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IRAN'S NUKES, EUROPE'S FOLLIES By AMIR TAHERI

 
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PostPosted: Tue Jan 17, 2006 11:38 pm    Post subject: IRAN'S NUKES, EUROPE'S FOLLIES By AMIR TAHERI Reply with quote

IRAN'S NUKES, EUROPE'S FOLLIES
By AMIR TAHERI

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Source: http://www.nypost.com/postopinion/opedcolumnists/60571.htm

January 17, 2006 --

TREATING Iran's alleged nuclear ambition as a hot potato, the European trio of Britain, Germany and France has decided to pass it on to the International Atomic Energy Agency and thence to the United Nations' Security Council. "Our talks with Iran have reached a dead end," says Germany's new Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier.

In truth, however, the trio's three-year talks with Iran started at a dead end.


The talks began when Iran admitted that it had been lying to the International Atomic Energy Agency and violating the terms of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) for 18 years but promised not to do so again.


Legally speaking, Iran should have been referred to the Security Council at that time. But the Europeans rejected U.S. demands to that effect and decided to forgive Iran for its past sins ? much as a deceived spouse might show magnanimity toward a sinning partner.

In exchange, they asked Iran ? as then French Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin put it ? to give them "something with which to silence the Americans."


De Villepin had devised the scheme as a means of exposing what he called "the follies of American policy"; Iran could be dealt with "the French way," meaning negotiations and compromise rather than knuckle-rapping or worse.


The Iranians had good reason to welcome the European offer. It removed the serious-seeming threat of military action, while isolating the United States. And it gave Tehran time to speed up its nuclear program.


The Iranians were honest throughout: They said they were prepared to give that "something" needed "to silence the Americans" in the form of a voluntary and temporary suspension of uranium-enrichment activities. They did not promise a permanent ban. Nor would they relinquish Iran's right, under the NPT, to enrich uranium for fuel.


The European trio was deceived by its own illusions, not Iranian chicanery. All it was interested in was to score a point against Washington. Even now, the trio is not asking Iran to permanently forgo its right to enrich uranium.


And now the trio must negotiate with a much tougher Iranian: President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who has called the Europeans "nothing but corrupt midgets." He is also convinced that the United States has missed the opportunity to use the threat of military action against Iran.


As a result, Ahmadinejad is actively seeking a diplomatic confrontation with the Europeans and escalating tension with the Americans. He believes that he can take on both and win ? and hopes to thereby emerge as the unrivaled master of the Islamic Republic and de facto leader of the Muslim world.


The Europeans are not prepared to acknowledge that the problem is not uranium enrichment but the nature of the Iranian regime. More than 20 countries, from Argentina to Ukraine, enrich uranium without anyone making a fuss. But who can trust the present leadership in Tehran not to embark upon some tragic mischief in the name of its ideology?


European-style appeasement has encouraged Tehran's most radical faction, helping bring Ahmadinejad to power. All the diplomatic gesticulations to follow will only compound that effect.


The Islamic Republic has had three years to prepare for whatever sanctions the Security Council might impose. It has also signed $70 billion in oil and gas contracts with China and $30 billion in arms and industrial contracts with Russia, ensuring that one or both would veto any harsh resolution against Iran.


This is one of those regimes that will not stop until they hit something hard. Why should they, when they can pursue their objectives cost-free? Soft power may work ? if it is backed by hard power. Yet Europe has, once again, made it clear that it would oppose even the threat of hard power.


As things stand, all those concerned in this carnival of absurdities have reason to be happy: The Europeans get rid of the hot potato, the Bush administration finds a diplomatic fig-leaf to cover its lack of an Iran policy, the Russians sell their arms, the Chinese get their oil and gas and the Islamists in Tehran accelerate whatever mischief they might be up to in the nuclear domain.


But the problem remains unresolved. Down the road, the West may well find that it would have to use far more than the mere threat of hard power to restrain Tehran's messianic ambitions ? a much costlier bill than would have been the case three years ago.


Iranian author Amir Taheri is a member of Benador Associates.
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cyrus wrote:
IRAN'S NUKES, EUROPE'S FOLLIES
By AMIR TAHERI

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Source: http://www.nypost.com/postopinion/opedcolumnists/60571.htm

January 17, 2006 --

TREATING Iran's alleged nuclear ambition as a hot potato, the European trio of Britain, Germany and France has decided to pass it on to the International Atomic Energy Agency and thence to the United Nations' Security Council. "Our talks with Iran have reached a dead end," says Germany's new Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier.

In truth, however, the trio's three-year talks with Iran started at a dead end.


