Posted on 12/09/2008 3:30:47 PM PST by mojito
A panel of former top international officials voiced hope Tuesday for a progress in settling the Iranian nuclear standoff after US President-elect Barack Obama takes office.
Hans Blix, the former head of the United Nations nuclear watchdog, said he expects the new US administration to take a fresh approach to the deadlocked international talks on Iran's nuclear ambitions.
"I hope that the Obama administration in the United States will be more imaginative" on the issue than its predecessors, Blix said after a session of the Luxembourg Forum on Preventing Nuclear Catastrophe. The forum, which includes former top officials and leading academics, focuses on challenges to the global security.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has sent congratulations to Obama, the first time an Iranian leader has offered good wishes to a US president-elect since the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
Igor Ivanov, a former Russian foreign minister who served as secretary of the presidential Security Council, also said he expects the change of administration in Washington to play a positive role in the Iranian nuclear dispute.
"The new administration coming to power in the United States could breathe a new life into the negotiation process," Ivanov told reporters.
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HAN BLIX OH NOOO LOL!
HANNSSS you break my ballz that Kim Jong 11 said in Team America
Always interesting to get direction from a loser like Blix
Actually Trey Parker and Matt Stone would make a nice Presidential ticket...
The Iranians are going to have so much fun with this clown.
I'll bet they simply cannot wait.
Obama promises direct Iranian talks without preconditions. He contends Ahmadinejad values World Trade Organization membership, U.S. investment, and normal U.S. relations enough to abandon traditional aims.
However, Ahmadinejad operates international relations on Oriental principles where diplomacy becomes a fluid continuum with talks serving war without bloodshed. No longer constrained by Western proprieties, he can use ubiquitous threats of armed force or actual violence to invest traditional diplomacy with power for meaningful change by frustrating plans, breaking alliances, isolating governments, and sowing dissention among branches of governments.
He would not table for discussions commitments to international terrorism, Iraq destabilization, nuclear weapons acquisition, and Israel annihilation. His best strategy remains endless dissembling, while opponents debate national interests into ever-narrower parameters.
The U.S. lacks valuable economic or political enticements. Iran sees no value in new economic ties, when China and Japan demonstrate voracious appetites for any additional petroleum, chemicals or petrol-chemicals produced. Iranian political ties with China and Russia provide all the military equipment and training needed with no questions asked.
Effective diplomacy, garnering allied trust, must be covert, methodical, circumspect, painstakingly wrought, and multi-faceted. Action through espionage or military operations must cause ruinous forfeitures to tyrannical elites. Multi-national displeasure minimally includes increasing political and economic isolation.
Obamas commitment ignores wisdom bequeathed by parents and grandparents of the Greatest Generation when their Geneva Conventions placed terrorist organizations beyond norms for wars squalid bestiality. They provided our State Department wisdom to censure Iran, and Syria as principals acting through irredeemable terrorist agents.
Ignorance is Blix..
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We'll know in 6 months.
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