Iran...running out of clock...

[cronus]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-29957334

Iran failing to answer nuclear questions, says IAEA

Iran is failing to answer questions about its nuclear programme just weeks before a deadline for a deal with world powers, the global nuclear agency says.

The IAEA says Iran is complying with an agreement to curb uranium enrichment.

But a confidential IAEA report seen by the BBC says it has made no progress in its investigation into possible military dimensions of the programme.

US Secretary of State John Kerry is due to meet his Iranian counterpart in Oman for further talks at the weekend.

The meeting with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and former EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton comes ahead of the 24 November deadline to strike a landmark nuclear deal.

The BBC's Bethany Bell in Vienna says the IAEA's latest report could complicate efforts by US, Britain, France, Germany, Russia and China to reach an agreement with Iran.

They now have less than three weeks to try and end a decade-long standoff about Tehran's controversial nuclear activities, our correspondent adds.

(continued, explains the oil price being so low? flooded market before the price spike? thshtf before Christmas...?)

[mistermack]

Iran has no less right than Israel to make nuclear weapons.

In fact, it has more right, because it isn't a terrorist state.

[Svartalf]

anybody who funds hizbollah is a terrorist state.

[MiM]

Iran has no less right than Israel to make nuclear weapons.

Legally, that is not true. Iran has signed the Nuclear non-proliferation treaty, and thus signed away their rights to make nuclear wepons, Israel has not.

[cronus]

Rights and wrongs aside....grand finale in the air....

[mistermack]

Iran has no less right than Israel to make nuclear weapons.

Legally, that is not true. Iran has signed the Nuclear non-proliferation treaty, and thus signed away their rights to make nuclear wepons, Israel has not.

Iran has the legal right to break the conditions of the treaty. It's a sovereign state.
It's up to them if it complies or not. There is no international court.

The US is breaking the non-proliferation agreement by supplying the weapons material and technology to Israel under cover. That gives Iran the moral right to respond.

[mistermack]

anybody who funds hizbollah is a terrorist state.

During WW2, we funded the French resistance.
Nobody classed us as a terrorist state.

[Svartalf]

that's because we won, only because of that.

[JimC]

that's because we won, only because of that.

"The moral relativism of war"

[MiM]

Iran has no less right than Israel to make nuclear weapons.

Legally, that is not true. Iran has signed the Nuclear non-proliferation treaty, and thus signed away their rights to make nuclear wepons, Israel has not.

Iran has the legal right to break the conditions of the treaty. It's a sovereign state.
It's up to them if it complies or not. There is no international court.

The US is breaking the non-proliferation agreement by supplying the weapons material and technology to Israel under cover. That gives Iran the moral right to respond.

Ummm, you seem to think a lot like Kim Jong-il, although even he withdrew from the treaty, before going obvious with his nuclear ambitions. Ever thought about moving to North-Korea? They might need a new ideologist.

[mistermack]

Iran has no less right than Israel to make nuclear weapons.

Legally, that is not true. Iran has signed the Nuclear non-proliferation treaty, and thus signed away their rights to make nuclear wepons, Israel has not.

Iran has the legal right to break the conditions of the treaty. It's a sovereign state.
It's up to them if it complies or not. There is no international court.

The US is breaking the non-proliferation agreement by supplying the weapons material and technology to Israel under cover. That gives Iran the moral right to respond.

Ummm, you seem to think a lot like Kim Jong-il, although even he withdrew from the treaty, before going obvious with his nuclear ambitions. Ever thought about moving to North-Korea? They might need a new ideologist.

I was replying to your post, which said that they had signed away their rights. That's not true. A treaty is an agreement, that's all. It's a declaration of intent. There is no court to enforce it. It's more of a gentleman's agreement.
As it's being broken by the US in Israel, Iran has an equal right to break it.
I'm not in favour of Iran getting nukes. I just don't like the hypocrisy of the US in it's opposition to it.

[pErvinalia]

Iran has no less right than Israel to make nuclear weapons.

Legally, that is not true. Iran has signed the Nuclear non-proliferation treaty, and thus signed away their rights to make nuclear wepons, Israel has not.

Iran has the legal right to break the conditions of the treaty. It's a sovereign state.
It's up to them if it complies or not. There is no international court.

The US is breaking the non-proliferation agreement by supplying the weapons material and technology to Israel under cover. That gives Iran the moral right to respond.

Ummm, you seem to think a lot like Kim Jong-il, although even he withdrew from the treaty, before going obvious with his nuclear ambitions. Ever thought about moving to North-Korea? They might need a new ideologist.

Unless this treaty is different from other international treaties, it has no "legal" anything. Sovereign states break treaties all the time

[Clinton Huxley]

anybody who funds hizbollah is a terrorist state.

During WW2, we funded the French resistance.
Nobody classed us as a terrorist state.

During WW2 the French funded Jewish terrorists in the British Mandate. Assholes.

[Hermit]

Sovereign states break treaties all the time

Like Australia's asylum seeker policy. It breaks the human rights convention our government has signed. Neither our government nor the major opposition party seems to care about that.

[pErvinalia]

Yep.