Posted on 10/19/2009 11:15:41 AM PDT by OldDeckHand
Iran would not agree in multilateral talks this week to ship a portion of its low-enriched uranium stockpile to other countries for further refinement, but would instead seek to purchase more highly enriched material from abroad for use in a Tehran research reactor, state media quoted anonymous officials as saying (see GSN, Oct. 16).
If Iran balks at the understanding, reached earlier this month in talks with the five permanent U.N. Security Council member nations and Germany, the nation could eliminate the possibility of a compromise with Western powers aimed at creating additional time for negotiations over its disputed nuclear activities, according to the Associated Press (see GSN, Oct. 2). The United States and its allies have for years expressed concern that Iran's uranium enrichment program could produce nuclear-weapon material; Iran insists the effort is strictly peaceful in nature.
Still, Iran had not formally ruled out such an agreement ahead of today's meeting with delegates from France, Russia and the United States, said a high-level Western diplomat in Vienna connected to the negotiations (George Jahn, Associated Press/Yahoo!News, Oct. 19).
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Obama gave up the eastern European missile shield, and Russian gave him Zero in return. So much for "smart power".
got to wonder how long Israel is going to play this “game”
IMO Bibi and Co. approached Obama and said “we’ll give this diplomacy thing one more try”. Obama then outed the undisclosed Iranian nuke facilities ahead of the Oct 1st Vienna meeting to pressure the Iranians. Many thought we could have sometype of agreement enriching Iranian uranium abroad and now that looks like it will not happen . . .
Well said. Obama will join the UN soon in writing a mean mean nasty letter to Iran. hans blix
What really yanks my chain, is that next to our Afghanistan policy and NK arms proliferation, this Iranian deal (or non-deal) is our single most important foreign policy problem. But, instead of talking about this, we're talking boys in balloons, Obama's war with FNC and who the Republican nominee might be in three more years.
In fact, I didn't see these talks mentioned one time on the Sunday morning news shows. Nor did I see any commentary about Russia's refusal to push for more sanctions, despite getting exactly wanted they wanted from Obama on the missile shield.
Our foreign policy, at every level, is a joke.
It’s hard to believe what passes for “news” these days. FWIW, I’m right there with you - this WAS the story of the weekend.
If the Vienna talks fall through, as it looks like they may, and if the Russians refuse to get on board with sanctions thereafter (which, again, looks like the case b/c of the amatuers in the Obama admin.) my $$ is on Israel taking matters into its own hands.
If all of the above comes to pass, we will wish we had paid more attention to this story (the REAL NEWS) b/c the Middle East would go from worse to catastophic (forget “bad to worse”)
0’s foreign policy makes me laugh in a bitter sardonic way. The 0 White House always seems to think that they have some sort of deal, only to be humiliated and exposed as inept, naive fools when their supposed partners very publicly renege on whatever vague half-promises have been made.
Iran would not agree in multilateral talks this week to ship a portion of its low-enriched uranium stockpile to other countries for further refinement, but would instead seek to purchase more highly enriched material from abroad for use in a Tehran research reactor, state media quoted anonymous officials as saying. If Iran balks at the understanding, reached earlier this month in talks with the five permanent U.N. Security Council member nations and Germany, the nation could eliminate the possibility of a compromise with Western powers aimed at creating additional time for negotiations over its disputed nuclear activities, according to the Associated Press...Gosh, it's almost as if Iran doesn't *want* to compromise.
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Wow! Who could have seen THIS coming?
I’m SHOCKED, I tell ya!
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