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Iran's plants, at Natanz, where uranium is enriched to 5 percent, and at Fordow, where it is enriched to 20 percent - both below weapons grade - are under constant U.N. monitoring. Iran has offered to surrender its 20 percent uranium and cease enriching to that level, if the West will provide isotopes for its nuclear medicine and lift some of the more onerous sanctions. No deal, says the United States. Iran must give up enrichment entirely and indefinitely. This is the sticking point in the negotiations. Iran contends that as a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, she has the right to enrich uranium for peaceful purposes. On this, the Iranian people stand behind their government. Should this deadlock be a cause for war?The "Financial Times'" Gideon Rachman argues that our obsession with Iran is obscuring a far greater potential threat. Pakistan possesses perhaps 100 nuclear bombs and is building more, and anti-Americanism there is far more rampant than in Iran. Seven in 10 Pakistanis regard America as an enemy. And the drone strikes ramped up by President Obama, which have taken the lives of many innocent Pakistanis, have increased the animosity.
Yet, U.S. planes and warships are heading into the Persian Gulf, as 44 U.S. senators have urged the president to break off talks with Tehran, toughen the sanctions even further and prepare for war. Meanwhile, Iran is testing missiles that can hit Israel and U.S. bases, and its large fleet of missile boats is exercising in the Gulf.
Otto von Bismarck said that preventive war was like committing suicide out of fear of death.
RealityZoneJuly 8, 2012 at 3:51 PM
I have found this to be one of the better tid bits of Iran/West history pieces.
http://www.lobelog.com/strait-history/
Here is another nice dot to connect the geopolitical insanity of the world.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dj-o_nx5j3I&feature=player_embedded
http://www.lobelog.com/strait-history/
Here is another nice dot to connect the geopolitical insanity of the world.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dj-o_nx5j3I&feature=player_embedded
It is very good. However, I find it a bit off track of your piece.
" Negotiate with Iran's leaders for verifiable guarantees that she is not moving to nuclear weapons "
There are oddities about this proposition that stand out. First, it is impossible to confirm a negative state. The best one can do is report unsuccessful search for positive results. Going from there, then, one should be faced with the realization that thousands of unsuccessful searches have been made.
Huh ? Iran co-sponsored the NPT in the first place. The IAEA was in fact funded by Iran, North Korea and Iraq as well as a multitude of other nations. When sanctions were levied against these nations, the independence of the IAEA as an independent monitor was compromised beyond use because, well, it became dependent upon the largess of nuclear armed aggressive countries for its existence. This torpedoed the Third Pillar of the NPT laying out proper terms for use of civilian nuclear technology as a right of nations....because the adherence to those terms became a political football where nuclear arms suppliers dictated the terms of treaty compliance ( they were unilaterally varied against the agreement of signatory nations ).
So now 'righteous' arms suppliers penalize proponents of disarmament with economic warfare while claiming they are not fulfilling terms of agreements they themselves proposed and agreed to !...which nuclear states do not consider for themselves.
The problem is more that they do.
Which is why this
TRANSCEND MEDIA SERVICE » The NPT and the Nuclear Power TRAP
http://www.transcend.org/tms/2010/05/the-npt-and-the-nuclear-power-trap/
http://opitslinkfest.blogspot.ca/2012/04/19-april-nuclear-politics.html ( below )
http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/12821/what_are_irans_intentions
" Negotiate with Iran's leaders for verifiable guarantees that she is not moving to nuclear weapons "
There are oddities about this proposition that stand out. First, it is impossible to confirm a negative state. The best one can do is report unsuccessful search for positive results. Going from there, then, one should be faced with the realization that thousands of unsuccessful searches have been made.
Huh ? Iran co-sponsored the NPT in the first place. The IAEA was in fact funded by Iran, North Korea and Iraq as well as a multitude of other nations. When sanctions were levied against these nations, the independence of the IAEA as an independent monitor was compromised beyond use because, well, it became dependent upon the largess of nuclear armed aggressive countries for its existence. This torpedoed the Third Pillar of the NPT laying out proper terms for use of civilian nuclear technology as a right of nations....because the adherence to those terms became a political football where nuclear arms suppliers dictated the terms of treaty compliance ( they were unilaterally varied against the agreement of signatory nations ).
So now 'righteous' arms suppliers penalize proponents of disarmament with economic warfare while claiming they are not fulfilling terms of agreements they themselves proposed and agreed to !...which nuclear states do not consider for themselves.
The problem is more that they do.
Which is why this
TRANSCEND MEDIA SERVICE » The NPT and the Nuclear Power TRAP
http://www.transcend.org/tms/2010/05/the-npt-and-the-nuclear-power-trap/
http://opitslinkfest.blogspot.ca/2012/04/19-april-nuclear-politics.html ( below )
http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/12821/what_are_irans_intentions
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There is something comic about two nuclear-armedcountries (5,000-plus nuclear weapons for the US, around 200 forIsrael) declaring that it is vital to prevent a third country from getting a few of the things too. Particularly when that third country, Iran, has signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and still abides by it, while Israel has always refused to sign it.
Translation : attack Iran so they know they NEED nuclear weapons. Meanwhile everyone posting 'analysis' ignores - among other things - Russian WMD barring the door to pushback free aggression. Remember
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How silly of me to think of real, verifiable and actual WMD as being more concern than a suspicion of a possibility known not to exist for decades
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But what possible input could the nation that supplies reactors, technical support andfissionable materials have into the situation ?
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