Posted on 09/27/2009 1:45:05 AM PDT by nickcarraway
Response stiffens on nuclear sites
The Obama administration plans to tell Tehran this week that the nation has three months to open its numerous nuclear sites to inspection, turn over notebooks and computers, and answer detailed questions about its suspected efforts to build a nuclear weapon, according to US officials.
The demands, following the revelation Friday of a secret nuclear enrichment facility at a military base near the holy city of Qum, set the stage for the next chapter of a diplomatic drama that has shifted the West’s posture and heightened tensions with Iran, even drawing rebukes from such allies as Russia.
So far, the administration has not laid out, in public, the extent of the demands it will put on the table on Thursday, when Iranian representatives are scheduled to meet in Europe with the Western powers. It will mark the first time in 30 years that the United States will join the talks as a full, direct participant, fulfilling President Obama’s campaign pledge for “full engagement’’ with Tehran.
But interviews over the past three days with administration and intelligence officials and international nuclear experts suggest near-unanimity that disclosure of the covert facility at an Iranian Revolutionary Guards base could be a turning point.
It is providing unprecedented leverage, they said, to demands for access to other sites that have long been off-limits, and for answers to hundreds of outstanding questions. The officials say that if Iran resisted, the United States would seek tough new sanctions, at a time when the government in Tehran has been weakened by internal strife.
The most urgent issue, current and former officials agree, is gaining immediate access, perhaps as soon as in the next few days, to the hidden tunnel complex that Iran now acknowledges is a uranium enrichment plant under construction.
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Progressives are always wrong. Its in their nature.
Anyone want to start a pool on when the Iranians set off their first nuclear device ?
And if they don’t?
I don’t think the nutjobs in Tehran are worried a bit about Obama.
I am wondering whether Zero is just going through the motions? He wants to appear concerned but in the end Israel will be destroyed with one Iranian nuke. Zero will have obtained his objective, destruction of Israel, and there will not be a trace of blood on HIM (the ONE).
I agree this is dark logic but we are dealing with an immoral individual (Zero that is).
Perhaps so. Iran can then expect a rain of nuclear-armed missiles launched by Israeli subs and perhaps surface ships. I would not be surprised that the israelis keep a few nuke-missile-armed fighter planes (and bombers?) in the air 24/7.
It is not an accident that this second site is located in their second most religious city.
Interesting. Do the Iranithugs expect Israel to spare it on religious grounds?
Bomb, bomb, Qom gone.
Thanks for the reminder (Mutually assured destruction). Maybe that will keep IAMANUTJOB in line. Surely Zero won’t.
It’s going to take a lot more than one Iranian nuke to destroy Israel. And you better believe they won’t go down alone.
As of this past July (at the G-8) wasn't the clock originally supposed to have run out on Iran in late September (by the G-20)?
Granted the G-8 couldn't then agree on language promising immediate new sanctions, but they did promise to be very, very, very upset.
So, very, very, very upset means, "take another three months"?!
Why should we assume that Obama will be tired of carrying those goal posts for the mullahs by December?
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