{"id":2222,"date":"2008-08-07T08:16:07","date_gmt":"2008-08-07T12:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=2222"},"modified":"2008-08-07T08:20:02","modified_gmt":"2008-08-07T12:20:02","slug":"iran-begging-for-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=2222","title":{"rendered":"Iran begging for “it”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Offered “a very generous” set of incentives to discontinue their pursuit of nuclear weapons, Iran has unsurprisingly rejected the UN’s plan to mediate the crisis. Thus, causing the UN to get scary stern<\/a>;<\/p>\n

Spokesman Gonzalo Gallegos said there was consensus in the group that Iran’s latest reply to the offer was “very disappointing” and “a stalling tactic” that had left the group with no option other than to seek new sanctions.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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“We are very disappointed that Iran has yet again failed to give Javier Solana a clear answer to the … generous incentives package,” he told reporters. “We agreed that we have no choice but to pursue further measures against Iran.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Despite the strong language, Iran seems unafraid. I wonder why?<\/p>\n

…a one-page document which was submitted to Solana on Tuesday and was supposed to contain either an acceptance or rejection of negotiations over the package.<\/p>\n

Instead, the response repeated Iran’s long-standing position that it has a right to peaceful nuclear activities and said it would not give a definitive answer to the offer until its own questions about it had been answered.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Iranians have the Russians running a screen play for them, just as the Soviets did for Hussein and later the Russians did for Serbia (Washington Post<\/a> link);<\/p>\n

Vitaly I. Churkin, said the six nations should continue negotiating with Iran over its nuclear program. He dismissed assertions by the United States, Britain and France that Tehran had missed a deadline this week to respond to the offer, which would make a push for U.N. sanctions inevitable.<\/p>\n

“We haven’t set any deadlines for their response,” he said. “We have some negotiating opportunities, and rather than focus almost entirely on sanctions we should focus on what those opportunities should be.”<\/p>\n

Churkin’s remarks raised the prospect of renewed strains between Washington and Moscow over Iran policy during the final months of President Bush’s tenure.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So the Israelis, who don’t have the luxury of time and distance that the debating society at Turtle Bay enjoys, are making plans of their own. They use language that’s a little bit stronger (Reuters<\/a> link);<\/p>\n

Israeli cabinet minister Shaul Mofaz, a contender to succeed the prime minister, denounced his native Iran on Wednesday as “the root of all evil” and said its nuclear program constituted a threat to world peace.<\/p>\n

Mofaz was speaking a day after he launched a campaign for a party leadership election next month that will lead to the replacement of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And they’ve got the clout (Fox News<\/a> link);<\/p>\n

The Jewish state has purchased 90 F-16I fighter planes that can carry enough fuel to reach Iran, and will receive 11 more by the end of next year. It has bought two new Dolphin submarines from Germany reportedly capable of firing nuclear-armed warheads \u2014 in addition to the three it already has.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And, of course, while the US pussyfoots around with Iran over the insurgency against our troops in Iraq, not to mention the Iraqis themselves, using the language of the American Left, which in itself is shameful, the Iranians deny they’re involved in Iraq…despite the mounting evidence to the contrary(India<\/a> News);<\/p>\n

The Iranian mission to the UN issued a statement Wednesday rejecting the charge by US Deputy Ambassador Alejandro Wolff that its government contributed to the insurgent war and undermined peace efforts by the Iraqi government.<\/p>\n

“The US government unwarrantedly insists on its unacceptable behaviour in scapegoating others, including Iran, for its own wrong policies in Iraq in order to distract attention from the sources of US failures in that country,” Iranian Ambassador Mehdi Danesh Yazdi said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Now, someone explain to me how the Islamic Republic deserves to be treated as a rational actor. This is a pattern of the enemies of freedom that we’ve seen played out so many times in the last century. They bank on the fact that the world community, the so-called civilized nations, are too weak to force rational behavior from them, and they go on their merry way until thousands, sometimes millions, of lives are lost and world security is placed at risk.<\/p>\n

It’s always left up to the US or Israel to act unilaterally, then world gasps at the audacity and condemns the actions, while privately heaving a sigh of relief. Iran is begging for it, so why wait? Someone’s going to do something, why not sooner than later?<\/p>\n

To Hell with Code Pink, IVAW, MoveOn and all the rest of the little brainless nitwits who want to neuter the US’ military advantage for their own selfish emotional reasons. Do something. Now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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