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claim: iran wants 19 more nuclear reactors
“Iran will soon announce an international tender for building
19 nuclear power plants, an MP was quoted as saying, a week after Russia
said it had begun fuel deliveries to the Islamic state's first such
facility.
“Kazem Jalali, a spokesman for parliament's national security
and foreign policy committee, said each power plant would have a capacity
of 1,000 megawatt of electricity, the Iran News daily reported on Monday,
without giving further details.” [Quoted from planetark.org]
“Russia is to supply Iran with a new and lethal anti-aircraft
system capable of shooting down American or Israeli fighter jets in
the event of any strike on Iran's nuclear facilities.
“Iran yesterday confirmed that Russia had agreed to deliver the
S-300 air defence system, a move that is likely to irk the Bush administration
and gives further proof of Russia and Iran's deepening strategic partnership.
“Iran's defence minister, Mostafa Mohammad Najjar, told Iranian
TV that the deal had been agreed under a previous "contract".
He did not say when the system would be shipped to Iran.” [Quoted
from guardian.co.uk]
“We believe that Iran has no economic need to proceed with its
programme of uranium enrichment," Lavrov told the daily.
“ "We are trying to persuade the Iranians that freezing
the programme is to their advantage as it would immediately lead to
talks with all countries of the "six", including the United
States."
“Such talks, he said, would aim to end any suspicion that Iran
had any secret aim to produce nuclear weapons. "Iran's agreement
to this proposal is in everyone's interest."
“Iran was aware, he said, that should there be any deviation
from agreements to build Bushehr under the supervision of the International
Atomic Energy Agency, "we will freeze our cooperation". ”[Quoted
from uk.reuters.com]
“If President Bush can't overcome the NIE's intelligence "estimates,"
his hands will effectively be tied, leaving it solely up to Israel to
challenge Iran's nuclear weapons capability. This may now be an impossible
task since Israel may have waited too long, hoping the U.S. would do
it instead. Thus in coming months we may witness the birth of the new
caliphate, headquartered in Tehran.
“When Iran resumes building nuclear weapons (if they haven't
already), they will likely widely disperse them so all can't be located
and destroyed. Then they can start handing them off with plausible deniability
to their terrorist proxies like Hezbollah and Hamas for delivery to
any country in the world, including ours, as they have with conventional
high explosives many times past. And they don't need ICBMs to do this;
small cargo ships can do the job by simply sailing into any port in
the world and pushing the button.
“Mr. Bush has the next 11 months to find a way to stop this because
it's abundantly clear that opposition presidential candidates, were
they to reach office, are unlikely to take effective measures against
this kind of risk. For example, Sen. Joe Biden (D., Del.) recently said
that he'll immediately file impeachment papers should Mr. Bush take
military action against Iran's nuclear program.” [Quoted from
wsj.com]
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