"Clinton stressed that just because Obama intended to adopt a new approach, there would still be consequences if Iran did not comply with Security Council resolutions.
Even though they ARE COMPLYING!!!!
Related: More MSM Lies About Iran
"President Obama has signaled his intention to support tough and direct diplomacy with Iran, but if Tehran does not comply with United Nations Security Council and IAEA mandates, there must be consequences" -- Clinton told the German foreign minister, Frank-Walter Steinmeier
The rest is Zionist crap, readers.
"US urged to talk with Iran; Envoys welcome Obama offer, back diplomacy" by Judy Dempsey, International Herald Tribune | February 5, 2009
BERLIN - Meeting in Germany yesterday, diplomats from the world's major powers welcomed an offer by President Obama to hold direct talks with Iran over its nuclear program and said they were committed to a diplomatic solution.
The meeting in Wiesbaden, attended by officials from Britain, China, France, Germany, Russia, and the United States, was the first opportunity for them to hear firsthand about Washington's intentions toward Iran - reversing the policy of the Bush administration, which had shunned all diplomatic contacts with the Islamic Republic.
The US delegation was led by William Burns, under secretary of state for political affairs. But Burns gave no concrete details about how the United States intended to proceed with Iran, according to officials acquainted with the talks.
Instead, the diplomats "agree to consult on next steps as the US administration undertakes its policy review," according to an official four-point summary. The summary said that the countries meeting - the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council, plus Germany - would proceed "on the basis of the dual-track strategy" of sanctions and diplomacy, as agreed to in several Security Council resolutions.
The European Union has for some time been prepared to offer Iran considerable economic and technical assistance if Iran abandoned its nuclear program, but has so far been unsuccessful.
This week, Iran announced that it had launched its first domestically made satellite, alarming governments on both sides of the Atlantic because of its technological sophistication.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had already urged her British and German counterparts this week to work together in dealing with Iran after meeting with them in Washington.
"The United States and Germany must work together to ensure that Iran fulfills its obligations to the international community," Clinton said Tuesday, referring to Iran's unwillingness to cooperate fully with the International Atomic Energy Agency, the UN's nuclear watchdog....
She said the United States, Germany, and other EU countries "must coordinate closely to obtain the best possible outcomes."
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Meanwhile:
"US women denied visas for badminton tournament" by Nasser Karimi, Associated Press | February 5, 2009
Oh, THIS MEANS WAR!!!
TEHRAN - Iran invited the US women's badminton team to compete in a tournament then denied its players visas yesterday, saying there was no time to process their visa applications.
But the chief executive of USA Badminton said in a statement the team was told visas had been approved and was invited to Dubai to secure them.
"Our athletes . . . are very disappointed that they will not be able to compete and meet new friends. Friendship through sport is a good thing that should be respected and cherished," Dan Cloppas said.
The team's participation in events starting tomorrow was to have been the first US-Iranian exchange under the Obama administration. The two countries have not had diplomatic relations since the Islamic Revolution and the hostage-taking at the US Embassy in 1979.
It was not clear when Iran invited the 12-member team or when they had applied for their visas - usually a long bureaucratic process that is complicated for US citizens by the lack of diplomatic relations.
State Department spokesman Robert Wood said Iran has provided no official explanation for not providing the visas, and that the US team had supplied all required paperwork to the Iranians.
Would you want CIA SPIES running around in YOUR COUNTRY?
The State Department sponsored the squad's trip and said it is disappointed that Iran failed to issue visas. Wood said the team is returning to the United States.
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MUNICH - Iran sternly dismissed decades of US policies targeting Tehran and declared yesterday that the new American administration had to admit past wrongs before it could hope for reconciliation.
Related: Obama Won't Apologize
For what you say? TRY THESE!
U.S. Government Harbors Terrorist Jundallah
P.J.A.K.
Iranian airliner shootdown
M.E.K.
