Iran Rebuffs Kerry Nuclear Proposal

[Rose Siding]

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran on Sunday rebuffed a proposal by U.S. presidential candidate John Kerry who has suggested supplying the Islamic state with nuclear fuel for power reactors if Tehran agrees to give up its own fuel-making capability.

Foreign ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi said it would be "irrational" for Iran to put its nuclear program in jeopardy by relying on supplies from abroad.

"We have the technology (to make nuclear fuel) and there is no need for us to beg from others," Asefi told a weekly news conference.

Washington says Iran plans to use its nuclear facilities to make atom bombs. Tehran says it merely wants to generate electricity from nuclear power.
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Asefi said Iran could not trust any deal from the West to supply it with reactor fuel.

"What guarantees are there? Will they supply us one day and then, if they want to, stop supplying us on another day?" he said

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=politicsNews&storyID=6397279&src=rss/ElectionCoverage§ion=news

[Ohio rules]

1. The Sunshine Treaty

Should Kerry stay the current course he set into 2005 ? They flat out refused to follow his planned policy before he even becomes president.

The Theocracy refused his offer to supply the nuclear fuel needed to supply electricity. They already have the ability to make their own....and then some.

That in itself forces a decision;
does he stay this course;

U.S. Undersecretary of State John Bolton, in comments published in Germany's Welt am Sonntag newspaper on Sunday, stressed the Bush administration's tough line on Iran.

"We are not considering any military intervention at the moment. But our position is that we should not exclude any option from the start. Iran must understand that our policy red line is the acquisition of nuclear weapons," he said.

"The most important thing at the moment is to get Iran on to the agenda of the U.N. Security Council to demonstrate that the international community won't accept it acquiring nuclear status," he added.

A decision awaits the next president in 2005.

Will it require a selective draft resolution to be passed by congress ?

[librechik]

2. This proves the Axis of Evil want Bush to win! n/t

[Ohio rules]

3. How did you come to that conclusion ?

His foreign policy is being laughed at by the "democratically appointed" leaders of Iran.
The EU currently threatens Iran with words put into resolutions...
The UN is going to put warnings into writing also....

Will Kerry play brinkmanship with Iran ?
How about North Korea? The CIA thinks NK has Nuke weps.

Can the CIA information be trusted?

[mike_c]

4. much of Kerry's proposed foreign policy is fantasy....

It's foundation is a U.S. with very different international standing than we currently have. Much of the rest of the world wants to thumb their noses at the U.S., not bail them out of Iraq or surrender their perceived national interests just because the U.S. says so. The U.S. is going to have to carry it's hat for a number of years if we want to rebuild our international authority.

[creeksneakers2]

5. This was brilliant

Iran says it needs nuclear fuel for generating electricity. They have a kind they can develop into weapons grade material. Kerry made a simple offer. Give us the uranium that can be made into weapons, and we'll supply you with fuel for nuclear powers plants that can't be made into weapons.

Iran refused the deal. This exposed Iran's true intentions. Iran could do everything it says it wants to do without having weapons grade uranium. Iran has an excuse, but a very weak one.

Bush has been stalled for years trying to prove Iraq is developing nuclear weapons. Kerry has exposed Iran. We can now go to the security council with a very strong argument that Iran is trying to build nukes.

This was brilliant! (Bill Clinton's team thought of this idea first.) Kerry as a candidate could accomplish something Bush couldn't do in years.

I can only wish the public will understand what happened. I sort of doubt it though. It takes too long for the media to explain. The RWs think that Kerry is offering weapons grade plutonium to Iran and they think Kerry is insane.