UN gives Tehran 30 days to end uranium enrichment

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The U.N. Security Council has taken the first step in confronting Iran about its controversial nuclear program.

The Council gave Tehran 30 days to suspend uranium enrichment activity.

A statement approved by the full Council Wednesday is far milder than its sponsors had hoped.

During negotiations, language was dropped that would have characterized Iran's nuclear program as a threat to international peace and security, thereby establishing the Council's jurisdiction over the matter. Russia and China, which favor a more lenient approach to Iran, argued Tehran's nuclear activity should be dealt with by the U.N.'s nuclear watchdog agency, not the Security Council.

In the end, sponsors Britain, France and Germany, along with the United States, relented in order to get a statement adopted before their top diplomats meet in Berlin Thursday. That gathering will focus on longer term strategies for preventing Iran from pushing ahead with its nuclear enrichment program.

While some of the strongest language was deleted, the statement calls on International Atomic Energy Agency Director Mohamed ElBaradei to report to the Council on Iran's compliance with its obligations within 30 days.

France's U.N. Ambassador Jean-Marc de La Sabliere said he is confident the statement sends a strong message to Tehran.

"Iran has 30 days, and we hope Iran will comply," said Jean-Marc de La Sabliere. "If Iran complies, it will pave the way for a negotiated solution that guarantees the nuclear program of Iran is for solely for peaceful uses. If Iran doesn't comply, then the Security Council will receive a report from ElBaradei, will have to take its responsibilities."

Washington's U.N. Ambassador John Bolton emerged from the final negotiating session saying the Council was sending an unmistakable message to Iran that, in his words, "its efforts to deny the obvious fact of what they are doing are not going to be sufficient".

"This is simply a statement that says to Iran, you have consistently disobeyed resolutions of the International Atomic Energy Agency, violated your safeguards agreements, you've violated the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, you must now come into compliance, and if in 30 days that hasn't happened, and we expect a report from the IAEA director general, in 30 days the Security Council will be competent and ready to act," said John Bolton.

The statement adopted Wednesday is the product of three weeks of intense negotiations among the Security Council's five permanent members.

Moscow's U.N. Ambassador Andrey Denisov said Russia had demanded removal of stronger language until the IAEA provides stronger proof of Iran's nuclear intentions.

"When you talk of threat to international peace and security, you must have strong, clear and legally- approved evidence, we don't have such evidence," said Andrey Denisov. "That is a purpose why we use International Atomic Energy Agency as a watchdog, specially designed to provide such clarification, such verification, such approval. "

Iran's U.N. Ambassador Javad Zarif ridiculed the Council statement. Speaking to reporters, he reiterated Tehran's position that its nuclear program is strictly for peaceful purposes.

"Iran's commitment to the non-proliferation regime is categorical," said Javad Zarif. "We always made it clear that Iran is committed to its obligations because they are based in our historical and religious edicts. We have made it clear that at the highest level, Iran does not want nuclear weapons, nor does it want to pursue development, stockpiling or acquisition of these inhuman weapons."

The Iranian envoy vowed that his country would not bow to international pressure to curb its nuclear activities.

"Pressure and threats do not work on Iran," he said. "Iran is allergic to pressure and threats and intimidation."

A statement issued by Iran's foreign ministry Tuesday had warned that Security Council intervention would escalate tensions and have negative consequences.

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice Wednesday called the Security Council's action "an important diplomatic step" that shows Tehran to be "more isolated than ever". She said she was looking forward to Thursday's Berlin meeting to explore further action on Iran.

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Well we all know the answer to that one, Iran will tell the U.N. to get stuffed the 30 will run it's course then what. More big talk from the U.N. or further sanctions, I have a strange feeling this will go on for years before something will happen, what that may be is anyone’s guess.

[The Avon Lady]

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Originally Posted by The Avon Lady

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[Kapitan]

30 days will turn into 3 months will turn into 3 years will turn into 13 year will turn into 3 decades, and some where in that line they will already have an A bomb.

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I can see that one coming Kapitain, the U.N. should stand for united nitwits.

[Oberon]

"It's just a lil' bit of Kim repeating..."

[Kapitan]

We all know the U.N has no ruddy back bone without america, and "No one but russia and china dare defy america"

All in all to sum up all we can do is send a strongly worded letter to the iranian ambassador.

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Originally Posted by Kapitain

All in all to sum up all we can do is send a strongly worded letter to the iranian ambassador.

Dear Mr Iranian ambassador, please tow the line for the sake of peace and harmony in the world.

Yours Truly
The U.N.


ANSWER

Get stuffed and mind your own business

Iranian ambassador :P

[Kapitan]

Very select words STEED but the iranian embassy is in london so it be more like this:



All rite bruv ha ya doing cousin,

Yea me and me m8s wanna show u that we want yas to stop ur effing about with this s**t and fink of peace man.




