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Feb 14 2006

Iran Nuclear Watch: Iran Begins Small Scale Uranium Enrichment While Russia and France Oppose

Posted by Flap in Iran Nuclear Watch, Politics

irannukefeb14web8hn Iran Nuclear Watch: Iran Begins Small Scale Uranium Enrichment While Russia and France Oppose The deputy secretary of the Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, Javad Vaeidi, a senior nuclear negotiator, delivers his speech to students in Tehran, Iran, Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2006. Vaeidi told reporters that enrichment of uranium resumed last week at Iran’s main enrichment plant in Natanz. The logo of the International Atomic Energy Agency is seen behind him, though it is not involved in this meeting.

ASSociated Press: Russia, France Oppose Iran’s Atomic Plan

Iran has resumed small-scale enrichment of uranium, a senior nuclear negotiator said Tuesday, showing the country was determined to proceed with its atomic development despite international moves to restrict it.

The world has long sought to stop Iran from enriching uranium, fearing that the process would bring it to the threshold of possessing nuclear bombs. Russia and France immediately called on Iran to halt its work and fulfill the demands of the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency, according to a joint statement posted on the Kremlin’s Web site.

irannukenatanzweb6qy Iran Nuclear Watch: Iran Begins Small Scale Uranium Enrichment While Russia and France Oppose Iran’s Uranium Conversion Facility, just outside the city of Isfahan, 410 kilometers, 255 miles, south of capital Tehran, Iran, March 30, 2005. The conversion facility in Isfahan reprocesses uranium ore concentrate, known as yellowcake, into uranium hexaflouride gas. The gas is then taken to another site at Natanz and fed into the centrifuges for enrichment.

More bloviating from Russia and France. They MAY vote for economic sanctions against Iran when these issues come before the United Nations Security Council but cannot be counted upon for more.

In their joint statement, Russia and Iran recognized Iran’s legitimate right to pursue a peaceful nuclear program for energy. However, they called on Iran to “fully comply with the February resolution and the demands of the board of governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency, including on uranium enrichment.”

The ball continues in the Mullah’s court.

Iran must STAND DOWN or suffer the consequences.

Iran WILL NOT develop or possess nuclear weapons.

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Iran Nuclear Watch: Talks with Russia Postponed

Iran Nuclear Watch: Iran Reaffirms Commitment to the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty

Iran Nuclear Watch: United States Preparing Military Strikes Against Iran Nucear Sites

Iran Nuclear Watch: Natanz Uranium Processing Plant has Restarted

Iran Nuclear Watch: â€œMYTHâ€ of the Holcaust Redux

Iran Watch: Iran Paper Holds Holocaust Cartoons Contest

Iran Watch: Iran Paper Plans Holocaust Cartoons

Iran Nuclear Watch: Iran Tells IAEA to Remove Surveillance Cameras and Seals From Nuclear Sites

Iran Nuclear Watch: Russia Warns Against Iran Conflict

Iran Nuclear Watch: Iran Ends Cooperation With IAEA and Resumes Uranium Enrichment

Iran Nuclear Watch: IAEA Reports Iran to United Nations Security Council

Iran Nuclear Watch: Iran Threatens Full-Scale Enrichment Work

Iran Nuclear Watch: Iran Says BACK OFF Orâ€¦

Iran Nuclear Watch: Bush – United States Will Defend Israel Against Iran

Iran Nuclear Watch: Iran Will Resist â€œBully Nationsâ€

Iran Watch: Bush: Iran â€˜Held Hostageâ€™ by Clerical Elite

Iran Nuclear Watch: Iran Documents Point to Nuclear Warheads

Iran Nuclear Watch: Iran Threatens End of Diplomacy

Iran Nuclear Watch: Permanent Five Say IAEA Must Report Iran to U.N. Security Council

Iran Nuclear Watch: Iran Begins Small Scale Uranium Enrichment While Russia and France Oppose The Natanz uranium enrichment complex in Natanz is pictured in this January 2, 2006 satellite image.

