News and Politics | May 31, 2008 | 31 comments

Iran says its right to enrichment is non-negotiable

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"Suspending enrichment is not negotiable ... Depriving Iran of its right cannot be on offer," were the words of Gholamhossein Elham, the government spokesman at a weekly news conference.

The UN wants Iran to stop its uranium enrichment amid security concerns but according to the UN's nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency, six organisations already operate commercial-scale enrichment plants. The operations span countries such as the UK, Germany, Italy, China and Japan, both India and Pakistan enrich Uranium on a smaller scale.

Does the UN have the right to say who can and cannot enrich uranium?
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  • realcanadian
  • clayjj05
  • realcanadian
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      realcanadian  
    • clayjj05. YOUR friends in the middle-east, i dont need any friends there thanks. Radical religious nuts should stay in the desert until they evolve like Christians and believe it comes down to treating others as you wish to be treated.
      I dont know where you live clayjj05, but if you live in the states, you have been the only ones to use nuclear weapons, so if anyone shouldn't be 'allowed' to posses them today, it should be you.
      By the sounds of you, your not American, your a Zionist. If so, then you belong in Israel fighting your own holy war, instead of dragging the Yanks into it. Unless you believe 4 Muslims with box-cutters dropped the tower and murdered 3000 American people??

    • 3 years ago
  • realcanadian
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      realcanadian  
    • The UN should be dissolved!
      Iran has every right to use nuclear technology to create power, like the rest of the world does. If Israel can have their stockpile of nuclear weapons, then so should its neighbors. In my opinion why would any country need nuclear weapons?? We have to share the same planet and if any such weapon is used it may hurt the planet as a whole.

    • 3 years ago
  • wannabedoc
  • Emperor
  • 1Eco_Media
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      1Eco_Media  
    • The B.S. that comes out of this guys mouth is a JOKE.

      Iran is sitting on a MASSIVE AMOUNT of natural gas and the last thing they need is another source for electricity.

      I would never trust anyone in that region as far as I could throw them.

      NOTHING MORE THAN MEN HIDING BEHIND RELIGION TO CONTROL THE ASSETS, PEOPLE, AND POWER.

      ANYONE with half a brain knows what they are after.

      Letting them get anywhere near that ability would be a major mistake, my guess is that is NOT GOING TO HAPPEN.

      My guess is the reason he thinks we are so stupid is based on what has taken place in Iraq. ALL TO THE BENEFIT OF HIS NATION, thanks to this so called leadership WE HAVE BEEN forced to put up with.

      THAT MAY SOON CHANGE. HOPEFULLY.

      As far as our nation being the Planet's POLICE.

      Someone should be doing it however NOT THE WAY IT IS BEING DONE NOW.

    • 3 years ago
  • Tommyboy420
  • rajajajamjar
  • 2thought
  • SugarSpice
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      SugarSpice  
    • That's fine Iran can say it is not negotiable.
      I hope they feel the same when we bomb the heck out of them...because their continued defiance makes attacks against them non negatiable.

    • 3 years ago
  • 200131294
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      200131294  
    • We shouldn't allow Iran to have nuclear power. Thats giving powerful technology and dangerous ability to a country that has proven they can't handle different ideas or religions.

    • 3 years ago
  • Juas
  • rajajajamjar
  • Stradius
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      Stradius  
    • What we REALLY need is an unbiased International Nuclear Power agency that actually helps create nuclear power plants and manages them. Iran deserves nuclear power as much as any country that needs electricity. Perhaps the IEAE needs to be expanded to take an active role in putting peaceful use of atomics into countries... isn't that still within their charter?

      See this amazing piece of news work if you haven't already, top notch!

      http://current.com/items/88985529_the_bomb_people

    • 3 years ago
  • mrpibb19
  • Juas
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      Juas  
    • Let Iran have whatever it wants to have.
      Unfortunately their religion is strong and well inside government. It tends to be extremist to the point of suicide and that usually is a problem.

      So, even though every country has the right to do what they choose, they should be continuously inspected due to the fact that Nuclear Energy is highly destructive and potentially dangerous to the world.

    • 3 years ago
  • mrpibb19
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      mrpibb19  
    • What if we as the United States took our troops out of Iraq, South Korea, and other places we try to "maintain" peace. What if instead we decided to pull out of the UN and become a nation that drives its focus and resources to benefit its own people. The money we save from this pull-out we can put into anti missile defense systems and the improvement of our defensive weaponry. The United States does not have to be the world police. We're better off by ourselves. We can still export and import (importing would have to be decreased to improve American jobs). As George Washington left the Presidency in 1796, he warned America of meddling in European affairs. I'm sure if he were alive now he would be telling us to the same thing of the powers in Asia and all over the globe.

