Rice Says World Must Not Tolerate Iranian Nuclear Weapons Bid

[norml]

Rice Says World Must Not Tolerate Iranian Nuclear Weapons Bid
By David Gollust
Washington
23 May 2005




Condoleezza Rice, speaks at American Israel Public Affairs Committee's (AIPAC) policy conference

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice Monday said the world must not tolerate any Iranian attempt to develop a nuclear weapon. She spoke as European foreign ministers prepared for new talks with Iranian officials on the nuclear issue.

The Bush administration has supported the European overture with Iran, backing the effort by Britain, France, and Germany with U.S. incentives to Iran to shelve suspect nuclear activities.

But as the so-called Euro 3 prepared for a key meeting Wednesday with Iranian officials in Geneva, Ms. Rice took a hard line towards Iran, telling the pro-Israel lobbying group AIPAC that a nuclear-armed Iran would be intolerable.

"The United States has focused the world's attention on Iran's pursuit of weapons of mass destruction," she said. "And along with our allies we are working to gain full disclosure of Iran's efforts to obtain nuclear weapons. The world must not tolerate any Iranian attempt to develop a nuclear weapon, nor can it tolerate Iran's effort to subvert democratic governments through terrorism."




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http://www.voanews.com/english/2005-05-23-voa38.cfm

[Clarkie1]

1. They are probably going to take military action against Iran

right before the 06' elections. Just watch.

[bloom]

2. A lot of people expect it next month... eom

[IndianaGreen]

3. The world cannot tolerate Rotten Crotch Condi!

Who cares what Condi says. She is Bush's hack.

[blondeatlast]

11. I care, because she's a sock puppet for AIPAC and the Heritage

Foundation, who are the real administration.

[norml]

15. EU starts to agree with U.S. on Tehran

EU starts to agree with U.S. on Tehran
But oil prices could halt any sanctions over nuclear weapons
Associated Press

GENEVA - After long embracing a diplomatic approach to contain Iran's nuclear ambitions, European governments appear to be moving toward turning their carrot into a stick.

But as foreign ministers from France, Britain and Germany meet Iranian officials in Geneva for crucial negotiations today, it's unclear if a tougher strategy of economic sanctions will work. The only certainty for Western powers in such a scenario would be a big negative: even higher gas prices at the pump.

After months of fruitless talks, the European Union has begun warning that it is moving toward the U.S. position that Tehran should be hauled before the U.N. Security Council for suspect nuclear activities in violation of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty.

To avert a showdown that could result in U.N. sanctions, Tehran agreed to meet the three European ministers and the EU foreign policy chief, Javier Solana, for talks in Geneva.




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http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/headline/world/3196822

[Carla in Ca]

4. That woman has cried wolf too often

She has no credibility anywhere.

[leesa]

8. I saw my first 'Rice for President 2008' bumper sticker last night

Very depressing. Must be a SM freak!

[TexasLawyer]

5. Future famous photo

When they write up this period of American history, this photo will be a classic.

It captures perfectly the way in which this country has had its foreign policy hijacked by military and diplomatic leaders whose allegiance to Israeli Likudniks seems to be stronger than their allegiance to America.

These AIPAC guys are under investigation for spying on the US, their headquarters have been raided by the FBI twice, I believe, yet here we have Condie blithely lining up with the AIPAC agenda.

What the hell is going on? I look forward to all of this being over (as long as this era doesn't end in Armageddon).

[norml]

6. Slightly Larger Version of Photo

[hector459]

7. I think it's outrageous and a huge conflict of interest for our highest

ranking government officials to appear at an event praising a group that has lied, cheated, and stolen from this government and is largely to blame for how the US is viewed around the world. Without their influence a few seats in Congress would be different and the fear of no funds would be removed and maybe our soldiers would not be in Iraq right now dying and killing for a PNAC agenda.

[welshTerrier2]

9. Rice's position is the same as the Democratic Party's platform

source: http://a9.g.akamai.net/7/9/8082/v002/www.democrats.org/pdfs/2004platform.pdf

Democratic Party platform: "A nuclear-armed Iran is an unacceptable risk to us and our allies."

Rice: "a nuclear-armed Iran would be intolerable"

see the difference ???

it sure is nice to know that the Democrats aren't "weak on defense" anymore and that we're now blessed with two "war parties" ...

[blondeatlast]

10. Back to your regularly scheduled anxiety.

Why is the possibility of an Iran invasion of such precious little interest here at DU?

[welshTerrier2]

12. congratulations ... you win our "best question of the day" award

and the answer is because "leading" Democrats don't want to talk about foreign policy either ...

[TexasLawyer]

13. There's MASSIVE concern about this on DU

Here's one recent, very lively thread. Everyone should read through this, if they haven't already. There are also lots of other threads on the Iran situation.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=132&topic_id=1776657

OMG--- First strike on Iran "gaining traction"

I hadn't seen this before today, and didn't know--if this article is for real-- that the Israeli code-name for the pre-emptive strike against Iran is "Project Daniel".

This is scary stuff, folks.

The article was posted on the homepage of Mothers Against The Draft.org

http://mothersagainstthedraft.org /

1st strike on Iran
'gaining traction'
Report urges U.S., Israel to consider
pre-emptive attack against Tehran

Posted: May 4, 2005
1:00 a.m. Eastern

By Aaron Klein
© 2005 WorldNetDaily.com

JERUSALEM – With Tehran announcing it will shortly resume some nuclear activities in spite of ongoing negotiations with European countries, a private report that was issued to Prime Minister Ariel Sharon urging an American or Israeli pre-emptive strike against Iran has been gaining some steam here.

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In response to the growing Iranian threat, a panel of foreign policy and military experts delivered to Sharon last year a series of recommendations entitled "Project Daniel: Israel's Strategic Future," regarding Israeli pre-emptive action.
The authors of the plan, first reported by Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin, a premium online intelligence newsletter, told WorldNetDaily this week their report has been gaining traction in certain high-level military circles.

"Decision-makers at the very highest levels of government in Jerusalem and Washington as well as NATO have been briefed on Project Daniel. Sharon last month carried our urgent message directly to President Bush," said Dr. Louis Rene Beres, Project Daniel chair and a professor of international law at Purdue University whose books and articles are routinely considered by military officials.

Project Daniel recommends that with Tehran now developing the infrastructure that could allow the country to go nuclear, the United States or Israel should strike pre-emptively against Iran's nuclear installations if the diplomatic track fails.

"The group suggests strongly and unequivocally that conventional Israeli pre-emption against selected enemy nuclear infrastructures now in development be executed as early as possible and – wherever possible – in collaboration with the United States. Where America may be unable or unwilling to act proactively against these infrastructures, it is essential that Israel be able and willing to act alone," says the report.

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[wiggs]

14. Congress needs to be proactive

...and make a statement right now that it does not see attacking Iran as coming under the Iraq authorization given to the president in 2003.

Just to make things clear.

Why can't the dems bring this up?

[mtnester]

16. I am getting whiplash here ...Syria. ..Iran ...Syria..Iran..

whose it gonna be?