Clinton: ‘Time Running Out for Iran’
Warns of 'Profound Consequences' if Iran Can't Prove Intentions Are Peaceful
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton today warned of ‘profound consequences’ if Iran is unable to convince the United States that their civilian nuclear program “is intended exclusively for peaceful purposes.”
Iran has agreed to enter into talks with the six parties (the US, Russia, China, Britain, France and Germany) which are planned for early next month. The US has said it doesn’t expect anything positive to come of the talks, and has been pressing the other five negotiating nations to support “crippling” sanctions against Iran.
Though Secretary Clinton insisted that Iran isn’t living up to its obligations, the IAEA yesterday reiterated that there was no proof that Iran was doing anything untoward in its civilian program, and Russia has said it firmly opposes any new sanctions.
The IAEA has continued to confirm that Iran isn’t diverting any of its low-enriched uranium to any military purpose, and the US intelligence community says it has confidence Iran doesn’t have an active nuclear weapons program. It remains unclear how Iran can possibly “prove” what the administration doesn’t want to believe, particularly when it is something international inspectors and US spies already know.
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Nelson_2008
September 19th, 2009 at 4:02 am
If the Iranians were smart, they would offer to temporarily halt their uranium enrichment activities in return for an independent, fully transparent, comprehensive investigation, with international participation, into the "terrorist attacks" of 09/11/2001 and related events (i.e., the anthrax attacks).
And then, upon confirmation that everything happened substantially as the U.S. government has claimed, they would agree to talks on the final status of their fuel cycle activities.
Of course, the U.S. government would never agree to such a thing, so the whole world would see that the U.S. government would rather risk WW3 than investigate 9/11, thereby implicating itself in the crime.
rybo1
September 19th, 2009 at 5:01 am
It's the same old Bush policy in a new suit. Nothing has really changed.
retiretheempire
September 19th, 2009 at 7:19 am
Funny that they never explain how Iran is supposed to prove they are not interested in nukes. Especially when the CIA itself isn't able to convince them of that.
paulBass
September 19th, 2009 at 9:55 am
common Hillary! maybe if you get on your record the deaths of 70 million Persians
the american people will think you manly enough to vote for president
DrFix
September 19th, 2009 at 12:16 pm
Whats to "convince" when all the American nut jobs want this sort of lunacy to move forward. Saddam couldn't convince them.
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cuish
September 19th, 2009 at 7:35 pm
Nelson, the beginning of your response, 'If the Iranians were smart..' is ridiculous because the Iranians have done nothing to implicate them in the sort of allegations thrown at them time and again. It has nothing to do with the Iranians being smart or anything else. The reports have shown that the Iranian nuclear programme is fine and dandy. They have signed on to the NPT. The clerics insist that nuclear weapons are against the Islamic faith…
This topic has less to do with the Iranian regime and has more to do with the Amerikan, Israeli/Zionist regime and the bullshit mass media that has propagated the view that the Iranians are somehow in the wrong.
Nelson, if the Iranians were smart, which they clearly are being a nation standing longer than the Amerikan nation, and one that has not started a war since back in the days of Amerikan conception, Iran would just go about what they are doing – producing energy legally.
Nelson_2008
September 19th, 2009 at 8:09 pm
Sorry but it's your reply that's "ridiculous". Of course the Iranians haven't done anything to deserve being demonized the way they are…did I state or imply otherwise?
For that matter, did Iraq deserve what was done to it? Of course not.
Since when does merely being innocent protect you from aggression by the USraeli Empire? It doesn't; Iran is going to be attacked sooner or later most likely on the pretext of its nuclear energy program, no?
So, as I said, if they were smart, they'd start throwing the Zionist 9/11 false flag job in their aggressors' faces.
As the Empire goes out on a limb more and more over the nuclear program, it's time to pull the rug out from under it.
Let's face it, in 9/11, the Zionists handed the world a weapon with which to potentially bring down the USraeli Empire…why is no one using it to advantage?
The Iranians should agree to suspend their uranium enrichment activity in return for a show of good faith by the U.S. – that showing being a real investigation into 9/11.
cuish
September 21st, 2009 at 4:35 pm
Nelson, what do you think would happen in the event of an attack agaisnt Iran; whether it is to be Israel, Amerika, or a combination of efforts? What's going to happen to the Strait of Hormuz? Of oil prices? What do you think will happen in and around Syria and Lebanon? Iraq? Afghanistan?
Attacking Iran is a ridiculous assumption as the consequences far outweigh any gain imaginable…This is one war they can't sell.
Iran should not suspend anything since they are doing nothing wrong. Your idea that they suspend for a show of good faith is proposterous and juvenile. Do you really think that Amerika will show good faith to…open investigations back up into the 9/11 attacks? This is absurd.
Iran has not attacked another nation in hundreds of years. Amerika is blood thirsty and Israel is a cancer in the middle east, eating away at Palestine…
'If they were smart' makes no sense…