Whether Iran is building a bomb is not a question of what is happening in Iran; it is a question of what the State Department & Obama decide to say is happening in Iran. When has U.S. war making had anything to do with facts?
Carrol -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Chuck Grimes Sent: Saturday, March 03, 2012 3:53 PM To: Progressive Economics Subject: Re: [Pen-l] Obama: War only if Iran builds a bomb ``Not that he [Obama] accepts all of Iran's current nuclear activity and defiance of International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) demands,... But building a nuclear weapon - which Iran, by the consensus of U.S. and Israeli intelligence, has not yet decided to do - appears, from Obama's statements, to be the red line.'' ----------- As far as I know Iran has followed IAEA requirements, except for the scope of inspections---so Iran is not in defiance of IAEA. Inspections were voluntary unless they were signed off by the state. Iran signed up for these verification inspections. Iran is in violation of a UN resolution that requires it to hault production and suspend expansion to new sites. But neither of these requirements are part of the IAEA treaty. At a guess many countries are in violation of various UN resolutions and nobody is talking war over it. The current state of affairs is that Iran has refused inspections at Parchin, a military site. Access to this site is under discussion. See: http://www.iaea.org/newscenter/pressreleases/2012/prn201205.html As noted in the article and according to some studies I read a few years ago, 4 percent enrichment is standard for nuclear power plants, and 20 percent is normal for medical isotope production. Again as far as I know, these are the approximate percentages that Iran is attempting to produce and that already follow IAEA programs. Niether are anywhere near 90+ percent required for fission. After scanning the current UNSC resolution in effect, http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2008/sc9268.doc.htm it's apparent to me that no amount of verification, inspection, and documentation could satisfy the US requirement of `reassurance' that Iran's nuclear programs are devoted to `peaceful' use. There is something about proving a negative state that goes here... How can you prove you are not doing something, that you are no doing? So why are we constantly abused by this endless and contradictory blather over Iran's nuclear programs? CG _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
