Making sure that the level of demands that they are issuing are so high that Iran cannot possibly meet them, US officials today said that the upcoming Turkey meeting is Iran’s “last chance” to abandon its entire civilian nuclear program, shut down all enrichment facilities and “surrender” all of their nuclear fuel to the West.
The demands are much broader than anything US officials ever indicated they would seek earlier, but were in keeping with those that Israeli officials have recently been pushing for, particularly the demand that Iran simply give their nuclear fuel to the West as some sort of bribe for not being attacked.
Under Iran’s IAEA safeguards agreement, they would be under no obligation to do any of these things. President Obama has conceded in the past that Iran has a “right” to a peaceful civilian nuclear program, which indeed is the right of every signatory to the nuclear non-proliferation treaty, but seems now to have given up this position, at least in practice.
The vast majority of Iran’s uranium is enriched to 4.5 percent, for use in the Russian-built Bushehr power plant. A smaller amount has been further enriched to 20 percent, with the goal of being converted to fuel rods for the US-built Tehran Research Reactor, a source of medical isotopes. 20 percent is technically “highly enriched uranium,” but is far below weapons grade. Experts agree that uranium would need to be enriched to at least 90 percent, and potentially even higher, to make a nuclear weapon.
“Tension around Tehran has been running high recently, with aggressive rhetoric from both sides.”
Whoever wrote the above article for RT News, they must be trying to get a job with Western mainstream media. For “aggressive rhetoric,” that is threatening belligerence, a far cry from the passive and moral words from Iran in response to all the acts of war and terrorizing threats of war from Empire USA Israel.
Who gives the USA the right to declare the rules of the IAEA? Sure you can make outrageous demands on any country to inflame any situation, but are the Americans capable of performing honest diplomacy within the framework of international agreements? This country has become just a voice for the Zionists who govern Israel at the moment. Iran has every right ot enrich uranium to the levels required for rods for power reactors and for rods in the reactor that produces medical isotopes. If Iran does not have this right, many other countries of the world should have to shut down their isotope purification activities as well, beginning with Israel.
Iran has the right to even enrich uranium to weapons grade. If they don't, then nobody has the right to nuclear weapons beginning with the US and Israel.
What is there to say…??? Raw power and blackmail. So let me get this straight, the State that has nuclear weapons, doesn't want another State (somewhat nearby) to even have have ANY nuclear material at all…….. or any nuclear program whatsoever….. Did I mention the State with all the weapons is in a tense standoff over stolen land and nonexistent borders…
Thats it, the US officially declaring war on Iran, close your nuclear or we will start bombing Iran, or we let Israeli do it first and then we joining in with French, Turkey, Germans, Swedish, England and Chines are welcome too. Lets do it, world have passed two wars for capitalism – militarism regimes dominating the world economy, so what a heck lets do the tired and get it on.
"Last chance!" Oh bullsh*t. Iran is going to tell Barack the Beneficent to piss up rope. BB's will pitch histrionic fit, unleash the Schoolmarm Clinton to grind her fingernails down the international chalkboard, whereby simply oodles and gobs of folk will all cringe in utter disbelief and shudder in horror at the Schoolmarm's disingenuous madness.
But – – – we'll have us a war by God and that's all that is important.
Say, what do you suppose the Russians and the Chinese will do IF the dumb-ass Amerikans actually swallow the Israeli bait and blast bejesus out of Iran?
What do (I) suppose the Russians and the Chinese will do IF (WE) the dumb-ass Amerikans actually swallow the Israeli bait and blast bejesus out of Iran?
I donno…absolutely nuttin..?? Perhaps the real question is what will Iran do with their Chinese and Russian missiles….. What if Iran was to blow Dimona…???
OR is this all a bluff to support the worlds No. 1 Welfare Queen in her quest to eliminate ANY state which sympathise with the victims of their genocidal occupation…
Is "last chance" last?
