January 19, 2012

U.S. Is Not Serious With Iran Negotiations

The proposed new negotiations with Iran about its nuclear program seem to be just a sham. The likely goal behind them is still regime change. The negotion position the U.S. wants to set are unacceptable for Iran. Laura Rozen reports on the "expectations" the U.S. is said to have for these talks:

American non-proliferation officials and diplomats have prepared a so-called "confidence building measure" for Iran to accept as an outcome of the next round of talks. Western governments see Iran's reception of the measure as a key test of whether further negotiations would be productive--or if Iran is even capable of making a decision. Two Washington Iran analysts described the draft U.S. confidence building measure to Yahoo News last week, as they understood it from conversations earlier this month with its principal author, State Department non-proliferation expert and Iran sanctions czar Robert Einhorn. Under the proposed measure, which the U.S. has been presenting to its P5+1 partners, Iran would agree to halt enriching uranium to 20 percent, and turn over its existing stockpile of 20 percent enriched uranium. In exchange, western countries would agree not to pass another UN Security Council Resolution sanctioning Iran. Western diplomats and analysts stress the importance Washington and its allies have placed on Iran's acceptance of the trust-building measure.

If trues and these "two Washington Iran analysts" are not simply lying this position is ludicrous. There is likely no way the U.S. could get another UN security council resolution on Iran. After its "western" members broke the resolution on Libya neither Russia nor China are in any mood to allow for another conflict.

So the U.S. is telling Iran to hand over its 20% enriched Uranium for what? Continued unilateral sanctions against its oil-exports and more killing of its scientist?

How could any Iranian politician explain such a deal to his people? Iran and its people have endured sanctions for making the 20% Uranium for the production of medicine. No one suggesting to give that up for nothing would have a chance for political survival.

These "conditions" are just an arrogant demand that Iran should surrender. It will of course not do so which will then increase the more and more fashionable demands in Washington for unilateral "regime change" by force.

Posted by b on January 19, 2012 at 15:15 UTC | Permalink

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