Russia says deal “impossible” if Iran ignores IAEA demands

Tactical bombing is overdue overdue overdue by at least a year.

Our government leaders and politicians, whose back pockets are stuffed with bribing petrodollars, are pretending to be otherwise occupied.

What bastards (let's see who walked the halls of (Dubai) congress as lobbyist hirelings: Albright, Bob Dole, Bill Clinton, Peanut Jimmy Carter)

We should have a leading list of the corrupted and remember them in the very next election.

Time to scrape this crap off our shoes and focus on the war.

You know, I can't figure out if Russia is with us or not. But I suppose that Russia, like the US, is looking after its own interests.

TRANSLATION:
Russia is saying Iran will give it some, not all, of it's uranium that needs refining. That Russia would not refine it enough for nuclear bombs but enough for a nuclear reactor to make electricity. That Iran will continue to learn, will experiment then utilize cascading centrifuges to refine uranium hexafluoride.

So there would be two tracks for refining.
The soft Russian one
And the hard Iranian one where they get bomb making quality of uranium

This is what I always thought the Iranians would do but I thought it would be kept secret. The Iranians are using three different tracks to make bombs and the IAEA only sees one of them. I would be doing the same if in their shoes

Robert Dole and Kosovo back in March 1999. He shilled for the the anti-Serb forces and for Albania. Because an Albanian-American doctor helped him recover from his severe WW2 wounds
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The Albright plan reportedly does not include an assurance that Kosovo would be made an "independent" state. The so-called Kosovo Liberation Army, which has U.S. backing and U.S. military trainers, has so far refused to endorse the Albright plan. The U.S. government even brought in former Sen. Robert Dole, who receives a salary as a lobbyist for the so-called "Kosovo government in exile," to put the squeeze on the KLA leaders to sign the U.S. plan.

However, the KLA also gets backing from Germany. In fact, its origins may have been in Germany. The New York Times once reported that the first language of the KLA is German.

The March 8 Irish Times reported that the KLA is openly split on the Albright plan. The opposition to it comes from "powerful KLA leaders based in Germany," the newspaper reported. They are insisting that any agreement "must include the promise of independence." This is the kind of independence that would leave Kosovo a dependency of Germany.

Russia says deal “impossible” if Iran ignores IAEA demands

The dance of the Bear and Aryan-Persian wolf...

Russia, as a matter of foreign policy, consideres the former Soviet Republics to be within her sphere of influence. Meanwhile, China has signaled an interest in the region(though her overall intentions remain unclear). Turkey has ambitions in the region too. However, Iran's imperial ambitions are in direct conflict with Russian policy, and it would be a catastrophe for Moscow if Iran got the bomb.

It is my opinion that there are four nations in the region and one off-shore power that do not want Iran to get the bomb and Iran will be prevented from getting the bomb. However, when Iran's nuke capacity is taken out, the off-shore power will do all the "heavy lifting" on the matter.

Added to above: I think the Russians are doing a lot of snooping in Iran and don't like what they see. Disreali once said, "Nations do not have friends, they have interests." In is definately not in the interests of Russia, China, Turkey or Israel that the Loonytoon regime in Terhan get the bomb.

I think the U.S. policy of containing Iran will conclude with the removal of Iran's capacity to have and use nukes. Beyond that, when the regime in Terhan goes there may be ethnic conflict there that will make the sectarian violence in Iraq look mild. In that regard, I think the U.S. will try to contain the conflict in Iran but will not enter into the country in terms of any ground troops. (Everyone in the region will want any conflict in Iran contained.)

In the long term, I believe the U.S.will have to abandon the delusion that parlimentary democracy will stabalize the region. (It is water on Gizmo, and results in Gremlins.)

It might be best to come to an understanding with regional powers (especially China and Russia), and agree on spheres of influence that permit interested parties to use military force in their sector in order to keep the peace in "the Eurasian Balkans."

"Democracy" is not the answer at this time, and will actually further destabilize the region. (I agree with Mr. Fitzgerald on that matter, though I think a withdrawl from Iraq (now) would not be wise.)

"Russia says deal “impossible” if Iran ignores IAEA demands"

Wait! -- isn't that how this all began 3 years ago?

There is a very cynical real-politik way of looking at this whole affair:

These interminable "negotiations" can be thought of as a great waiting game among the non-US players. Acting in their "self interest" as they perceive it, Europe, Russia, and Iran are all waiting to see whether the US becomes fatally hobbled in Iraq... To greater and lesser degree they all wish to see this happen.

If we become completely crippled, Iranian nukes will be more risky for Russia and Europe, since they will need to deal with the unstabililty such a development will cause in their neighborhood. But If we emerge unscathed in Iraq, or victorious, then the presence of Iranian Nukes will be another problem those lazy and treacherous powers will force onto our plate to keep us preoccupied. They are waiting to see which way the cookie crumbles.

You see, to morally craven and rudderless entities such as France, Germany, and Russia -- Iranian Nukes could be a very good thing or a very bad thing... If they weaken America and make her more vulnerable -- GOOD... If they weaken them and make them more vulnerable -- BAD...

jsla-

"Keep your friends close, but your enemies even closer." Niccolo Machiavelli, "The Prince"

Russia's role with Iran appears to follow Machiavelli's advice in the Prince. That is also Vito Corleone's advice to his son Michael in the movie. (Mario Puzzo appears to have written The Godfather with Cosimo de' Medici and his son Lorenzo in mind. I think Lorenzo was Machiavelli's "prince.")

In any case, power and politics are a cut-thoat business. I think the five families will have to come to an understanding re the region.

Long term, it is not in U.S. interests to be playing our current role. Long term, we must develop alternative energy and leave that stage. Then we will watch the drive-by shootings and the hits from a safe distance.

Russia should get out of the nuclear supplying and tech business.

We dont have good choices here.

On one hand, we need a strong Russia. If Russia is weakened any further, then the Muslims have an empire right across Turkistan to Turkey, spanning Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq & Turkey, with no buffer between them and Europe.

On the other hand, the only way we can have a strong Russia is Putin, and he is busy arming Iran, Syria and who knows who else.

While we thought that the Afghans driving out the Soviets was good, it turned out to be a major victory of Islam over the world's #1 superpower. The last thing we need is another such victory for Islam.

What we need is a strong Europe, one willing to back up their "soft power" negotions with Iran with cold hard steel and resolve. Lacking such, the Europeans only send the message to Iran: "Continue as you have done... there's little we can do about it..."

If Russia IS finally coming around (to its senses)....it would be ABOUT TIME!!!

ps-Memo to Frank: Democracy in Iran ACTUALLY COULD be beneficial. Most Iranians have demonstrated that they no longer wish to be a part of Islam. If I am not mistaken the majority of Iranians pay little attention to Islam unless the Mullahs who run the place literally force it on them.

If the Iranian masses were given political power commensurate with their feelings it might be possible for Iranians to change the course of their governmment and future. And thereby bring about stability to Southwest Asia in the process.

I therefore must disagree with your assessment of Iran based on what I know of the Iranian people!