Russia is looking after its economic interests. They have a lot at stake, ... China is so ideologically opposed that the most you can get out of them is an abstention. |
sticking his tongue out at the world in essence. |
suspicions increase that Iraq was going to try to use it in a nuclear weapons program. |
That somehow they can't shut up -- that they're dangerous, ... That somehow you get them in a room and they are just going to start spouting classified information to somebody who is an enemy of the United States. |
That's not easy. The United States and Britain don't know where to find these people. There's no telephone book in Baghdad. |
That's what we think is new, that you could go buy some centrifuge design information through the Indian procurement system. |
That’s historically been its position and that’s one of the big unknowns, whether it will change its mind before the actual vote, but I don’t see Russia going into this Board of Governors meeting and saying 'we don’t want Iran to go to the Security Council' and making a big effort to stop it unless something else happens because I don’t think Russia wants to put itself in opposition to the Europeans and the United States on this, |
The evidence points to the need for a very tough discussion with Iraq, where they have to produce evidence that this chlorine was truly for civilian purposes, and I think they are going to have a tough time. |
The IAEA ... won't know where these thousands of centrifuge components are. If you move them out from where inspectors can go, you can much more easily build a centrifuge plant in secret. |
The IAEA... won't know where these thousands of centrifuge components are. If you move them out from where inspectors can go, you can much more easily build a centrifuge plant in secret. |
The key question is whether Iran is going to back down or harden its position. |
The problem isn't that the INC was dishonest, per se. What it is, is that they were willing to believe anything bad about Saddam Hussein that could help their cause of regime change, |
The program appears to have existed a long time and that is one of the things that has to give you pause is that they have been thinking about this for a long time. |
The scientists have to worry about their future, and they may opt to leave Iraq looking for a better future ... there may be some scientists who have a deep grudge against the United States. Who knows [if they] are going to try to find some way to get revenge? |
The trouble is that when they say they'll give it serious study, it doesn't mean they'll accept it. |