How many chances has Iran had? How many deadlines has it ignored in the past? There's nothing to suggest this time will be different, and deadlines seem to be in plentiful supply -- certainly more so than backbones. "Iran given one last chance to talk on nuclear programme," by Richard Spencer and Alex Spillius for the Telegraph, September 28:
Western diplomats said they would listen to what the Iranians had to say before contemplating tougher sanctions.
But after a week of worsening relations, there was little hope there would be an encouraging commitment to meaningful negotiation.
Tehran continued to increase tensions on onday by carrying out long-range missile tests, which were condemned as "reprehensible" by David Miliband, the Foreign Secretary.
His officials said they were intended to distract attention from the revelation that Iran was secretly building a plant to enrich uranium for nuclear weapons.
Javier Solana, foreign policy representative for the European Union and its chief negotiator for the talks, described the tests as a "concern", while a French foreign ministry statement said Iran should stop the "destabilising activities".
William Burns, the undersecretary of state for political affairs, will become the first American diplomat to talk directly to Iranians in 30 years.
Aides to President Barack Obama have made it clear that if they do not receive a clear message of co-operation, then discussions about more stringent sanctions will begin urgently.
Hillary Clinton, the Secretary of State, said the Iranians had to "prove" rather than simply "assert" that their nuclear programme was merely intended for peaceful purposes.
"We're exploring how you broaden and deepen sanctions. Now, sanctions are already in place, but, like many sanction regimes, they're leaky," she said.
Robert Gates, the Defence Secretary, has said that "severe sanctions" could "have some real impact" because of soaring unemployment and simmering opposition to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's disputed June election victory.
A Western official said: "We want to see how Iran approaches the meeting - then we get into a discussion of further sanctions. We will get into that discussion after the meeting because we will have to absorb what the Iranians tell us."
The Iranians will again be offered a "freeze for a freeze" deal - a freeze on introducing more enrichment centrifuges in return for a freeze on new sanctions. Iran will also be expected to show it is prepared to negotiate directly on the nuclear issue without trying to change the subject.
Next deadline:
The offer would be "time limited", said a diplomat, "that would allow for a limited period of talks about the serious outstanding issues"....
Hussein - you just don't get it about totalitarian "Dinner Jacket," do you, a Denier of the Jewish Holocaust.
I suppose that's because you're a "My Muslim faith" Mohammedan, too. A No-Brainer.
His officials said they (missile tests) were intended to distract attention from the revelation that Iran was secretly building a plant to enrich uranium for nuclear weapons.
Nuclear aspirations + delivery method + enriched uranium =
Apocalypse
No stupid 'freeze-for-freeze' where the Iranians play a shell-game with their assets. We need total dismantling of their sites and then we allow them output from a nuclear reactor that the regime has no control over.
"No stupid 'freeze-for-freeze' where the Iranians play a shell-game with their assets. We need total dismantling of their sites and then we allow them output from a nuclear reactor that the regime has no control over."
Very good points, "Question_Everything!"
Problem is, with the current administration they will prefer the shell-game method. It's all a game to them.
I sometimes think the Democrats want an apocalypse. Maybe it's part of the plan.
Why are they so damned concerned about this global warming farce(not man-made but natural) when we have nut-jobs in the Middle-East like Ah-mad Ah-mad-man
"Western diplomats said they would listen to what the Iranians had to say before contemplating tougher sanctions."
Tranlation: Western diplomats will knowingly stand by and listen to a man who has said, "Imagine a world with out the United States." and "We will wipe Israel of the map." Before they contemplate doing nothing.
Thanks for nothing.
I'm with you, al-Kidya.
It's bewildering to me that so many so-called intelligent people can have such a poor grasp of fundamentals.
I also feel that the Iranian regime's days are severely numbered, further sanctions would only really hurt the Iranian people short-term but long term....well, we don't have 'long term' as an option but if we did we are seeing their own kids are rioting now.
Tick-tock, mullahs!
Hey, POTUS is headed to Copenhagen to force the IOC to give Chicago the 2016 Summer Olympics..... But no worries, before he left, our Dictator-In-Training-Pants drew lines in the sand.
The lines are in decreasing size concentric circles, the largest covering most of Israel and he said to Iran that they could go for it and he'd look the other way for those "additional tests".
Kenny Solomon
Locked and loaded with bacon-wrapped rounds.
Kenny - the most important thing on Hussein's mind is getting the 2016 Olympics in Chicago.
That is so pitiful there are no adequate words to describe it.
Olympics - Apocalypse
Apocalypse- Olympics
Which one will come to Chicago first?
http://frontpagemag.com/?p=21888
Um, that would be "last Chance" for this week.
From the link provided by TRSTHNTR:
When one considers the travails of the Jewish people since the 7th century.....
The 7th century? The same time period as the desert bandit, pedophile, women-battering, rapist, murdering thug was inventing islam?
Coincidence?
Our great and brave politicians are afraid to attack Iran. They are afraid of the $500 per barrel oil and all the possible political consequences of high oil prices. Instead, they would rather put the world and Israel in serious great peril by letting Iran get the nukes they want.
Question Everything
I think not.
That's it I've already told you 1.......2......... 2 and 1/2........ 2 and 5/8........2and 3/4.........
more like 1, 2, 2 1/2, 2 2/4, 2 3/6, 2 6/12...you're way too close to 3 though. Some lines will never be crossed, but, hey, we might get the olympics in Chicago!
This is Iraq all over again. Bush said, "Iraq has had another, 'nother, 'nother last chance."
Eventually, Saddam's luck, and Bush's patience, ran out. I fear neither the former, nor the latter, will occur with Obama and Ahmadinejad.
Sanctions-HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAH
Surrrrrrrrre. Give them some more time.
With force all but off the Table, let us all go Grrrrrrrr all at once and see if that works.
I just can't get gordon brown's statement when he,bhobama and
n.sarkozy addressed a press conference about iran's new nuclear facility that "iran has drawn a line in the sand".
is it a deadline or a threat?
This all sounds like the late 1930's...