Iran Says
No Military Purpose in Nuclear Power Programme

Comment by Larry Ross, May 12, 2006

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad offered to talk to anyone about Iran's nuclear enrichment programme. It sounds as if some kind of peace agreement could be reached. However it's doubtful whether the U.S. is really interested in any kind of agreement. All the evidence is that the U.S. wants to dominate the middle east and Iran's oil, and Iran is their next target even though they are bogged down in their illegal Iraq war. They are implementing a number of very barbarous policies in Iraq, including bombing, killing and torturing civilians and fomenting civil war. These policies cause hatred of the U.S. among the entire Muslim world.

The so-called peace talks with Iran may only be a cover for diabolically evil U.S. strategies to achieve their war. The main strategy seems to be the staging of a sudden allegedly " terrorist act" against the U.S. which the U.S. will blame on Iran, and then use to justify a massive assault on Iran. They used a similar strategy of lies to justify their war on Iraq which worked for them, even though it is now exposed. Curiously, that does not seem to make much difference. Why? The Bush Administration may think it can use a similar strategy to fool their people again, and get their support for the next war - a war on a country with three times the population of Iraq and much better prepared. to defend itself. It does not take a great deal of imagination to predict a number of possible irreversible catastrophes that could result.

"Tehran says it only wants to produce low-grade enriched uranium to use in atomic power reactors, not the highly enriched uranium needed to make bombs"

People would wonder by what right has the U.S. got to dictate to others that they must halt their nuclear power programs, which are allowed under the NPT treaty which Iran has signed. The U.S. has thousands of nuclear missiles on hair-trigger alert. It is making new types of nuclear weapons and threatening to use them against other states. It encourages other newly declared and undeclared nuclear weapon states like Israel, Pakistan and India, who are adding to their nuclear weapon arsenals.

Yet the U.S. has managed to persuade the U.N..to pass a resolution forbidding Iran from developing it's nuclear power facilities in accordance with the NPT treaty. As Iran, unlike the U.S. has no record of aggression against other states, how can the U.S., and the U.N. get away with such flagrant injustice?

 

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Atomic programme not military - Iran

REUTERS,  May 11, 2006

JAKARTA: Iran's nuclear programme is peaceful and has no military purpose, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on today, adding he was ready to engage in dialogue with anybody.

"It has nothing to do with nuclear weapons, or military purposes," he said during a visit to Indonesia. He was speaking in an interview broadcast live on local Metro television.

He also said it was "ridiculous" for countries with nuclear arsenals of their own to be pressing Iran to curb its effort to develop nuclear energy.

"We also possess the technical and other capabilities to defend our interests," Ahmadinejad added.

"Any mistreatment of the Iranian people will actually cause more losses to them," he said without elaborating.

Washington and its European allies have been seeking a UN Security Council resolution that would oblige Iran to halt all uranium enrichment work or face possible sanctions.

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