Ayatollah: Iran Is A Stupid Nation, “No Wise Nation” Would Pursue Nuclear Weapons
TEHRAN, Iran — Iran’s supreme leader said Tuesday that “no wise nation” would pursue nuclear weapons but his country will continue to develop its nuclear program for peaceful purposes.
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei appeared to be reacting to suggestions by the International Atomic Energy Agency that Tehran may be withholding information on secret attempts to make nuclear weapons.
Mohamed ElBaradei, the head of the IAEA, told the 35 nations on the agency’s board that the Islamic Republic had not provided requested information needed for his investigation.
“Iran is after the peaceful use of nuclear energy and we will strongly pursue and reach it despite the envy of our enemies,” Khamenei said at a ceremony Tuesday honoring the founder of the Islamic Republic, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
“No wise nation is interested in making a nuclear weapon,” he added.
The U.S and its allies accuse Iran of having a secret nuclear weapons program. In turn, Khamenei accused the U.S. of using nuclear energy to maintain its dominance over other nations in the world.
He also warned against nuclear terrorism, saying that one day “world terrorists could attain nuclear weapons and take peace away from all the people in the world.”
Iran is normally the focus of IAEA board meetings. But it was sidelined Monday by ElBaradei’s announcement that Syria will allow his inspectors into the country to investigate allegations that a remote building destroyed in an Israeli airstrike in September was a nuclear reactor built secretly with North Korean help.
It’s the start of an international fact check of U.S. and Israeli assertions that Damascus had tried to build a plutonium-producing facility under the radar of the international community, and the possible launch of a wider investigation of Syrian nuclear activities.
Diplomats told The Associated Press that during the June 22-24 visit, agency officials will also ask for information on the alleged existence of up to three such facilities that have not been declared.
The diplomats, who demanded anonymity because of the sensitivity of their information, indicated they had their knowledge either from the U.S. or from IAEA officials.
One of them said the IAEA was following up on a U.S. intelligence-based tip of alleged unreported facilities to process any nuclear material. The diplomat emphasized the IAEA had not seen the intelligence itself.
Reprocessing capabilities would be required if the U.S. and Israel were correct in their claims that Syria was trying to build a reactor at the site leveled in Syria’s eastern desert in September to gain the material needed to create the fissile core of nuclear weapons.
A nuclear expert outside the U.S. government indicated that at least one of the facilities was suspected of processing uranium. It, like plutonium, can be used for fuel or reworked into fissile warhead material. Reprocessing uranium is also part of the process of turning plutonium into usable warhead material.
He said the IAEA asked Syria several weeks ago for access to four sites — the bombed facility and three military sites that were identified by U.S. intelligence.
Two of the military sites are operational and one is still under construction, the expert said, speaking on condition of anonymity because his information came from private discussions. U.S. intelligence has linked one of the three sites, at least loosely, to the production of nuclear reactor fuel from uranium, he said.
The U.S. says the Israelis flattened the alleged reactor because it was close to startup.
Of the four diplomats who spoke to the AP, two said the Vienna-based IAEA was looking for two undeclared nuclear sites. The others spoke of three. The Syrians have already been informed about the suspicions, one of the diplomats said.
(AP)
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June 3rd, 2008 at 9:36 pmA little wisdom written by an ex-Muslim is applicable here.
“…A leaflet published during 1942 recorded, “Every word that comes from Hitler’s mouth is a lie. When he says peace, he means war, and when he blasphemously uses the name of the Almighty, he means the power of evil, the fallen angel, Satan.” (The White Rose Society, 1942)”
me: Just substitute the word Hilter for this Assaholla’s name; and the quote still fits.
But I digress….
“With Third World War, the history will repeat itself. History often repeats itself because, as Radhakrishnan (1970, p. 125) quoted, “The only lesson history teaches us is that we learn nothing from history”. Muslims had already sold their soul to Muhammad and put their blind trust on him for salvation and an entry to paradise in the same way the Germans had put their trust on Hitler. Though the infidel world will face the biggest onslaught in the history of mankind but the Muslim world will be completely destroyed and Islam will be declared a criminal organization and a banned cult like Nazism. This is not a prophecy or a wishful thinking but this is what the Nazis had faced when Second World War ended.
The third World War will be the war between Dharma (Justice) and Adharma (Injustice) and Dharma will be reestablished on a firm footing after the extinction of Adharma forever. May be this is the long awaited ‘great purification’. Weapons of mass destruction will be used ruthlessly. Muslims in horror will witness many gigantic mushroom clouds rising over in many places across the Ummah (Global Muslim world) including Islam’s two holiest cities and the sky will be lit up ‘brighter than a thousand suns’. The flames of hell and society’s cruel punishment awaiting sinners right here on earth.
None shall be the winner in the end but Humanity will still survive. Muhammad, his Qur’an, and his Islam will earn the same fate what Hitler, Mein Kampf and Nazism had earned. The Ummah will be reduced to a microscopic minority without any hope of revival. Probably that will be the time when they will wake up to give way to logical thinking though like Germans, it would be too late for them.”
June 4th, 2008 at 3:32 amA little Holy Water for the Ayatollah
June 4th, 2008 at 6:49 am