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That is why ActivistChat Gave 2003 Monkey Award To EU3 Appeasers

2005 Monkey Terror Award Goes To Ahmadinejad For 1000s Of Islamist Terror, Top Monkey Policy and Israel 'Wiped Off the Map' Statement






ACHIEVEMENTS OF THE ISLAMIST REGIME In Past 27 Yesrs




1. Execution, flogging, stoning and amputation of limbs in public
2. Mass killings of political prisoners
3. Assassination of political dissidents outside of Iran
4. Political serial killings in Iran
5. Construction of many new prisons holding thousands of political prisoners
6. Political oppression
7. Promotion of international and domestic terrorism
8. Violation of human rights in every category
9. Lack of civil liberties
10. Improvement and growth of Iran’s Cemeteries
11. Killing and imprisonment of journalists
12. Violation of women’s rights
13. Censorship and closure of publications
14. Forcing Iranian’s to flee the country resorting in five million refugees throughout the world and “brain drain”.
15. Oppression of religious minorities
16. Filtering the internet
17. Jamming out of country satellite TV and radio stations
18. Stealing Iran’s wealth by the Mullahs and transfer of funds to abroad.
19. Destruction of Iran’s Economy
20. Widespread poverty throughout Iran
21. Severe Inflation
22. Devaluation of Iranian Rial
23. Increase in unemployment
24. Increase in the crime rate
25. Promotion of corruption, prostitution and addiction
26. Housing crisis in Iran
27. Malnutrition, retarded growth and increased rate of depression among Iranian youth
28. Public health crisis in Iran
29. Making Iran an international “embarrassment”
30. 1979 Occupation of the US Embassy in Tehran and holding hostages for 444 days.
31. Conflict with neighboring countries
32. Iran-Iraq War resulting in millions dead, wounded, handicapped and homeless
33. Supporting Sadam Hussein in the US Iraq War
34. Destruction of Iran’s Airline Industry
35. Causing economic sanctions against Iran
36. Producing weapon’s of mass destruction
37. Inability to get Iran’s fair share of natural resources from Caspian Sea
38. Promoting regional conflicts in the Middle East
39. Destruction of Iran’s industries
40. Lack of technological advancements
41. Air and environmental pollution crisis in Iran
42. Destruction of Iran’s agriculture
43. Destructions of fine arts, theater, cinema and music in Iran
44. Promoting Islamic Fundamentalism
45. Closure of Iranian Universities under cultural revolution for three years
46. Attacking University campuses to kill and crack down on students
47. Violating the constitution of the “Islamic Republic”
48. Hiring hooligan’s for beating and crack down on Iranian citizens
49. Importing and selling contraband by regimes elements for additional income
50. Selling Iranian women as sex slaves in the United Arab Emarets


Ahmadinejad Profile Summary:

Islamist Mullah Khameni Great Gift's To Iranian People After 27 Years In Power, Evil President-Select Ahmadinejad With 1000s Of Terror By His Own Hand

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A Brutal Man, a Man with Blood on His Hands
He was personally in charge of some specific missions such as the 1989 execution of Dr. Ghassemlou, the Kurdish leader in Vienna, and in an assassination project against Salman Rushdie. The new President is not the modest and pious leader described at length by the media. He is a brutal man. He is a man with blood on his hands. He is a professional killer, not very well known publicly but very familiar to the intelligence community that see him rightfully as one of the agents of International Terrorism manipulated by IRI. Before him Iran was already a terrorist state. What will happen to it with him? What would you call a country whose chief is a terrorist himself?


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Ex-Hostages Say Iran's Mullahs President-Select a Captor
- "This is the guy. There's no question about it,"
- "You could make him a blond and shave his whiskers, put him in a zoot suit and I'd still spot him."
- "I can absolutely guarantee you he was not only one of the hostage-takers, he was present at my personal interrogation,"
- It's impossible to forget a guy like that,
- He was extremely cruel,
- start sending pieces ” toes and fingers of my son ” to my wife.


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Khameni and Guardian Council Selected "Ahmadinejad" as president With Very Impressive Terror Master and Torture Master Record/Profile
- As one of the pro Mullah Regime student leader Played a central role in the seizure of the United States Embassy in Tehran
- Mastermind of a series of assassinations in the Middle East and Europe, including Iranian Kurdish leader Abdorrahman Qassemlou
- Worked for some time as an executioner in the notorious Evin Prison, where thousands of political prisoners were executed in the bloody purges of the 1980s.
- As Part of Islamic Cultural Revolution, Ahmadinejad and the OSU played a critical role in purging dissident lecturers and students many of whom were arrested and later executed.
- organize Ansar-e Hezbollah, a radical gang of violent Islamic vigilantes thugs.
Ahmadinejad has impressive profile to meet with EU3 Leaders to discuss Human Rights, Torture and Iran's nuclear programme.


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Mullahs Terrorist President-Select Worked For Iran's Eichmann
In 1981 he joined the forces of Assadollah Lajevardi, the Revolutionary Prosecutor in Evin Prison (Iran's Eichmann) who executed hundreds of [political] prisoners every night
How Many Political Prisoners Executed by Terrorist President-Select?


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Khameni and Guardian Council Selected "Ahmadinejad" as president With Very Impressive Terror Master and Torture Master Record/Profile
- As one of the pro Mullah Regime student leader Played a central role in the seizure of the United States Embassy in Tehran
- Mastermind of a series of assassinations in the Middle East and Europe, including Iranian Kurdish leader Abdorrahman Qassemlou
- Worked for some time as an executioner in the notorious Evin Prison, where thousands of political prisoners were executed in the bloody purges of the 1980s.
- As Part of Islamic Cultural Revolution, Ahmadinejad and the OSU played a critical role in purging dissident lecturers and students many of whom were arrested and later executed.
- organize Ansar-e Hezbollah, a radical gang of violent Islamic vigilantes thugs.
Ahmadinejad has impressive profile to meet with EU3 Leaders to discuss Human Rights, Torture and Iran's nuclear programme.
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