Citizen G'kar: Musings on Earth

January 13, 2006

Looks Like Iran Will Face the Security Council

I must say, Bush's support for Rice has gotten several foreign policy initiatives back on track. There is truly a coalition of US and EU countries ready to stand up to Iran's intent to go nuclear. No one seems to believe their insistance that they have no intention to build weapons. Thats because it's not believable. However, it seems to me the Bush Administration has created the conditions for several countries to believe the only way they can stand up to US military intimidation is to go nuclear. So then who is responsible for proliferation? Who is responsible if there is a war? I say Bush shares responsibility.
WaPo
"The Iranian government will have to stop all its voluntary cooperation with the U.N. nuclear watchdog" if the case is referred to the United Nations Security Council, Mottaki said. Mottaki insisted that Iran's "right to access nuclear technology is not associated with the will of any particular country." Last year, Iran's parliament passed a law mandating that cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency, the U.N.'s nuclear watchdog, be terminated if it was sent to the Security Council.


Iran's latest threats came one day after the foreign ministers of Britain, Germany and France called for Tehran to be referred to the Security Council for violating its nuclear treaty obligations, saying that their long negotiations reached a dead end this week when the Iranians resumed enriching uranium.

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