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Iran Incapable of Building Nuclear Bomb — Russian Expert

Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
It would take Iran over 20 years to produce any nuclear weapons.

Look at India and Pakistan :eek: They hate each other and both are Nuclear and they have not used any on each (they cancel each other out and this will help prevent any more wars between them two)

They lied about WMD.

They are lying about Iran too.
Iran is not capable of building its own nuclear weapons, the former head of a nuclear power plant and current regional leader in southern Russia said Wednesday.

“In reality, the U.S. is provoking Iran, accusing it of aiming, along with the implementation of its peaceful nuclear programs, to create its own nuclear weapons,” Governor of the Saratov Region Pavel Ipatov was quoted by RIA Novosti as saying.

Ipatov, who was head the Balakovo power plant for almost 20 years, said that currently, in view of the methods in place for controlling the proliferation of nuclear weapons,
“Iran is in no state to create a nuclear bomb secretly.”

The United States, along with the trio of European negotiating with Iran (Great Britain, France and Germany), are employing “double standards” in accusing Iran of attempting to create nuclear weapons, and this greatly complicates the situation the country, he said.

If Iran’s nuclear file is referred to the UN Security Council, Russia and China, both veto-wielding permanent members, could block resolutions on Iran, the governor said.

http://www.mosnews.com/news/2006/02/01/iranunable.shtml

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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    No shit.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Well isn't there a fair bit of oil in iran?
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    It's pretty obvious that if they did have a nuke we would be leaving them well alone. (North Korea anyone?)

    Which is why they would want one in the first place.

    It's not about Oil. the US currently can have as much as it wants just by printing dollar bills. It's about keeping the dollar from collapsing completely.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    No offence, but i think this Russian "expert" is a little bit optimistic in the assessment of 20 years away from Nuclear weapons...i think they are a little nearer, but who cares...viva la oil revolution! Faster Bush, kill kill!
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    dave777 wrote:
    Look at India and Pakistan :eek: They hate each other and both are Nuclear and they have not used any on each (they cancel each other out and this will help prevent any more wars between them two)

    Perhaps it has something to do with the fact that they are next door to eachother? A nuclear war between neighbours wouldn't last very long, methinks....
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Perhaps it also because Indian Foreign Policy is not the complete destruction of Pakistan and vice versa. They disagree on where the border is not each others right to exist.

    Iran's Government disputes Israel's right to exist.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    NQA wrote:
    Iran's Government disputes Israel's right to exist.

    Do you know the History?

    Were do you think the Muslims living in Palestine for centuries have gone :wave:
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    dave777 wrote:
    Do you know the History?

    Were do you think the Muslims living in Palestine for centuries have gone :wave:

    They were just like tenants - looking after the place until the rightful owners came back ...
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    No civilised person could allow even the possibility of a regime as barbarous as Iran’s to acquire nuclear weapons; we must respond to further Iranian failure to cooperate with tough measures. Sanctions are an obvious first step and although unlikely and undesirable military measures should never be ruled out. I would hope that certain people within the US and Israeli armed forces are already considering if there is any feasibility in destroying Iran’s nuclear capabilities through aerial means. Of course a peaceful solution is preferable and given US/British military commitments elsewhere a full-scale invasion is not on the agenda.

    Iran’s fundamentalist fanatical leader is an extreme Muslim fundamentalist; his desire to ‘wipe Israel off the map’ and his vicious denial of the Holocaust but assertion that one wouldn’t be a bad idea displays the danger of this disgusting regime. No doubt the prospect of nuclear war might be quite attractive to an Iranian leader expecting his 72 virgins in return for destroying Israel.

    I do find it odd how a country with such acute poverty and massive oil reserves with no pressing need for nuclear facilities is instead of helping its poor people seeking to acquire nuclear weapons. Well I would if this vile regime hadn't already made clear its aim of destroying our ally Israel.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    dave777 wrote:
    Do you know the History?

    Were do you think the Muslims living in Palestine for centuries have gone :wave:

    No-where. Most of them are still there. Same cannot be said for the majority of the Jews who'd been living in Arab lands.

    Though what this has got to do with Iran's belief that israel has no right to exist beats me.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    NQA wrote:
    Same cannot be said for the majority of the Jews who'd been living in Arab lands.

    Something too often forgotten.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_exodus_from_Arab_lands

    And lets not even go into how Israel treated the Jewish refugees compared to the Arab mistreatment of Arab refugees...
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Something too often forgotten.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_exodus_from_Arab_lands

    And lets not even go into how Israel treated the Jewish refugees compared to the Arab mistreatment of Arab refugees...

    ...and of course how Israel treated Arabs refugees. But then that's just inconvenient, eh?
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Splif, its clear that Dis's comparative moral standard of behaviour for his supposedly wonderfully democratic state is that of autocratic despotic regimes. Nice to see the Zionist ideologue's true level of regard for what democracy should mean.

    Interesting that the scholarly Avi Shlaim, born an Iraqi, doesn't share his uncritical regard for the Israel State's treatment of and generations long perspectives and rhetoric toward Arabs.
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    Teh_GerbilTeh_Gerbil Posts: 13,332 Born on Earth, Raised by The Mix
    Spliffie wrote:
    ...and of course how Israel treated Arabs refugees. But then that's just inconvenient, eh?

    Just a tad.

    Iran should just do the deal with Russia for the enriched Uranium and shut everyone up.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Spliffie wrote:
    ...and of course how Israel treated Arabs refugees. But then that's just inconvenient, eh?

    Not really.

    Following the 1948 war there were similar numbers of Jewish refugees from Arab states and Arab refugees. The new Jewish state was not fairly wealthy as it is today, yet at great expense and discomfort it absorbed the vast majority of the Jewish refugees (the rest mainly going to America) – meanwhile whatever you think about Israel it is undeniable that for over five decades the Arab states have used Arab refugees as a political pawn. Lets also not forget that were it not for the Palestinians themselves and the Arab states the Palestinians could have had their own state at numerous points in the past – sadly consistently instead of willing to share the region and favouring peace they’ve chosen conflict. Indeed, some things sadly don’t change it seems; while we’ve seen Israel willing to compromise the Palestinians have elected to government a party dedicated to the wholesale destruction of the State of Israel.

    I find it convenient how those that champion Arab refugees never care to mention Jewish refugees – I wonder why that it is. I hope it’s coincidental but sadly I think that’s probably being naïve.
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