CNN Breaking: Iran approves construction of 10 uranium enrichment plants...

[Dennis Donovan]

From CNN.com's main page:

Iran's Cabinet has authorized building another 10 uranium enrichment plants, further defying international calls to halt production of nuclear fuel, the state news agency IRNA reports.

This isn't helpful...:thumbsdown:

[Subdivisions]

1. They're obviously not going to be pushed around and told what they

can and cannot do.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

9. Their culture requires that they NOT be seen as being pushed around

I suggest just taking the pressure off and seeing if the nukes aren't quietly dismantled.

[madokie]

2. Only if you're wanting to police the world

If I was iran I'd want nuke weapons too even though this is not about weapons but it'll ultimately lead there.

[Pirate Smile]

3. I would think their actions will help get Russia and China to go along with us in sanctions.

[tabatha]

4. Russia and China are along with us.

[Pirate Smile]

5. So far they are which is unusual. We need them to stay with us as we move to the next step.

[gordianot]

6. Ultimately Suicide n/t

[Rhiannon12866]

7. No, not helpful at all. I feel for the Iranian people...

They were the only country in the region to acknowledge 9/11, took to the streets in sympathy with the American people, they failed in their recent attempt at legitimate regime change, now this. ;(

Tehran 09/11/01


Tehran 06/20/09

[Lydia Leftcoast]

8. Not helpful, but understandable

After all, the U.S. is occupying their neighbors on two sides (Iraq and Afghanistan) and has troops based to the north (in the former Soviet Central Asian republics) and to the south (in the Persian Gulf).

Imagine if China occupied Canada and Mexico and had bases in the Caribbean and Greenland. Wouldn't we be nervous?

If the U.S. doesn't want Iran to have nukes, stop trying to intimidate its leaders.

Years ago, I heard Jimmy Carter talk about the hostage crisis. He said that he appeared to be not doing anything because his cultural advisers had told him that Iranian culture requires fighting a direct public challenge. But he had diplomats from seven countries working behind the scenes, most importantly telling the Iranians that he'd bomb Tehran if the hostages were killed.

It must have worked, because remember when one hostage started having strange neurological symptoms and the Iranians released him early? He turned out to have multiple sclerosis, but I'm sure the Iranians were thinking, "If he has a brain tumor or something else fatal, we don't him dying in our hands."

[Rhiannon12866]

10. Very well stated. Thank you.

I appreciate your description of President Carter's efforts. It makes me crazy when I hear his term referred to as a "failed" presidency. His efforts (grain embargo) were directly responsible for the ultimate fall of the USSR, Reagan's team thwarted Carter's efforts to secure the return of the hostages in Iran and then there's Israel and Egypt, and a Nobel Peace Prize awarded decades after the fact. He's given little credit for his outstanding work and I am positive that history will exonerate him. :patriot:

Also, the hostage who was released early was Richard Queen, who was eventually found to have MS, and did ultimately die of it in 2002, 23 years later. I paid attention to that because he went to my school. :-(

Richard Queen