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posted by The Vidiot @ 2:09 PM Permalink

Bush is giving classified nuclear technology to a country that sells missile tech to Iran

Markey accuses White House of duplicity
Says Bush delays news of sanctions on Indian firms

Massachusetts congressman Edward Markey yesterday accused the Bush administration of delaying an announcement that the United States plans to impose sanctions on two Indian companies for assisting in Iran's missile program.

Markey , a Malden Democrat, said the administration is withholding the announcement for fear that it would jeopardize chances of getting congressional approval for a controversial proposal to sell nuclear technology to India.

The measure, which would make India the only country in the world to receive sensitive nuclear technology from the United States without signing the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, was overwhelmingly approved by the House of Representatives late Wednesday. It now goes to the Senate.

The State Department is not expected to release the report on which Indian firms have been sanctioned until next week. But Reuters quoted two US officials yesterday saying that two Indian firms were being sanctioned for selling missiles-related technology to Iran.
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US and Indian officials say that the Indian government has kept its nuclear technology from leaking to other countries, and that there is no risk that India will pass on US nuclear know-how to Iran. But in 2004, the State Department sanctioned two Indian nuclear scientists, Y. S. R. Prasad and C. Surendar, for working with Iran's nuclear program. Few details were available about the cases.
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The bill approved by the House 359-to-68 cited the need to secure ``India's full and active participation in United States efforts to dissuade, isolate, and, if necessary, sanction and contain Iran for its efforts to acquire weapons of mass destruction, including a nuclear weapons capability."

But Indian officials said this week that the US agreement does not obligate them to turn their back on Iran.
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In recent years, India has become one of Iran's most reliable investors, even as other countries have balked at doing business with the volatile fundamentalist regime. This spring, an arm of India's Oil and Natural Gas Company began drilling in Yadavaran, one of Iran's biggest onshore oilfields, despite a US law that threatens sanctions against foreign companies that invest in Iran's energy sector.
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``Indians and Iranians say that this is a strategic relationship which is not going to be knocked off course," she said.

I'm so confused: India is selling missile technology to Iran (you remember Iran; hostages, axis of evil, developing nukes), but they didn't have a delivery vehicle, (until now.) So why are we giving technology to a country that is partners with Iran?

India, the country that threatens the US if we don't give them the nuclear technology, a country that is the ONLY country in the world that we have shared classified nuclear secrets with that hasn't signed the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, is partners with Iran? WTF!?


ORIGINAL POST:

India could make 50 warheads under nuclear deal with Bush

The US House of Representatives was set to vote yesterday on a nuclear deal with India that threatens to fuel a nuclear arms race in Asia. The deal, a centrepiece of the Bush administration's foreign policy, comes as the US is pressuring Iran and North Korea to halt their nuclear programmes.

Under the deal, the US will sell India nuclear fuel and technology for civilian purposes, in exchange for India putting most of its reactors under international safeguards. But a former head of Indian intelligence has said publicly the deal will allow India to produce 50 more nuclear warheads a year than it can now, by freeing up existing uranium reserves for military use.

The vote in Washington comes days after satellite photographs revealed Pakistan is building what analysts believe is a large reactor capable of producing enough plutonium for 50 warheads a year, a discovery which has led to fears of an intensified nuclear arms race between India and Pakistan.
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Under the new nuclear deal, the US will exempt India from its own laws banning any nuclear dealings with countries that do not submit to international inspections, and sell it nuclear fuel and reactors. In return, India is to place 13 of its existing reactors under international safeguards.

50 more nukes a year for India, 50 more nukes a year for Pakistan, yeah, that's gonna make the world safer ... not!

India warns against changes to US nuclear deal

India said it will not accept any changes by the US Senate to a controversial US-India nuclear energy agreement, a day after the US House of Representatives approved the deal.

They are warning us about a sweetheart deal that gives them 50 more nukes outside of the international regulations for nuclear proliferation.

North Korea, Iran, India, Pakistan, no one in the history of the world has done more to increase nuclear weapons around the world than Bush.