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Iran Nuclear Watch: Ahmadinejad – Iran Won’t End Nuke Program

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U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney (R) gestures during a joint news conference with Australian Prime Minister John Howard in Sydney February 24, 2007. Cheney said on Saturday that the United States and its allies must not allow Iran to become a nuclear power and raised concerns about Tehran’s actions and ‘inflammatory’ rhetoric.

AP: Ahmadinejad: Iran Won’t End Nuke Program

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Sunday his country would proceed with its disputed nuclear program, comparing its nuclear drive to a train that has no reverse gear or brakes.

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, however, said what Iran needed was “a stop button.”

Ahmadinejad also repeated his call for negotiations, saying the time for “bullying” had expired. International leaders have demanded that Iran halt uranium enrichment.

“The train of the Iranian nation is without brakes and a rear gear,” the radio quoted Ahmadinejad as telling a gathering of Islamic clerics. “We dismantled the rear gear and brakes of the train and threw them away sometime ago.”

The International Atomic Energy Agency last week reported that Iran had ignored a U.N. Security Council ultimatum to freeze its uranium enrichment program and instead had expanded the program by setting up hundreds of centrifuges.

Iran has refused to halt uranium enrichment despite United Nations Resolution 1737.

So, this move by Iran will further isolate the country and lead the United Nations Security Council to consider further economic and political sanctions. But, will this be enough to stop Iran’s quest for a nuclear weapon?

Probably not….

Flap foresees a couple of scenarios:

1. Israel learns that Iran is further along in its nuclear weapons development program and decides its survival is predicated on taking out this capability militarily.

2. Iran attacks a Gulf State, oil transport, or mines the Strait of Hormuz in retailiation for United Nations sanctions or Israel/American military movements.

In either case the World oil supply particularly to Europe wil be disrupted.  There will be economic hardships until oil transport is restored.
But, Flap asks the question: Does the world confront Iran now or wait until it is closer to possessing a nuclear bomb?

Others are concerned and predict dire consequences should the United States attack Iran. Perhaps the Europeans and Brits do not completely understand President Bush and the American government. President Bush will take measured steps (as he did prior to the March 2003 invasion of Iraq) against Iran. A diplomatic track is always preferable to military action.

However, the American government and the United Nations Security Council have stated that it is not in the world’s interest to have a nuclear weapon possessing Iran. And, thus, all options are on the table, including military action.

Flap thinks that EU and United Nations negotiations have been feckless, fruitless FAILED efforts and that a “NUCLEAR POINT OF NO RETURN” is at hand. Now is the time for decisions.

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The Natanz uranium enrichment complex in Natanz is pictured in this January 2, 2006 satellite image.


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