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Iran-UN nuclear talks start in Tehran

Aug 7, 2008, 8:14 GMT

Tehran - Talks between Iran and the United Nations nuclear watchdog started in Tehran Thursday, state media reported.

The chief inspector of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Oli Heinonen, and officials of the Iranian Atomic Organization, headed by Vice President Gholam-Reza Aqazadeh are to discuss the remaining ambiguities in Tehran's nuclear projects and the course of future cooperation.

The two-day talks are to be of a technical nature and are expected to deal with political issues, such as whether Iran would accept the latest offer by the world powers to suspend uranium enrichment in return for political and economic incentives.

Tehran has said its nuclear programme is for peaceful purposes, but the United States and other Western nations have accused Iran of trying to produce nuclear weapons.



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The IAEA, UN, and US HYPOCRISY...margeAug 7th, 2008 - 16:53:59

Funny that Iran is being condemned by all for staging its missile test but there was no condemnation or outcry of Israel for doing the same thing. Last month Israel staged a large military exercise that involved more than a 100 warplanes over distances they said they would need to cover to strike Iran. Both US and Israel reported Israel's action as a warning to Iran. Now, that Iran has responded to that warning in the most appropriate way, it is being condemning by all. If that's not hypocrisy and double standards, I don't know what is.

I say again. The IAEA, US, and UN are harassing and threatening Iran with sanctions over its legal right to enrich uranium out of fear that Iran is building nuclear bombs. So what if this is true? The US and many members of the UN have nuclear bombs and remain silence on credible information that Israel also has nuclear bombs. Iran needs nuclear bombs to protect its people and sovereignty from enemies like Israel, which has a history of land stealing, terrorism, killing palestinians for land, violating the border boundaries of Gaza, Syria, and Iraq and bombing their properties, and starting numerous wars with its arab neighbors. Israel is now threatening to bomb Iran's nuclear plants to ensure it remains the only country in the Middle East with nuclear bombs. By contrast, Iran has committed no aggression or crimes against its neighbors to justify the sanctions and harassment imposed upon it by the IAEA, UN, and US.

Iran should pull out of NPT and stop cooperating with the IAEA, UN, and US entirely. Iran should never give up its right to nuclear energy or nuclear weapons regardless of the consequences, unless other countries give up their rights to nuclear bombs. The hypocrisy and double standards of the IAEA, US, and UN is ridiculous and should not be tolerated by any country!!!!

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Switch on margeyAug 7th, 2008 - 21:14:59

Marge you are a fool,
These people and their backwards religion and brainwashed ideology with nuclear weapons is hypocricy at its finest.

The crazy Iranians have been let to get way too far already with their ambitions, if not acted on soon it will be at the worlds expense.
The UN is a paper tiger, blagh,blagh,blagh, shame job.

If we did'nt require the oil, they would've been anialated along time ago, China and Russia would't give a rats bum about them.

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SP4: well MargeAug 7th, 2008 - 22:07:14

'By contrast, Iran has committed no aggression or crimes against its neighbors to justify the sanctions and harassment imposed upon it by the IAEA, UN, and US.'

SP4_ Marge: they had a genocidal war with Iraq, remember?

they fund and staff hizbolla, an organization at war with Israel.

They strong-arm Syria, send terrorists into Afghanistan, and Lebanon.

plant mines in the straights

and now YOU think letting them be is just a peachy idea/

Go inform yourself Marge, you talk like an idiot.

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