Posted in GD back in April:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x945894 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/21/iran-shirin-ebadi-sanctions-nuclear-program-nobel_n_852275.htmlIranian Nobel Laureate Shirin Ebadi: Sanctions Okay, Nuke Program Is 'Propaganda'
First Posted: 04/21/11 07:32 PM ET Updated: 04/21/11 08:03 PM ET
WASHINGTON -- Iran’s leading human rights activist and its only Nobel Peace Prize winner softened her stance against economic sanctions aimed at the Islamist state -- even as she abandoned her defense of its nuclear program.
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Ebadi had previously toed the official line on the Iranian nuclear program -- that it is the country's inalienable, sovereign right. "Aside from being economically justified,” she once said, “it has become a cause of national pride for an old nation with a glorious history. No Iranian government, regardless of its ideology or democratic credentials, would dare to stop” it.
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“The claim that nuclear energy is the national pride of Iran is not true at all, and I don’t accept it. It’s the propaganda of the Ahmadinejad government,” she said. “The people of Iran have so many problems in their daily life they can’t even pay their gas bill. They don’t have time to think about stuff like that.”
Ebadi added that pursuing nuclear power -- even for peaceful ends -- no longer makes economic sense. And, as the disaster in Japan showed, it poses a threat to human safety because Iran’s nuclear facilities also lie on fault lines susceptible to earthquakes.
“The people of Iran don’t want another Fukushima,” she said, referring to the ruined Japanese power plant.
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Glad she's come to her sense on this issue.
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The Bushehr project has so many problems, the Russian scientists working on-site warned it might become an "Iranian Chernobyl". Maybe people are taking it more seriously after Fukushima.
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