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Feb 14 2006

Muhammad Caricature Watch: Thousands of Protesters Rampage in 2 Pakistani Cities

Posted by Flap in Culture, Politics, Religion

islamcartoonpakfeb14web7qx Muhammad Caricature Watch: Thousands of Protesters Rampage in 2 Pakistani Cities Smoke erupts from burning U.S. fast-food chain Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) restaurant, set on fire by angry mob, Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2006 in Lahore, Pakistan. Thousands of protesters rampaged through two Pakistani cities, storming into a diplomatic district, setting fire to Western businesses and a local government building in the country’s worst wave of violence against the Prophet Muhammad cartoons, officials said. At least two people were killed and 11 injured.

ASSociated Press: Protesters Rampage in 2 Pakistani Cities

Thousands of protesters rampaged through two cities Tuesday, storming into a diplomatic district and torching Western businesses and a provincial assembly in Pakistan’s worst violence against the Prophet Muhammad drawings, officials said. At least two people were killed and 11 injured.

Security forces fired into the air as they struggled to contain the unrest in the eastern city of Lahore, where protesters burned down four buildings housing a hotel, two banks, a KFC restaurant and the office of a Norwegian cell phone company, Telenor.

U.S. and British embassy staffers were confined to their compounds until police dispersed the protesters, some of whom chanted, “Death to America!”

And tell me why the Pakistanis are chanting DEATH TO AMERICA when it was a Danish newspaper, Jyllands-Posten, that first published the Muhammad Carictures and very few American newspapers have published them?

Witnesses said rioters also damaged more than 200 cars, dozens of shops and a large portrait of President Gen. Pervez Musharraf. Vandals broke the windows of a Holiday Inn, Pizza Hut and McDonald’s.

Two movie theaters were torched, and clouds of tear gas and black smoke from burning vehicles drifted through streets in the city center.

A security guard shot and killed two protesters trying to force their way into a bank, Interior Minister Aftab Khan Sherpao said, adding that paramilitary forces were deployed to restore order.

Mohammed Tariq, a doctor at the state-run Mayo Hospital, said three people were being treated for serious bullet wounds, and eight more suffered injuries during clashes with police.

The protest was organized by a little-known religious group supported by local trade associations and one of the main Islamic schools in the city. Intelligence officials, however, suspected that members of outlawed Islamic radical groups may have incited the violence.

You think?

Of course, radical, fanatical islamofascists are instigating senseless violence over inane caricatures.

And who suffers?

islamcartoonspakfeb14bweb8ad Muhammad Caricature Watch: Thousands of Protesters Rampage in 2 Pakistani Cities Pakistani students run away from teargas fired by police to disperse the crowd who gathered to protest against the publication of cartoons depicting Islamic prophet Muhammad, Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2006 in Islamabad, Pakistan. Police fired tear gas as they chased away protesters who entered the heavily guarded diplomatic enclave in Pakistan’s capital to demonstrate against the Prophet Muhammad cartoons.

Next, comes the threat…….

Hard-line cleric Hafiz Hussain Ahmad, senior leader of an opposition coalition of six religious parties, said, “We have come to the doors of the embassies to take our voice to the ambassadors. There is anger in the Islamic world. If they do not listen, their problems will increase.

And why the outrage?

Islam widely holds that representations of Muhammad are banned for fear they could lead to idolatry.

And so people will die and businesses burned because of the “FEAR of IDOLATRY” or is it the fear of the islamofascist theocrats that control their societies and government.

How do you spell INTOLERANCE?

Muhammad Caricature Watch: Thousands of Protesters Rampage in 2 Pakistani Cities

There have been a series of mostly peaceful protests across Pakistan against the cartoons, and last week Parliament adopted resolutions condemning the drawing. Lawmakers also called for a nationwide strike on March 3.

But Aitzaz Ahsan, a lawmaker with the opposition Pakistan Peoples Party, said he will propose that the government call off the March 3 protest strike because of the prospect of further violence.

“It’s really gotten out of hand,” Ahsan said. “The violence is spiraling out of control.”

The violence is spinning out of control and governments have the responsibility to protect its residents, businesses and particulary foreign embassies. Pakistan seems to be responsible in their police action against the protesters. It is doubtful that other countries such as Iran and Syria will be as responsible.

Stay tuned…….

Michelle Malkin has NEXT, THEY CAME FOR KFC

Muhammad Caricature Watch: Thousands of Protesters Rampage in 2 Pakistani Cities