"Syria refuses to allow nuclear inspectors at 3 suspect sites; UN watchdog to probe building bombed by Israel" by George Jahn, Associated Press | June 4, 2008
Yup, Syria "refuses" UN inspectors as if they have something to hide, right?
Screw the Jew press!
VIENNA - Syria has told fellow Arab countries that it will not permit an International Atomic Energy Agency probe to extend beyond a site bombed by Israel, despite agency interest in three other suspect locations, diplomats told the Associated Press yesterday.
The agency's main focus during its planned June 22-24 visit to Syria is a building in the country's remote eastern desert that was destroyed by Israeli jets in September.
Of course, Israel bombing anyplace they like is NEVER a problem, is it?
Pffffttt!
IAEA chief Mohamed ElBaradei announced Monday that Damascus has agreed to an agency check of US assertions that target was a plutonium-producing reactor that was near completion, and thus at the stage where it could generate the fissile material for nuclear arms.
The UN agency is also interested in following up on information that Syria may have three other undeclared atomic facilities. Diplomats and a nuclear specialist told the AP on Monday that at least one of the sites might have equipment that can reprocess nuclear material into the fissile core of warheads.
One of the diplomats said the IAEA was following up on a US intelligence-based tip but emphasized the IAEA had not seen the intelligence. The nuclear specialist said two of the military sites were operational and one was under construction. He and the diplomats asked for anonymity because their information is confidential.
If it was a "US intelligence-based tip" then it didn't come from the U.S., did it?
Gee, I wonder what shitty little shitstink state this garbage could have come from, huh?
Yesterday, a senior diplomat familiar with the planned IAEA trip to Syria told the AP that expectations were Syria would gradually warm to the idea of giving agency specialists access to those three sites, as well as the bombed Al Kibar facility.
And the IAEA will be getting right to the Dimona plant in Israel, right?
But two other diplomats briefed on the Syrian stance said outside a meeting of the IAEA's 35-nation board that a senior official from Damascus had ruled that out during a meeting with chief delegates of the 10 Arab nations accredited to the IAEA.
The diplomats said Syrian atomic energy chief Ibrahim Othman told the Arab delegates his country could not open secret military sites to outside perusal as long as Syria and Israel remained technically in a state of war.
After fighting three wars and clashing in Lebanon, Israel and Syria are bitter enemies whose last round of peace talks collapsed eight years ago. Both countries recently confirmed that they are holding peace talks through Turkish mediators.
The diplomats also said Othman expressed fear that too much openness on Syria's part would lead to years of relentless international perusal of the kind Iran's nuclear program is now undergoing, despite Tehran's assertions its aims are purely peaceful.
After-hours calls to the Syrian Mission to the IAEA in Vienna for comment went unanswered.
President Bashar Assad of Syria denied again that his country has a secret nuclear program yesterday in United Arab Emirates newspapers.
Neither the United States nor Israel told the IAEA about the bombed site until late April, about a year after they obtained what they considered decisive intelligence: dozens of photographs from a handheld camera of the inside and outside of the compound.
Yeah, and it all turned out to be CRAP!!!!
Syria had not reacted to repeated agency requests since for a visit to check out the allegations.
Satellite photos appear to show construction crews using the interval to erect another structure over the site - a move that heightened suspicions of a coverup."Fuck you, Jew press!! I'm tired of the shit-shoveling propaganda!!!!
And just to link the two, the Globe puts this story below the Syrian sites.
"Ayatollah denies nuclear arms plan" by Nazila Fathi, New York Times News Service | June 4, 2008
Yup, the Syrians "refuse" and the Iranians "deny" making bombs -- which they are doing, according to the psycho-projecting Zionist shit-shovelers!
I'm so sick of the damn Zionist War Propaganda, readers.
Oh, and look who is supplying the story: "New York Times News Service"
Pffffffftttt!!!
TEHRAN - Iran's supreme religious leader vowed yesterday that his country will pursue a peaceful atomic energy program and has no interest in nuclear weapons, calling them expensive and useless.
The remarks by the leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, did not represent any change in Iran's official position but were unusual because he said them publicly, just a few days before the major world powers are expected to offer Iran new incentives to suspend its uranium enrichment program.
Khamenei's remarks seemed clearly aimed at those powers, including the United States, that contend Iran covets nuclear weapons and might be secretly trying to develop the technology to build them. Khamenei called that a false accusation meant to deprive Iran of its legitimate right to nuclear power.
"The Iranian nation is not seeking nuclear weapons," the ayatollah said at an event commemorating the 19th anniversary of the death of the founder of the 1979 Islamic revolution, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
"We are seeking nuclear energy for peaceful purposes for daily use and we will continue this path to the envy of our enemies," he said.
As is THEIR RIGHT!!!
Unlike Israel, Pakistan and India -- three U.S. "allies" that HAVE NOT signed the NPT!!!!
"You know the Iranian nation is in principle and on religious grounds against the nuclear weapon. Nuclear weapons only incur high costs and have no use. They do not bring power to a nation," he said.
He's right; however, that won't stop USrael from using them!
The ayatollah's speech came a day after the State Department in Washington said it expected Javier Solana, the European Union's foreign policy chief, to travel to Iran in mid-June to submit a package of new inducements to Iran if it abandons uranium enrichment, which can be used both to produce electric power and nuclear weapons.
Iran has consistently rejected demands that it stop enriching uranium, despite economic sanctions imposed by the UN Security Council.
Then the USrael will say the U.N. doesn't work, and away we go!!!!
Khamenei's speech also appeared to be a response to comments by the director of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Mohamed ElBaradei, who said Monday in an unusually tough speech that Iran was holding back information needed to clarify intelligence reports that it had researched nuclear bombs in secret."
All right, WHO GOT TO HIM?!?
The guy is already feeling guilt over Iraq, so WHO railroaded him into this stance, readers?
Maybe they will hire some Americans, huh (see below post)?
