On an Iran deal, reports of concessions galore

Washington Post ^ | March 26 at 3:00 PM | Jennifer Rubin

[Dave346]

News reports over the past few days have featured a string of once unimaginable concessions from the P5+1 in the Iran nuclear talks. (One can imagine the French are feeding the media a steady diet of leaks. It is the French who have expressed the most concern about the bonanza of concessions, so leaks and ensuing public outrage is an understandable strategy if one is trying to stop a bad deal.)

The Wall Street Journal reported: “Talks over Iran’s nuclear program have hit a stumbling block a week before a key deadline because Tehran has failed to cooperate with a United Nations probe into whether it tried to build atomic weapons in the past, say people close to the negotiations. In response, these people say, the U.S. and its diplomatic partners are revising their demands on Iran to address these concerns before they agree to finalize a nuclear deal, which would repeal U.N. sanctions against the country.” Translation: Iran said no, so the administration is caving. This is no small matter. David Albright, founder and president of the Institute for Science and International Security, explained to the House Foreign Affairs subcommittee last year:

A prerequisite for any comprehensive agreement is for the IAEA to know when Iran sought nuclear weapons, how far it got, what types it sought to develop, and how and where it did this work. Was this weapons capability just put on the shelf, waiting to be quickly restarted? The IAEA needs a good baseline of Iran’s military nuclear activities, including the manufacturing of equipment for the program and any weaponization related studies, equipment, and locations.

[BigEdLB]

How does one stop this foolishness?

[plain talk]

I guess I don’t understand why Iran would not just say “heck we didnt get very far. This stuff is complicated...”

[RightOnTheBorder]

The sad part about all this is that no matter what the Iranians promise they will simply go about the business of making nuclear weapons. When Clinton gave the world to the Norks at least he got them to lie about not making nuclear weapons. Iran has so little respect for Obama and co. they won't even do that.

[Bubba_Leroy]

“This morning I had another talk with the German Chancellor, Herr Hitler, and here is the paper which bears his name upon it as well as mine. ... We regard the agreement signed last night and the Anglo-German Naval Agreement, as symbolic of the desire of our two peoples never to go to war with one another again. ... This is the second time in our history that there has come back from Germany to Downing Street peace with honour. I believe it is peace in our time.” Neville Chamberlain, September 30, 1938.

“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” George Santayana, The Life of Reason, 1905.

[dhs12345]

Sometimes you can’t. You just gird your loins and hope that you survive it. And sometimes it looks hopeless, but faith in God and determination and perseverance get you through it.

RE: WWII.

Unfortunately, history will repeat itself.

[BigEdLB]

Yes. Neville Obama at your non-service