In a "whew!" moment for the appeasers of the liberal community, it seems as if Iran will make certain concessions
Iran’s top security official on Sunday held out hope for a “negotiated settlement” on Tehran’s nuclear programme and said the programme would pose no threat to Israel or any other country.
Ali Larijani, Iran’s chief nuclear negotiator, also told an international security conference in Munich that his government was willing to discuss technical limitations on uranium enrichment, to ensure it could not make the highly enriched uranium needed for a nuclear weapon.
Despite international fears that Iranian rhetoric would be ratcheted up Sunday as hundreds of thousands rallied in Tehran to mark the 28th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution, the country’s leaders said they were open to compromise over the programme although they would not abandon it.
Seems rather, oh, contradictory to me. No one actually seems to know what the compromise would be. Just nuclear power for the country, with a nod and a wink that they will not enrich uranium to make a bomb? That worked well in North Korea. Of course, what the Noks actually wanted was stuff. It was a bluff to get the world community to give them things. Food, technology, porn for Kim. Wait, Iran wants something, too. They want to spread the cause of radical, violent Shi'a Islam around the world.
And, you know what? There is nothing that can really be done
Iran will be able to develop enough weapons-grade material for a nuclear bomb and there is little that can be done to prevent it, an internal European Union document has concluded.
In an admission of the international community’s failure to hold back Iran’s nuclear ambitions, the document – compiled by the staff of Javier Solana, EU foreign policy chief – says the atomic programme has been delayed only by technical limitations rather than diplomatic pressure. “Attempts to engage the Iranian administration in a negotiating process have not so far succeeded,” it states.
The EU asked that they be allowed to lead and conduct negotiations with Iran. President Bush said feel free, we'll hang back and let you work. And the negotiations have turned out the same way as if the U.S. had been involved. Those on the Left in America have been upset that we were not "engaged in dialogue with Iran. First they say that America gets "too involved" in world affairs. Then they get upset that we weren't involved. Either way, Iran wants the nuclear bomb. And nothing, other then military strikes or giving them stuff, will stop that. Not talks, not sanctions. Sanctions hurt the people of a country, not its leaders.
Now, I do not want to sound as if I blame the EU for the negotiation failures: there was very little chance of success. If you want a stubborn mule to move, talking to it ain't gonna make it happen. You need the carrot or the stick. Hopefully, it won't come to the stick.
And what kind of carrot can you really offer Iran? As a member of the Non Proliferation Treay, if they want a nuclear reactor for power, then the lead member states are obligated to help them (funny that, being a lead NPT country, we cannot even get more nuclear power plants ourselves). So far, Iran has not wanted that help. Because, it would mean the site would be monitored, regulated, and made so it would be very difficult to get weapons grade uranium out of it.
Maybe the hang wringers on the Left will finally get it. Doubtful.
Many nations around the Middle East, Sunni Arab nations, get it, though, and are going on military spending sprees.
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