Nuclear Sucide Bombers

I try to stay away from world issues after all the
people of color in this country have more than
enough to deal with. However the situation with
Iran and their pursuit of a nuclear program makes
the hair on the back of my neck stand up. If the
Iranians have access to enriched uranium car and
sui+cide bombings take on a whole new meaning. The
Russians need to stop trying to be the power brokers
they once were and change their passive resistance to
U.N. efforts. After all Iran is a neighbor.


Iran has accelerated its program to enrich uranium and defied a United Nations Security Council deadline to suspend nuclear activities, the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency said here Thursday. The report by Mohamed ElBaradei, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, confirmed that Iran recently began installing the first of 3,000 gas centrifuges in a heavily fortified, underground chamber at its Natanz plant and that it planned to "bring them gradually into operation by May 2007.

A facility that large, if it functions properly, could produce enough highly enriched uranium in a year to build a nuclear warhead. A senior U.N. diplomat here cautioned that the Iranian schedule was "fairly optimistic" and said that the highly sensitive linked centrifuges, called cascades, may not be operational before the fall.The six-page report is almost certain to trigger a push by the Bush administration and its European allies for stiffer U.N. sanctions against the Islamic Republic.

The intensifying confrontation now moves to London, where major powers will meet Monday to consider a range of actions against Iran.U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, in Berlin, said the United States was determined to "use all available channels and the Security Council" to draft a new resolution aimed at halting Tehran's nuclear activity.The report "shows that Iran has not changed its behavior, has not changed its views and is continuing on the path of defiance," State Department spokesman Tom Casey said in Washington.

But Russia's U.N. ambassador, Vitaly Churkin, told reporters at the United Nations that sanctions were not a solution. "We should not lose sight of the goal, and the goal is not to have a resolution or to impose sanctions," he said. "The goal is to accomplish a political outcome of this problem."




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