Iran Declares Nuclear Holiday

CBS News

Iranian President Ahmadinejad declared a national holiday in honor of nuclear technology and posted photos of a tour of a uranium enrichment plant on his presidential site. David Martin reports.

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by MRX1 (not verified) on Sat Sep 27, 2008 07:50 AM PDT

a month of national holiday! it's not as if there is vibrant economic market over there that will suffer from closure of one day....
this nuclear stuff is complete waste of money, except for Russians. (chapidan all the way!)
this is a country seating on a sea of oil and gas. the oil has to be shipped out of the country to be refined nd brought back in as gazoline, why becuase no refinery was built in thirty years! list of failour and incompetence goes on and on...


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Shini Head

by Kurdish Warrior (not verified) on Fri Sep 26, 2008 10:39 PM PDT

Shouldn't the government invest in our poor regions where its underdeveloped before wasting our money on these propaganda issues..There are bigger issues that need to be addressed than this nuclear so called energy that has caused us nothing but isolation..think ab that...


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re: Kidding Me ????

by Shini Head on Fri Sep 26, 2008 08:47 PM PDT

The reason for shortage of electricity and all that in Iran is in fact lack of sufficient capability to produce CHEAP energy, as industrial nations  can do today. That is why nuclear power is the answer for Iran. Celebrating one's accomplishment is alwys a good idea, let alone that of a nation.

 

(my own belief is that although nuclear bomb is useless in its application, as president ahmadinejad has said, but Iran needs it for detterent purposes -- that is to stop US's mad dogs in the middle east from attacking iran, as saddam did in 1980)


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Intuitive roots

by DahanServiceKon (not verified) on Fri Sep 26, 2008 07:56 PM PDT

What I like the most in the middle of our misfortune is that western countries are taking back the investment they made on Akhoonds. They feed Khomeini to f... shah, he effectively did. But, now Akhoonds (Mahmoud first) are f... them all back. In these occasions I feel my heart beat a little bit for Mahmoud...


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Kidding Me???

by Arian (not verified) on Fri Sep 26, 2008 04:28 PM PDT

At the time that at least 11 cities are facing serious droughts and there are prevalent power shortages in Tehran & other major cities we really need to celebrate waste of billions of $$$$ for the ever dead nuclear reactors being built in Boushehr for the past 30 years & for the more newer ones in other areas with again unclear functional future.
As if our calendar was short of this & that Holiday together with plenty of Death Commemorations. Shame.


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