Posted on 09/15/2009 12:59:57 PM PDT by jerusalemjudy
* Back in July, when the G-8 announced that the opening of the UN General Assembly "would be an occasion for taking stock of the situation in Iran," most international observers understood that there was a hard September deadline that Iran had to meet to begin serious nuclear negotiations. Unfortunately, at this stage, there is little evidence that the Obama administration is about to adopt effective action in a timely manner in light of Iran's policy of rejectionism, setting aside diplomatic engagement and moving to a policy of severe sanctions.
* Glyn Davies, the U.S. ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency, recently acknowledged that the Iranian stockpile of low-enriched uranium has already reached a sufficient level so that it was possible to talk about Tehran having "a dangerous and destabilizing possible breakout capacity." Tehran undoubtedly observed that no serious action was taken against North Korea for its nuclear breakout.
* The common assumption in Washington policy circles today is that even if Iran reaches the nuclear finish-line, the U.S. can fall back on the same Cold War deterrence that was used against the Soviet nuclear arsenal. However, Iran is a true revolutionary power whose aspirations extend into the oil-producing states. With Iran threatening the flow of oil tankers through the Strait of Hormuz, through which roughly 40 percent of the world's oil flows, the nuclearization of Iran has global - and not just Middle Eastern - implications.
* In 2003-2005, Tehran engaged with the EU exploiting the talks to race ahead with construction of key uranium enrichment facilities, while fending off punitive measures by the UN Security Council for three entire years. Iran today is far more advanced than it was then and the time for diplomatic experimentation is extremely limited.
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Yeah but what do you do when the horses are already out of the barn...
To quote zero: “Words, just words”.
The deadline expired some dozen (give or take) years ago.
Obama doesnt know anything about any deadline.
It’s as forgotten as his promise to bring the troops homwe
The Iranians have barely mastered low enriched uranium at about 8%. With all of their supposed cascades they are really struggling to do even that. They might have enough LEU to make a bomb if they could get it further enriched.
Iranians are far too smart to enrich to 90% at known facilities such as Natanz using civilians.
They are running out of yellow cake to even create the LEU they need for power generation at Bushehr.
I am solidly in Israel's corner, except for the new settlements. I am getting tired of Dore Gold's dog and pony show, books, interviews, columns, trying to stoke the US into an Iranian attack.
Ain't gonna happen.
Deadline LOL, it went the same as Health care Reform August 1st deadline
0bama was just stalling Netanyahu.
If you’d like to be on or off, please FR mail me.
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Iran is playing the same game as Saddam did? If so, then it is not one to be recommended to maintain the health of its program, because it can be taken out.
...there is little evidence that the Obama administration is about to adopt effective action in a timely manner in light of Iran's policy of rejectionism, setting aside diplomatic engagement and moving to a policy of severe sanctions.There has been no evidence of any kind of genuine diplomatic efforts, either. With despots in general, and Iran in particular, diplomacy works far better after one parades around with the dictators' heads on poles.
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