Reply:

*Insert random squidley un readable lines here*

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I think all of us could have a spot of fun with this one.

[Sheppard]

Actually, it's quite possible they DO nuclear weapons.

See, they've had a "Research" reactor, a 5 MW jobbie online since 1968 in Tehran.

It's capable of producing 600 grams of plutonium a year according to a 1977 DIA report.

It takes about 10 kg of nearly pure Pu-239 to make a device; with a rate of 0.6 kg a year from that research reactor; if they started stockpiling the plutonium in 1980 (hey, we got to give them a year to complete their takeover and find out what the Shah had); they'd have enough plutonium to have a single nuclear device by late-1996.

Now, you might ask, the Iranians haven't tested their device, so how do they know it works?

The answer is, they already know it works.

See, in 2002; the British MoD declassified the COMPLETE plans and specifications for the Blue Danube fission device. Which means that all the Iranians have to do is copy Blue Danube exactly to get a device that works.

So it is very likely the Iranians have had between 1 and 3 devices since 2003-04.

Why 03-04, and not since 02?

See, I'm giving the Iranians the benefit of the doubt and assuming that they had their physicists and engineers look over the Blue Danube plans obtained through FOIA requests to see if they're the real deal, and not "ringers". It takes time for that to be done.

The Assumptions for the 1 to 3 devices are below:

1 Device = If the Iranians have gone with the straight 100% Plutonium Blue Danube design.

2 Devices = If the Iranians have gone with the mixed Plutonium/Uranium-235 Blue Danube design also released by the MoD.

3 Devices = If the Iranians have enriched the 1 metric ton of UF6 they obtained from China in 1991. They admitted that they experimentally enriched 1.9 kg of it to a yield of 1.2% U-235.

There is a remote possibility that the Iranians may have more than just three devices based upon the following things:

1.) The Shah could have been secretly stockpiling fissile material.
2.) They could have been running the reactors beyond their safety limits to procduce 280% of their plutonium output.

Among other evidence backing up the "Iran has the Bomb" theory is the fact that in September 2003, the IAEA discovered that Iran had produced Polonium-210 for experiments in 1989 and 1993. The best known use for Po-210 is as a neutron initator in nuclear devices.

Another problem is that the Iranians are 5 years away from finishing a 40 MW heavy water moderated "Research" reactor that can produce 8-10 kg of plutonium a year; giving them about one device a year when that reactor goes online in five years.

And this is just counting the "white" "research" programs, not the "black" programs which they've been constructing at a fast pace.

What is really at the crux of the entire Iranian IAEA Saga is not whether Iran will get the Bomb or not. They already have it; albeit in a small stockpile of crude devices which take several days to assemble before they can be used.

What is truly at the centrepiece of the saga is over Iran's intention to move from a small "underground" deterrent to an industrial complex capable of producing atom bombs on a large scale.

Which brings to mind an even more terrifying problem if our theory above is largely correct:

Normally, when a Rabid Dictator's underlings split the atom; said Rabid Dictator gets a Rabies vaccination very fast, and becomes very, wery quiet.

Obviously, this has not happened with the Mad Mullahs (TM); which brings to mind the unpleasant conclusion that in order to prevent a systematic Middle-east nuclear exchange between the Nuclear forces of Iran and Israel, (which would devastate the entire region - Israel would no doubt pop the Aswan Dam, killing millions alone); we or the Israelis will be forced to destroy Iran before it can acquire a significant number of devices in order to prevent the worst from happening.

[Oberon]

"Dear Mr Iranian geezer.

Wot the hell dya fink ya doin'? We all knows ya goin' to sell sum nukes off the back of a lorry to Osama and it's not gonna happen? Right?
Coz me and my bruvver are gonna come over and we gonna sort it aht!

Signed

Da Mitchell bruvvers."

[The Avon Lady]

The UN leaps into action again!

For those of you seriously thinking of wasting time sending letters to anyone, head on over to Eye On The UN (bookmark! ) and look at the UN-IRAN WATCH box in the lower right of the page.

Almost 3 years have passed since the UN began dealing with this issue. They have succeeded beyond their wildest dreams when IAEA head Mohamed ElBaradei won the Noble Peace Prize for................................ sending letters.

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Originally Posted by Oberon

"Dear Mr Iranian geezer.

Wot the hell dya fink ya doin'? We all knows ya goin' to sell sum nukes off the back of a lorry to Osama and it's not gonna happen? Right?
Coz me and my bruvver are gonna come over and we gonna sort it aht!

Signed

Da Mitchell bruvvers."

:rotfl: :rotfl:

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AL, the eye on the U.N. :rotfl: the U.N. is just a joke a bad one at that.