France's Sarkozy Warns Iran

[Guest EndlessEndeavor]

(Reuters) - French President Nicolas Sarkozy toldIran on Wednesday that failure to reach a credible agreement over its nuclear program would force world powers to mobilize to protect threatened states in the region.

In an annual address to France's ambassadors, Sarkozy laid out his foreign policy objectives as the country prepares to take over the chair next year of the Group of 20 powers and the narrower club of rich countries known as the G8.

"If a credible agreement cannot be reached, Iran's isolation would only worsen," Sarkozy said. "And in the face of worsening threat, we would have to organize ourselves to protect and defend states that feel threatened."

Many of Iran's Gulf Arab neighbors are concerned about the Shi'ite state's increasing clout in the region and the prospect that it might acquire nuclear weapons.

"Everybody knows that there are serious consequences to a policy that would allow Iran to follow its nuclear path," Sarkozy said. "It would see a general proliferation in the region or even military conflict."

Iran has said it is prepared to return to talks with six world powers but the exact nature of such negotiations has yet to be defined. Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has said Iran would not talk to the United States unless sanctions and military threats were lifted.

Tehran began loading fuel into its first nuclear power plant in the Gulf city of Bushehr on Saturday, a potent symbol of its growing regional sway and its rejection of international sanctions designed to prevent it building a nuclear bomb.

Sarkozy said he welcomed the new power plant to be operated by the Russians as long as it adhered to international law.

Tehran is already under four rounds of U.N. sanctions because of fears that its uranium enrichment program, which is separate from Bushehr, is aimed at developing nuclear weapons capability. Tehran insists its enrichment work is for peaceful energy only.

"I hope that we can find a good agreement in the coming months ... that Iran respects the law and that the concerns of the international community are lifted," Sarkozy said.

Edited August 31, 2011 by EndlessEndeavor

[abbas110]

Looks like Sarko is getting a bit carried away with a win against Qaddafi. What a clown.

[Ya Aba 3abdillah]

would force world powers to mobilize to protect threatened states in the region.

So he's basically admitted that the West protects all these Terrorist Arab dictators whose allegiance is to the hub of Global Jihadi Takfiri Terrorismin Riyadh.

So Saudi churns mass terrorists off its conveyor belts, sends them and its petro$$$ to NYC, London, Madrid, Chechnya, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran, Lebanon, Syria ... Terrorizes the masses via its Wahhabi Takfiri ideology, and Sarkozy et al come out and say Riyadh needs to be protected??!?!?!?!?!?!

[Blissful]

I think someone needs to remind this guy that his country was and always will be a complete failure at life. Good one, Sarkozy.

[titumir]

What will Sarkozy do if Iran does not obey him? Marry another woman? Sexually molest another maid? Does he not understand that Iran will never bend down and obey the West's commands? I like it very much how he 'has no problems' that Russia is going to run the nuclear power plant. First of all, it doesn't matter whether he 'has no problems' or 'has problems', what does it have to do with him? Secondly, this is a different tune to that which we heard before the Busheher plant was made, when they were not ready to accept even this.

[Al-Hadi]

So he's basically admitted that the West protects all these Terrorist Arab dictators whose allegiance is to the hub of Global Jihadi Takfiri Terrorismin Riyadh.

So Saudi churns mass terrorists off its conveyor belts, sends them and its petro$$$ to NYC, London, Madrid, Chechnya, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran, Lebanon, Syria ... Terrorizes the masses via its Wahhabi Takfiri ideology, and Sarkozy et al come out and say Riyadh needs to be protected??!?!?!?!?!?!

good point! and hilarious image :lol:

these western leaders are living in a state of mind which will ultimately lead to them wanting world domination. They're doing it veryy subtly.. one step at a time.

[repenter-gone4awhile]

Haha, that's like being threatened by Kermit the Frog.

[islamicdaddy]

Haha, that's like being threatened by Kermit the Frog.

+1

Edited September 1, 2011 by Ya Aba 3abdillah

[Hussien]

Bush even looks stupid in cartoons as he does in real life lol

[AG15]

I think Sarkozy was high, Afghanistan always seems to get media about its neighbors that nobody else does, and Iran already has Nuclear Weapons