The multitude of events and unrest over the last 6 months in Iran have clearly demonstrated the fact that the people of Iran uncompromisingly and bravely are determined to put an end to 31 years of dark and despicable clergy rule in their country. In the meantime, some western political circles and their Iranian associates […]
Washington is distancing itself from a controversial National Intelligence Estimate (NIE), produced by several US spy agencies in 2007, which suggested Iran had suspended work on weapons design four years earlier.
The report was drawn up by a member nation of the International Atomic Energy Agency. A two-page summary of the report said the deal could be completed within weeks. It said Tehran was willing to pay $450 million for the shipment.
As the administration still holds out hope for its engagement strategy with Iran, Congress is working furiously to set up a whole host of sanctions bills that could be used by the administration if and when Obama’s outstretched hand fails to convince Tehran to unclench its fist. Several different Iran sanctions bill are at various stages of the legislative process, but the Senate Banking Committee decided today to approve a bill that collects all of them into one package.
“Right now, I think most of our energies are focused on the engagement side of it to follow up on the P-5-plus-1 meeting in Geneva and waiting for a response from Iran,” Kelly said. “But all along, there’s also the other track, the track of pressure, and we believe that that track has to be at least planned for while we pursue the engagement track.”
The task of the IAEA director general is to implement safeguards as effectively as possible. He should push hard for access and, if an impasse is reached, speak out rather than settling silently for a poor deal.
“It is believed that Iran has developed exploding bridgewire detonators and associated electronic high voltage firing systems. The Agency assesses that Iran has managed to develop a high explosives industry capable of synthesizing and formulating the raw materials into explosive compositions and that could be used in a nuclear weapon.
The decade’s long struggle of the Iranian people for democracy has reached a historical turning point. At the same time, the Islamic regime in Iran and its bands of thugs are trying to resurface from this crisis and seek international recognition and legitimacy. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is reportedly planning to visit New York again this September for the United Nations General Assembly. The Iranian community in the United States request that President Obama and his administration decisively side with the people of Iran and deny an entry visa to Ahmadinejad, as this man has no legitimate claim to the position of the presidency of Iran.
Over the past four years, an army of self-appointed Iran experts have been continually preaching friendship with Tehran’s theocratic rulers.
Now, in 2009, after a large dose of the American good-will gestures and friendly overtures, the Iranian regime has once again imposed Ahmadinejad upon its own nation and the world for the second time. It is predictable that the same “Iran experts” would probably blame Obama for not being generous enough towards the Mullahs.
