The September deadline for Iran set by the administration to enter into talks is "not an open window for just delay and kind of rope-a-dope, you have to get somewhere," she says. Mrs. Clinton adds the U.S. is drawing up a list of tougher sanctions against Iran with other countries in case Tehran doesn't bite. "I think it's important for Iran to know that we're not talking about anything other than change in behavior, a change in actions, that could bring benefits to them." But not a change in regime, at least not with an overt U.S. push. Mrs. Clinton doesn't go beyond offering "vocal support" for democrats, saying "It would not be useful."
So can you trust Mahmoud Ahmadinejad...
"No"
... and the mullahs to negotiate in good faith...
"No"
... and implement any deal if you do get one?
"No, we don't trust any of them. We would not reach any agreement with the Iranian government that we did not think could be verified by external means."
The experience with North Korea since the Clinton administration struck a deal in 1994 would seem to be a cautionary one for Iran. Mrs. Clinton disagrees. "I think we made progress, then we backslid, then we made some more progress" in North Korea, she says. "I guess I would question the wisdom of the Bush administration reacting to the discovery that there had been cheating on the framework agreement and withdrawing everyone. I think countries test limits, especially countries with the world view like the ones we're discussing. I think it's better to discover their efforts to circumvent the agreements and the limits and then" - she hits an open palm against the arm of the couch - "come down harder. Don't withdraw, don't leave the field. Look at the result of that. They began reprocessing plutonium. That was not in anyone's interest."
Clearly North Korea believes it to be in their interest, madam secretary.
#4
.....but for the photo op with her on the tarmac just back from Iran with a piece of paper in her hand waving in the wind and declaring 'peace in our time', she'll shill to get the world to forget about Bill upstaging her with those two useful idiots [like he's done to her with other bimbos].
[Al Arabiya Latest] A hard-line Iranian cleric urged the judiciary on Friday to arrest the leaders of post-election unrest, in what appeared to be a reference to defeated moderate presidential candidates Mirhossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karoubi, while Iran granted U.N. nuclear inspectors the first access to the Arak site in a year.
Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati, who heads the powerful Guardian Council, did not name Mousavi or Karoubi, but other hardliners have repeatedly accused the two of fomenting post-election street protests in which at least 26 people were killed.
"(Post-vote) riots are our main issue today ... Some people were arrested and some were not. Why weren't the leaders behind the riots arrested? ... Their arrest should be the first thing that the judiciary must do," Jannati told Friday prayer worshippers. The sermon was broadcast live on state radio.
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Please, arrest them. Keep rolling the dice and over-playing your hand.
" Mr Vahidi was a deputy defense minister and this is very senior political position. Therefore it seems that this is a new trick being planned and is basically a Zionist plot "
Ahmadinejad press adviser Ali Akbar Javanfekr
[Al Arabiya Latest] Iran's defense minister-designate Ahmad Vahidi is being sought by Interpol in connection with the worst terrorist attack on Argentine soil, the 1994 bombing of a Jewish charities headquarters building, a prosecutor said Friday.
Prosecutor Alberto Nisman said Interpol has had a warrant for Vahidi's arrest in the case since November 2007.
Ahmad Vahidi, who commanded a unit of Iran's Revolutionary Guard known as the Quds Force at the time of the attack, was nominated by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Wednesday along with others named to fill Cabinet positions. The Quds Force is involved in operations abroad. "His nomination is very serious, given that Vahidi is a person who -- as former head of Al-Quds -- is deeply implicated with this attack," Nisman said
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[Asharq al-Aswat] -- The way some apologists of the Khomeinist regime put it the current power struggle in Iran is between the mass of the poor led by the populist Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the "rich and privileged" Tehranis whose leader is Mir-Hussein Mousavi.
Ahmadinejad himself played that tune during the ceremony in which he took the oath of office for a second four-year term as President of the Islamic Republic. He declared war on "the aristocracy of wealth" and vowed to "uproot the rentier elements".
At the other end of the spectrum, some critics of the Khomeinist regime present Ahmadinejad as the leader of a Stalinist group determined to prevent Iran from liberalizing its economy, and praise Mousavi as a pro-market reformer.
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