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Dec 31, 2005, 6:06:23 PM12/31/05

AntiWar
December 31, 2005

Diplomatic Rout

Dr. James Gordon Prather
Nuclear weapons physicist
Nuclear bomb tester at Lawrence Livermore
Technical director of nuclear bomb testings at Sandia
Chief scientist of the U.S. Army
U.S. Navy veteran

To the consternation of Bush, Cheney, and Rice, at the end of 2004, Iran concluded a
$70 billion agreement with China, wherein state-owned Sinopec contracted to buy 250
million tons of LNG (Liquefied Natural Gas), help Iran develop its giant Yadavaran
field and construct related oil, gas and petrochemical facilities, including a
220-mile (350 kilometers) pipeline to link up with the partially completed Sino-Russo
state-owned Asian pipeline network, which will deliver more than 200,000 barrels per
day (BPD) next year – and more than a million bpd when completed – of
Iranian-Kazakstani-Russian oil to China.

To the consternation of Bush, Cheney, and Rice, at the end of 2005, Iran was
finalizing an agreement with India and Pakistan to construct – perhaps with the
assistance of Russia’s Gazprom – a multi-billion dollar natural gas pipeline to
deliver Iranian natural gas to Pakistan and India.

To the consternation of Bush, Cheney, and Rice, the Russians and Chinese continued to
support throughout 2005 Iran’s "INALIENABLE RIGHT" – guaranteed by the Article IV of
the Treaty on Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) – to enjoy "WITHOUT
DISCRIMINATION", nuclear energy, for peaceful purposes.
http://www.un.org/events/npt2005/npttreaty.html

In November, 2003, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director-General Mohamed
Elbaradei had reported that "to date, there is no evidence that the previously
undeclared nuclear material and activities … were related to a nuclear weapons
program".

In November, 2004, ElBaradei reported that "all the declared nuclear material in Iran
has been accounted for, and therefore such material is not diverted to prohibited
activities".

In spite of those certifications by ElBaradei, Bush, Cheney, and Rice continued to
insist throughout 2005 that Iran was – and had been for years – developing nuclear
weapons. Bush, Cheney, and Rice continued throughout 2005 to invoke sanctions on
U.S., European, Chinese and Russian entities who did business with Iran, particularly
in the energy sector.

Bush, Cheney, and Rice continued to insist throughout 2005 that it was incumbent upon
the IAEA Board of Governors to refer Iran’s "failure" to comply with its
"international obligations" to the UN Security Council for "possible action".

What "international obligations" were these neo-crazies talking about?

Last year, Iran voluntarily entered into negotiations with the British, French, and
Germans [E3], who purported to be negotiating on behalf of the European Union. Iran
voluntarily suspended for the duration of the negotiations all uranium-enrichment
activities.

The so-called Paris Agreement to negotiate explicitly stated that the EU/E3
recognized "that this suspension is a voluntary confidence building measure and not a
legal obligation".

Iranian officials made it clear (a) at the IAEA Board of Governors meetings in March
and June, (b) at the Seventh Review Conference of the Treaty in April, and (c) in
their Note Verbale to the IAEA of August 1st that any attempt by the EU/E3 to turn
their "VOLUNTARY" suspension of uranium enrichment activities into a cessation or
long term suspension would be "incompatible with the letter and spirit of the Paris
Agreement and therefore unacceptable to Iran".
http://www.iran-un.org/print.php?Section=PressReleases&ID=11

Bush, Cheney, and Rice strong-armed the EU/E3 into not only demanding that the
voluntary suspension of uranium-enrichment activities be made permanent, but that
Iran renounce almost totally its "INALIENABLE RIGHT" – guaranteed by the NPT, the
Iranian Safeguards Agreement and the Paris Agreement – to virtually all elements of
the nuclear fuel cycle.

Iran promptly resumed some IAEA safeguarded enrichment related activities voluntarily
suspended.

How did Bush, Cheney, and Rice respond?

Well, according to the Iranians:

"Regrettably, the EU3, pressed by the United States, adopted a path of
confrontation in the September 2005 IAEA Board of Governors meeting.

"In clear violation of their October 2003 and November 2004 commitments, the EU3
moved a politically motivated and factually and legally flawed resolution in the IAEA
Board of Governors, and together with the United States … imposed it on the Board.

"As the IAEA Board of Governors had underlined in its past and current
resolution, suspension "is a voluntary, non-legal binding confidence building
measure." When the Board itself explicitly recognizes that suspension is "not a
legally-binding obligation", no wording by the Board can turn this voluntary measure
into an essential element for anything.

"In fact the Board of Governors has no factual or legal ground, nor any
statutory power, to make or enforce such a demand, or impose ramifications as a
consequence of it".

The majority of the Board apparently agrees with the Iranians and it now appears
unlikely that the Board will ever refer this alleged failure to comply with its
"international obligations" to the Security Council.

