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Monday, June 28, 2004

Iran to resume nuclear programme

Gaurdian
Announcement delivers blow to EU's policy of engagement
Iran is to resume elements of its uranium enrichment programme tomorrow in a move which worsens the confrontation with the west over Tehran's suspected ambition to develop a nuclear bomb.

Withdrawing from previous pledges to freeze all uranium-enrichment activities, Tehran said yesterday it would resume manufacturing parts for centrifuges tomorrow and would also restart the assembly of the centrifuges, the machines that refine crude uranium into bomb-grade material or nuclear fuel for power stations.

Iran's decision was criticised yesterday by the EU, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna and the White House. It will fuel further suspicions about Iran's nuclear programme and increase mistrust at the IAEA, whose 35-strong governing board regularly seeks to come up with a policy towards Iran.

The announcement was a blow to Britain, France and Germany which reached the Tehran Agreement last October, an accord under which Iran promised to freeze its enrichment activity...
The oligarchs of Iran are running a theocratic fascist regime. Of all possible dictatorships, this type is the least suceptable to reason. Fortunately the Iranian public is overwhelmingly on our side and vigorously opposed the clerics. Therefore our policy should be containment and support for political reform. In particular, all World Bank and International Monetary Fund Loans to the clerics should be revoked. No politcal leadership, such as the one in Iran, can long survive with the support of less than 30% of the population. Teh downfall of the clerical regime is inevitable, and we should do what we can to speed up the process from the outside.
Posted by: Zayphar / 6/28/2004 09:32:00 AM
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