From the War Party…Let's Have a War
The true agenda is unveiled. Iran is not to be permitted its rights under the NPT. The US is going to go to war for this? To take away Iran's civilian nuclear program? I don't think that's going to sell, even if both parties are trying. This is too transparent, too obviously entirely Israeli-made. The US military will revolt at being ordered to fight and die for Israel. What if they were ordered to attack Iran- and refuse?
It would be a boon from God if all the mllitary refuses to participate in any more genocidal wars.
If you read a book like William Shirer's "Rise and Fall of the 3rd Reich", you'll find that this was exactly Hitler's negotiating technique on the pre-war questions such as Austria or Chezchoslovakia. They are running the same playbook.
Its very, very clear, that a vote for Obama is a vote for war with Iran after the election.
911 = the Reichstag fire. The Enabling act = the Patriot act. Afghanistan, Iraq = Poland. Czechoslovakia The military commissions act & NDAA 1521 = The Berlin Laws It HAS BEEN the "same playbook." from day ONE of the Bush presidency…….
But, hey DON"T WORRY…. Romney and Netanyahu.may be really tight…
"There it is above the fold on the front page of the Sunday, April 8, New York Times, a tale of a long friendship between GOP presidential aspirant Mitt Romney and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, with insinuations aplenty that it could become an unprecedented and worrisome Israeli influence conduit reaching directly into the Oval Office. ("A Friendship Dating to 1976 Resonates in 2012 – Shared Experiences Connect Romney and Netanyahu").
The story, by Michael Barbaro, begins in 1976 when the Boston Consulting Group hired both men as corporate advisers — the seed of a lasting, personal friendship. So far, it seems an innocent enough happenstance, but Barbaro is quick to cast it in dark hues, with innuendoes, inferences and hints that this would give Israel automatic control of U.S. policy in the Middle East. Or, as Barbaro puts it, "a warm friendship, little known to outsiders, is now rich in political intrigue."
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2012/04/ny_ti…
Looks like for US here at AW.C it's LOSE… LOSE… Have a nice day…
Iran ought to tell the U.S. Government and Israel to perform a certain biological feat on themselves.
I notice it's the same 'ratchet' that occured at Waco: the Fed negotiator informed the Church (Steve Schneider) that ~'the people we work for had a change of heart' … ~'now if any of you all come out, they'll be dealt with in such a way as to force them back in.' So now Iran must 'give up' it's entire nuclear program because they presumed to negotiate, rather than obey. …and there's a Clinton involved… …and there's a PR cover largely aimed at the gullible and hate-prone … and there's a Clinton involved…
If it´s a right under NPT to enrich, how come the UN ever put any sanctions on Iran ?
Because the UN takes its orders from the US and the West (plus Israel). Anyone who is interested can read the 1970 treaty itself; it's short and clearly states the rules for the 100+ countries that signed it (Israel didn't): http://www.fas.org/nuke/control/npt/text/npt2.htm
And Obama will probably come wailing – Bibi made me do it.
Official: Obama will do ANTHING to get his second term and he is a bigger warmonger than Bush
I strongly recommend reading 'Zionism, Militarism and the Decline of US power' by James Petras for a profound in-depth understanding of .what is going on in the ME .
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E.G. ~~~~ Desertwriter says: "Nevertheless, one cannot dismiss the mission statement of the likudists/neocons and Israel firsters if you would only read the WZO journal statement written in 1982 and then translated by Israeli progressive Dr.Israel Shahak..you can still find it online as written by Oded Yinon for Kivunim which describes the over arching plan to dominate the entire region by breaking a few eggs…i.e., a list of the regional states that would need to be broken up into smaller and more 'manageable' bantustans. Starting with Iraq…though in all likelihood, had they begun with Iran instead of covertly providing repair and maintenance for the Iranians (POST 1979 Rev).Israel might well have succeeded then. However, that may all be prohibitive project at this point in time. Oil certainly played a role in US invasion of Iraq but it was about domination more than anything else…for empire…and the Neocon staffers like Wolfowitz who gave
Bush his PDBs cherry picked all the information. Bush was uncurious and being a good zionist completely trusted Wolfie and the rest of the neocons right. The speeches that Wolfie and Perle wrote for Netanyahu were exactly what led to the JINSA "Clean Break" policy and was the basis for Netanyahu's campaign speeches that Perle wrote for Bibi in 1996 and forward. This is exactly the pivotal issue when allowing 'dual citizens' to serve the US President…there is a conflict of loyalties. This should never be allowed to happen again."
