IRAN warned today it would retaliate if the UN Security Council passed a resolution ordering it to stop sensitive nuclear work, but also made a fresh appeal for negotiations "without preconditions".
"Any harsh measures will face a proportionate reaction," foreign ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi said.
"If the other side chooses anything but the path of negotiations, our attitude will change accordingly," he added, without elaborating on how Tehran could retaliate.
The warning came as a draft resolution was circulated in the UN Security Council. If adopted, Iran would be legally obliged to suspend all uranium enrichment and reprocessing activities, at the centre of fears the country could acquire nuclear weapons.
Iran insists that it only wants to enrich uranium to make reactor fuel, and argues that this is a right under the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
We only want nuclear material for peaceful purposes, and if you don't let us have it, we will kill you.
2006-07-23 07:23:06 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Other - Politics & Government
We should never negotiate with "evil."
Foreign policy of appeasement only leads to more appeasement.(i.e. Israel/Palestine..)
2006-07-23 07:36:41 · answer #1 · answered by swampfox conservative 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
If you want to blame someone for that you should really start with our own governments role as that is the only thing we can change. If you kept waving a gun around me claiming you would shoot me if I purchased my own gun, do you honestly think that would make me less likely to buy one, when I know the only reason you can threaten me is because you have one and I don't?
I'm not saying I think Iran is bastion of morality, far from it. But I do think they we have a role as the sole superpower to lead the world by example not threaten it every time we want something. The problem now is that there is going to be blowback for these last 5 years and we will forget about all the damage we caused in context. Then there will be a whole new "they hate us for our freedom" campaign and we can go to war all over again. Rinse and repeat ad naseum, sorry world.
2006-07-23 14:34:11 · answer #2 · answered by Jared H 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Iranian retaliation won't be military. They know the world is against them and they couldn't win in a fight. Their retaliation will be purely economic. They'll stop selling oil for a day, maybe a week. That's all it would take and we would bow to their wishes.
2006-07-23 14:35:20 · answer #3 · answered by Tim 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