{"id":2148,"date":"2007-01-05T17:24:12","date_gmt":"2007-01-05T22:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2007\/01\/if_we_were_buil\/"},"modified":"2007-01-05T17:24:12","modified_gmt":"2007-01-05T22:24:12","slug":"if_we_were_buil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2007\/01\/if_we_were_buil\/","title":{"rendered":"If We Were Building Nuclear Weapons. . ."},"content":{"rendered":"

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad should team up with O.J. and write an international diplomatic bestseller<\/a>: “If we were building nuclear weapons, here’s how we would do it”:<\/p>\n

China on Friday urged Iran to give a “serious response” to a U.N. Security Council resolution that imposed sanctions on Tehran for refusing to suspend uranium enrichment.
\nIran’s top nuclear envoy, however, warned that Tehran’s commitment to the peaceful use of nuclear technology will change if the country is threatened.
\n. . .
\nIran has denied that it seeks to build atomic weapons, saying its nuclear program is limited to the generation of electricity, a stance Larijani reiterated.
\n“We oppose obtaining nuclear weapons and we will peacefully use nuclear technology under the framework of the Nonproliferation Treaty,” he said.
\n“But,” he warned, “if we are threatened, the situation may change.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So Iran is just innocently working on nuclear reactors, but if they are “threatened,” it might magically discover a nuclear arms production process. Right.
\nThat situation would be bad enough as it is, but to make matters worse we have a number of influential people in Washington just itching to launch another war. Never mind the fact that we don’t have any extra troops left<\/a>, where there’s a will, there’s a way.
\nYesterday General Clark was reportedly furious<\/a> because he believes the Bush administration is on course to launch a military strike against Iran in the next year or two. I sure hope he’s wrong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad should team up with O.J. and write an international diplomatic bestseller: “If we were building nuclear weapons, here’s how we would do it”: China on Friday urged Iran to give a “serious response” to a U.N. Security Council resolution that imposed sanctions on Tehran for refusing to suspend uranium enrichment. Iran’s […]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2148","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}