Pave: Now They Tell Us

Le jour 244 de Sarko

Ah. It appears the Then-Jack, Now Ex-Jack Franco-Iranian petting party may finally be over. Sarko didn't pick up Iran's nice bouquet. [Pause.]

Time to make public those super-super-secret documents.

FRANCE PLANNED TO GIVE SADDAM NUKES
An Iranian Commander Has Revealed
That France Had Plans To Equip Saddam Hussein
With Nuclear Weapons During The Iraq-Imposed War On Iran.

January 14, 2007 (Press TV) - According to General Mir-Feisal Baqerzadeh, the now retired French general and former intelligence official, Philippe Rondot, had made the offer to the Iraqi Baathist regime during a visit to the country as an advisor to the French prime minister.

Baqerzadeh made the remark citing a document registered at the defense ministry of the former Iraqi Baathist regime dated April 20, 1987. The document was prepared by the Iraqi General Adnan Khairallah reporting to Saddam about his meeting with the visiting Rondot, said the Iranian general.

During the meeting, Rondot expressed his delight with the measures taken by Saddam's regime against the Iranian forces.

... Baqerzadeh says that Rondot also spoke of his 'effective' role in persuading the French authorities to provide Iraq with Mirage aircraft and Ronald missiles.

According to the document, the French had been looking at the possibility of giving Iraq 'a very small type' of nuclear weapon. It is underlined in the document that the matter must be kept confidential.

That puts these remarks in a brand new light. [Pause.] For that matter, these remarks also, though in an altogether different brand new light.

Iran is a long way from the old love of France. Here is Hassan Rohani, then-principal atomic bomb & energy negotiator for Iran to the EU3 (you remember, the EU3, France, Britain, Germany, the brilliant diplomacy!), back in the day (11.30.04):

The Americans have called for Iran to be reported to the Security Council for a year and a half, now the whole world has turned down America's calls.

This is a historical opportunity for Iran and Europe to prove to the world that [American] unilateralism is condemned, that the world's most complicated matters can be solved by negotiation.

Iranian unilaterialism, on the other hand, reaps good government awards (and here and here and here).

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