Iran issues warning over nuclear program

[maddezmom]

Source: AP

TEHRAN, Iran - Iran's parliament speaker warned the West on Wednesday that it may face "a done deal" if it provokes Iran, a stern hint that Tehran could build nuclear weapons if attacked.

The speaker, Ali Larijani, who was once Iran's top nuclear negotiator, also warned that a "short opportunity is left" for a deal with Iran over its nuclear program, which the U.S. and some of its allies fear is aimed at producing a bomb.

Iran has long denied it intends to build a nuclear weapon, saying its program is meant only to generate electricity. Larijani, one of Iran's most powerful politicians, did not directly warn that Iran could change its intentions, but his vague comment appeared aimed at raising that possibility.

Larijani pointed to recent comments by Mohamed ElBaradei, the U.N. nuclear watchdog chief, who said in an interview last week that a military strike on Iran could turn the Mideast into a "ball of fire" and "prompt Iran, even if it didn't produce a nuclear weapon today, to resort to an emergency plan to produce a nuclear weapon."



Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080625/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iran_nuclear;_

[Megahurtz]

1. And So...

Iran has a right to defend itself!

So STFU Israel! No more War!

[fascisthunter]

2. Until Every Nation in the World Bans their own Nukes

those nations have no business in expecting others to do the same. Lead by example and stop the hypocrisy....

All nations around the World should sit down and create a treaty banning nukes for military means. Until then, countries like Israel and the U.S. are pissing in the wind. "Might makes right" is for stupid extremists.....

[Wizard777]

3. I think the done deal is a defense agreement with Russia who does have nukes.

[Ghost Dog]

5. You mean this sort of thing (caps in original):

THE UNITED STATES AND RUSSIA WERE NEARLY AT THE BRINK OF NUCLEAR WAR ON FRIDAY JUNE 20 2008 AND THE WORLD'S POPULATIONS WERE UNAWARE OF IT, SAVE FOR THE LISTENERS OF THE Q-FILES RADIO PROGRAM AND THOSE IN THE HIGHEST LEVELS OF THE RESPECTIVE MILITARIES, INTEL AGENCIES, AND GOVERNMENTS INVOLVED.

AT APPROXIMATELY 4:15 P.M. EASTERN TIME AN URGENT REPORT WAS RECEIVED FROM AN EXPERT HAM RADIO OPERATOR LISTENING IN THE CLEAR TO U.S. MILITARY SHORTWAVE CHANNELS. A 180 CHARACTER EMERGENCY ACTION MESSAGE WAS BEING BROADCAST AND BEING REPEATED OVER AND OVER AGAIN FOR U.S. MILITARY STRATEGIC AND TACTICAL UNITS RECEPTION. MULTIPLE AIRBORNE COMMANDS WERE UP ECHOING THIS MESSAGE AND RADIO TRAFFIC BECAME HOT AND HEAVY AND ALL POINTING TO SOMETHING VERY TENSE GOING ON IN THE ATLANTIC REGION.

THIS ALERT WAS NOT UNEXPECTED,AS THAT MORNING A RUSSIAN DIPLOMAT LAVAROV HAD WARNED THE U.S. AND ISRAEL NOT TO ATTACK IRANIAN NUCLEAR FACILITIES AND THAT WARNING WAS VERY SPECIFIC AND THE LANGUAGE WAS VERY STRONG BUT IT APPEARS PROBABLY MISREAD IN ITS GRAVITY. WE ALSO KNEW THAT RUSSIAN BOMBERS WERE TO BE ACTIVELY PATROLLING THE NORTH ATLANTIC REGION AND ALSO OFF ALASKA INTO THE ARCTIC CIRCLE AREA.

...

MANY ADDITIONAL MILITARY RADIO FREQUENCIES WERE ACTIVATED THEN TO HANDLE ALL OF THE TRAFFIC AND THEN ALL OF A SUDDEN ........THE BIG RUSSIAN COLD WAR RADIO FREQUENCY JAMMERS CAME ON ALL OVER THE SPECTRUM !

/... http://www.stevequayle.com/News.alert/08_Nukes/080624.US-Russia.war.html

[Wizard777]

6. We've been closer than that. At one point we were 20 seconds away from an all out nuclear strike on

the USSR. Then we found a computer glitch that was falsely indicating that the Kremlin was preparing to launch against us. Thank God we not only talk to our "mortal enemies." We install special phone lines in the Oval Office to talk to them on. The launch clock was stopped with 20 second left on it. Talk about white knuckle negotiations. :wow: :nuke:

[julios]

9. Check this out

There is a website called damninteresting.com that has a whole article on all the nuclear close calls. The one you mention is in there. Here's the link:

http://www.damninteresting.com/index.php?s=apocalypse

fun site.

[RantinRavin]

7. ROTFLMAO if anyone believes this

The military does not use shortwave for it's emergency messages...and has not for a couple of decades.

[Ghost Dog]

8. Heh Heh, read the whole thing and

then tell me what you think!

:crazy:

[bdamomma]

4. again our thuggish government poking the eye of another country.

sickening.