An article on the US congress moves to enact tougher sanctions on Iran next week. Those sanctions are separate from and come on top of the multilateral sanctions enacted by the UN Security Council.
There is ZERO evidence that Iran seeks to acquire a nuclear weapon, and quite the contrary, Iran has repeatedly made very significant nuclear compromise offers that far exceed its legal obligations or what other nuclear countries (Brazil Argentina) have accepted -- for example the offer to entirely open its nuclear program to joint US participation, making it impossible for Iran to secretly make nukes -- but these and many other offers were simply ignored by the US despite the fact that they were endorsed by the IAEA and US experts. (See: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/05/opinion/05iht-edzarif.html)
As elbaradei himself said: I have seen the Iranians ready to accept putting a cap on their enrichment [program] in terms of tens of centrifuges, and then in terms of hundreds of centrifuges. But nobody even tried to engage them on these offers. Now Iran has 5,000 centrifuges. The line was, "Iran will buckle under pressure." But this issue has become so ingrained in the Iranian soul as a matter of national pride. (http://www.newsweek.com/id/199149)
The policy of the US is to make offers to IRan that are intended to be refused, so as to justify a war. http://pulsemedia.org/2009/06/12/talking-to-iran-will-make-it-easier-to-sell-war/
There is ZERO evidence that Iran seeks to acquire a nuclear weapon, and quite the contrary, Iran has repeatedly made very significant nuclear compromise offers that far exceed its legal obligations or what other nuclear countries (Brazil Argentina) have accepted -- for example the offer to entirely open its nuclear program to joint US participation, making it impossible for Iran to secretly make nukes -- but these and many other offers were simply ignored by the US despite the fact that they were endorsed by the IAEA and US experts. (See: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/05/opinion/05iht-edzarif.html)
ReplyDeleteAs elbaradei himself said:
I have seen the Iranians ready to accept putting a cap on their enrichment [program] in terms of tens of centrifuges, and then in terms of hundreds of centrifuges. But nobody even tried to engage them on these offers. Now Iran has 5,000 centrifuges. The line was, "Iran will buckle under pressure." But this issue has become so ingrained in the Iranian soul as a matter of national pride.
(http://www.newsweek.com/id/199149)
The policy of the US is to make offers to IRan that are intended to be refused, so as to justify a war.
http://pulsemedia.org/2009/06/12/talking-to-iran-will-make-it-easier-to-sell-war/