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Byron Canfield wrote:


> What, nuclear weapons aren't enough? The U.S. has no business pointing
> WMD-accusing fingers at other countries when we 

...have a Skerry plan to sell them nukes...

http://www.dawn.com/2004/10/04/top14.htm

'Iran won't surrender N-fuel technology'

TEHRAN, Oct 3: Iran said on Sunday it had already acquired the sensitive 
technology to produce its own nuclear fuel and that it would be 
"irrational" to agree to surrender such a capability in exchange for 
supplies from overseas.

Foreign ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi was reacting to US 
Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry, who has suggested 
providing Iran with nuclear fuel to generate electricity if the country 
agreed to give up its controversial work on the nuclear fuel cycle.

"One should not put one's fate in the hands of others. It would be 
irrational," Mr Asefi said. "We have the technology and there is no need 
for us to beg from others. This suggestion is good for countries that do 
not have this technology, but we do not need their generosity and help," 
he added.

In a debate with US President George W. Bush, Kerry said the United 
States should have joined a British-French-German initiative aimed at 
getting Iran to agree to stop work linked to the enrichment of uranium.

Fuel cycle work for peaceful purposes is permitted under the nuclear 
Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), of which Iran is a signatory, but the 
process can also be used to produce the core of an atomic bomb.


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