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Skriven 2006-01-23 22:39:17 av Roy Witt (1:1/22)
  Kommentar till text 23334 av FRANK SCHEIDT (1:123/140)
Ärende: Who to fear use of nukes first?   (was; Iran Needs Energy Source?
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22 Jan 06 07:10, FRANK SCHEIDT wrote to ROY WITT:

 RW>>> No, you just slipped up and admitted that there were WMDs in Iraq.

 PS>> Hardly, 'nuclear program' can be no more than simple medical
 PS>> research, nuclear power station(s), it does not mean 'nuclear
 PS>> weapons'.

 FS> Maybe if the US would ship some oil to Iran they'd not need the
 FS> nukes?????

Speaking of Nukes! Did anyone catch what Jack Chiroc the Frog president's
statement on the use of nukes to fight terrorisim?

Iran blasts 'shameful' Chirac nuclear warning
01.22.2006, 08:25 AM

TEHRAN (AFX) - French President Jacques Chirac came under attack in Iran
today after warning that France could use nuclear arms against state
sponsors of terrorism, with officials in the Islamic republic branding the
remark 'shameful' and 'unacceptable'.

'It is shameful for the people of France that their president brandishes
atomic weapons on the pretext of fighting terrorism,' said Gholam Ali
Hadad-Adel, speaker of Iran's right-wing parliament.

On Thursday, Chirac for the first time raised the threat of a nuclear
strike on any state that launches 'terrorist' attacks against France.

Although he did not single out any country, the warning could be
interpreted as including Iran -- frequently accused of sponsoring
terrorism and under pressure over its disputed nuclear program.

But Hadad-Adel said the French president was merely 'trying to restore the
prestige of France after the recent unrest, when young people took to the
streets and torched hundreds of cars every night.'

'The French need to make an effort to remove the shame of the massacre of
millions of Algerians, France's support for Saddam Hussein and the
massacres in Africa and Rwanda,' Hadad-Adel said in a speech to deputies
carried by state radio.

Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi, in a statement
carried by the official news agency IRNA, also branded Chirac's comments
as 'unacceptable and unjustifiable'.

'These statements redouble public concern in countries of the world which
face those countries in possession of nuclear weapons,' Asefi was quoted
as saying.

Iran is currently at loggerheads with France, with Paris at the forefront
of Western efforts to prevent the Islamic republic from acquiring nuclear
technology that could be diverted to making weapons of mass destruction.

France, along with Britain and Germany and backed by the United States, is
now leading a push for Iran to be referred to the UN Security Council.

Iran has denounced the mounting pressure, arguing it only wants to
generate electricity and that this is a right for any signatory of the
Non-Proliferation Treaty.

An editorial by the hardline Jomhuri Islami newspaper argued that Chirac's
warning was a sign of the double standards Iran has long complained about.



Roy
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