Re: Iran will be 'reported' to UNSC
- From: "kuff (Isaac Adams)" <kuff00@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 31 Jan 2006 06:48:12 -0800
Count 1 wrote:
> ....to be followed by a stern wagging of the finger and deep brow furrowing.
> If further compliance isn't forth coming the UNSC and the IAEA will fold
> their arms and stomp their feet.
>
> I wonder if these firm responses will give anyone comfort when Tel Aviv is
> vapourized by a suitcase nuke stamped 'Made in Iran'?
Just a quibble. A suitcase nuke can't vaporize Tel Aviv. Maybe as
much as 9 square blocks destroyed - .25 "vaporized".
http://www.tinyvital.com/Misc/nukes.htm
Hardly an existential threat. Definately an act of war though for
which Israel could respond at least a 100 times over.
>
> http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2006-01-31T135142Z_01_L31401066_RTRUKOC_0_UK-NUCLEAR-IRAN-BLAIR.xml
>
> LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister Tony Blair said on Tuesday world powers
> had sent a strong signal to Iran by agreeing to involve the U.N. Security
> Council in the simmering dispute over Tehran's nuclear programme.
>
> Blair said international concern about Iran was heightened by recent
> comments from its president and "the fact that people know Iran is
> sponsoring and supporting terrorism in different parts of the world".
>
> "I hope it's sending a message that the international community is united,"
> Blair told Reuters Television.
>
> "This is going to be discussed and decided upon by the U.N. Security
> Council. That is a very important step. We couldn't get agreement on that
> before, we've got agreement on it now."
>
> The U.N. Security Council's five permanent members agreed on Tuesday that
> the U.N.'s nuclear watchdog should report to the Council on what Iran must
> do to cooperate with the agency.
>
> Iran replied that any such move would kill off diplomatic efforts to end its
> nuclear standoff with the West, which fears Tehran is trying to build the
> bomb. Iran denies this.
>
> Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has caused international outrage by
> publicly doubting the Holocaust, in which 6 million Jews were killed by the
> Nazis, and calling for Israel to be "wiped off the map".
>
> Britain has also accused Iran and Lebanon's Hizbollah guerrillas of
> supplying militants in Iraq with the techniques for making armour piercing
> bombs used to kill British troops there, a charge Iran has denied.
>
> "Iran faces a very clear choice," said Blair. "It can either come into
> compliance with its international obligations or the international community
> is going to become increasingly concerned about Iran and the direction of
> its policy."
>
> However, Russia and China are opposed to any hasty action and the agreement
> struck in London on Tuesday has delayed any decision on the formal referral
> of Iran to the council, where it could face sanctions, until after a
> scheduled International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) meeting on March 6.
>
> "The fact that it's reported rather than referred simply means that the IAEA
> will continue to be involved," Blair said.
>
> "The important thing now is that the U.N. Security Council are seized of it.
> They will discuss it and decide on it and they came to that view on an
> agreed basis," he said.
> ****
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