Iran Frustrated As US Nixes Brazil-Turkey Nuclear Deal

[Purveyor]

Source: Agence France-Presse

Iran voiced exasperation on Wednesday at US-led international rejection of a hard-won nuclear fuel deal, saying major powers would be "discrediting" themselves if they pressed for fresh UN sanctions.

Deal brokers Turkey and Brazil, meanwhile, urged their fellow members on the 15-member UN Security Council not to impose new sanctions, the Brazilian foreign ministry said.

"Brazil and Turkey are convinced that it is time to give a chance for negotiations and to avoid measures that are detrimental to a peaceful solution," read the letter signed by their foreign ministers.

The move came after Washington submitted a resolution for a fourth round of sanctions, after Brazil and Turkey on Monday forged a compromise accord they hailed as a step toward ending Iran's years-old standoff with the West.

Under the deal, the Islamic republic agreed to ship out much of its stockpile of low enriched uranium to neighbouring Turkey in exchange for fuel for a research reactor.

Read more: http://rawstory.com/news/afp/Iran_frustrated_as_US_nixes_Brazil__05192010.html

[EFerrari]

1. Typical. First the State Department derided Lula for thinking he could get a deal.

When he gets one, they say it's not good enough.

We need to fumigate the State Department.

[Alamuti Lotus]

14. It must be recognized...

...that on most matters of any importance, the State Department has made itself into the 'diplomatic' fist of the War Department. These pretexts and veils should be seen for what they are, and those who would perpetuate the fraud must be recognized for what they are:--'business as usual' (and a subtle hint for any still confused: in the dictionary, that is actually an antonym for "change").

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[Chulanowa]

3. Still dancing around the obvious

The US still wants to "punish" Iran for ousting the Shah and exposing CIA involvement in Savak. A near-genocidal campaign by our puppet Saddam wasn't good enough, 'cause Saddam lost. So now we're trying this.

If the world were a bar, the US would be getting its ass kicked

[EFerrari]

4. And, the icing is the Shah started the nuke program in the first place.

The revolution shut it down -- until Saddam hit them with WMD during the Iran-Iraq war. WMD that we gave him.

[Vincardog]

5. WE did not GIVE WMD to Saddam. Rummy SOLD them to him.

[EFerrari]

6. You are correct. n/t

[BunkerHill24]

7. WE DIDN'T torture either...Rummy did it!

:dilemma:


on edit: every office, a novice...and BTW in Germany in 1937 they elected their government

[Vincardog]

8. And video taped it so W and Cheney could enjoy it too

[BunkerHill24]

9. Sure! and our government is sitting on it; tapes of tortured men; raped boys; raped woman

...with pictures......and our government is sitting on it....

blackout!

[JackRiddler]

10. Yes, but Reagan-Bush guaranteed the financing he needed (through the Agriculture Dept)

Really kind of a classic model.

[madchick44]

12. And Iran is a party to the nuke-non-proliferation treaty. India and

Pakistan are not. Both India and Pakistan have nukes and so does Israel, non of these countries has signed onto the treaty yet we support each of the three out-laws in various ways even with direct aid. Go figure.

[TomCADem]

11. What was the point of the deal? Iran was going to continue to enrich.

I thought that the whole point was to slow down Iran's effort to develop nukes.

[Alamuti Lotus]

13. Well, the point is really more to poke, prod, and provoke

No "deal" is or would ever acceptable, aside from perhaps unconditional surrender (whatever that means, in this context -- even that might be deemed offensive to the war department), since no geniune deal is sought; continuing the argument and inching it towards fireworks appears to be the objective. Not advised to take such matters at face value.

[cqo_000]

15. the deal "creates a confidence building atmosphere for further dialogue and negotiations."

Brazil’s Foreign Minister Celso Amorim conceded that the agreement did not solve all the problems posed by Iran’s nuclear program, which the West suspects could lead to the development of nuclear weapons, but he argued it lays the groundwork for a peaceful solution to the dispute.

“I am optimistic about the results,” he said in Brasilia.


http://www.jpost.com/International/Article.aspx?id=175933

[rabs]

16. "confidence building atmosphere, further dialogue, negotiations"

Nah, can't have any of that. Who do Turkey and Brazil think they are?




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Cartoon from the Jornal do Brazil of Rio de Janeiro.

Just in case, remarks mine and are :sarcasm:

[robcon]

17. Iran: frustrated = Barack: hero

n/t

[leveymg]

18. Diplomacy and "peaceful solutions" aren't necessary the same thing eom

[ShortnFiery]

19. Strap yourselves in fellow Americans. Notice a PATTERN of action here?

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