Posted on 01/06/2007 10:42:39 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
The diplomatic campaign against Iran has failed. After three years of sterile diplomacy, last Saturday the UN Security Council passed impotent sanctions against Iran. Iran greeted the sanctions by announcing its intention to expand its uranium enrichment activities by running an additional 3,000 centrifuges at its nuclear installation in Natanz.
Iran's contemptuous response to the sanctions indicates that they have come too late. The Security Council resolution is aimed at encumbering foreign assistance to Iran's nuclear program. But the Iranians no longer need much outside help to develop atomic bombs.
Due to this Iranian invulnerability, many in Israel and the US argue that additional sanctions, undertaken outside the UN that would target Iran's economy, must be adopted. Israeli diplomats and Bush administration officials have reportedly descended on Europe in the hopes of convincing the Europeans to support NATO sanctions that would isolate Iran economically.
Yet here too, such sanctions would probably come too late to make a difference. As a report recently released by the Institute for Analysis of Global Security in Washington demonstrates, Iran is working steadily to minimize its economic susceptibility to sanctions. To this end it is working to overcome its two principal economic vulnerabilities: its dependence on imported refined oil, and its antiquated oil and gas infrastructures.
Last year Iran signed a $70 billion deal with the Chinese to modernize its oil and gas fields. Iran also signed an oil deal with Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez that guarantees its fuel imports will be sanctions-proof.
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The time to act was November 5th, 1979.
I had my bags packed, but wasn't surprised the peanut man didn't do anything.
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We had our stuff ready to go at 1st Cav., down in Fort Hood, but Jimmy never gave the go-ahead.
No, it's not too late. Thanks for posting. Another great article by Caroline Glick.
Look how well The U.N. handled Iraq./mega sarc
"Yet here too, such sanctions would probably come too late to make a difference. As a report recently released by the Institute for Analysis of Global Security in Washington demonstrates, Iran is working steadily to minimize its economic susceptibility to sanctions. To this end it is working to overcome its two principal economic vulnerabilities: its dependence on imported refined oil, and its antiquated oil and gas infrastructures. "
Forget sanctions and forget the nukes. The MSM is playing down Irans ability to export oil because to minimize that would take blowing up the terminals out of play (why should we destroy Irans oil fields if they don't mean much anyway?)
That is exactly the solution. Israel goes to the UN and tells the entire body in a speech that Iran has 48 hours to shut down their nuke prgram or Iran will cease to be an oil producing state.
China and most of Europe will have a freaking cow. Without Iranian oil, China is dead. France is dead. They will have a choice, pressure Iran or continue to say, "Israel bad."
Israel has to be the ones to tell Europe to piss off and it is their own survival they are concerned with and not Chinese industrial might.
That's it. As long as Iran can pump oil, they will continue to hide behind that. Threaten to take that away and you possess a weapon that threatens Asia and Europe. All we will get is 4 dollar a gallon gas. Been there, done that.
It would, most certainly, solve the problem for people who have been pressured to do something.
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