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| EU compromises with US on Iran deadline |
| 2004-09-12 |
| France, Britain and Germany have met a key U.S. demand by proposing a November deadline for Iran to dispel concern that it has a covert atom bomb program, according to a draft resolution seen by Reuters. But the draft does not order Tehran to be automatically reported to the U.N. Security Council if it does not meet the deadline, as Washington wishes. Reuters was shown the draft, which will be revised before being formally submitted to the board of governors of the United Nations' International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). The draft says the board will "probably" consider whether further steps are needed after receiving IAEA chief Mohamed ElBaradei's next report on Iran in November. The United States had originally hoped that the IAEA board would report Iran next week to the U.N. Security Council, which has the power to impose sanctions, for violating the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) by concealing potentially weapons-related activities for nearly two decades. U.S. officials had been pushing the European Union's big three states to give up their strategy of trying to persuade Iran to abandon uranium enrichment and plutonium reprocessing, and get tough. |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |
| #10 France has been seeking character references from the likes of Hamas trailing wife, your excerpt above really says it all. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2004-09-12 9:12:01 PM |
| #9 Look at Spain, Zenster. Look how France has been seeking character references from the likes of Hamas in an attempt to get their hostages back. I'm not sure that even being on the receiving end of nukes will cause Europe to do more than talk. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2004-09-12 6:26:36 PM |
| #8 Sick as it may sound, it's getting to the point where Europe will require being hit with a nuclear terrorist attack before they wake up to the threat levels that they themselves are busily escalating. Madrid's atrocity should have served adequate notice but inspired the most callow sort of appeasement instead. The past year's diplomatic dithering, constant negotiating and general prinking about has produced not one micrometer of progress towards any significant resolution of the Iranian crisis. Instead, we have been treated to the ugly spectacle of Europe's improving trade relations with Iran. Meanwhile, the mullahs merely continue to increase the pace of their nuclear weapons development. Europe has been breathing their own exhaust for far too long. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2004-09-12 4:56:52 PM |
| #7 Iran and Syria would do well to remember that there are 60 days between Nov and Jan and the US can accomplish quite a lot in that time. Any terrorist attack in the US prior to the election will give us just cause. |
| Posted by: B 2004-09-12 8:37:53 AM |
| #6 I suggest to rename IAEA as IAE : International Association of Eunuchs of course they will have to drop their terminal "A", but thats not such a great sacrifice for having your name finally match your inner essence !! |
| Posted by: Elder of Zion 2004-09-12 6:42:19 AM |
| #5 Of course the Europeans will stick to November. Nov 1st, it will be. It lets the MSM cook up a big brouhaha about Bush wanting to invade Iran, and the resulting draft that will entail. Should be worth a few percentage points. |
| Posted by: VC the wonder dog 2004-09-12 5:34:29 AM |
| #4 But the draft does not order Tehran to be automatically reported to the U.N. Security Council if it does not meet the deadline, as Washington wishes. ..Reported to the Security Council......gee, that sounds so grade-schoolish... Left unsaid also was what the consequences would be for Iran if it did end up being "reported". |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2004-09-12 4:22:17 AM |
| #3 start discussing things and writing protocols My bet is they will be "doing lunch" when they are turned into glass. |
| Posted by: B 2004-09-12 3:48:42 AM |
| #2 God Help me, are the Eurocrats beginning to see the light, or are they basically capitulating to their genetically inherited instinct to form another Vienese Commitee and start discussing things and writing protocols until the earth is blasted from under their feet by the first Iranian nuke delivered to them courtesy of their own german engineered and french tested SHIHAB IV ?? They are underestimating the Mullahs !! Economic sanctions are not going to deter the Turbans who are certainly willing to starve and oppress their own people in the name of Allah, just to have their hands on a few nukes. If the Idiots in Europe do not wake up soon, they will have their asses blown internally and externally before they can say "Allah Hu Ackbar". |
| Posted by: Elder of zion 2004-09-12 3:16:21 AM |
| #1 "It's something that allows the U.S. to say it has a trigger" Back when the carriers practiced their surge,I predicted Pres.Bush would go medieval after the election.This story reads like the Administration is prepping the PR battlefield. |
| Posted by: Stephen 2004-09-12 3:06:55 AM |