Bush Authorizes New Covert Action Against Iran
"[An] act of terrorism, means any activity that (A) involves a violent act or an act dangerous to human life that is a violation of the criminal laws of the United States or any State, or that would be a criminal violation if committed within the jurisdiction of the United States or of any State; and (B) appears to be intended (i) to intimidate or coerce a civilian population; (ii) to influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion; or (iii) to affect the conduct of a government by assassination or kidnapping."
"The hope that Iranians will blame their own government for their hardships, and that their complaints will influence the regime"
Are we CLEAR?
The LEAST you could do, 'bamer, is CALL OF the AMERICAN TERRORISTS!!!!!!!The comments by Iranian parliamentary speaker Ali Larijani at an international security conference in Munich appeared to be the most detailed outline yet of Tehran's expectations from President Obama's administration.
"The old carrot and stick policy must be discarded," he said, alluding to Western threats and offers of rewards to coax Iran to give up nuclear activities the West views as threatening. "This is a golden opportunity for the United States."
What he is saying is we need to CUT the ALBATROSS of ISRAEL LOOSE!!!
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The former US administration refused one-on-one negotiations with Tehran on the issue unless it made significant nuclear concessions beforehand....
The "former" administration? Not the BUSH administration?
Vice President Joe Biden was due at the conference today and was expected to try to muster more European troops for Afghanistan. But there is no sign that general European favor for the new US administration has overcome the reluctance of some allies to contribute more soldiers.
Even the U.S. is starting to talk about pulling back.
Afghanistan will be high on Biden's priority list at the security conference, where he will speak to the gathering of world leaders today and hold bilateral meetings with Russia, Georgia, Germany, France, and Britain. He will be joined by retired Marine Corps General James Jones, President Obama's national security adviser....
German officials have reiterated that they do not want to commit to more forces. Still, German Chancellor Angela Merkel's spokesman said before the meetings that did not mean the door to such discussions was closed.
Yeah, they will send them when they think the antiwar German people are asleep!
Biden, a former chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, is expected to push allies at the conference for a greater share of the diplomatic, military, and economic burdens confronting the Obama administration in Afghanistan and elsewhere.
Where elsewhere? IRAN?
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Well, how did Joe the Zionist do?
"Biden says US is willing to engage Iran, Russia; Reassures European allies of US plans" by Craig Whitlock, Washington Post | February 8, 2009
Same thing as the Clinton tripe:
"Biden said.... Iran faces a choice: "Continue down your current course and there will be pressure and isolation; abandon the illicit nuclear program and your support for terrorism"
Only if YOU DO, TOO, Joe!!!
You know what the rest is, readers.
MUNICH - Vice President Joe Biden held out an olive branch yesterday to Iran and Russia, and reassured European allies that the Obama administration would treat them as equals, but he emphasized that "America will ask its partners to do more as well."
In a major foreign policy address yesterday at an international security conference here, Biden told an audience of world leaders that the White House was willing to engage the government in Tehran if it heeded calls to end its nuclear-weapons program and changed its policies in the Middle East.
Yeah, GOOD THING THEY AIN'T MAKING THEM, huh, Joe?
"This much is clear: We will be willing to talk," Biden said. But he added that Iran faces a choice: "Continue down your current course and there will be pressure and isolation; abandon the illicit nuclear program and your support for terrorism and there will be meaningful incentives."
Biden said the United States will try to act preventively in dealing with Iran, to avoid the dangers of inaction and the risk of war. Biden also said the White House wanted a fresh start with the Kremlin, which under Vladimir Putin had seen a steady deterioration in relations with the Bush administration.
This is such bull. I guess Iran has been warned, huh?
"The last few years have seen a dangerous drift in relations between Russia and members of our alliance," he said, referring to the NATO military alliance. "The United States rejects the notion that NATO's gain is Russia's loss, or that Russia's strength is NATO's weakness."
"As President Obama has said, 'It's time to press the reset button,' " he added.
In recent months, Moscow and Washington have squabbled over the Russian invasion of Georgia, proposals to expand NATO, and the global financial crisis.
Once again, a MISREPRESENTION of what happened and a LIE!!! Georgia STARTED IT, and I'm sick of MSM shit-swill backgrounds!!!!
