Senior Nuclear Weapons Experts on the Team
The IAEA nuclear inspectors arrived in Tehran early Sunday local time for a mission expected to focus on Iran's alleged attempt to develop nuclear weapons.
The IAEA team includes two senior weapons experts - Jacques Baute of France and Neville Whiting of South Africa. The high-level delegation is led by IAEA Deputy Director General Herman Nackaerts. Also on the team is Rafael Grossi, IAEA chief Yukiya Amano's principal aid. The composition of the team suggests that IAEA may expect the Iranians to be ready to discuss questions about parts of their program that IAEA suspects to be nuclear weapons-related.
'SANCTIONS MADE IRAN A CENTER OF POWER'
ReplyDeleteA senior Turkish politician says Western sanctions have turned the Islamic Republic of Iran into a “center of power” in the Middle East region, Press TV reports.
Felicity Party Deputy Chairman Mustafa Yilmaz, in an interview with Press TV's Ankara correspondent on Sunday, said that the main reason why sanctions were imposed on Iran is that Israel and the West were disturbed by the Islamic Revolution because they “had lost a state that was under their control and a country was born that confronted them as a new center of power.”
"Iran, under sanctions, achieved the capability to produce its own technology and to develop its own national defense industry. If such sanctions were not imposed on Iran, and just like Turkey and other Muslim nations it was told 'we will provide you with aircraft, missiles, and drones,' today it would have been impossible to talk about an Iran that has become a center of power in the region,” Yilmaz stated.
“I believe that the sanctions imposed on Iran will not be fruitful and effective” for the West, he added.
People who consider themselves the friends of Iran should stop telling the Iranian people that the present sanctions imposed against their country are the best things that could have happened to them. Either they are ignorant of the economic life inside Iran, or are trying to mislead people on purpose. There is not an iota of evidence showing the sanctions are “helping” the country’s industry. If Iran has been able to achieve technological breakthrough in nuclear and arms industry it has not been because of the sanctions, but despite of them, saying volumes for the entrepreneurial spirit and high level of education among the citizenry. Rest assured, that without sanctions they would have achieved much more. The people should not need sanctions to work hard and intelligently; that’s actually an insult to their spirit and intelligence. They do not need friends like this Turkish gentleman to mislead them otherwise.
ReplyDeletePeople who consider themselves the friends of Iran should stop telling the Iranian people that the present sanctions imposed against their country are the best things that could have happened to them. Either they are ignorant of the economic life inside Iran, or are trying to mislead people on purpose. There is not an iota of evidence showing the sanctions are “helping” the country’s industry. If Iran has been able to achieve technological breakthrough in nuclear and arms industry it has not been because of the sanctions, but despite of them, saying volumes for the entrepreneurial spirit and high level of education among the citizenry. Rest assured, that without sanctions they would have achieved much more. The people should not need sanctions to work hard and intelligently; that’s actually an insult to their spirit and intelligence. They do not need friends like this Turkish gentleman to mislead them otherwise.
ReplyDeleteAnti-Iran dudes like to go around urging the West to put sanctions on Iran. But when the sanctions fail to have the desired effect and rather the opposite, they begin to spew propaganda..Mr. Nader, will you have responded differently if this very statement by the Turkish guy rather came from a US official?
I thought "progressive" Iranians admire the Turkish model a lot?? No?? They all seem to hide in Turkey so they can live in their Western utopia.
Now back to basics..Turkey will take advantage of Western government stupidity and their lack of courage to pursuit any meaningful dialogue(Diplomacy) with the Iranian government.Hoping for regime change won't cut it and don't hold your breathe on that. Turkey's reaping a windfall of cash that could've been going to Western banks in oil payments.Why should they change something they're also benefiting from??
So yes, the Turkish guy's right to say Western sanctions have turned the Islamic Republic of Iran into a “center of power” in the Middle East region.They've seen the benefits.
They paid this Turkish charlatan a lot of money to say that nonsense.
ReplyDeleteWhere is our $18 Billion that this regime transported by truck to Turkey?
Anon 3:25 AM
ReplyDeleteWhat are you blabbing on about "anti Iran dudes"?
Just because people don't support a blood thirsty regime doesn't mean they are anti Iran.
So any German that didn't support the NAZI party and Hitler is anti German?
If you like it or not the majority of Iranians in Iran and abroad hate the Islamic regime if you can't see that it's your problem.
3:25 AM,
ReplyDeleteYou have reprinted my comments, but aside from that I am not clear what your objections are to those comments. Do you agree with me that the Iranian people do not need the pressure of sanctions to be creative and hard working? Do you agree with me that the suggestion that sanctions were necessary to make the country strong is actually an insult to the intelligence, hard work and entrepreneurial spirit of the Iranian people? Which of the assertions made by me here do you consider anti-Iran? Who is anti-Iran?