But many of the centrifuge machines will crash upon start-up anyway, so contamination may be the least of Iran's worries. |
by taking the minimal half-step to prevent being sent to the docket in New York. |
Even if this is exaggerated, they are close to (enrichment ability) and the world faces a new reality. |
For the first time the Security Council will be able to consider enforcement measures and Iran for the first time will have to face the prospect of paying the cost for the path it is on. |
I don't know that it (resuming talks) means much more than that the date of confrontation is postponed as long as Iran is not yet resuming its enrichment work. |
Iran is moving faster than some observers had expected. It appears to be determined to establish news facts on the ground, a functioning enrichment capability, before it is faced with Security Council action. |
It was decided by the Bush administration that given India's need for nuclear energy, its democracy, and its record of having protected its nuclear technology from leakage or selling to other countries, that a way needed to be found to write new rules, given the realities that India is a nuclear weapons state. |
It will be very difficult to erase the knowledge they have achieved. |
it will corrode centrifuge machines over time. |
Once they begin enrichment they have crossed a red line. |
The [Bush] administration is looking at it seriously, not for using it today but if all else fails, as a last option. |
The deal reverses in many ways 40 years of U.S. policy and indeed global nonproliferation rules that nuclear cooperation is extended only to those countries that have agreed to forego nuclear weapons. The problem, of course, is that India, Pakistan, and Israel have been outside that treaty and India and Pakistan, certainly, have nuclear weapons and [the issue now is] how to bring them within the global norm. |
The dollar's a little weaker because Miyazawa retracted some of his comments, indicating there may be a need for foreign exchange intervention, |
The dollar's a little weaker because Miyazawa retracted some of his comments, indicating there may be a need for foreign exchange intervention. |
The Europeans can be patient and I'm sure that they appreciated that the confrontation was postponed beyond the Christmas season. |