US will foil Iran's nuclear ambitions: Kurtzer (war drums for Iran)

US will foil Iran's nuclear ambitions: Kurtzer

Press Trust of India

Jerusalem, March 25, 2005|19:46 IST

Amid efforts by the EU to come to an agreement with Iran on the latter's nuclear policy, United States has said it would "not wait forever" and would foil the Islamic republic's "nuclear ambitions."

United States doesn't have "unlimited" patience with Iran and does not dismiss the possibility of carrying out a strike on its nuclear facilities, US Ambassador to Israel Dan Kurtzer told foreign ministry officials in a closed door meeting last week, a media report said on Saturday.

Kurtzer said that the US would not wait forever for the Europeans to come to an agreement with Tehran and would take steps to foil the Islamic Republic's nuclear ambitions, according to the daily 'Yediot Ahronot'.

"Iran had better get the message," Kurtzer said and added, "the missiles haven't yet been fired, but that doesn't mean they won't be if the Iranians don't stop their attempt to develop nuclear weapons."

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http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_1294973,00050004.htm

Iran is NOT allowed to plan for "beyond oil" with Nuclear energy much like other countries ARE today (ask Italy).

SO.....let's see...market sucks...economy sucks...recession coming...time to blame it on another WAR.

Take it with a pillar of salt.

But, every word could be true. Anyone seen Kurtzer's statement reported in Yediot Ahronot, or elsewhere?

If SCIRI and the Badr Brigades are mobilized, that's it for the occupation.

(which is really the bidding of Ariel Sharon). Or suffer the consequences. That's a hell of an offer!

Gyre

But he smells of AEI/PNAC/JINSA/OSP Likudnik crud .....

It used to be that US foreign policy was centered in the US, NOT Israel, like it is now ...

and now he's not? Does that mean we bomb tomorrow or what?

Israel Has the Right to Retain Settlements: US

GAZA, 26 March 2005 — The US ambassador to Israel asserted yesterday that Washington supported the idea of Israel retaining large Jewish settlement blocks in the West Bank under a final peace deal with the Palestinians. But Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice seemed to contradict that when she said Israel’s plan to expand a West Bank settlement was “at odds with American policy” and could threaten peace with the Palestinians.

“US policy is the support that the president has given for the retention by Israel of the major Israeli population centers as an outcome of negotiations,” Ambassador Dan Kurtzer told Israel public radio.

His comments prompted a furious response from the Palestinians, with chief negotiator Saeb Erekat charging that Washington had no right to negotiate on behalf of the Palestinians.

“The United States cannot negotiate in the name of the Palestinian people. What President George W. Bush has promised Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is unacceptable,” he said. “Settlement is illegal throughout the West Bank.”

http://www.arabnews.com/?page=4§ion=0&article=61093&d=26&m=3&y=2005

I don't want to have to explain to my Persian grandmother, in Tehran, why some dumbshit wants to blow up her country. Furthermore, I really don't want to see what will happen if we put troops on the ground...Iraq will look like a picnic.

Irritated, annoyed, you bet.