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WASHINGTON (Reuters) 30 minutes ago — President George W. Bush backed a Russian proposal to resolve a nuclear stalemate with Tehran and said the United States supported democratic reformers in Iran.
The Bush administration has accused Iran of pursuing nuclear weapons under the guise of a peaceful nuclear energy program. Washington and its European allies want Iran referred to the U.N. Security Council for possible sanctions, but Russia and China have urged caution.
CNN News - Aerial photo of Natanz nuclear complex, where Iran resumed operations earlier this month.
People ought to be allowed to have civilian nuclear power, Bush told a White House news conference. But he said he did not believe “non-transparent regimes that threaten the security of the world” should be allowed to gain the technology necessary to make an atomic weapon.
Bush laid out conditions for an “acceptable alternative” for Iran.
“That the material used to power the plant would be manufactured in Russia, delivered under IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) inspectors to Iran, to be used in that plant, the waste of which will be picked up by the Russians and returned to Russia.”
“I think that is a good plan,” he said. “The Russians came up with the idea and I support it.”
ITAR-TASS: Russia proposal gives good chances for Iran nuke solution-Bush
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Washington has warned India a landmark deal giving it US nuclear technology may fall through if Delhi does not back a UN motion against Iran.
The deal could “die in Congress” if India does not vote against Iran at a meeting of the UN nuclear watchdog, US Ambassador David Mulford said.
The US is pursuing action against Iran over its apparent nuclear ambitions.
President George Bush will strong-arm
PM Singh over Iran vote.
India says it rejects any attempt to tie its stance on Iran to its deal with the US on acquiring nuclear know-how.
‘Test of credibility’
Washington agreed last year to share advanced civilian nuclear technology with Delhi, lifting sanctions triggered by India’s nuclear tests in 1998.
● UN Security Council Iraq vote bribe
● Pakistan backs $7bn Iran-India pipeline project
MOSCOW/ST. PETERSBURG, January 25 (RIA Novosti) – Iran’s top negotiator at nuclear talks gave a cautious welcome to Russia’s proposal to establish a joint venture to enrich uranium for Iranian nuclear power plants on Russian territory and said Tehran wanted to continue talks with European Union representatives.
Ali Larijani, who is also the Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council Secretary, was in Moscow for talks prior to the arrival of a larger delegation, which is due to arrive in the Russian capital on February 13.
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Bush’s Gladiator has fallen ill.
His page is not capable of taking up arms by himself.
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day, Operation Iranian Freedom has been underway for some time, largely ‘covertized,’ though a bombing raid by UK poodlegunmen the other day failed to remain quite as covert as the warlords might have hoped.
Or maybe it was an ‘innoculation,’ kind of like the terror attack on Pakistan a week or so ago, just to get you used to bombing raids outside of the currently publicly accepted and approved theatres.
What Mr. Danger repeated after his earpiece today is just setting the stage for subsequent statements to the effect that US was so willing to compromise with this wonderful Russian plan, but the Iranians did not send all the yellow cake or aluminum tubes or pencil leads or whatever to Russia, so they have defied the ‘international community’ and most importantly defied America and are a threat to Israel and want to kill Americans because they are part of the axis of evil and the enemy that lurks and thought US was weak but they underestimated the Resolve of the American people who will prevail in the war on terror.
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TEHRAN (RFE/RL) Jan. 27, 2006 — Iran has made number of arrests in the aftermath of recent twin bomb attacks in the city of Ahvaz, according to local media reports.
Local media is reporting that 10 suspects have been charged and handed over to the judiciary.
Eight people were killed and 46 were wounded in the 24 January blasts, in an oil-rich area in southwestern Iran populated by many ethnic Arabs.
Emergency response team at the siteof one of the 24 January bombings. epa
The regime immediately blamed the United Kingdom for involvement in the explosions. U.K. officials denied that accusation as being completely without foundation.
The blasts occurred in the capital of oil-rich Khuzestan province, which borders Iraq. Ahmadinejad and his entire Cabinet had been expected to visit Ahvaz on the day of the bombings to address local issues, but the president canceled the visit.
Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki told a news conference Wednesday that the bombs were planted by people “who have taken souvenir pictures with British officials in London, while enjoying the intelligence facilities and the support of the British military commander in Basra,” southern Iraq.
Later, the Arab Struggle Movement for the Liberation of Ahvaz claimed responsibility for the blasts in a statement posted on a Web site. It said the explosions were “revenge for the blood of our martyrs and (signal) our rejection to the terrorist Ahmadinejad’s defiling the land of Ahvaz in his visit.”
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You think any of the MSM might notice that this is Kerry’s plan that BushCo poo-pooed during the campaign?
Nah.
