Iran's "Hope" Satellite

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...satellite.html

Today Iran's leader "Am-in-a dinner-jacket" was delighted by his new ICBM...i mean...er "Hope" Satellite.

"Hope it hits Is-real, or the US he said later".
Mike

[metalman]

Re: Iran's "Hope" Satellite

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...satellite.html

Today Iran's leader "Am-in-a dinner-jacket" was delighted by his new ICBM...i mean...er "Hope" Satellite.

"Hope it hits Is-real, or the US he said later".
Mike

iran... one of many ticking time bombs.

any good news out there? we need a good news thread or something. i'm not only puked out from the bailouts... i'm shell shocked from all the bad econ news.

[D-Mack]

Re: Iran's "Hope" Satellite

Why not just give them some icbm's, they still have a common enemy :cool:

SEC. GATES: Well, I think that – I think, frankly, we need more help from the Europeans,
from some of the other countries around the world that do business with Iran.
The measures that have been taken are having some impact – economic impact in Iran. And
maybe that impact will be magnified by $62 oil, as opposed to $147 oil. And I really believe that we
need to focus on the political and economic pressures. I think that if you could have a verifiable
arrangement that the Iranians had forsworn nuclear weapons in a nuclear-warhead program that the
other countries, the international community would probably be willing to work with the Iranians in
terms of figuring out a way where they could get enriched uranium for civil power – civil nuclear
power, where there have been talks about them using a Russian-enriched uranium bank and so on.Page 14

And if we could get verifiable arrangements to all of that, I don’t think that the international
community is concerned about Iran having civil nuclear power to produce electricity. What worries
us is their apparent intention to develop nuclear weapons. I believe they are determined to develop
nuclear weapons at this point. I think that pressures from the international community and
pressures that cause them – economic pressures that cause them difficulty at home still have
promise in terms of getting them to make a policy decision to go in another direction. And it
probably involves also some kind of assurances with respect to security.
The key, though, is getting them to stop the enrichment process and then beginning to see
what we can work out. I think there is potential there, but so far, they have not shown much
interest in it.
I will tell you, you know, there has been a lot of conversation about this. I have spent 30
years in the search for the elusive Iranian moderate. When Jessica and I were working together
under Dr. Brzezinski – I was with Zbig when he was at the 25th
anniversary of the Algerian
revolution. And we got word that the Iranian leadership wanted to meet with him. This was
October 1979. And Zbig got permission to do this. So we met with the prime minister, defense
minister and foreign minister of the new Iranian revolutionary government. I think it was the first
senior-level meeting with the Iranian leadership since the revolution.
And Brzezinski laid it all out. He said we will sell you the weapons that we had contracted to
sell the shah. We will recognize your revolution. We will work with you because we have a
common enemy to your north, the Soviet Union. And he laid it all out in strategic terms for them.
They said give us the shah. It went back and forth like that for about two hours. And finally,
Brzezinski got up, turned to them and said, “to give you the shah would be a violation of our
national honor.” That ended the meeting. Three days later, they seized the embassy. And two
weeks later, all three of those guys were out of power. Thus began the American attempt to reach
out to the revolutionary regime in Iran.
And the truth of the matter is every American administration since then has tried to reach
out, sometimes with catastrophic consequences if you remember the Reagan administration.
(Laughter.)
Yes?
Q: Mike Wheeler, DTRA. Mr. Secretary, since Harry Truman gave his Navy Day speech
shortly after Nagasaki, then the Eisenhower administration began grappling with some of the most
intractable problems, namely, not only how do you prevent proliferation and once proliferation
takes place, how do you minimize misunderstandings between companies that have nuclear
stockpiles, but how do you actually have shared responsibility for nuclear-weapons matters? That
has been an extraordinarily difficult problem to deal with.
My question to you, sir, is whether or not you see the potential for shared activities on
nuclear terrorism with states like China and Russia perhaps being an intellectual framework in which
one can not immediately, but over time, move toward this wider issue of not merely understanding Page 15

one another, eliminating misunderstandings, seeking stability, but having some sense of what shared
responsibility is over the longer term for the nuclear-weapon endeavor

http://www.carnegieendowment.org/fil...es_checked.pdf

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Re: Iran's "Hope" Satellite

oh, but that was ever so long ago... now russia's our friend!