U.S. rejects Iran inspection offer

[AGENDA21]

(CNN) -- Iran will allow snap inspections of its nuclear facilities if the U.N. Security Council does not get involved in the country's nuclear program, a senior Iranian official has said.

But Washington was quick to reject the offer.

"Today's statement does not change our position that the Iranian government must give up its nuclear ambitions, nor does it affect our decision to move forward to the United Nations Security Council," The Associated Press reported White House spokesman Blaine Rethmeier as saying.

Iran wants to deal solely with the U.N. nuclear inspection group -- the International Atomic Energy Agency --according to Muhammad Saeedi, deputy head of the Iranian Atomic Energy Agency.

http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/04/30/iran.nuclear/

[linazelle]

1. I must be experiencing deja vu. This is oddly familiar....

:eyes:

[Mnemosyne]

3. I'm sure I heard it somewhere before also. Hmm. n/t

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

2. ToThe American People... If you let the Shrub fool you once, shame on

him. If you let him fool you twice, shame on you!!!!

[C_U_L8R]

4. How soon til they pull out that old chestnut

PROVING A NEGATIVE
such as .. "Hey Iran...Prove that you are NOT making a bomb or we will destroy you"

though it may be righteous when turned back on Bush....
"Hey Chimpy... Prove that you are NOT addicted to Cocaine and Bourbon"
"Hey Chimpy... Prove that you are NOT beating Pickles"
"Hey Chimpy... Prove that you are NOT having sex with Jeff Gannon"

etc..

[bigtree]

13. Or on the pretext that the UN failed to act ,so they had to go ahead

and save the world on their own like they did in Iraq.

[bullimiami]

5. predictable. bushco reserves the right to be able to kill everyone on the

planet without any possible challenge.
they also reserve the right to make and stockpile all manner or WMD and threaten other countries with them.

[no_hypocrisy]

6. If the UN takes Iran up on its offer on inspections, the US has nothing

to decisively say about it, as the latter accepted the UN as the mediary in the matter and the program proposed. And if the US protests, then the * regime is showing its hand (again) that it intended to use the UN as a vehicle to further its program instead of doing it unilaterally.

Aw, WTF, * will probably bomb (or let Israel bomb) Iran anyway . . .

[spanone]

7. Bush* wants a confrontation...it's his only and last resort.

Hellbent on War.

[Oversea Visitor]

8. So what you going to do

attack Iran :rofl:
BRING IT ON

[Roland99]

9. Of course it does. Talk of diplomacy is just that: talk. War is inevitable

Iran is in a lose-lose situation.

[dogday]

10. That's the diplomatic way, have

you not heard???? Next time you hear someone say we are trying to work this out diplomatically.. Remember this article and know.....

[newyawker99]

11. kick

[bigtree]

12. they want their demands to reside in the security council

where they can file a chapter 7 complaint like the one that they used to justify military action against Iraq. chapter 7 has action provisions including sanctions and military force.

That's why Iran wants the dispute to stay within the IAEA.


my take: The US Doesn't Give A Damn About A UN Resolution

[LSK]

14. ITS ABOUT FUCKING OIL

WHEN THE FUCK IS ANYONE IN THE MEDIA GOING TO DISCUSS IRAN OPENING THEIR OIL BOURSE?!?!?!?!

IM SO FUCKING PISSED THAT THE MSM IS IGNORING THIS AND EVERYONE IS PLAYING INTO THIS NUCLEAR BULLSHIT!!!!!!!!!11

:grr: :grr: :grr:

[cantstandbush]

15. Damn! For Iraq it was all about inspections at first. Now US is refusin

to allow inspections in Iran? Somebody please get these people out our government and help us recover.

[tuvor]

16. And once the Iranian invasion is well underway...

...bush will state that Iran refused inspections.