Posted on 08/01/2008 8:03:50 AM PDT by nuconvert
Tehran's Tricks: Plays Rope-A-Dope On Nukes
August 1, 2008
TOMORROW is the deadline for Iran to respond to the latest offer on its nuclear program. The package, shaped by the five permanent members of the UN Security Council plus Germany and offered in Geneva two weeks ago, offers a way out of the impasse.
But don't expect Tehran to call the lead negotiator, European Union foreign-policy czar Javier Solana, to say it's accepted the deal. Iran has made it clear it doesn't intend to show any flexibility.
"Supreme Guide" Ali Khamenei and President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad set the tone Wednesday in speeches at a gathering of officials and militants in Tehran.
"The only way to victory passes through resistance and steadfastness," said Khamenei. "We shall not allow anyone to dictate to us."
Ahmadinejad went further. "The United States is a sunset power," he said. "American foreign policy has failed everywhere and the American economy is facing collapse."
The EU compromise (offered in the presence of the No. 3 US diplomat, William Burns) was a timid attempt at opening a new space for negotiations. Under its formula, Tehran would freeze its uranium-enrichment program at present levels for six weeks. In exchange, the Security Council would undertake not to impose new sanctions during that period.
That deal represents a major concession to Iran - envisioning a suspension of enrichment and processing activities, not the total and verifiable end demanded by three mandatory Security Council resolutions.
When the Security Council passed the first of those resolutions last year, Iran had only a dozen centrifuges enriching uranium. Now it has more than 6,000. Thus, the "freeze" formula would let the Islamic Republic continue its nuclear project at levels far above what the United Nations once deemed completely unacceptable.
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We’ll see ........
Always willing to be pleasantly surprised, though..
I sincerely hope and pray that I am proven wrong, that the final act of this Administration will be to undertake the largest terraforming project of all time, the “Creation of the New Persian Sea”. :)
Iran is dragging these feebs around by their noses. They should be embarrassed.
This seems like Europe’s problem; let them deal with it. There’s no reason for us to stick our noses into someone else’s fight. Iran is not a threat to the USA.
So you don’t consider their open support for worldwide terrorism and repeated calls for the end of the great satin to be anything to worry about then?
I doubt it. The only way the U.S. (President BUSH ok’s an attack) will use military force is if a majority of the American people and a majority of congress agree to a massive use of American force (tactical nuclear strikes) and in todays political climate it AIN’T GOING TO HAPPEN! Bottom line Iran gets the bomb.
Not really. Name one attack against the USA from Shia. WTC I; WTC II; the Cole; the Pentagon; the CIA; all Sunni (Queda). I think the price from inflaming and uniting the Muslim world against us will outweigh the cost from Iran’s attempt to keep up w/ Israel in the nuclear arms race, especially since Iran’s nukes are a threat to Europe and Israel, not the USA.
Many say the current President was involved in that one.
The best you could come up with was 1979?
I guess you missed the point about one of the kidnappers now running the show over there?
I don't agree. Could they not simply ship a special package to an American harbor and detonate it? No real need for long range missiles.
Am I wrong?
A) Never been done.
B) The scenario appears to be more of a fantasy used by Iran’s enemies to try to entice the USA to bomb Iran
If Europe’s not concerned, there’s important information there. That argues for us to go slowly; after all, if it’s such a threat then those countries with actual militant Islamic minorities in them logically should be more concerned. Yet they aren’t...
A bit of a leap from taking hostages in Tehran to actually being a risk to the USA.
Oh, did you forget the Shiite attack on our men in the Beirut barracks?
after all, if it’s such a threat then those countries with actual militant Islamic minorities in them logically should be more concerned. Yet they aren’t...
And you believe this why?
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