Tue Mar 25, 10:02 AM ET WASHINGTON (AFP) - Vice President Dick Cheney on Monday said Iran was developing a uranium enrichment program for military purposes.
“Obviously, they’re … heavily involved in trying to develop nuclear weapons enrichment, the enrichment of uranium to weapons grade levels,” Cheney said in an interview with ABC television transcribed by the White House.
Cheney, however, did not mention on what he based his accusation.
The United States and its European allies have led efforts to pressure Iran into freezing its disputed uranium enrichment work, a process that can be used both to make nuclear fuel and the core of an atomic bomb.
Tehran insists its program is peaceful.
The UN Security Council recently imposed a third set of sanctions against Iran over its refusal to halt its nuclear activities.
Washington has stepped up pressure to halt Tehran’s uranium enrichment program ever since a US intelligence report in December said Iran did have, in effect, a covert nuclear weapons program but that it was stopped in 2003.
The report, which the White House interpreted as confirming its suspicions about Iran’s secret ambition, increased skepticism over Washington’s warnings that began after the Iraq war did not yield the weapons of mass destruction the US had predicted.
Give it a rest Mr. Cheney, the disaster of Iraq was quite enough. Then too we were told that Iraq has WMDs and is in the process of obtaining Yellow Cake from an african nation.
Iraq war hasn’t even ended yet, the death toll is up to 4000 already. And the propaganda machine and the same rhetoric is still in the air. How do these guys sleep at night?
But hopefully this doesn't turn out to be the 'fire fire" Matilda story.
The dumbos ruling Iran are as dangerous as Cheney and co
cheney is already responsible for the deaths of 10s of thousands of innocent iraqis and afghanis...tell me how many have been killed by the dumbos ruling iran?
After the lies about the Iraqi WMDs emanating from the US regime people still believe what comes out of there?
As Ramsey Clark said - the worst thing since the 2nd WW is American foreign policy.
and pray tell; why would we wanna bring the gov down anyway? because its islamic in its nature, or too haughty for the 'masters'? eitherway its pretty shallow folks imo. And from someone whose been there, done that... she seems pretty foine to me as she is.
and pray tell; why would we wanna bring the gov down anyway? because its islamic in its nature, or too haughty for the 'masters'? eitherway its pretty shallow folks imo. And from someone whose been there, done that... she seems pretty foine to me as she is.
A regime that hangs gays, adulterers, victims of rape must be wiped out. Such regimes have no place in the modern world.
Yeah but the government that Nukes two cities, makes hundreds of thousands of people suffer from radiation, naplams countless villages and thousands of people and burns people alive. Yeah, that regime must be kept in power.
Iran has every right to buy and sell whatever it wants. Sovereignty is the right of every nation state.
A regime that hangs gays, adulterers, victims of rape must be wiped out. Such regimes have no place in the modern world.
k then dont let me stop you sweetheart. go fetch your tin hat and go... lets see what youre really made off... and send us a postcard when you get there luv, would love to see how you really get on.
Yeah but the government that Nukes two cities, makes hundreds of thousands of people suffer from radiation, naplams countless villages and thousands of people and burns people alive. Yeah, that regime must be kept in power.
Iran has every right to buy and sell whatever it wants. Sovereignty is the right of every nation state.
A regime that kills hundreds of thousands of people in Iraq, Vietnam, and Japan is even more evil, and has no place in the modern world.