Thank you antiwar to prepare us so early for war.
Why actually only the US side of aims and statements is supplied here?
I never read here about the key statements of Iran. Just copying, actually trumpeting, the headlines of the war mongering mass media does not help much against war.
"Why actually only the US side of aims and statements is supplied here?"
Except for fully half the story which explains what Iran is actually doing and why it has no treaty obligations to do what the US is demanding.
Hint: If you can't be bothered to read the article before announcing that it says the opposite of what it actually says, why bother at all?
Demands could not be meet, the reason is obvious. To find the pretex for military intervension. If that really happen, then isolation of Israel and special "love" for its regime will became universal over night. Satanic ideology Zionism with its only "brat" child Israel will be confronted by whole of humanity. Destruction of planet will also mean total awaikening of mankind, clear identification of "Evil" and its final destruction. World without Zionism will be able find "Universal Moral Codex" and start Era of lasting peace.
Getting a little bit apocalyptic there Peter. I basically agree with you though I don't believe that defeating Zionism will miraculously transform the world. Greed and selfishness have never been monopolized. We are all (at least potentially) Satanic.
See! The same old good-cop bad-cop double-teaming lies and obfuscations that Team USA are noted for. How is this a surprise anymore?
I find it amusing that Israel has any say in any nuclear circles. I can assure you that both China, and Russia look at Israel's transgressions, and refusals to come clean on their own nukes as a much bigger problem than Iran's nuclear program. Israel basically owns the US congress, and Senate which is why the US has little legitimacy in the current discussions.
It would be nice if our hypocrite politicians would say something like,"Hypocrite Politician Liars: "Last Chance" For Iran To Shut Down Nuclear Program". I wish they would stop including the American people in on their little war games! The majority of us do not want anything to do with it! Curse my country!
This is funny. Last chance to shut down a program that does not exist. Maybe they could shut down the program in Israel – would that satisfy the US? No, probably not. It is very difficult to shut down a program that does not exist. It can't be done. Thus they will inevitably fail and that will be used as the excuse for war. Again.
I'm wondering why the connections between Zionism and colonialism aren't or havent been openly debated about in a political format with a large electorate viewership. It would seem logical that anyone defending the proposed rights of Zionist movement would be happy to intellectually debate issues regarding the either loose or accurate connections toward colonialism. It seems to me (im often, more wrong than right and apologise if my assumptions are false) the people apposed to Israeli intervention who are blogging here are concerned with Israel's supposed intentions to dominate the region. I personally don't disagree with this view but I'm reluctant to form an opinion until I've actually heard someone from Israel say this. I read the wzo statement for 1982 and appreciate that it is quite clear what was being thought of at that time, but I think it's only proper to mention that South Africa still was apppartied then and the government now in South Africa has fundimentally opposite views only 30 years later. Why shouldn't we assume Israel hasn't changes its views in the last 30 years? Also if time is not a factor, the situation to me seems very similar to the crisis with Cuba durning the Kennedy administration. America had and has a more than adequate nuclear arsenal to defend itself and destroy anyone around them, and Cuba attempted to have their own. America went crazy (rightly so). Why shouldn't Israel employ the same strategy with Iran seeming as they are just as close as the US is to Cuba and equally as crazy?