Posted by teejay on February 4, 2006, at 17:38:29
In reply to Re: okay so maybe i'm missing something... » teejay, posted by AuntieMel on February 4, 2006, at 13:46:41
> >"The second specific threat made by Tehran was the launching of a new “expanded intifada” led by Hamas and Islamic Jihad against Israel. But with Hamas now trying to form the Palestinian government it is unlikely that it would wish to become involved in an Iranian strategy. As for Islamic Jihad, the Palestinian group closest to Tehran, it is not strong enough to take both Israel and Hamas, simply to please the Iranians."This is nothing new. The intifada deals with the armed resistence to Israeli occupation and isnt a threat to wipe anyone off the map. I can see why the Bush administration would wish to try and twist it to mean something else as Tehran has always been the US administrations "bogeyman", but I think its only fair to deal with facts rather than political propoganda.
> I'll look for it. I do remember seeing it though.
> Either way - they are enriching uranium, which is only useful for weapons.More government propoganda I'm afraid. Uranium is a better fuel when enriched. To make fuel its enriched a bit, and for weapons its enriched further.
Just out of interest, and in the interests of clarity, Iran has broken NO international laws and is fully entitled to enrich uranium for peaceful means under the terms of the nuclear non proliferation treaty. It had seals placed on its activities as a gesture of good faith not because it had to, and when the west continued to press for complete scrapping of its nuclear programs it turned around and removed the seals as it saw no progress being mde with the seals left in tact.
Just for further reference.......the US thinks that Iran has a covert nuclear weapons program (which Iran denys), but its happy to support Israel even though ISrael has its own covert nuclear weapons programme and has an estimated 400 nuclear weapons (even though its never admitted to having any). Its also NOT a signatory to the nuclear nonproliferation treaty and has NEVER allowed the IAEA into its country to check its nuclear plants.
TJ
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