Bushehr: Iran's strike against sanctions
Atimes / Kaveh L Afrasiabi
24-Aug-2010 (6 comments)

"Completion of the project is another sign that the international sanctions are not working," Jerusalem Post Editorial

The much-delayed nuclear power plant in the southern Iranian city of Bushehr was uploaded with nuclear fuel on Saturday, the first step toward the Russian-built plant going online next month. This realizes a long-sought objective of Iran that at times seemed imperiled by costly delays and efforts by the United States and Israel to convince Moscow to stop it opening until Iran had complied with United Nations sanctions resolutions.

United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has repeatedly stated that in Washington's opinion Bushehr should open only if Iran reassured the world it wouldn't be enriching uranium, or if its behavior changed as a result of international sanctions.

By all indications, Iran remains defiant. Alaedin Boroujerdi, the head of parliament's national security and foreign policy committee, categorically stated that the "issues of uranium enrichment and national security are interconnected". In other words, freezing the enrichment activity would pose national security risks to the country.

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Cyclebackward! It takes one

by IranMilitaryForum.net on Wed Aug 25, 2010 08:33 PM PDT

to know one I guess!

;-)


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Sargord Pirouz

Cyclid: As stated many times

by Sargord Pirouz on Wed Aug 25, 2010 06:24 PM PDT

Cyclid:

As stated many times previously, I accept Iran for what it is, politically and socially. In that regard, I am a realist.

That's why I value objective analysis (of the type that Afrasiabi advances) over advocacy pieces masquerading as such, which seek to promote an imagined Iran based primarily on biased, wishful thinking.


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cyclicforward

SP

by cyclicforward on Wed Aug 25, 2010 05:18 PM PDT

You must agree with me that the government of Iran is a fasist government that oppresses it's people. Why is it that you support them. That I don't get at all.

 


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Sargord Pirouz

What I prize about

by Sargord Pirouz on Wed Aug 25, 2010 03:30 PM PDT

What I prize about Afrasiabi's articles is that they usually provide perspectives from Iran-based analysts, such as political scientists from TU.

That's been the weakness of the majority of Iranian-American analysts these days- they seem to have all burned their bridges, post 2009 election. But not so, Afrasiabi. 


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Iraneh Azad

He is a lier as well

by Iraneh Azad on Wed Aug 25, 2010 03:22 PM PDT

All the BS about him being beaten up. He stinks from all his lies.


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cyclicforward

Afrasiabi is a whore

by cyclicforward on Wed Aug 25, 2010 03:09 PM PDT

Just like yourself IMF.


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