Bush, Cheney, and Rice "diplomatic" strong-armed tactics also failed to prevent
development of the Sino-Russian oil-gas pipeline network in Asia.

Now, Russia’s Gazprom is threatening to shut down its natural gas pipeline – which
transits Ukraine on its way to Europe – on New Year’s Day unless the anti-Russian
Bush, Cheney, and Rice supported government in Ukraine shapes up.

Happy New Year, EU/E3.

* Physicist James Gordon Prather has served as a policy implementing official for
national security-related technical matters in the Federal Energy Agency, the Energy
Research and Development Administration, the Department of Energy, the Office of the
Secretary of Defense and the Department of the Army. Dr. Prather also served as
legislative assistant for national security affairs to U.S. Sen. Henry Bellmon,
R-Okla. --ranking member of the Senate Budget Committee and member of the Senate
Energy Committee and Appropriations Committee. Dr. Prather had earlier worked as a
nuclear weapons physicist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
(http://www.llnl.gov) in California and Sandia National Laboratory
(http://www.sandia.gov) in New Mexico. http://www.antiwar.com/prather

West has kept billions of Iran's EURODIF investments for 30 years
In 1975, Iran took a very costly 10% financial participation in EURODIF uranium
enrichment plant being built in France. Iran paid $1 billion towards the purchase of
a 10% share of ownership in EURODIF and agreed to buy a quota from the new plant. But
after the Iranian revolution in 1979, neither was Iran given any enriched uranium nor
did it get back its investment from EURODIF. The U.S. was also paid to deliver new
fuel and upgrade its power in accordance with a contract signed before the
revolution. U.S. gave neither the fuel nor the billions of dollars it had received
for it. Germany was paid for in full, billions of dollars for the two nuclear
facilities in Busher, but after three decades, Germany has refused to export any
equipments or refund the money.
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/0540800f7314f7b0

IAEA and Iran
http://www.iaea.org/NewsCenter/Focus/IaeaIran/index.shtml

Setting the Record Straight about Iran's Nuclear Program
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/a19f89b941a33707

Iranian nuke warheads
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/9d475a1b45c388d5

AIPAC statement on the U.S. administration's policy on Iran
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/0c5663f63d76e5c0

IAEA is doing Israel's bidding
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/953912efce75cbd9

Without Discrimination
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/e2a592e4c4c6fcf8

Nuclear terrorism
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/7254647c13390f5a

Islamic back-scratching
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/1f44f9a9ab778418

Those Crazy Mullahs
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/7a8e501fa56ff9d3

Neo-Crazies Already Planning Beyond Iran
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/470563f4bdf3cb36

Authoritative mis-information on Iran
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/66bbad26c0f03d49

"Stolen Iranian Laptop", GLADIO's new campaign of misinformation
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/f552c361c6d02dfc
Referring Nuke-Threats to Security Council
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/edd8971f345bb857

New York Times, Nuclear Weapons and Iran:
Stupidity, Laziness or Déjŕ vu All Over Again?
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/f2718b3d938eaed2
Iran's transparency
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/b385feaa1916d4d2

'Ahmadinejad's bombmaker' – where are you?
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/78343ab2a9b9a3e8

Whoops! There she goes again
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/6f573bd90d5e1ee1

Lump of Coal for Condi
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/d098e8d0fd41745a

Fixing and forging intelligence
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/4c6663c968fd5f6c

Clumsy forgeries, Italian style
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/75bf490e791b0806

Stifling neo-crazy media sycophants
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/8790e709a9a122b4

After 2 years of intrusive go-anywhere see-anything ask-anybody inspections!
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/a545047699722ca7

Nobel's peaceful kick to the groin
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/22f9662d106ce9c4

Bolton the Peacemaker
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/de17232f52db3933

Saving Face
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/7da8706c13c8a059

West does not seek the elimination of nukes, but rather the establishment of nuclear
monopoly
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/502efbdfaa7622f7

Unratified additional protocol
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/1b2b77819b38d9e3

The high price of hounding Iran
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/7c854d944d6e061d

Such a Blot
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/43ee2e2149e17310

Weapons of Mass Murder
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/0f3f87b645a72fde

Neocrazies Foiled
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/86df9c0e9c38d475

Iran knocks Europe out
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/497a81cb3c315c65

UN opens a Pandora's Box of "Iran exceptionalism"
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/24bfe5a318d9a222

There is Nothing to refer to UN Security Council
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/76824d9387903d4a

WMD Postmortem
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/0d02537756cafca8

No wonder the West is so mad at Iran
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/83e63797f1a1af3b

Bolton in a China Shop
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/9927bb4f65924e34

JEW media sycophants & 36% HEU - IRAN told the truth, yet JEW keeps lying
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/f90a6eef507f10a0

Past Arguments Don't Square With Current Iran Policy
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/f53d3a05bc5403c1

