Comments on: Iran Disses UN, UN Has Temper Tantrum http://www.bloggernews.net/123148 High-quality English language analysis and editorial writing on the news. Sun, 27 May 2012 13:51:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Doug Payton http://www.bloggernews.net/123148#comment-1456502 Doug Payton Tue, 01 Dec 2009 15:03:18 +0000 http://www.bloggernews.net/123148#comment-1456502 Esther, it's the IAEA itself that is considering Iran at a "dead end", and passing resolutions criticizing them. Appealing to their authority is moot because Iran isn't properly recognizing their authority. It's the President of the United States saying they're running out of time, and it's the British PM drawing a line in the sand. I'm not making this up out of whole cloth. Iran has threatened to pull out of the NPT, and recently reneged on a deal to send the LEU, supposedly "controlled" by the IAEA, to Russia. These are not the actions of a trustworthy government. I (and "my kind") would love to see Iran get a working civilian nuclear energy program working. That's nowhere near the issue. The issue is trust. Esther, it’s the IAEA itself that is considering Iran at a “dead end”, and passing resolutions criticizing them. Appealing to their authority is moot because Iran isn’t properly recognizing their authority. It’s the President of the United States saying they’re running out of time, and it’s the British PM drawing a line in the sand. I’m not making this up out of whole cloth.

Iran has threatened to pull out of the NPT, and recently reneged on a deal to send the LEU, supposedly “controlled” by the IAEA, to Russia. These are not the actions of a trustworthy government.

I (and “my kind”) would love to see Iran get a working civilian nuclear energy program working. That’s nowhere near the issue. The issue is trust.

]]> By: Esther Haman http://www.bloggernews.net/123148#comment-1456177 Esther Haman Tue, 01 Dec 2009 00:43:07 +0000 http://www.bloggernews.net/123148#comment-1456177 Doug Payton; your miss representation of the current situation with Iran's nuclear program is laughable. Iran's LEU is still under the IAEA control and Iran has complied with all the NPT requirements. After 10 years of inspections by the IAEA no smoking gun has been found. Iran is a signatory to NPT and repeatedly have said that nuclear bomb has no place in their defense structure. So, why are you spreading so much poison and miss-information around? Iran could have kicked the IAEA out of Iran a year ago and build a A-bomb, but they have not, have they? Under the NPT any nation in the world can have nuclear energy, no matter how much you and your kind does not like it. Doug Payton; your miss representation of the current situation with Iran’s nuclear program is laughable. Iran’s LEU is still under the IAEA control and Iran has complied with all the NPT requirements. After 10 years of inspections by the IAEA no smoking gun has been found. Iran is a signatory to NPT and repeatedly have said that nuclear bomb has no place in their defense structure. So, why are you spreading so much poison and miss-information around? Iran could have kicked the IAEA out of Iran a year ago and build a A-bomb, but they have not, have they?

Under the NPT any nation in the world can have nuclear energy, no matter how much you and your kind does not like it.

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