    • 3 years ago
  • J_Jammer
  • J_Jammer
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      J_Jammer [removed]  
    • Let AJ do as he wishes with his country. If he blows it up because of a miscalculation it will be Europe and Asia who has to mess with it.

      Let America worry about the Americas. Quit bothering with people across the pond. It's pointless and never appreciated.

      ---I understand that this is about the UN and it's watchdogs but America is part of that, somehow, and they should just stop caring about anything but what happens in America.

    • 3 years ago
  • mrpibb19
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      mrpibb19  
    • Iran with U-238 enriched??? Oh my, the days of the Soviet Union bombing threats are once again upon us. This time it is a little bit bigger.

      I find it hard to choose a side on this issue. Allow Iran to use nuclear power to provide electricity for their cities as the U.S. and several NATO nations do, or disallow them from using this power because of the threat for their dictator to suddenly decide he wants to change their reactors' production from electricity to weaponry.

      The world should consider the safety of mankind, and make a cautious decision to whether Iran should be allowed to have this responsibility.

    • 3 years ago
  • tanyetta
  • clayjj05
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      clayjj05 [removed]  
    • jimmy, bush is so far from being a right wing christian, he is actually one of the least spiritual president of all time.

      America has had nuclear weapons for 60 years and we havnt used them except Japan.

      They should of just surrendered

    • 3 years ago
  • wannabedoc
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      wannabedoc  
    • clayjj05:

      Oh, you haven't used nuclear weapons for 60 years, that's alright then.
      Because I mean, it's not as if the US is the ONLY country that's ever used nuclear weapons to attack countries. Oh, wait...
      Bush is the as far removed from a right wing Christian as possible?
      Well, he's Republican, which = right wing, so check.
      And his reason to go to war in Iraq "God told me to do it". Now since he says singular God, and I'm pretty sure an Islamophobist wouldn't be Muslim, and since he says he's a United Methodist, I assume he is. So check again.
      So I'm afraid, what you just said was complete rubbish. It equates to a Bushism, congrats...

    • 3 years ago
  • jimmyp
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      jimmyp  
    • I worried too...especially with a right-wing Christian end-of-days believer in the oval office....

      (not trying to offend Christians here but the rush to fullfill the prophecies of Revelations seems a bit silly to me).

    • 3 years ago
  • johnmcstupid
  • 75thDeadMan
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      75thDeadMan  
    • I don't think anyone has that right. The UN has the right to investigate, the US does not. Fortunately/unfortunately the US loves to assist the UN with our entire standing army.

    • 3 years ago
  • Robroy1
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      Robroy1  
    • I side with Iran to the point that any nation has a right to do what it thinks is right for its own people and economy. America wants the Jews to be in control in the middle east. America and the Jews have been screwing these people for so long that all of thier paranoia is popping out from all sides. Our grip on that part of the world is slipping. We should not be there to begin with and if it was not to protect the jews, and steal oil we would not be there. Some one has got to stop American expansion in the world. America cannot afford it and that is becomming paonfully apparent. Ask the average homeowner or worker in America. Our foreign policy is a disaster. The Pentagon should be cut in half. Stop making war and Make some progress for the American people at home.

    • 3 years ago
  • vardy1690
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      vardy1690  
    • Robroy1:

      Robyroy,
      First and foremost, I think when you say 'Jews', you are referring to the country of Israel, which although it is a Jewish-inhabited country, it's like calling Americans "the Christians", and such labeling is extremely politically incorrect.
      Second, America does not side with Israel for arbitrary reasons, but because Israel is the only legitimate democracy in the Middle East and it has always been American policy to support democracies especially when it is surrounded by two terrorist militant groups and countries that have invaded the country in the past.
      Thirdly, to even bring up Israel in a discussion about Iran's right to uranium-enrichment is absurd because their is a very big possibility that Iran could use this Uranium to blow up Israel as Iran's leader, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has publicly voiced his desire to 'take Israel off the map'.

      Iran's right to Uranium enrichment should be questioned on its ultimate motives; if their desire is to cause mass destruction then they do not have the right, simple as that.

    • 3 years ago
  • 2thought
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