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EU: Too Soon To Talk About Sanctions On Iran

From the easily duped Associated Press:

A view of the Arak heavy-water project 120 miles southwest of Tehran August 26, 2006. Iran President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad launched a new phase in the Arak heavy-water reactor project on Saturday, despite Western fears it is aimed at producing a bomb.

EU: Too Early for Sanctions Against Iran

By ROBERT WIELAARD, Associated Press Writer

Friday, September 1, 2006

LAPPEENRANTA, Finland (AP) — The European Union said Friday it was too early to impose sanctions on Iran for its failure to halt uranium enrichment by a U.N.-imposed deadline, and announced it would be meeting early next week with Iran's top nuclear negotiator.

"For the EU, diplomacy remains the No. 1 way forward," said Finnish Foreign Minister Erkki Tuomioja, whose country holds the rotating EU presidency. He told a news conference "this is not the time or place" for the international community to hit Iran with sanctions over its nuclear program.

Iran defied a Thursday U.N. Security Council deadline to stop uranium enrichment, raising the prospect of U.N. economic and other sanctions. In Tehran, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad reiterated that his country would not be bullied into giving up what he called Iran's right to nuclear technology.

U.S. President George W. Bush said Thursday that Iran has responded with defiance and delay to demands to stop enriching uranium. In Russia, Foreign Ministry spokesman Mikhail Kamynin said Moscow regrets Iran's decision, and Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Moscow would propose ways to resolve the standoff, suggesting that strong sanctions would be counterproductive, Russian news agencies said.

Tuomioja said if Iran indeed seeks negotiations, "then we have to see what the conditions are." "We are still, all of us, wanting to engage Iran seriously," he said at a meeting of EU foreign ministers in Finland. U.S. and other officials have said no action will be sought against Tehran before European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana meets with Ali Larijani, Iran's top nuclear negotiator, next week to seek a compromise…

Gosh, we never saw this coming.

And never mind this earlier story from the "Paper Of Treason," the New York Times:

Highly Enriched Uranium Found at Iranian Plant - New York Times

By ELAINE SCIOLINO
September 1, 2006

VIENNA, Aug. 31 — The global nuclear monitoring agency deepened suspicions on Thursday about Iran’s nuclear program, reporting that inspectors had discovered new traces of highly enriched uranium at an Iranian facility.

Inspectors have found such uranium, which at extreme enrichment levels can fuel bombs, twice in the past. The International Atomic Energy Agency concluded that at least some of those samples came from contaminated equipment that Iran had obtained from Pakistan.

But in this case, the nuclear fingerprint of the particles did not match the other samples, an official familiar with the inspections said, raising questions about their origin.

In a six-page report to the United Nations Security Council on Thursday, the agency withheld judgment about where the material came from and whether it could be linked to a secret nuclear program…

Let's not be too hasty now.

We don’t want to make Mr. Ahmadinejad "mad."

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This article was posted by Steve Gilbert on Friday, September 1st, 2006 at 1:57 pm. You can leave a response.

9 Responses to “EU: Too Soon To Talk About Sanctions On Iran”

  1. mathews
    September 1st, 2006 at 2:12 pm

    doesnt EU mean France?

  2. dulcimergrl
    September 1st, 2006 at 2:27 pm

    No, you have the spelling wrong…EWWWWW means France! ;-)

  3. johnx
    September 1st, 2006 at 4:20 pm

    I have given up on the world stopping Iran’s nuclear program so here is a AP story about France’s immigration woes instead. Mass evictions, deportations, detention centers and France’s secret weapon: pay ‘em to leave. Wheres the open borders crowd now?

    Sarkozy’s immigration crackdown has been inspired by worries that many newcomers are not integrating — as witnessed by three weeks of riots in France’s poor, immigrant-heavy neighborhoods last fall — and by broad concerns that immigrants poach welfare benefits and jobs in a country where unemployment hovers around 9 percent.

