Europe warns Iran... well sort of...

**Gawain of Orkeny** · 05-15-2005, 21:46

Today

Iran Passes Pro-Uranium Enrichment Bill
Sunday, May 15, 2005

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Iran Confirms It Took Key Nuclear Step
TEHRAN, Iran — Iran's (search) conservative-dominated parliament on Sunday approved a bill pressuring the government to pursue "peaceful use" of nuclear energy, including uranium enrichment (search).

The bill doesn't force the government to immediately resume uranium enrichment, but it brings greater pressure on it not to give up its controversial nuclear program.

The legislation comes at a delicate time, with Iran announcing that it's planning to resume uranium reprocessing activities and the European Union threatening to take Iran to the U.N. Security Council (search) for possible sanctions if it does.

"The government of the Islamic Republic of Iran is required to pursue, within the framework of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty ... to enable the country to make peaceful use of nuclear energy, including the cycle of nuclear fuel," the legislation said.

The legislation was approved by 188 out of 205 deputies who attended Sunday's parliamentary session.

Now most countries who have only a few nuclear plants but their fuel from other nations as its far less expensive than producing your own. There is no reason iin the world that Iran needs to make its own fuel and it would be far less expensive to buy it elsewhere. The same plant that makes this fuel can also make the needed material for a bomb.

**Adrian II** · 05-15-2005, 22:32

Originally Posted by Gawain of Orkeny

The same plant that makes this fuel can also make the needed material for a bomb.

You mean they use it to make a bomb? Nah!... They already have one if you ask me. Courtesy of Mr Khan from Pakistan, no doubt.

**Gawain of Orkeny** · 05-15-2005, 23:42

You mean they use it to make a bomb? Nah!... They already have one if you ask me. Courtesy of Mr Khan from Pakistan, no doubt.

I doubt they have the material yet. But I agree they probably have everything else. Thats why this is so important. But them dont worry BP informs us the Iranian minister of the interior assured him that nukes are against their religion and they could never even make them nevermind use them. So relax.

**Steppe Merc** · 05-16-2005, 00:19

Any country that is pursuing uranium is almost certaintly pursuing nukes.

**kiwitt** · 05-16-2005, 01:20

Originally Posted by Steppe Merc

Any country that is pursuing uranium is almost certaintly pursuing nukes.

Does that include Japan, Germany etc.

**Idomeneas** · 05-16-2005, 01:30

I wonder what the so sensitive US gov. about radio active weapons, has to say about the contamination they caused to the ground of yugoslavia with the uranium elements conventional missile heads. Also what they think about the spreading of contamination due to the floods in all central europe 2 years ago.

**Adrian II** · 05-16-2005, 01:36

Originally Posted by Idomeneas

I wonder what the so sensitive US gov. about radio active weapons, has to say about the contamination they caused to the ground of yugoslavia with the uranium elements conventional missile heads. Also what they think about the spreading of contamination due to the floods in all central europe 2 years ago.

They don't give a hoot, and neither would I. I think the issue is completely overblown. Nato whupped Milosevic good, albeit illegally, and then 'we' bought him from Belgrade for a nice price and put him in the Queen's hospitable Scheveningen Prison, where he is being served by well-mannered young men in impeccable uniforms who carry huge guns on their belts to protect him from any possible harm. And for the next hunded years if need be!

**Husar** · 05-16-2005, 01:49

Originally Posted by kiwitt

Does that include Japan, Germany etc.

As long as we keep electing the green party, certainly not. They want to get rid of all nuclear plants here, I guess they want to create new jobs by making people cycle for our energy-needs or something like this. If we have our 5 million unemployed cycle to keep the generators going maybe we can keep the lights on at night.

**Adrian II** · 05-16-2005, 01:26

Originally Posted by Gawain of Orkeny

I doubt they have the material yet. But I agree they probably have everything else. Thats why this is so important. But them dont worry BP informs us the Iranian minister of the interior assured him that nukes are against their religion and they could never even make them nevermind use them. So relax.

I'm cool. This afternoon I called the Iranian embassy in The Hague to inform them of BP's fatwa on nuclear weapons and they were duly impressed. My prediction is we've heard the last of them for several decades.

Adrian Chamberlain