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From: brow2812@mach1.wlu.ca (craig brown 9210 u)
Subject: Re: PBS Frontline: Iran and the bomb
References: <C5LIHI.389@ccu.umanitoba.ca>
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Organization: Wilfrid Laurier University
Date: Sat, 17 Apr 1993 00:45:27 GMT
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In article <C5LIHI.389@ccu.umanitoba.ca> ebrahim@ee.umanitoba.ca (Mohamad Ebrahimi) writes:
>
>       I would like to share with netters a few points I picked up from the PBS
>    Frontline program regarding Iran's nuclear activities, aired on Tuesday
>    April 13. For the sake of brevity, I'll present them in some separate
>    points.
Already say it the other week on CBC Snoozeworld


>    1- As many other western programs, this program was laid on a bed of
>    misinformation throughout the program, to maximize the effect of the
>    program on the viewer. Some of the misinformations were as follows:
Yeah, I thought Bonanza was full of lies about the West...
















>
>    - While the number of martyrs during the sacred defense against Iraqi
>    aggression has been officially announced to be about 117,000 and even most
>    radical counter-revolutionary groups claim that Iran and Iraq had a total
>    of one million dead, this program claims that Iran alone has one million
>    dead left from the war.
>
>    - The translation of Iranian officials' talks are not 100% true. For
>    example when Iranian head of Atomic Energy says that: " It hurts me to
>    see that Iran is the subject of these unfriendly propaganda." The 
>    translator says: " It hurts to see that Iran is doing unfriendly 
>    research."!
>
>    2- Almost all alleged devices or material bought or planned to be bought
>    by Iranians were of countless dual usage, while the program tries to 
>    undermine their non-military uses, without any reference to Iran's
>    big population and its inevitable need to other sources of energy in
>    near future and its current deficit in electrical power.


Why the hell would such an oil rich (and hydroelectric potential to be
exploited) spend billions on a nuclear energy programme?

>    3- The whole program is trying to show the Sharif University of 
>    Technology as a nuclear research center, while even the cameramen of the
>    program know well that in a country like Iran without a so tightly closed
>    society no one can make a nuclear bomb in a university! Taking in account
>    the scientific advancement of Sharif U. in engineering fields and its
>    potential role in improvement of Iran's industries and eventually the
>    lives of people, it is obvious that they are persuading other countries
>    to prevent them from further helping this university or other ones
>    in scientific and industrial efforts.
>
>    4- A key point in program's justifications is trying to disvalidate as
>    much as possible all efforts done by IAEA [*] in their numerous visits from
>    Iran's different sites. They say: "We are not sure if the places visited
>    by IAEA are the real ones or not" !, or " We can not rely on IAEA's
>    reports and observation, because they failed to see Iraq's nuclear
>    activities before" as if they didn't know that Iraq was trying to build
>    nuclear weapons!

Yeah, and we have every reason in the world to trust the Iranian regime.
After all, they've been *so* forward with us in the past....

>    5- As an extremely personal opinion, the most disgusting aspect of the
>    program was the arrogance of the member of US Senate foreign Affairs,
>    William Triplet, in his way of talking, as if he was the god talking
>    from the absolute knowledge!

Maybe he *is* God!

>       I hope all Iranians be aware of the gradual buildup against their
>    country in western media, and I hope Iranian authorities continue to
>    their wise and calculated approach with regard to international affairs
>    and peaceful coexistence with friendly nations.

hahahahahahaahah!
>Mohammad
>
>  
>    [*] International Atomic Energy Agency
>  