    Those fears have long been the domain of the extreme-right, but Sarkozy says mainstream politicians must not shy away from them.

    The government has offered payments to illegal immigrants who agree to return home, such as $6,300 for a family of four with young children. Sarkozy championed a new law that makes it harder for foreigners to bring their families here, but easier for those with special talents.

    Angering human rights groups, he pledged to deport families of illegals unless they could prove their school-age children had strong ties to France. By an August deadline, the Interior Ministry received almost 30,000 applications from people hoping to stay. Sarkozy said authorities expected to approve only 6,000.

    In Cachan, aid groups say that up to 200 people are crammed into the gymnasium, about half of them illegal immigrants, many of them children. Pressure is building: With the school year starting Monday, the mayor of Cachan wants his gymnasium back.

    Regional officials have offered to put the immigrants up in hotels, or to move them as a group to temporary housing. But they are holding out for a better offer. The group doesn’t want to separate for fear they will lose negotiating power, and they want to be close to public transportation so they can get to jobs, schools and supermarkets.

    More at the link

  4. AmericanIPA
    September 1st, 2006 at 5:48 pm

    Why should Iran stop it’s nuclear program? It’s not like anyone is going to do anything about it besides talk, talk, talk. Ahmadinejad knows that he is in a position of power now. And, as that last post by johnx once again illustrates, muslims as a whole can see that they hold great sway with their biggest weapon: guilt. Western countries are so afraid of insulting muslims by saying or doing anything perceived as “anti-muslim”, they are willing to sell their own best interests out just to keep muslims quiet and satisfied. But the problem is that they aren’t ever satisfied, are they?

    All of this talk from the UN has allowed (and will continue to allow) Iran ample time to build a nuclear warhead which will truly have us all by the short hairs soon. The UN specializes in letting small, manageable problems grow into devastating ones. And the US still allows this to happen. How much longer will we be a part of this worthless body of diplomatic dingleberries?

  5. stir crazy
    September 1st, 2006 at 7:50 pm

    Shorthairs and dingleberries seems to pretty well sum up the whole discussion on Iran and nuclear weapons. I keep hoping for someone with a brain and the cajones to take on these guys, the treasonous left, and the wimpy Euros.

  6. sheehanjihad
    September 1st, 2006 at 8:40 pm

    Iran’s government is laughing so hard right now, high fiving each other, and slapping each other on the back….they cannot believe their good fortune. Spineless pussies in charge of the West. They know they will be able to go forward with their nuclear program, and…and….destroy at least a portion of Israel before anything will happen to them.

    When the launch the nukes against Israel….the EU, and the UN will issue a proclamation stating that this time, Iran will positivly not be invited to the Ambassador’s Ball this year! Not at all! Only when they stop being bad will they be allowed to play bridge in the game room at the UN….but only then!!

  7. 1sttofight
    September 1st, 2006 at 8:45 pm

    I am looking forward that ominous silence after they launch and their missles that are shot down and the new sunrise is observed in the east at 2 am.

    Will they have time to say, Oh Shit?

  8. sheehanjihad
    September 1st, 2006 at 8:57 pm

    Hopefully, they will have time to record their last words….so the Sheehan’s of the world can understand the true meaning of death. Iranian government will start a world war. We will finish it. Wait…depends on which party is in power, doesnt it? Damn…..

  9. DEZ
    September 1st, 2006 at 9:59 pm

    Will somebody please toss me the nuclear football?
    Its not to soon to talk sanctions, Its to late.
    Sanctions have proven time and again not to deter a damn thing.
    Even nut jobs like Ahmadinejad know good and well that the sanctions will not slow his sale of oil even a little.
    Even if sanction’s were to hurt his economy, He will cash in on the humanitarian aid flowing in.
    Ahmadinejad has one thing in mind, And it sure as hell isn’t his peoples well being.
    The U.N. has never in my opionion been anything but a joke and a costly one.


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