Iran: The nuclear nightmare

[pRIMrose]

Anne Penketh
Independent Online.com
January 13, 2006

The confrontation between Iran and the West deepened yesterday as both sides hardened their positions over the Islamic republic's nuclear programme.

The foreign ministers of Britain, France and Germany announced that more than two years of negotiations with Iran over its suspected nuclear weapons programme were at a "dead end" and they urged the UN nuclear watchdog to call an emergency board meeting to refer Iran to the UN Security Council for possible sanctions, accusing Tehran of a "documented record of concealment and deception". Diplomats said the talks at the Vienna headquarters of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) would probably be held in the first week of next month.

Source (http://news.independent.co. uk/world/middle_east/article338254.ece)

[pRIMrose]

More on the same subject:

Rice Presses U.N. to Confront Defiant Iran (http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2006/1/12/143410.shtml)

<table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr class="standard"><td>Quote </td></tr><tr class="standard"><td class="QUOTE">WASHINGTON -- Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, coordinating with European allies, called on the United Nations Thursday to confront Iran's &quot;defiance&quot; and demand that Tehran halt its nuclear program.

Rice, at a news conference, declined to say whether the United States has the necessary votes at the U.N. Security Council to punish Iran - or would even try at this stage. [/QUOTE]

[rangerrebew]

Our &quot;allies&quot; France and Germany who have been so hostile toward President Bush, will probably start to criticize him because he is doing nothing to make their countries safe from the nuclear threat of Iran. Maybe they should dig up the bones of Neville Chamberlin and let him negotiate because he is the hero of the appeasers who back themselves into a corner from which they can't escape by themselves. Let them sweat.