The Obama administration’s positive tone following its first diplomatic encounter with Iran covers a deep and growing gloom in Washington and European capitals. Seven hours of palaver in Geneva haven’t altered an emerging conclusion: None of the steps the West is considering to stop the Iranian... Full Story »
Posted by Manfred Ostrowski - via Fair Spin (Right), Memeorandum
Washington post continues it's irrational, one sides, neo-con position...leaving facts and history outside of the discussion.
Jackson Diehl offers a quite pessimistic article concerning Iran's nuclear program to Washington Post readers. He does not expect any of the options considered so far by the U.S. to work, so he predicts a long-term "containment" policy towards Iran, similar to cold war.
I think diplomacy and serious talks should continue - next year and in the years to come - until some security agreement with Iran is reached.
If by early next year we are getting nothing through diplomacy and sanctions, the entire policy is going to be revealed as a charade. More »
This is a pundit piece, not a news article, so it is held to a lower standard, which it fails to meet. Diehl's point, having bought the administration line about Iran's supposed imminent threat to manufacture nuclear weapons (despite denails by a US intelligence assessment last year, and complete lack of evidence), is that sanctions, a military attack, and destabilizing the Iran government by backing the opposition won't work because Russia and China stand in the way, "buying the [Iranian] regime valuable time" - for what, he doesn't actually say. Somehow he fails to connect the dots - if violence and bullying won't work, why not try negotiating rather than dictating and arm-waving. This piece is utter tripe.
Iran seeks to have the NPT strengthened, and the IAEA too. Let's keep in mind that Israel refuses to sign the NPT or to allow any inspections of its nuclear facilities.
This is, of course, an editorial, full of assumptions and statement telling us what "Washington" is thinking. there are powerful interests in Washington who want to nullify Iran. Iran is also the only nation which stands in the way of total control of the region by the US now that we have subdued and are occupying Iraq.
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