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2005-02-14 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Iran rejects EU offers on nuclear program

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Posted by Dan Darling 2005-02-14 12:27:40 AM|| || Front Page|| [11 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 So, we are "playing with fire?" That's getting close to "sea of fire." Maybe the Norks have shipped other things to Iran.

Posted by jackal 2005-02-14 9:17:46 AM|| [http://home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html] 2005-02-14 9:17:46 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 The administration is expecting that, by late spring or summer, the European track will fail
The is no way that the Euro solution/bribe/beg/plead/whine or whatever you care to call it can be considered anything but failed right now. The mullahs are playing for time and the Euro's don't appear to understand that.
Then what? A security council resolution or sanctions? ooooohhhhh.....how very scary for Iran.
At least the rest of the world will end up with another demonstration of how utterly useless and the UN is. Oh, I forgot, a nuclear armed Iran as well.

Posted by JerseyMike 2005-02-14 10:29:13 AM|| 2005-02-14 10:29:13 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Joschka Fischer warned Iran it would be referred to the UN Security Council if Tehran resumed nuclear enrichment . . . Asefi was unimpressed.

Come on, I'm sure they're shaking in their sandals over there in Tehran! I mean, it's the Security Council, man! The Security Council!

Posted by The Doctor 2005-02-14 11:28:37 AM|| 2005-02-14 11:28:37 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 JerseyMike-yep, and more. If the European strategy with Iran fails, the consequences are HUGE and we won't let it lie. Every one of us should keep shining the spotlight on our conflicting strategies because they apply to more than Iran.

So much of the current foreign policy rift between the US and Europe grew out of our different approaches in how to handle deadly impasses with malignant Islamic foreign powers. We moved pre-emptively on Iraq because we were unwilling to wait for catastrophe to land on us via Saddam; Europe and the much of the int'l community were willing to wait it out, just as they are now, by favoring soft power strategies. Should the outcome of Iranian nuclear ambition be a nuked-up Iran and the Islamicists remain in power, boasts about soft power working will go straight into the scrap heap of history and responsibility for the increased insecurity of the world will land straight in the lap of the "international community". Those powers that put the people of the whole world at risk because they were too sophisticated to believe in such things as good and evil are going to sound one collective gulp and face more than ridicule from Americans.

Posted by Jules 187 2005-02-14 11:54:09 AM|| 2005-02-14 11:54:09 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 "If Iran behaves in an unreasonable way, if for example it restarts enrichment... then that would lead to the Security Council," Fischer told an international security conference in Germany.

Asefi was unimpressed.

Yep, they saw what happened to ol' Saddy when the Security Council got together. More debating, more resolutions, none of which amounted to anything.

There's no reason to believe this time will be any different.

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2005-02-14 1:06:09 PM|| 2005-02-14 1:06:09 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Yea, well..
Saddam got referred to the Security Council, it diddled, passed some resolutions...

... and those resolutions were enforced, now Saddam's sons are dead and he awaits trial, with his execution appearing likely.

I'm not crediting the UNSC, mind you. Just pointing out how well it worked for Saddam.

Posted by Dishman 2005-02-14 5:27:52 PM|| 2005-02-14 5:27:52 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 ... and those resolutions were enforced,..

Surely not at the behest of the SC. At least, not intentionally.

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2005-02-14 9:03:03 PM|| 2005-02-14 9:03:03 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 Joschka Fischer warned Iran it would be referred to the UN Security Council if Tehran resumed nuclear enrichment . . . Asefi was unimpressed.

Hey, what do you know? Asefi and I agree on something. We are both unimpressed with Fischer's UNSC threats. Hey, we've made a start on understanding. We both agree that the EU's negotiations will go nowhere. Something to build on.
[/moron optimist rant]

Posted by Alaska Paul 2005-02-14 9:45:08 PM|| 2005-02-14 9:45:08 PM|| Front Page Top

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