The Pentagon also blames Russia for pressuring the Central Asian country of Kyrgystan to close a US airbase that supplies troops in Afghanistan.
Related: AmeriKa Being Evicted From Asia?
Another sore point has been the Pentagon's plans to develop a global missile-defense shield with anchors in Poland and the Czech Republic.
Yeah, but the U.S. ain't being assholes or anything!
Yeah, I am SICK of the SHIT BIAS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The US military says it needs to base missile interceptors and a radar-tracking system in Eastern Europe to fend off a possible attack from Iran. Russia, however, has said it sees the shield as a veiled attempt to negate its nuclear forces and has threatened to target Poland and the Czech Republic in retaliation.
Well, the RUSSIANS are RIGHT because Iran doesn't have anything that can reach that far -- and won't for a few years.
The REAL THREAT is BELLICOSE and BELLIGERENT ISRAEL -- which HAS NUCLEAR WEAPONS!!!!
Russian leaders had been hoping that Obama, who was cool to the idea of a missile shield during his presidential campaign, would end the program. Biden said the project would go forward, but only if the Obama administration is satisfied that its unproven technology will work and only in consultation with Europe and Russia....
Yeah, that's CHANGE!!!!
Biden also signaled that the Obama administration would take a tough line when necessary.
Translation: WE WILL DO WHAT ISRAEL TELLS US!!!!
He said the US government would not recognize the breakaway Caucasus republics of Abkhazia or South Ossetia, which seceded after the war in Georgia and has received strong Russian support. "We will not agree with Russia on everything," he said. "We will not recognize any nation having a sphere of influence."
Unless it is USrael's!!!!!!!
Although he did not directly refer to the dispute over the military base in Kyrgystan, Biden said he hoped the United States and Russia would work more closely to defeat the Taliban in Afghanistan, a goal that Russia has said it shares....
Biden told European leaders that the White House was in the midst of a top-to-bottom review of its policy in Afghanistan, where the war is entering its eighth year with no end in sight.
Although the vice president said the Obama administration would cooperate closely with NATO members on the strategic review, he also said that it would expect more help. The White House is expected to send 30,000 troops to Afghanistan this year, nearly doubling the size of its force there. European countries, however, have been reluctant to do more.
That's because THEIR PEOPLE are AGAINST IT -- and the Europeans LET THEIR LEADERS KNOW IT!!!!!!
I'm not the ONLY ONE NOTICING, either, readers:
"U.S. Foreign Policy - "Here we go again."
VP Biden today gave the first outlook on the Obama administration's foreign policy in a speech at the current Security Conference in Munich. The short version:
Specifics:
- Missile defense in Europe will continue to be build.
We will continue to develop missile defenses to counter a growing Iranian capability, provided the technology is proven to work and cost effective.
The Iran line is pure bullshit. The missile defense the U.S. plans is to enable a nuclear first strike capability against Russia. Russia will have to fight this.
- On Iran the Bush policy of uncompromising non-talks will continue:
We are willing to talk to Iran, and to offer a very clear choice: continue down your current course and there will be pressure and isolation; abandon your illicit nuclear program and support for terrorism and there will be meaningful incentives.
- On Afghanistan this gem:
... the imperative of stopping the mountains between Afghanistan and Pakistan from providing a haven for terrorists.
These mountains are either in Afghanistan or in Pakistan. To define them as "between" makes them some extraterritorial neverland where no laws apply. A verbal trick to allow for unlimited war on the area.
- In general:
When it comes to radical groups that use terror as a tool, radical states that harbor extremists, undermine peace and seek or spread weapons of mass destruction and regimes that systematically kill or ethnically cleanse their own people - we must stand united and use every means at our disposal to end the threat they pose.
The sentence is no different than anything Cheney would have said.
So on all major foreign policy issues there will be no change at all. As William Pfaff recently commented:
The institutional rigidity of U.S. foreign policy has been locked in place. The ideas – there are many – about negotiations, local, regional, or multinational, seem ruled out. Here we go again.
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