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Iran's Gracious Tolerance of International Interference

"We are fully prepared to enrich uranium at any level and with any amount."
"In a few hours the technical process will come to an end and the enrichment beyond 3.67 percent will begin."
Behrouz Kamalvandi, spokesman, Iranian Atomic Energy Organization

"If Britain does not release the Iranian oil tanker, it is the authorities' duty to seize a British oil tanker."
"Islamic Iran in its 40-year history has never initiated hostilities in any battles but has also never hesitated in responding to bullying."
Mohsen Rezai, major general, Revolutionary Guards Corps, head, Expediency Council

"The Iranian government is trying to create a crisis that will force a multilateral negotiation without precipitating a war."
Jon Alterman, director, Middle East Program, Center for Strategic and International Studies

"The step is meant to show domestic audiences that Iran is standing up to U.S. pressure."
"It is also meant to convey a sense of risk to European audiences that Iran may provoke a crisis."
Daniel Byman, senior fellow for foreign policy, Brookings Institution

Iran's President Hassan Rouhani says world powers have failed to abide by their commitments   EPA

The Iran nuclear agreement dispute resolution mechanism has been placed on hold. The terms of the pact permit Iran to enrich uranium to 3.67 percent fissile material, below the 20 percent it was producing before the agreement -- much less the 90 percent meant for a nuclear weapon. Needless to say, enriching uranium to 20 percent closes the gap toward 90 percent enrichment much more expeditiously than does 3.67 percent. And it is that transition that Iran is flirting with and in the process warning the remaining signatories of the pact that it can flip into readily.

According to Simon Henderson, director of the Bernstein Program on Gulf and Energy Policy at the Institute for Near East Policy in Washington his fear is that should Iran wish to raise enrichment it would first raise it to 20 percent for obvious technical reasons. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu knows full well the mentality of the ruling Ayatollahs and their military agents of aggressive determination.

This 'next step' is designed for the creation of atomic bombs, certainly not for domestic energy production as the Islamic Republic of Iran claims. That being so transparent, he has called upon Germany, France, Britain to impose the suspended sanctions that previously pummelled Iran's economic stability to match that of the United States. Iran is, in fact, reeling financially from the stringent sanctions that have firmly clamped its economy and seized its oil sales.

It is just that desperation that has led Iran to accuse Britain of "piracy" in detaining the Iranian oil tanker Grace 1 near Gibraltar last week. The supertanker was believed to be conveying two million barrels of crude oil to Syria, breaching European Union sanctions against the regime of President Bashar al-Assad whose bloody tyranny has caused the death of an estimated half-million and created six million Syrian Sunni refugees desperate to enter a Europe already suffused with migrants.

"I would advise Iran not to start their nuclear program. If they do, there will be very severe consequences."

"We will not allow American cities to be threatened with destruction. Today's action sends a critical message: The United States no longer makes empty threats."

"If the regime continues its nuclear aspirations, it will have bigger problems that it has ever had before." 

"Iran better be careful. Because you enrich for one reason and I won't tell you what the reason is. But it's no good; they better be careful."

U.S. President Donald Trump

The international community does have obligations it must recognize. That allowing the Iranian regime to possess nuclear warheads to tip the advanced ballistic missiles it has been perfecting would represent a formula for a much more dangerous world than we already occupy. Iran is the world's foremost supporter of Islamist terrorism. It has used its proxy militia Hezbollah to launch terrorist acts abroad as well as in the region of the Middle East and beyond.

Iran's determination to wield ultimate power in its own region, eclipsing the command of the Sunni majority with its Shia-centric dreams of returning to ancient Persia's role as the center of social, political and religious power is as motivating to the ruling ayatollahs as is their spur to destroy the State of Israel, demolish the prestige and power of the United States in the region in favour of an alignment with Russia until it too has played out its usefulness, and make the long-term inroads it envisages throughout the globe in an ultimate conquest of Islam it will be solely responsible for.

Its delusional grasp of the potential of its ambitions realized will not be deterred by any method of interference in either its internal affairs or its outreach into the world at large to enable it to realize its goal. Until such time, that is, when reality impinges and the Iranian people decide they will no longer suffer under the regime that has transformed them from modernity to medievalism, making all the sacrifices necessary to retake control of their country from a bloody-minded theocracy to re-align themselves with the real world.

Labels: Britain, Iran, Nuclear Agreement, United States

posted by Pieface @ Tuesday, July 09, 2019