Iran Nuclear Watch: Too Late to Halt Iran’s Nuclear Bomb?
Financial Times: Too late to halt Iran’s nuclear bomb, EU is told
Iran will be able to develop enough weapons-grade material for a nuclear bomb and there is little that can be done to prevent it, an internal European Union document has concluded.
In an admission of the international community’s failure to hold back Iran’s nuclear ambitions, the document – compiled by the staff of Javier Solana, EU foreign policy chief – says the atomic programme has been delayed only by technical limitations rather than diplomatic pressure. “Attempts to engage the Iranian administration in a negotiating process have not so far succeeded,†it states.
The downbeat conclusions of the “reflection paper†– seen by the Financial Times – are certain to be seized on by advocates of military action, who fear that Iran will be able to produce enough fissile material for a bomb over the next two to three years. Tehran insists its purposes are purely peaceful.
“At some stage we must expect that Iran will acquire the capacity to enrich uranium on the scale required for a weapons programme,†says the paper, dated February 7 and circulated to the EU’s 27 national governments ahead of a foreign ministers meeting yesterday.
“In practice . . . the Iranians have pursued their programme at their own pace, the limiting factor being technical difficulties rather than resolutions by the UN or the International Atomic Energy Agency.
“The problems with Iran will not be resolved through economic sanctions alone.â€
Well, Duh and the European Union are just coming to these conclusions? Either they are stupidly naive or just stupid. The Iranians have been stalling the world with the false hope of negotiations for many years.
Iran and its Theocracy covet nuclear weapons so they can exert their hegemony over Israel and the rest of the Middle East.
Only military force will deter Iran’s nuclear ambitions.
Iran is NOT North Korea. Negotiations will NEVER succeed and neither will sanctions.
Military destruction of Iran’s nuclear facilities and regime change are the only options.
And it is also not the time for President Bush to wimp out.
Stay tuned……
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The Natanz uranium enrichment complex in Natanz is pictured in this January 2, 2006 satellite image.
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