Really? I'm shocked that anyone would be surprised by this turn of events! Another grand victory for Smart Diplomacy. [spit]| Submit your comments on this article |
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| Iran Reneges on Major Point: Will the Champ keep begging away ? |
| 2015-03-30 |
| Of course he will continue begging. Kerry must win the Nobel Prize and a shot at the Oval Office whilst the Champ has his eyes on the U.N. Secretary General position. It's always the next assignment with these people. [JP] With just two days to go before a "framework" agreement must be reached between the P5+1 countries and Iran regarding the Islamic Republic's nuclear program, the Iranians suddenly issued a surprise punch to the solar plexus of the other parties. Despite an already agreed upon commitment, Iran will not send out of the country the enriched uranium it has spent years and billions of dollars to create. Iran had previously agreed to send its stockpile elsewhere -- Russia was the agreed-upon destination -- thereby preventing Iran from using the material it had already produced to create nuclear weapons. This latest revelation came during the current round of talks between Iran and six major world powers -- Britain, France, China, Russia, the United States and Germany -- taking place at the Beau Rivage Palace Hotel in Lausanne, Switzerland. The negotiators are working to hammer out a provisional framework deal by Tuesday night, which will be followed by a final agreement this summer. But on Sunday, March 29, Iran's deputy foreign minister Seyed Abbas Araqchi told the Iranian media: "There is no question of sending the stocks abroad," Agence France-Presse reported. Given Iran's mercurial posturing throughout the negotiations and its latest brazen reneging on a critical aspect of the deal, critics of the U.S. administration's diplomatic efforts, including Republicans in Congress as well as several sunni Arab nations in the Middle East and also Israel, are sure to become even more vociferously opposed to the signing of any deal. If Iran is permitted to retain its already enriched uranium, it becomes much harder to state with confidence that it is not intending to continue its march towards nuclear weaponization. Over the weekend, U.S. Speaker of the House John Boehner told CNN that he is even less confident about Iran's willingness to abide by any deal it reaches pertaining to its nuclear program. "We have got a regime that's never quite kept their word about anything," he said. "I just don't understand why we would sign an agreement with a group of people who, in my opinion, have no intention of keeping their word." For its part, Iran is upping its own demands from the rest of the world. Iran demands that all sanctions and UN resolutions imposing crippling restrictions against Tehran be scrapped as part of its nuclear deal with major world powers, Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi said. "It is time for P5+1 to make tough decisions and to lift all sanctions," Araqchi told journalists at the Lausanne talks. "All six UN resolutions should be lifted," he added. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #9 What's a few million dead compared to Obama's legacy? |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2015-03-30 22:13 |
| #8 This little bit of appeasement and abject surrender on the part of O&Co will guarantee a nuclear war with Saudi and Iran. You have signed the death warrants of many thousands. Way to go, O. One Roentgen Soup Bowl coming up. Where do you want it? |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2015-03-30 17:27 |
| #7 ValJar will face a reckoning for this, but the prospect of a nuclear mid-east war will make whatever happens to her not enough! Champ will blithely go his Imperial way, clueless to what he has done and sidestep all consequence as the fault of lesser beings incompetent to manage his brilliant guidance. A modern Caligula could do no worse .... |
| Posted by: NoMoreBS 2015-03-30 13:16 |
| #6 In addition to #6 above a quote fro Fawlty Towers. Sybil Fawlty: You never get it right, do you? You're either crawling all over them, licking their boots, or spitting poison at them like some benzedrine puff adder. |
| Posted by: Jimk 2015-03-30 13:08 |
| #5 From another time and place: "he's either at your feet, or at your throat." |
| Posted by: Grunter 2015-03-30 11:52 |
| #4 I wish he was playing Civilization. Maybe someone should have introduced him to the game before he ran for the senate. |
| Posted by: chris 2015-03-30 10:02 |
| #3 Obama has had his great domestic signature legislation, ObamaCare (sarc on) Now, he is going for his great signature work in foreign affairs, nuclear armament of Iran and an arms race in the M.E. He will grovel, bow and beg his way to any deal no matter what with the MMs. I recall some bygone phrase about defending the Constitution against enemies both foreign and domestic. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2015-03-30 08:47 |
| #2 Really? I'm shocked that anyone would be surprised by this turn of events! Another grand victory for Smart Diplomacy. [spit] |
| Posted by: Bobby 2015-03-30 07:27 |
| #1 Will the Champ keep begging away ? Yes. Next question? Mike |
| Posted by: Mike Kozlowski 2015-03-30 05:47 |