JERUSALEM (AFP) — Israel suspects Venezuela and Bolivia of supplying uranium to Iran, according to a foreign ministry document leaked to media."We have information according to which Venezuela provides uranium to Iran for its nuclear programme," the document says.
"It seems that Bolivia is also a supplier of uranium to the Iranian nuclear programme," the document said, adding that Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has played a key role in boosting Iran's ties with Bolivia.The document said Venezuela is helping Iran dodge UN imposed sanctions.
It further claimed Iran is establishing cells of the Hezbollah militia in northern Venezuela and on Venezuela's Margarita Island.Iran denies Western and Israeli suspicions that it is developing nuclear weapons, asserting that its nuclear programme is for peaceful purposes only. It is defying a UN demand to halt uranium enrichment.
Chavez has voiced support for Iran's nuclear programme.
Axis of Evil, anyway its not like Iran is being any different then usual:
TEHRAN, Iran (CNN) -- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Monday ruled out nuclear negotiations with other nations, saying, "Iran's nuclear issue is over, in our opinion.At a news conference in Tehran, the hardline president also said that if re-elected he again will call for a debate with President Obama.
Ahmadinejad previously urged a debate with President Bush and offered to debate both Obama and Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain during last year's U.S. presidential campaign.
Crazy.
Bolivia and Venezuela sending Uranium to Iran? that made my night, ha-ha, what a good joke!
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...FTR, Venezuela and Bolivia aren't on that list. Maybe Brazil can come around and do something about it...
And specifically for Bolivia's part, I can tell you 100% for sure (because I live there) that our technological capability to produce something as elaborated as Enriched uranium or even plain mineral is simply non-existant. Heck, even extracting another mineral (the lithium) is causing us a pain in the ass lately. A lithium extracting plant is being built and it's "supposed" to begin extracting minerals by 2010, but because of the many complications that emerged along the way (like the fact of having no roads/powerlines/qualified technicians at all) it seems that the project is stalled undefinitively (..and in Bolivia things tend to stay like that...sigh).
Also, the fact that this report comes from Israeli sources makes them more suspicious...did you know that the Bolivian government was the very first to break relations with Israel after the Gaza strip attacks began? and that Venezuela was the second to do it? until now, Israel had nothing to do with us (we were like 2 guys stuck in a party who doesn't know each other and don't talk to each other much) but after this break-up, they come claiming in some out-of-the-sleeve report that we're producing and selling something that we don't even have. WTF?
Well, that way to show things and to point somebody you don't like isn't new. The US also did it in Irak, claiming that they were producing WMDs. And guess what? they had nothing. Zero. Nada. Its the kind of propaganda that small group of people use to start wars, and nothing more.
I suggest to read more people. Everyone. Things really aren't what some random guy/website/other tells us to be. Search the truth and read about it. Please do it, and do it right. There is no worse blind people that those who doesn't want to see.
(Sorry for grammar, English is not my native language.)
and for the Axis of Evil part?? that's the icing of the cake. Such funny asseverations indeed made my night.
anonymous,
ReplyDeletethey would be used as front countries to purchase the materials and then transfer them to Iran.