His comments were not unexpected given past Russian statements on the issue, but nevertheless dealt a setback to efforts to boost pressure on Iran to suspend uranium enrichment and reprocessing activities with a new U.N. Security Council sanctions resolution.
No one seems to remember much more then 3-6 months in the past when it comes to such dealings.
Russia and China both agreed to sanction Iran for enriching uranium. They are STILL enriching uranium, yet with the newest NIE report saying that they abandoned the nuclear weapons program, we're hitting an impasse.
"We also assess with moderate-to-high confidence that Tehran at a minimum is keeping open the option to develop nuclear weapons"
That's what the NIE report states, but everyone is not paying attention to that aspect. They only are hearing what they want to hear out of this.
Rudy Guiliani gets it that Iran's intentions are there and they want weapons on short order:
While trumpeting his campaign message that the Democrats do not understand how to handle today’s terrorist threats, Giuliani again singled out the democratic frontrunners.
“You negotiate with preconditions and you negotiate from a position of strength, so you have leverage,” said Giuliani discussing how a president should deal with adversarial nation states.
“Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and John Edwards honestly don’t seem to understand that. When they say they’ll negotiate without preconditions, where they kind of, almost in a posture of almost begging to negotiate. When you beg someone to negotiate with you who is inherently irresponsible you put yourself in a very bad situation.”
Israel is still considering a military strike against Iran too.
And you know what? I don't care if Israel does attack Iran.
Let them fight it out and we'll keep an eye on things in case it gets out of hand.
Israel already has a proven track record of whipping multiple asses at the same time, so I doubt they'll have problems with Iran.
Of course, this is all on the notion that everything you and I are seeing is on the up and up.
Am I a conspiracy theorist to wonder out loud if this NIE report is a disinformation campaign to get the Iranians to let down their guard? Is it something that is being used to take the tensions out of the air while something behind the scenes is going on?
The facilities that Iran has definitely have questionable things going on inside them, but with Iran being so secretive and evidence mounting up, I find it hard to believe that everyone is wrong on this to such a degree that for the past 4 years, Iran has just been playing up the "American boogeyman" and both sides are doing something behind the scenes we don't know about.
Something's not right here.
Travis
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