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Which Is It? Chirpy Tidings or Grim Reality?

"[Iran was seeking] two issues at the negotiation table: first, to clear all accusations, and secondly, to remove all obstacles that the malevolent countries have created on our path toward having a constructive interaction with the world."
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani

Iran's new missile

The Iranian president spoke before an assemblage of twelve thousand workers in Tehran yesterday. Informing them that the sanctions regime imposed against the Islamic Republic of Iran was verging on collapse. Furthermore, in future no country would succeed in exerting pressure on Iran. Those sanctions, whom malevolent forces created should search for another way in which they could benefit by bullying countries whose programs they would not assent to.

Iran is committed to "continue the path of constructive interaction with the world under the guidance of the [Supreme] Leader and support of our people, and no country in the world can continue exerting pressure and imposing sanctions against Iran in the future." Iranian self-reliance and capacity to concentrate on its advancement of nuclear technology, in the process prioritizing "the resistance economy", would ensure the country's success in surmounting all outside interference.





Iran, he stressed, is completely open to negotiations. Should the 'other side' match Tehran's serious political will to achieve a nuclear deal that would satisfy both sides, such a deal could be achievable in a matter of months. As for the 'resistance economy', in reference to Iran's struggle to remain financially viable under the sanctions regime, the 'resistance economy' is what ordinary Iranians have laboured under. The regime itself spares no finances in its ongoing support of its proxy terror functionaries.

So much for the regime's critics who claim that past negotiations with Iran have always ended in clever evasion side-stepping the solution of critical issues. That Iran's insistence that it has no interest in nuclear weapons' attainment is false. What do they know? If Iran insists it is genuinely disinterested in nuclear weapons, its honour should be trusted. Its technological focus on perfecting long-range missiles to aid in the delivery of nuclear warheads notwithstanding.

And that Iran's sponsorship of terror and ongoing threats against the West are proof enough that this is a country that is not prepared for reformation, nor is it to be trusted in any measure to carry through any of the insincere promises it agrees to in the interests of having sanctions removed -- immediately at its insistence, and not in incremental steps in lock-step with Iran's implementation of measures that any agreement is meant to put in place.

Rapprochement with Iran, claim those critical of the preliminary agreement forging the way for a final deal set for the end of June, would only encourage Tehran to continue its game plan of agreeably smiling bafflegab in promises to heed the measures that the P5+1 have insisted be carried through as assurances that the nuclear program will not result in a dread scenario of Iran becoming a nuclear possessor of atomic weapons.

Kerry: World closer than ever to a nuclear deal with Iran: (AP/Jason DeCrow)

All is sweetness and light, according to U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry. "We are, in fact, closer than ever to the good, comprehensive deal that we have been seeking, and if we can get there, the entire world will be safer", he stated reassuringly yesterday. While conceding that key issues do remain, alas, unresolved. Despite which, he chirps breezily, a finalized, implemented deal would "give the international community the confidence that it needs to know that Iran’s nuclear program is indeed exclusively peaceful".

How could we have doubted that?
 
This was the statement uttered cheerily by the irrepressibly optimistic Secretary of State after meeting Monday with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on the sidelines of the international convention. On the occasion of their first meeting since representatives for China, Russia, United States, France, Britain, Germany on the one hand, and Iran purportedly agreed to a framework agreement on April 2 to place limitations on Iran’s perceived ability to build a nuclear weapon.


Feeling reassured, everyone?

Labels: Iran, Negotiations, Nuclear Technology, P5+1, Sanctions

posted by Pieface @ Tuesday, April 28, 2015