http://morewhat.com/wordpress/most-popular-news-3/ To build consensus on issues Sat, 11 Feb 2012 13:59:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.3 http://morewhat.com/wordpress/most-popular-news-3/#comment-1498 Mon, 26 Mar 2007 22:20:47 +0000 http://morewhat.com/wordpress/most-popular-news-3/#comment-1498 [...] Video is here. MoreWhat discusses boarding vessels on the high seas, and on major rivers connected thereto. More may be going on than meets the eye, says this rather sharp intelligence analysis. In this climate, it is important to understand the threat delivered this week by Ali Khamenei. The regime’s basic position is that Iran has kept its nuclear program entirely legal, but now the “illegitimate” Security Council is taking actions against Iran that are “illegal” and therefore Iran would be justified in taking illegal actions of its own. This is what is really going on. Under the U.N. Charter, Iran is treaty-bound to obey the commandments of the Security Council. The Security Council has commanded it to halt enrichment of uranium pending the verification of the peaceful nature of its program. Iran has rejected this decision, and indeed has arguably abrogated the U.N. Charter entirely. So it is simply untrue that Iran’s program has been legal to date. Up until 2002, the main elements of the program were secret - a fact that in and of itself was a violation of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty. And now, by refusing to obey the Security Council, Iran is once again in breach of the Treaty - and the U.N. Charter. [...] […] Video is here. MoreWhat discusses boarding vessels on the high seas, and on major rivers connected thereto. More may be going on than meets the eye, says this rather sharp intelligence analysis. In this climate, it is important to understand the threat delivered this week by Ali Khamenei. The regime’s basic position is that Iran has kept its nuclear program entirely legal, but now the “illegitimate” Security Council is taking actions against Iran that are “illegal” and therefore Iran would be justified in taking illegal actions of its own. This is what is really going on. Under the U.N. Charter, Iran is treaty-bound to obey the commandments of the Security Council. The Security Council has commanded it to halt enrichment of uranium pending the verification of the peaceful nature of its program. Iran has rejected this decision, and indeed has arguably abrogated the U.N. Charter entirely. So it is simply untrue that Iran’s program has been legal to date. Up until 2002, the main elements of the program were secret - a fact that in and of itself was a violation of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty. And now, by refusing to obey the Security Council, Iran is once again in breach of the Treaty - and the U.N. Charter. […]

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