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Tuesday, October 30, 2007
"This nation will not negotiate with anyone over its obvious and legal rights," Ahmadinejad told student members of the Basij religious militia, the official IRNA news agency reported.
"We are not even interested in negotiating with you (the United States) and the Iranian nation does not need America."
That's interesting, Ahmadinejad. We've advanced to a new level of non-negotiation. Because lines are being drawn for this conflict...
The United States, Britain and France are preparing to debate a third set of sanctions against the Islamic republic in response to Tehran's refusal to halt uranium enrichment. Iran has rejected two U.N. Security Council resolutions requiring it to halt its enrichment program. U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Zalmay Khalilzad said the five veto-wielding members of the Security Council along with Germany have begun negotiations in their capitals on a new resolution targeting Iran. The goal is to get an agreement on suspending enrichment and answers to issues raised by ElBaradei, Khalilzad said. "We believe that the Iranian nuclear issues is ... a defining issue of our time," he said. "It cannot be acceptable for it to develop the capability to produce nuclear weapons." Last week, the Bush administration announced a new set of sanctions targeting the Iranian military and state-owned banking systems in hopes of raising pressure on the world financial system to cut ties with Tehran.On the Other Side? Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov meets with Ahmadinejad today... "A short working visit of the [foreign] minister to Iran is scheduled for Tuesday," Mikhail Kamynin said. For to discuss the nuclear 'problems' Iran is stirring up. Or... to finalize a working agreement? Seems to me that Russia is very close to treaty alignment with Iran against the western powers. Will we see a treaty? Russia is rattling sabers again...
VLASIKHA (Moscow Region), October 26 (RIA Novosti) - Russia's Strategic Missile Forces will conduct five launches of intercontinental ballistic missiles by the end of 2007, the SMF commander said Friday. "By the end of this year, we will test launch another five missiles, including a RS-18 (SS-19 Stiletto), a RS-12M (SS-25 Sickle), a missile interceptor and a heavy RS-20 (SS-18 Satan)," Colonel General Nikolai Solovtsov told a news conference. He said that seven ICBM launches had been conducted so far in 2007 to test the performance of a new RS-24 missile with multiple warheads, extend the service life of RS-18 and RS-25 missiles and lift payloads into orbit. He also said five regiments of an SMF division in the Saratov Region have been equipped with silo-based Topol-M (SS-27) systems and put on combat duty. A complete regiment of silo-based Topol-M comprises ten missiles. The advanced Topol-M missile is considered by many experts as the best ICBM in the world at present. "Therefore, Russia already possesses weapons that can penetrate any modern missile defenses," Solovtsov said.
Hmmmph. Give 'em a chance to work out with a market economy, get their house in order, what do they do? Go right back to the 'old' habits of the USSR, building more missiles, getting into an arms race with the U.S. And picking up the slack of the world's enemies. I see definite sides forming, on the same old playing fields. Pushing and shoving again, with missiles and nuclear weapons.
If Russia comes out with a blanket "Order of Protection" treaty with Iran, we have the new Axis.
Is Israel doomed?
