Iran partially suspends U.N. IAEA cooperation

Things are starting to heat up. But I don't see how this move helps Iran. Holding the British soldiers for supposedly breaking laws while at the same thumbing their noses at UN resolutions smacks of double standards.

The crisis has reached a boiling point.

TEHRAN, Iran -
Iran announced Sunday that it was partially suspending cooperation with the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency, citing the new
U.N. Security Council sanctions imposed on the country for its refusal to stop enriching uranium.

Gholam Hossein Elham, a government spokesman, said the Iranian Cabinet decided to suspend a provision that called on the government to inform the U.N.'s
International Atomic Energy Agency of any new steps and decisions made in its atomic program.

"This will continue until Iran's nuclear case is referred back to the IAEA from the U.N Security Council," Elham told state television.

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Why are the giving Bush and Blair everything they want?

The ante was just raised and will Tony Blair call the bluff?

In a nutshell here is what Iran did wrong.

Under the U.N. Charter, Iran is treaty-bound to obey the commandments of the Security Council.

The Security Council has commanded it to halt enrichment of uranium pending the verification of the peaceful nature of its program.

Iran has rejected this decision, and indeed has arguably abrogated the U.N. Charter entirely.

So it is simply untrue that Iran’s program has been legal to date.

Up until 2002, the main elements of the program were secret — a fact that in and of itself was a violation of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty.

And now, by refusing to obey the Security Council, Iran is once again in breach of the Treaty — and the U.N. Charter.

Now here’s the kicker: Iran has permitted inspections of its known nuclear facilities during the “development” phase of the full nuclear-fuel cycle.

It is enriching uranium at pilot plants in miniscule quantities that are insignificant from a bomb-making point of view.

Until now it hasn’t been able to enrich large quantities of uranium to any level, so it has no reason to hide anything.

But in a matter of months Iran will be ready to launch its commercial-scale enrichment facility at Natantz.

It will then be in a position to enrich enough uranium all the way to weapons-grade to start manufacturing warheads, and thats why we must stop Iran in the next few months.

So, a long story short: It wouldn’t surprise me if the British sailors were bait.

International waters or not Khamanei dramatically upped the ante this week by taking prisoners of the Brits,

The stakes in this nuclear-poker game just got a little higher, We probably raised, And they probably raised back and the next move will be a bluff and a release of the prisoners? Or war.

Are you aware that the French Air Craft Carrier Charles De' Gault and her escourt fleet had entered the Persian Gulf late last week.

French attack forces in the Gulf. It's going to happen very soon.

Things should get interesting in April, the next new moon is the week of the 17th and I would bet "all it all" that the attacks start sometime that week.