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Joanne98 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-24-07 07:01 PM
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Here's the text to Ahmadinejads speech! The part I find interesting is about the contracts!
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What contracts? I never heard about this before. if he's telling the truth I don't blame them for making their own fuel. I sounds like they're getting ripped off by everyone. Does anyone have a link to this contract issue?


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/24/AR2007092401042.html
AHMADINEJAD (THROUGH TRANSLATOR): They tell us you don't let them -- they won't let them inspect. Why not? Of course we do. How come is it, anyway, that you have that right and we can't have it? We want to have the right to peaceful nuclear energy. They tell us, don't make it yourself, we'll give it to you.


Well, in the past, I tell you, we had contracts with the U.S. government, with the British government, the French government, the German government, and the Canadian government on nuclear development for peaceful purposes. But unilaterally, each and every one of them canceled their contracts with us, as a result of which the Iranian people had to pay a heavy cost in billions of dollars.


Why do we need the fuel from you? You've not even given us spare aircraft parts that we need for civilian aircraft for 28 years under the name of embargo and sanctions because we're against, for example, human rights or freedom? Under that pretext, you are deny us that technology? We want to have the right to self-determination toward our future. We want to be independent. Don't interfere in us.


If you don't give us spare parts for civilian aircraft, what is the expectation that you'd give us fuel for nuclear development for peaceful purposes?


For 30 years, we've faced these problems for over $5 billion to the Germans and then to the Russians, but we haven't gotten anything. And the words have not been completed.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/24/AR2007092401042.html

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