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Iran: We’ll allow inspections of our suspected nuclear base if you stop threatening us
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) believes Iran conducted explosives tests with possible nuclear applications at Parchin, a sprawling military base southeast of Tehran, and has repeatedly asked to inspect it.
Western diplomats say Iran has carried out extensive work at Parchin over the past year to cleanse it of any evidence of illicit activities but IAEA chief Yukiya Amano said earlier this month a visit would still be “useful”.
“If the trans-regional threats (against Iran) dissipate, then they will find it possible to visit Parchin,” Deputy Foreign Minister Hassan Qashqavi was quoted by the Iranian Labour News Agency as saying on Wednesday. The comments were also published on Thursday by online magazine Iran Diplomacy.
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“No one threatens you, so long as I’m president” — your brother, Obama
Schadenfreude on December 27, 2012 at 5:06 PM
OT:
The head of the EPA resigns today and I’m not seeing anything about it on this site. Why? Or am I just missing it somewhere?
Dack Thrombosis on December 27, 2012 at 5:09 PM
No. We’ll stop threatening you when you let us examine your sites. Oh wait!
Hasn’t this been our position all along?
HotAirian on December 27, 2012 at 5:19 PM
This worked so well with Iraq. How can we possibly refuse.
apostic on December 27, 2012 at 5:31 PM
My four-year-old kid says something similar:
“As long as you keep telling me what to do, I won’t do it!”
Mohonri on December 27, 2012 at 5:45 PM
When it comes to nuclear weapons, there is no such thing as partial compliance.
Iran is doing the same thing Saddam Hussein did: everything they possibly can to make it appear they’re developing weapons of mass destruction. And, as liberals have made so very clear over the past several years, only a sociopathic moron could possibly believe it makes sense to let that continue.
logis on December 27, 2012 at 5:55 PM
I was never sure.
Does the IAEA prevent a country from getting a weapon or help them…?
I only ask because it seems everywhere they go somebody builds a nuke.
NeoKong on December 27, 2012 at 6:01 PM
An apt analogy, and in both cases the solution is the same: a trip out to the woodshed until the party in question DOES do what you are telling them to do.
MelonCollie on December 27, 2012 at 8:00 PM