Tuesday, November 08, 2005

Paris riots: Iranian nukes

I don't want to make too much of this, but there may be a connection. The Iranians want nukes. The EU, lead by France, Germany and the UK, don't want them to have any. A pair of miscreants get accidentally electrocuted climbing fence and falling into an electrical sub-station. Immediately thereafter, organized gangs start to terrorize Paris, buring cars and businesses. There is limited action in Berlin, but Germany cleaned out it's al Qaida cells years before. There is a bit in the UK, but after the subway bombing there, Scotland Yard did it's thing and deported a bunch of bad guys.

But France still burns.

Is there a message in this:
Tehran: Iran Tuesday rejected a demand by the European Union (EU) to halt all nuclear fuel cycle activities in the Islamic republic, state news television IRIB reported.

Foreign Ministry Spokesman Hamid-Reza Assefi told IRIB that the EU demand was "surprising" and called on the EU to revise its "unconstructive approach".

In a draft declaration issued in Brussels Monday, the EU urged Iran to reinstate "a full suspension of all fuel cycle activities, thus allowing negotiations with the European side to resume".

"Iran will not make any compromise on its legal and legitimate right (of having its own nuclear cycle)," Assefi said.

The demand came as Iranian Foreign Minister Manuchehr Mottaki Tuesday briefed foreign diplomats in Tehran on Iran's nuclear programmes in what many see as a further conciliatory gesture to a hostile international community.
Will we see more, if Iran doesn't get it's way? If we do, is it causal or correlational?

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