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Iran will become nuclear nation in May

Published: 14 April, 2010, 09:31
Edited: 16 April, 2010, 05:53

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While most of the world is trying to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons, Iran has declared that it is expecting to join the nuclear club in May.

The statement comes from Behzad Soltani, deputy head of Iran’s atomic energy organization. He has come out to say that within one month Iran will become the newest member of the world nuclear club and that as soon as in May, Iran will become a “nuclear nation” that no other country will even think of launching an attack against.

Iranian Fares News Agency also quoted Mr Soltani as saying that Iran is now planning to expand its nuclear program for purposes other than energy and nuclear fuel production.

So far Iran has not been transparent and responsive on the matter of its nuclear program, which raised questions from the international community on whether Iran’s motives were of a peaceful nature.


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If Iran does not respond any time soon to the international community’s requests to be more open about its plans, the rest of the world may have to resort to new sanctions.

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CommieBastard April 16, 2010, 04:35
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This is officially becoming ridiculous. If Iran has voiced that it is planning on using nuclear technology for anything other than energy production, especially nuke creation, then why are they being babied so strongly? It seems that the world will be in danger soon, and she's not doing anything to defend herself. Turning Iran into glass is a better alternative then an aggressive nation like Iran developing a nuclear program that they plan to, undoubtedly, use against Israel and probably the rest of the world.

Freedom April 15, 2010, 15:49
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Karl, By the way, Kihnu lives in America in which he runs his own business which makes what he has to say even more funny. He left that hole he called a home and came to America to bash it at every chance he gets. It's pretty comical actually.

Karl April 15, 2010, 00:24
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Kihnu, are you a shill for shia theocracy? What keeps Iran primitive is not a lack of technology, but its own brand of Islamic theocracy. You want to know why capitalist democracies like the U.S., South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, India, Germany, have high GDP's, provide the world with technology and advance research? Because they are societies that allow for the marketplace of products, and the marketplace of ideas. Kihnu, you can thank the U.S. for providing you with the invention of the computer, which you use the internet (developed by the U.S.), and I'm sure you watch Youtube (another product of the U.S.). Or Twitter, which many young Iranians use. You can thank U.S. scientist for discovering the DNA strand, which has fast-forward science. But I suppose you advocate keeping women locked up in bee keeper suits, and executing men for simply being gay. I suppose you advocate a theocracy that discriminates against those who are not Shia, whether you be Christian, Jew, Bahai. In capitalist democracies such as South Korea, people freely interact to share DIFFERENT ideas, formulate those ideas, and materialize those ideas. South Korea has given us such great products from LG to Samsung to Hyundai. The Iranian theocracy suffocates individualism, and chokes of new ideas. It is Orwells 1984