The fuel behind Iran's nuclear drive
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/2fcf81313deb4ae0

The U.S. and Iran: Democracy, Terrorism, and Nuclear Weapons
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/0d0dcf76abbaafb1

NO Nuclear double standards
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/8e41f4a8a1a3e04c

Backlash Builds Against Cheney's 'Guns of August'
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/8286b2b389247d0a

An offer Iran MUST refuse
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/743b96400831f8a1

Zero Tolerance
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/1641ae424fde5b89

Sino-Russian Guarantees?
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/bd8f5389ab0e8956

More neo-crazy media sycophant LIES about Iran
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/d3fe84a9b64d20bc

What The Neo-Crazies Knew
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/6b45fabf57726a03

EU vs. Iran - Who's Right?
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/cbce70a3093360fb

Iran should refer U.S. to Security Council for violating UNSCR-984
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/0d54ef8e41b971bf

Castration of NPT - U.S. instantly tore up NPT for India, so why should Iran obey a
torn up agreement!
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/2c234f4a148cd298

U.S. ripped NPT into pieces; Iran must withdraw from this annulled treaty
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/fbf55e939908b2c2

U.S. proliferation rhetoric and reality
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/7d8c268ee51c07be

Ambassador Bolton's Agenda
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/1ca916601b7a7bc8

Iran's INALIENABLE RIGHT to uranium enrichment
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/245f6081b4e3d019

A Palliative for Neo-Crazy Lies
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/1b7968f98173938d

Inalienable right without discrimination
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/5012a673328fa044

U.S. doesn't want to disarm even though it promised to do so
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/c0b86cad11cb9413

UN Referral – Not
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/bddc928154c8c96a

What Iranian obligations? What breaches? America's lies, lies, lies...
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/9535c4a90df98471

Memo to slimy senators
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/7065ffd57b51a959

U.S. promised in 2000, to get rid of it's nukes!
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/1e23bafecdac9e82

U.S. has violated Iran's NPT rights!
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/02f1f48fafcac2b6

Iran's diplomatic masterpiece
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/f532352654efee1d

Bush to sabotage NPT
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/6386adef83860d3e

West's repeated violations of "Article IV & I" against Iran
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/0123ceb12dd47321

Israel guns for Iran - Why?
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/2c0274540f3957b7

U.S. wants definition of NPT 'noncompliance' changed!!!
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/2abab5a7b8bce4c5

NTP for dummies
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/f317bb918ca244da

CNN's Wolf Blitzer & David Albright: Jews global campaign against Iran
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/44fcd2a53218eb52

The Real Threat From John Bolton
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/16fb61c3cca32703

81-mm smoking rockets
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/fb2c580ba00d79a6

U.S. plans to destroy NPT
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/760abaff1d8ac7c2

Nuts to Bush
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/de936f823b4dfb11

Iran's logic proven correct to the entire World
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/a5798de678dad2a9

Sandbagging the NSG (Nuclear Suppliers Group)
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/238000abe8fe032e

What Noncompliance?
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/32f537772749ecc2

Sandbagging the EU
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/bb437d1ee00ad1e9

Bye-Bye, NPT
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/eb8e9f617d0e0867

Jew tells Bush to lie about Iran
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/c96849f55f92353e

Targeting Non-existent Nukes?
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/e25e86754767e3ef

Blindly Backing Israel Against Iran
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/ca49370dcc1f41a4

Condi Desperate to Stop EU-China-Iran Chain Reaction
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/26e6a24b43339654

The Impossible Dream in the State of the Union Address
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/74938ea7958d0764

Targeting Iran
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/dbb46af7ff3f0b66

Bay of Pigs part 2, CIA-Israeli-MEK
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/b58f2a1d8b2290ff

Threatening Iran - despite the evidence
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/ce6e09919da68cbb

Virtual Nukes
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/c245e595ad17ae57

Iran's having the capability to enrich uranium is not even tantamount to having the
capability to produce the essentially pure uranium-235 required to make a nuke
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/303c3ca53b67c0a7

Dangerous Delusions About Iran
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/42c57f2ae0cdb3b0

Thwarting the Neo-Crazies
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/66c79d721fd588d4

Trashing the IAEA Again
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/f8c610f6cc9e1fda

U.S. keeps lying about Iran again & again
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/e9f480b192bd425e

Iran's Stealthy Nukes
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/e47cc87d2b268368

Uranium-Enrichment Myths Busted
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/f7ebc6f4bed9d13a

Iran Plays by the Rules - No Fair!
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/25be300601cc8984

Nuclear Bait and Switch
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/0a0dc80ca3b8e98f

The myth of Iranian nukes
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/bf78503a661673e9

North Korea has what Iraq didn't
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/56f613221080276e

Iran has absolute right to enrich uranium
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/0a8ac2dc599976ba

Iran is in full compliance with NPT & IAEA
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/737b74e86ba897cb