While Western officials rail at Iran’s Supreme Leader for mixed messages on Iran’s stance on the nuclear deal, Secretary of State John Kerry continues to make dramatic changes to his public position on the matter, contradicting claims he’d made only a week prior.
Last week, Secretary Kerry insisted that a full accounting of the military dimensions of any past nuclear activities in Iran wasn’t necessary. Today, he telephoned his Iranian counterpart to inform him that the US demands Iran answer all questions about its past activities if it wants a deal.
Intelligence agencies believe that while Iran explored possible military dimensions to its nuclear program at one point, this was scrapped long ago, and that the present program is purely civilian. Questions about this past activity have been mixed in with apocryphal allegations of current plots, usually originating from Israel or the Mujahadeen-e Khalq, and combined to form the narrative of an active Iranian nuclear weapons program, which again, no intelligence community in the world believes actually exists.
It is unclear why Kerry changed his mind again in the past week on the matter, though he faced criticism from hawks for saying the past didn’t matter, and might simply be trying to deflect criticism by suddenly claiming it does again.
I also hereby and forthwith demand that Kerry fess up about his extensive personal lingerie wardrobe.
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Is it pretty well established that the basis for speculating on a prior weapons program is that some Iranian did buy the CIA's bomb plans from the Russian CIA asset–a la James Risen's State of War & the Jeffery Sterling trial?
Can Kerry come clean on his business with Israel? This is a pure capitalism with its mouth open and a deep pockets, yet they always think that is the other guy that is bad.
When one side in any negotiation doesn't have any fundamental arguments or claims to stand for then it has a tendency to jump from one branch of the tree to another branch, so to speak! This has been the chosen method of negotiation by the west in its nuclear negotiations with Iran! It is pathetic though!
I demand to know whether Kerry married his wife for her money or her exclusive tomato-seed-oil sex lube.
Everybody should come clean.
Kerry can start. He can confess to the string of forgeries the US has fed to the IAEA. He can confess to the assassinations done in Iran. He can confess to the cyberwarfare attacks on Iran. He can confess to the nuclear arsenal in Israel which is used to threaten Iran. He can even make promises to prevent a nuclear attack on Iran if it gives up nuclear weapons itself.
That would be a good faith start. But since he won't, he should shut up about it, and just do a deal that looks forward.
"…unclear why Kerry changed his mind again in the past week…"
Well that's obvious…he was "off script" and he got a tweet from his handlers informing him that he needed to get back on board. These guys just can't keep all their "stories" straight because there are so many of them, too many to keep the narratives going without constant prompting from behind the purple curtain. So, every now and then, the truth actually gets spoken aloud.
What the Iranians did in the past is irrelevant. It's what they will do in the future that matters now. I'm waiting for the Iranians to drag out and demand an accounting of what the USG has done in the past…only fair, no? But then, they're not juvenile bullies.
I think talks have hit a real snag with that one.
It's the ghost of Bushco past.
"Fess on up about that Mossad created laptop we 'found'. Tell us we wuz right and all will be forgiven."
Do you think an ayetolleh is allowed to say, "feck off!"