"Why Iran? Is it oil again?"

Tehran declares it is freezing its uranium enrichment programmeme. November 29: the UN watchdog International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) endorses Iran's total freeze of all uranium enrichment activities, in a consensus resolution adopted by its 35-nation board of governors, headed by Mohamed El-Baradi, following Tehran's agreement to add 20 disputed centrifuges to the freeze of activities that could be used to develop atomic weapons. Will this silence US war cries? Is a possible 'US-Iran war' averted?

One wonders with what moral authority the US is preaching de-nuclearisation, considering that it is the only country to ever use nuclear weapons, killing thousands in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Does the US fuss about Iran's nuclear programmeme really have anything to do with proliferation? Or, as with Iraq's yet to be found Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMDs), President Bush is not looking for nukes in Iran - but oil. This would explain why only Iran has been chosen for tight IAEA scrutiny despite the fact there are 440 commercial reactors in 31 countries and 284 research reactors operating in 56 countries.

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