US tells Iran to shun nuke arms - like Kazakhstan
reuters: U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney, visiting Kazakhstan, urged Iran on Friday to take a lesson from the ex-Soviet Central Asian state and renounce nuclear arms to resolve a stand-off over Tehran's nuclear ambitions.
Kazakhstan gave up the nuclear arsenal it inherited from the Soviet Union shortly after independence in 1991, a move that still wins the vast but sparsely populated state praise in the West 15 years on.
Iran, like Kazakhstan, says it wants to develop a civilian nuclear programme but the West suspects Tehran is secretly seeking to acquire nuclear bombs. Read more
db: This is more Cheney bullshit for US feeding. Tehran has - 100's of times - declared that it has no interest in the military application of nuclear technology. You may choose not to believe them, which is a different conversation. The point is that the US seeks to deny Iran its legal right under the NPT to develop a civilian programme. Cheney is doing what he does best - misleading his domestic audience.
Kazakhstan gave up the nuclear arsenal it inherited from the Soviet Union shortly after independence in 1991, a move that still wins the vast but sparsely populated state praise in the West 15 years on.
Iran, like Kazakhstan, says it wants to develop a civilian nuclear programme but the West suspects Tehran is secretly seeking to acquire nuclear bombs. Read more
db: This is more Cheney bullshit for US feeding. Tehran has - 100's of times - declared that it has no interest in the military application of nuclear technology. You may choose not to believe them, which is a different conversation. The point is that the US seeks to deny Iran its legal right under the NPT to develop a civilian programme. Cheney is doing what he does best - misleading his domestic audience.
posted by exoplanet at 12:42 PM
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