Iran has agreed to ship much of its low enriched uranium abroad in a nuclear fuel swap deal backed by Turkey and Brazil, but the United States said moves for toughened sanctions would still go ahead.
Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmed Davutoglu said there was “no need” for further UN sanctions in the light of the deal as his country and Brazil “have made guarantees and the low enriched uranium will remain in Turkey.”
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, a driving force behind the accord, said: “Diplomacy emerged victorious today. It showed that it is possible to build peace and development with dialogue.”
Iran’s arch-foe Israel — the sole if undeclared nuclear-armed power in the Middle East — was quick to accuse Tehran of manipulating Turkey and Brazil and seeking to buy time in the long-running nuclear standoff.
Britain also expressed reservations. “Iran’s actions remain a serious cause for concern,” junior foreign minister Alistair Burt said.
Targets don’t get to negotiate themselves out of the West’s crosshairs. It’s like Iraq taught people nothing!
But who would we be pretend to be scared of if we didn’t have those horrid Iranians to pretend to fear? Except for all immigrants, single parents, benefit claimants…
Did you see this? http://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2010/05/mordechai_vanun_1.html
It’s all misdirection, politics is part conjuring as long as they pretend we have a democracy and they do not primarily serve the interests of the ruling elite. It has been different, post WWII for a bit, some of the 60′s and 70′s, but yep a lot of misdirection to defer the realisation by people that they are not being served, they are being managed, and not for their own good.
Ooh no, missed that, thanks.
You’re right, of course.
Helena Cobban today. I”m so through with Robert Gibbs. http://justworldnews.org/archives/003986.html
She’s spot on, it’s all about regime change to suit, well some toxic mix of US, neocon/Israeli interests.
There’s this post as well:
http://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2010/05/first_islamopho.html
Yes, meant to get to that, if we can’t get evidence after full 2 week questioning and investigation with full state resources then you don’t get to call people AQ ringleaders, deport them and retain a shred of credibility.
And another thing – I’m sorry to tell you but you’ve been beheaded. Your little favicon has disappeared from my bookmark – is that a problem at your end or mine?
Ah now this might be because I had a problem with making the favicon show up for this new site, it is working now so maybe give it 24 hours and it should/might show up, failing that delete the bookmark and then (if you so please) reload the page and re bookmark. If that fails I believe the next step is a blood sacrifice involving former New Labour ministers.
NPR (US) news today was all about Clinton’s reaction and not a favorable word about Turkey and Brazil’s work.
More Cobban. I like this: “This was especially disturbing, since both Turkey and Brazil are fellow members of the Security Council, along with the U.S. It is highly unlikely that novice diplomatist Hillary Clinton will be able to get much of what she wants in the world body if she continues to fundamentally disrespect the diplomatic heavy lifting undertaken by Erdoğan and Lula.”
http://justworldnews.org/archives/003987.html
This won’t end until the aggressors are confronted by other nations or regime change is engineered (by which I mean a regime that the US/Israel approves of, a new govt would still be under attack if it did not align with the global bullies).
The next PR step will be the “Our intelligence believes that they may be thinking about creating nuclear weapons. Until they can prove otherwise, we have to assume that they (insert country here e.g. Bosnia, Iraq, Iran, ad inf.) will continue these ambitions. If the target country professes otherwise, the PR will change to “they can not be believed” so that no matter what they say when they get sucked into this game, the pressure escalates.
I was sorry to hear that the British response continued along the slavish line, belying the post election rhetoric.
So, nothing has changed. The US will remain the bully on the playground and their flaccid buddy will dream of second hand empires regained. I applaud Turkey and Brazil. Turkey especially, for going against the Nato grain.
It was predictable from our election debates, they all used Iran as a talking point to show how ‘tough’ they were (tough at being lapdogs). Given the failure to stop the Iraq war domestic antiwar opposition might be ineffective, only deals between Iran and other nonaligned nations will derail the plot perhaps, make it too unwieldy to pursue but if Russia and China shrug and look the other way as Clinton claims she has managed, not good. Then there is the uranium market angle to consider, no producer wants competition and the lip service to climate change belies the basic projection of all nations, that can, building many more nuclear power stations.
Not so sure about the Russian/China “agreement”. Time will tell. Hillary’s rush to declare “but….but…..but……Russia and China have already agreed!” sounded like a cry of desperation and an attempt to keep them in line. The Turkish and Brazilian progress was certainly not appreciated by the US foreign policy machine. Erdogan, now well into his 50′s, was often called “delikanli” or “crazy blood” by his detractors when he ran for office a couple of years ago. It was a poor attempt to define him as young, naive, impetuous, and inexperienced in the ways of the world. The world could use more “delikanli.”
Yes, that’s true, need to hear what they say not what she says they say. I think “delikanli” also means -not eager enough to kill people to get more wealth-
Radio Netherlands (short) interview with Marcel Biato, foreign policy advisor to Brazil’s President ‘Lula’ da Silva – about the Turkish/Brazilian negotiations with Iran.
http://www.rnw.nl/english/article/brazil-squaring-diplomatic-circles
Thanks Jay, stealing a march on the unipolar ‘diplomacy’ game showed some nerve, even if it fails it does expose the Washington driven process is merely one or another form of warfare, delegitimising the Empire to more people. Interesting if as is said Lula is eyeing the UN gig for the future.
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