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Iran Makes "Another Step Towards Nuclear Bomb", Slovene Daily Says

Posted on: Friday, 12 August 2005, 06:00 CDT

Text of report in English by Slovene news agency STA

Ljubljana, 12 August: Iran made another step towards a nuclear bomb, but there are no war cries coming from the US president's summer retreat in Crawford, Texas. Americans are well aware that they cannot afford to launch another military action, the broadsheet Delo writes on Friday [12 August].

The daily writes that a UN Security Council action against Iran would most likely be vetoed by Russia and China. The former supplies Iran with expensive nuclear equipment, while the latter will soon get 20 per cent of its oil supplies from the Islamic Republic.

"The man wanted to negotiate," George Bush is quoted as saying. However, experts agree that US Vice-President Dick Cheney has already ordered plans for selective air bombardments and commando raids, should Iran cross into nuclear territory, Delo says.

But before such actions materialize, Iran has to completely humiliate EU diplomatic efforts, according to the daily. The German, British and French foreign ministers have invested a lot of time and energy into trying to convince Iran to drop its nuclear programme.

Yet all they can see is Iran playing a cat and mouse game. First it secretly develops nuclear weapons, then agrees to negotiations, cancels them at the last moment, plays the injured party and continues with its nuclear programme, Delo writes in its commentary.

If it was not for the members of the persecuted Iranian opposition, the international public would not even be aware that Iran is developing nuclear weapons, until a nuclear bomb would have exploded under its desert, according to the daily.

Source: BBC Monitoring European

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