Iran invites US to bid on Nuclear Power Plant

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Story of the week from: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051211/ap_ ... an_nuclear

You've got to admire their style, the US threatening to go to war with them because, they want Nuclear power, which could be turned into Nukes, and they invite them to bid to build a nuclear power station, fantastic, just a little dilemma, bomb them for oil money, or earn money building a nuclear power plant, then go to war and bomb your own plant, lol. Anyhow, here's the story:

'Iran Invites U.S. to Bid on Power Plant By NASSER KARIMI, Associated Press Writer 2 hours, 7 minutes ago

TEHRAN, Iran -

Iran on Sunday offered the United States a share in building a new nuclear power plant in an apparent effort to curb U.S. opposition to its atomic program.

"America can take part in international bidding for the construction of Iran's nuclear power plant if they observe the basic standards and quality," Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi said at a news conference.

Asefi was apparently talking about a 360-megawatt light water nuclear power plant in southwestern Iran, which the head of the country's top atomic organization announced plans to build on Saturday.

Iran also wants to produce 2,000 megawatts of electricity by building nuclear power plants with foreign help in southern Iran.

Relations between both countries have been severed since Iran's 1979 Islamic revolution. Washington also imposes unilateral sanctions on Iran, preventing U.S. companies from doing business in Iran.

The United States has also ratcheted up pressure against Tehran, accusing it of pursuing a nuclear weapons program and supporting anti-Israeli militants.

Iran, which denies it wants to build atomic bombs, has been involved in stalled talks with European negotiators over its contentious nuclear program aimed at making Tehran permanently freeze uranium enrichment.

Enrichment is a process that can produce material for use in warheads or fuel for nuclear plants to generate electricity.

The United States backs the Iran-Europe talks, which broke off in August and will resume Dec. 21 in Vienna, Austria. Tehran has since restarted uranium conversion, a precursor to enrichment.

"The (Vienna) meeting will be a serious one," Asefi said. "Everything is dependent on the meeting and the talks. Everything will be decided there. We will make a decision based on its results in the future."

Asefi refused to speculate on the result of the talks, saying only that "if Europe works based on the nonproliferation treaty, safeguards and international measures, then there will be no room for concern."

He reiterated that the meeting's agenda would focus on Iran's right to enrich uranium and that the talks would be held on a senior level.

Germany, France and Britain have suggested shifting Iran's enrichment activities to Russia, where nuclear material would be enriched only to fuel levels and not to weapons grade.

But Iran said it would enrich uranium and produce nuclear fuel domestically despite international efforts to curb its atomic program.

On Friday, Mohamed ElBaradei, head of the United Nations' International Atomic Energy Agency, said the international community was losing patience with Iran over its nuclear program. ElBaradei was awarded the 2005 Nobel Peace Prize on Saturday.

"ElBaradei should not politicize issues," Asefi said. "He knows Iran has not diverted in its nuclear program. Some of words that he said were not correct at all. It would be better for him not to have many interviews."

Iran is standing its ground amid international pressure to cut back on its nuclear activities, particularly uranium enrichment, which can produce material for use in warheads or fuel for nuclear plants to generate electricity'.

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LOL!

Baiting the US seems to be a trend these days. Castro offered aid after Katrina, knowing the Yanks would refuse. Venezuela is selling oil cut-price to poor communities in America, just to demonstrate that the Yanks can't even provide well for their own people. I get the feeling they'll be regretting the election of Bush for a few decades to come - he's made them a laughing stock.

[philylad13]

Lol, I know what you mean. The US Government could provide for their own people very well, but that has never been their intention, give all the money to big business, thats the motto.

Even if you have a problem with Castro, and your people are dying, and Castro could help, if Bush cared anything for the US people, he would accept the offer. With Castro in Cuba and Chavez in Venezuela, and a few other progressive leaders in Latin America, in Brazil, Ecuador, Paraguay and Bolivia, some good things are starting to happen in Latin America, wait for the screams of, 'Communists in our own backyard', from the Bush Administration, lol.