U.S. won?t rule out strike on Iran
 

I wonder if GFY traffic will increase as much during the upcoming Iran war as it did during the Iraq war. Speaking of which, when is the North Korea war planned?

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U.S. won?t rule out strike on Iran

Top official tells BBC that attack ?has to be an option?

June 20 ? The United States kept ratcheting up the pressure on Iran on Friday with a top Bush administration official saying Washington reserves the right to take military action to stop Tehran developing nuclear weapons.

?IT HAS TO be an option,? John Bolton, under secretary of state for arms control and international security, told BBC radio when pressed on the issue.
But he stressed that it was one among an array of possibilities and relatively low down the agenda.
?The president has repeatedly said that all options are on the table, but that is not only not our preference it is far, far from our minds,? Bolton said.
The United States has steadily ratcheted up the pressure on Iran, which with Russian help is building a nuclear power station, to abide by the nuclear non-proliferation treaty and sign a new protocol that would allow snap inspections.
Washington, which suspects that Tehran is trying to develop a secret nuclear arms program, insists the plant could be used to produce weapons-grade material.

Nuclear watchdog the International Atomic Energy Agency on Thursday criticized Iran?s failure to comply with agreements designed to prevent the use of civilian nuclear resources to make atomic weapons.
But its statement fell short of the damning resolution Washington had hoped for.

IRAN WELCOMES IAEA STATEMENT
Meanwhile, Iran welcomed the IAEA statement on Friday and said the United States failed in its efforts to secure a tough resolution against the Islamic republic.
?Generally the report was good and shows that Iran?s activities and Iran?s reports were effective,? said Gholamreza Aghazadeh, head of Iran?s Atomic Energy Organization.
He said U.S. efforts to step up pressure on Iran?s nuclear program, which Tehran insists is aimed at producing electricity, had been thwarted by it?s friends on the IAEA board and Iran?s cooperation with U.N. inspectors.
?America has carried out extensive propaganda for this meeting and we should acknowledge that our friends? efforts and the presentation of enough proofs and documents caused their failure,? he told state television.
?This report shows that Iran?s activities were transparent. Iran has cooperated and they (the IAEA) are expecting more cooperation,? Aghazadeh said.
?In previous months we have intensively cooperated with the agency to remove ambiguities and of course this cooperation will continue. If the agency is concerned about some issues we will remove that concern,? he said.
The IAEA board also urged Iran not to introduce uranium to its enrichment facility at Natanz, which has centrifuges that experts believe could produce weapons-grade material.
But Iran?s envoy to the IAEA, Ali Salehi, told reporters that Iran intended to press ahead with plans to eventually introduce nuclear material to the enrichment facility, which is legal as long as the IAEA has been informed.
The IAEA and many Western governments have told Iran the best way to dispel doubts about its nuclear ambitions would be to sign the IAEA?s Additional Protocol which would allow more intrusive short-notice inspections.
Iran has said it could sign the Additional Protocol if the IAEA grants it access to peaceful technology which it says it is entitled to as a member of the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
?Our attitude towards this additional protocol is not negative, it is positive. We have implemented all our commitments but the agency has not fulfilled its commitments,? Aghazadeh said.

Read my lips! No new Paxes!

oh, the sadness of your impotence.

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Do you ever work or do you spend your entire day browsing news sites?

I work 12 hours a day.

man, this is all bullshit and the people who believe this crap are true idiots. The nuclear program is for generating electricity, that the countries in the Caucasus desperately need. U.S. is going too far with this :feels-hot

How do you know that? They have an energy shortage?

Many countries in those regions do. I am from the neighboring country and we have a nuclear station also, but that doesnt mean we are generating nuclear weapons. The station generates 40% of our electricity. It's just another bullshit propaganda created by the Washington. I mean the Iraq war, OK...but this is going too far.