NationStates Jolt Archive


This doesn't make sense...

Remote Observer
10-04-2007, 20:35
http://www.sundayherald.com/international/shinternational/display.var.1315247.0.iran_has_shares_in_french_nuclear_facility.php

Mycle Schneider, the Paris-based nuclear consultant who wrote the report for the MEPs, was shocked by what he discovered. "The continuous deep involvement of Iran in the world's largest multinational uranium enrichment plant in France is the perfect illustration of the stunning level of hypocrisy that has governed the non-proliferation treaty," he said

Doesn't make a lot of sense to me... WTF is up with France?

The point was reinforced by Dr David Lowry, a nuclear proliferation specialist based in Surrey. "The hypocrisy of France, as a nuclear technology supplier to Iran, ganging up on its customer client with the other self-appointed permanent bully-boy' members of the UN Security Council would be funny if it wasn't so serious," he said.

Yes, we'll show you how to do it, involve you in doing it, and then say you're bad, bad, bad for doing it...

And for those of you who think there's such a thing as peaceful enrichment of fissile materials, I give you something I can absolutely agree with:

Rebecca Harms, vice-president of the Green group in the European parliament, said: "It's time to stop pretending that there is a fundamental difference between the peaceful atom and nuclear weapons. It is not only operating uranium enrichment facilities that provide the basis for a nuclear weapons programme, it is nuclear technology and know-how that paves the way to the bomb."

Nuff said.
Remote Observer
10-04-2007, 20:41
Nothing illegal about that.

I'm not saying it's illegal - it just seems completely irrational.
Newer Burmecia
10-04-2007, 20:41
Nothing illegal about that.
Newer Burmecia
10-04-2007, 20:53
I'm not saying it's illegal - it just seems completely irrational.
It'd call it more ironic than irrational. If it's privately owned, anyone can invest in it, including the Iranian government. If the French start blacking ownership of their energy sector for political reasons, they'll get moaned at for interfering with the economy. If they don't, they'll get moaned at for associating with Iran. It's a lose-lose situation for them.
The_pantless_hero
10-04-2007, 21:39
I'm not saying it's illegal - it just seems completely irrational.

When has that stopped any government?