The Opportunity To Do It
"This is the opportunity to do it, and we need to seize this opportunity. It may not be repeated."
"I do not believe another extension is in the interest of anybody. We're reaching the point where it is quite possible to make an agreement ... and I do not believe anything will be different a year down the road."
Mohammad Javad Zarif, Iranian Foreign Minister
"We will do everything to thwart a bad and dangerous deal that will cast a dark cloud on the future of the state of Israel and its security."
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
"Today there is no mandate to end our fight because Iran’s greatness in the region and the repeated losses by the Zionists and America are the proof of our fight up to today. Our ideal is not [nuclear] centrifuges but the destruction of the White House and the annihilation of Zionism [Israel]."
General Mohammad Naghdi, Tehran
"Constructive" was the word used to describe the meeting on Sunday between Mr. Zarif and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry. The Obama administration is anxious to be able to hold up to the world its success in achieving an end of March date for a signed-on-the-bottom-line facsimile of a nuclear agreement outline with Iran. And, as it happens, Iran is just as anxious to have the matter resolved to their satisfaction.
And it seems clear enough that Iran, having surrendered none of its ambition, and having defied all of the UN Security Council plus Germany's demands on the nuclear file, is prepared to celebrate yet another instance where it has successfully hoodwinked the international community to overlook its enthusiasm for nuclear arms achievement. Mr. Zarif is satisfied with the 'progress' that the past months have brought.
Leading Foreign Minister Zarif to inform a gathering of the world's elite diplomats and defence officials that, yes, good people "this is the opportunity" to be seized, while they may so that the projected comprehensive deal can be concluded by June 30. It is, it should be noted, France, Britain, the U.S., China and Russia along with Germany who are prepared to give Iran the green light. While releasing billions to Iran with the lifting of sanctions. Getting its celebratory caked nicely iced.
This is, essentially, the United Nations' Security Council permanent members plus Germany that has been negotiating with Iran. And with the involvement as well of the EU's genial Catherine Ashton. This is a country that has made no secret of its intention to wipe the State of Israel off the map of the Middle East. This is a country that has expressed on more than merely one occasion its intention to destroy another UN-member country.
There has never been any penalty attached to that stated intention imposed on the Islamic Republic of Iran by the United Nations, nor a sanction by the Security Council. Iran is a respected member of a number of UN committees. Committees which in one way or another support the concept of universal human rights. Yet Iran is a country well known to hold human rights in contempt through its oppression of its people, its capital punishment meted out to political and religious dissenters, and its support of terrorist groups, most notably but not confined to the Shiite Hezbollah terror group.
The UN's convention on genocide defines its commission as a crime against humanity "committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group". To be consistent with genocide, "systematic, physical killing and corralling and exterminating of populations" must be seen to meet the requirement of being labelled as genocide. This, then, is Iran's aspiration for the State of Israel.
Simply enough evidenced by a state whose contempt and hatred for Israel has led it to launch attacks against Jews through its proxy terrorist militias worldwide. Until such time as Iran has been able to successfully assemble an arsenal of nuclear weapons, and then its ultimate goal will be readily achievable. Iran has stated with the aplomb of intent and willingness of sacrifice to achieve that end, that the tiny State of Israel can be obliterated with a high degree of success, while the much larger Republic of Iran will suffer losses, but survive in part.
To earn the pride of having committed genocide, "It's not enough to kill people, or move them around and steal their land. You have to be able to prove that [the perpetrators] had this bigger motivation to destroy the group in whole or in part", according to the definition supplied by political scientist David B. MacDonald at the University of Guelph.
Iran's agenda is more ambitious than the "in part" portion; it plans the commission of a Holocaust to succeed entirely where the original Iran denies ever occurred, did not.
Labels: G5+1, Iran, Israel, Nuclear Technology, Nuclear Arms, Sanctions
posted by Pieface @ Tuesday, February 10, 2015
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