After hopes of reaching a deal today gave way to reports of some additional talks on Saturday leading to a weekend signing ceremony, an unspecified “roadblock” has emerged in the talks.
It doesn’t appear that this roadblock is going to actually prevent a deal, but diplomats say that the talks will continue into next week now before a deal can be reached.
That could be a major problem, with Congress up in arms about the deal (citing Israeli objections) and Rep. Ed Royce (R – CA) is planning to hold hearings on Wednesday, meaning those talks could wind up continuing in parallel with Congressional hearings meant explicitly to derail them.
Though officials wouldn’t confirm what the obstacle to the deal was, some rumors are that it surrounds the Arak heavy water reactor. The reactor is being constructed to replace the aging Tehran Research Reactor as a source of medical and industrial isotopes.
The US has complained that the reactor would produce plutonium as a waste product, though Iran hasn’t built any of the reprocessing facilities to try to recover such waste, and is reportedly willing to ship the waste abroad, as they are with the Bushehr reactor.
The "unspecified roadblock" is fear.
OMG, 'we' can't avoid war with Iran because 'they' are trying to acquire yellow cake!.
Oops, that was the previous 'cover' for launching war.
Iran is really really trying to acquire plutonium this time (not yellow cake).
OMG, 'we' have to attack 'them' ____________ (fill-in appropriate name of country/territory).
The deceitful methods of the Disguised Global Empire — not so
sophisticated, but it works every time! (because of FEAR &
stupidity).
As Earl Shorris revealed in "The Politics of Heaven" this keeps the
'national political movement' of Empire and its FEAR of death, sold
through marketing deceit.
The "unspecified roadblock" is fear.
OMG, 'we' can't avoid war with Iran because 'they' are trying to acquire yellow cake!.
Oops, that was the previous 'cover' for launching war.
Iran is really really trying to acquire plutonium this time (not yellow cake).
OMG, 'we' have to attack 'them' ____________ (fill-in appropriate name of country/territory).
The deceitful methods of the Disguised Global Empire — not so
sophisticated, but it works every time! (because of FEAR &
stupidity).
As Earl Shorris revealed in "The Politics of Heaven" this keeps the 'national political movement' of Empire and its FEAR of death, sold through marketing deceit.
The unspecified roadblock is France.
More precisely the self-glorifying and utterly clueless socialist Hollande who somewhat earlier got stopped rushing into a Syrian war with more alacrity than even Obama could muster and who seems to have been told by his handlers (who are those? I can't seem to find out LOL!) to take the fall and scuttle the talks by playing tough. Or maybe they have a secret Taqiyya detector.
Iran is playing with fire. it is simply allowing itself to be disarmed.
What follows next is too evident to even deserve mentioning.
Iran needs to have atomic bombs, if it does not want to face destruction by the wild West and its accomplices.
With the nuclear talks collapsing, any restart in negotiations must include human rights considerations. As a party to several human rights treaties and as a Member State of the United Nations, Iran is legally obligated to protect the civil, political and religious rights of its citizens. Since the Iranian Revolution in 1979, Iran has been involved in large-scale abuses of human rights, including systematic persecution of religious minorities and severe restrictions on the freedoms of expression and assembly. The West shouldn't be deceived by false promises, but instead hold Iran accountable for its acts and behavior.