Iranian Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi's defiant proclamation at the United Nations that Iran will press on with its nuclear- enrichment program is yet another ominous sign that ruling mullacracy is hellbent on obtaining the A-bomb. In early April, the Iranian National Council of Resistance revealed Tehran had been digging tunnels close to the Parchin military facility, a suspected nuclear site northeast of the capital, to disguise its nuclear- enrichment activities. There is also ample evidence that Iran's money, weapons and agents are fanning the flames of insurgency in Iraq. Tehran has spent some $4 billion in Iraq since the ouster of Saddam Hussein and has 40,000 Iraqi operatives on its payroll.
WASHINGTON -- U.S. Rep. Christopher Shays, R-4, made his sixth visit to Iraq Sunday and Monday since the U.S.-led invasion, again noting gradual progress toward civic stability despite violence against coalition forces, allies and civilian supporters. Shays and three fellow members of the House Government Reform subcommittee on national security, emerging threats and international relations met Monday with Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi and Iranian Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi. Speaking via telephone late Monday from Jordan, Shays said during a press conference following the meeting that he was struck by Iraqi reporters' disregard for the U.S. delegation and U.S. Ambassador John Negroponte.
There is some good news to report following Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's belligerent defense of Tehran's nuclear program when he appeared Saturday before the U.N. Security Council. His shrill rhetoric - which included describing the United States as an aggressor bent on enforcing a "nuclear apartheid," questioning whether terrorists were behind September 11 and suggesting that the U.S. military was intentionally poisoning American troops in Iraq - seem to be persuading the European Union that Tehran has no intention of complying with its obligations under the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty. The European reaction to Mr. Ahmadinejad's presentation contrasted sharply with the response to a speech delivered three months ago at the United Nations at a conference on the future of ...
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UNITED NATIONS In Tehran and here on the world stage, an emphatic Iran said Tuesday it will press on with its uranium- enrichment technology, a program that has drawn Washington's fire and ratcheted up global nuclear tensions. On the second day of a nonproliferation conference, Iran's Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi said his country is "determined to pursue all legal areas of nuclear technology, including enrichment, exclusively for peaceful purposes.
The hard-line ayatollahs ruling Iran reacted enthusiastically to the election results in neighboring Iraq. "Certainly it is promotion of democracy, and in that respect we welcome that," said Iranian Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi. The ayatollahs' fervent calls for democratic elections in Iraq, while denying the very same choice to their own people, is the latest irony in the convoluted labyrinth of Middle Eastern politics.
WASHINGTON - Iran is planning to mount a staunch defense of its nuclear energy program at an international conference beginning today and will insist on rights to the same technology afforded to all members of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, a senior Iranian official said in an interview. The high-level counteroffensive, to be led by Iranian Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi, comes in anticipation of a tough speech the Bush administration is preparing to give today calling for international measures against Tehran unless it gives up sensitive aspects of its nuclear program.
UNITED NATIONS - In Tehran and here on the world stage, an emphatic Iran said Tuesday it will press on with its uranium- enrichment technology, a program that has drawn Washington's fire and ratcheted up global nuclear tensions. On the second day of a non-proliferation conference, Iranian Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi said his country is "determined to pursue all legal areas of nuclear technology, including enrichment, exclusively for peaceful purposes.
NOW IS NOT the time for the United States to withdraw from Iraq. Stung by the damage done by revelations that American personnel abused detainees in Iraq and Afghanistan, President Bush spoke on Arab television and was unequivocal: "People in Iraq must understand that I view those practices as abhorrent." He pledged to punish the soldiers involved. Across the Middle East, officials condemned the United States. Iranian Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi, for example, said the incident was proof that the United States had a "systematic plan to torture Iraqis, to kill them, to rape them." Syria's official daily, Ath-Thawra, called the abuse "proof" that torture is widespread in Iraq. Hundreds of Iraqis protested in front of Abu Ghraib prison, demanding the release of all prisoners. In Iran, S...
...(1) Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has warned that "Israel will not allo... the generally pragmatic nature of Iran's foreign-policy decisions. . BACKGROUND . The Iranian Nucle..., the comments of Iran's foreign minister, Kamal Kharrazi, during a press conference with his Russi...
Iran official: We will negotiate with U.S. TEHRAN, Iran - Iran is willing to talk with the United States about a nuclear program that Washington alleges is aimed at secretly acquiring the bomb, Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi said Monday.
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