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Morning Yahoo News Headline One Can’t Miss ::
WASHINGTON DC (ABC/AP) Jan 28, 2006 — President Bush said that Sen. Hillary Clinton, a potential candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, is “formidable,” but he declined to speculate on which Republicans might run for the White House in 2008.
“This is an unusual year because this is the first time there hasn’t been a kind of natural successor in the party,” Bush said in an interview with “CBS Evening News“. Two wide-open primaries with no sitting vice president running in either primary, so this is I can’t remember a time when it’s been this open.”
SCHIEFFER: Well, let me ask you: If they continue to insist that they’re going to do it in their country, Senator Clinton, for example, who seems closer to your policy on Iraq than to some in her own party, is already saying sanctions now. Do you think sanctions would work against Iran?
PRESIDENT BUSH: Well, first of all, we have already sanctioned Iran. The United States Government has got sanctions in place on Iran. I think probably what she is referring to is whether or not we should refer Iran to the United Nations Security Council. I have said that is certainly a very–a real possibility, and that once we are in the Security Council, of course, that’s one of the options, but we are going to work with our friends and allies to make sure that when we get in the Security Council, we will have an effective response.
President Bush and Bob Schieffer, right, at the White House.[Yeah, on the right - thanks CBS! - Oui]
SCHIEFFER: But as some would say, that you put sanctions on Iran, it will drive the price of oil sky high and that will hurt everybody’s economy.
PRESIDENT BUSH: Well, that’s certainly one of the considerations that–that we will take into account as we work with the Perm Five, other members of the Perm Five on the United Nations Security Council.
SCHIEFFER: Let me–let me ask you, everyone in the government says the nuke–the military option can never be taken off the table. Have you actually reviewed plans, if it came to exercising the military option?
PRESIDENT BUSH: I think it’s best I just leave it that all options should be on the table, and the last option is the military option. We have got to work hard to exhaust all diplomacy and that’s what you’re–that’s what the country is seeing happen.
SCHIEFFER: But is that possible? Some people say with our forces stretched thin in Iraq already, we might not be able to launch an attack on anybody.
PRESIDENT BUSH: Well, I–I–I–I would disagree with that. I think we’ve got plenty of capability, but I–it–it–it–the first option, of course, is to–is to solve this problem diplomatically, and that’s where we are working to do.
SCHIEFFER: Let’s talk about Iraq. You say we’re going to stay there until we get the job done, but last summer it seems to me, Mr. President, that public support for the war began to erode.
PRESIDENT BUSH: Um-hmm.
SCHIEFFER: Why do you think that happened?
PRESIDENT BUSH: I think–I think that people saw death on the TV screens without a sense that we are making progress. That’s why I started giving these speeches. You–you might remember that–obviously you remember Katrina hit.
SCHIEFFER: Yeah.
Hillary Clinton Speech at Princeton on 19 January -- "I believe that we lost critical time in dealing with Iran because the White House chose to downplay the threats and to outsource the negotiations".SORRY HILLARY – LOOK IN THE MIRROR, WRONG PARTY AND WRONG ELECTION. YOUR STANCE REFLECTS 2004 POLLS, WATCH FOR ELECTION SURPRISE IN 2006 AND 2008! LOOK AT OTHER ELECTIONS THROUGHOUT THE WORLD, PEOPLE ARE REVOLTING TO CORRUPTION AND THE ESTABLISHMENT, AND WANT CHANGE: CHANGE, TRUE REPRESENTATION AND LEADERSHIP!
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Bush neocon policy failed everywhere, from North Korea to Iran and the Arab nations in the Middle East. Bush – Powell – Rice lost all the Central Asian states of the former Soviet Union and got kicked out of Uzbekistan. China and Russia have tightened their grip on these satellite nations bordering strategic oil and gas resources of the Caspian Sea,
The twist with the Ukraine and Georgia were the latests where the Kremlin – Putin – and Gazprom got their way and secured the trasport pipelines through the whole region. Putin mirrored the openings Bush took to grap executive power in the States, to his own possibilities with domestic politics of the Doema, Russian oil billionaires and neighboring totalitarian states. Putin’s implementation was much better than Bush, even China wasted no time to sign multi-billion LNG import contracts with Iran and invested heavily in Central Africa Chad and Sudan, South America in Argentina and Venezuela.
Bush and neocon cabal got their asses kicked everywhere and are much worse off than at the start five years ago. No wonder Bush spoke of his oil addiction, because he failed miserably to conquer any foreign oil fields. His only success was the invasion and occupation of Haiti, except there is no oil to be gained. VP Cheney probably wanted to vault from Haiti into Chavez territory of Venezuela, but the overthrow failed!
● Iran – Pakistan – India Pipeline
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