chirac has privately expressed the view occasionally in the past year that a nuclear-armed Iran might be inevitable and that it could try to sell the technology to other countries. But publicly the policy has been very different. In fact, Ã‰lysÃ©e Palace prepared a heavily edited 19-page transcript of the Monday interview that excluded Mr. Chiracâ€™s assessment of a nuclear-armed Iran.

The transcript even inserted a line that Mr. Chirac had not said that read, â€œI do not see what type of scenario could justify Iranâ€™s recourse to an atomic bomb.â€

Flap bets one thing – Ahamdinejad and the Iranian Mullahs are laughing their asses off at Chirac in Tehran this morning.

And the United States?

Well, we knew we were ALONE with Israel, now didn’t we?

Stay tuned…..