Nevertheless, here is what we in New England are being spoon-fed to soup us up for the next USraeli onslaught.
Next stop: WWIII and the destruction of the criminal USraeli Empire.
"UN inspectors seek clues on Iran’s nuclear plants; 2 sites suspected of being built" by David E. Sanger and William J. Broad, New York Times | March 28, 2010
WASHINGTON — Six months after the revelation of a secret nuclear enrichment site in Iran, international inspectors and Western intelligence agencies say they suspect that Tehran is preparing to build more sites in defiance of UN demands.
The UN inspectors assigned to monitor Iran’s nuclear program are now searching for evidence of two such sites, prompted by recent comments by a top Iranian official that drew little attention in the West, and are looking into a mystery about the whereabouts of recently manufactured uranium enrichment equipment.
In an interview with the Iranian Student News Agency, the official, Ali Akbar Salehi, head of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization, said President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had ordered work to begin soon on two new plants. The plants, he said, “will be built inside mountains,’’ presumably to protect them from attacks.
The revelation that inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency, the United Nations’ nuclear monitoring agency, now believe that there may be two new sites comes at a crucial moment in the White House’s attempts to impose tough new sanctions against Iran.
When President Obama publicly revealed the evidence of the hidden site at Qum in September, his aides had hoped the announcement would make it easier to win international support for a fourth round of economic sanctions, particularly from a reluctant China and Russia.
Yeah, the only problem is IRAN ANNOUNCED IT to the WORLD!
Obama didn't publicly reveal a damn thing, you lying puss-bag of a paper!!!
Since then, however, the White House has been struggling to convince those countries to go along with the toughest sanctions, and the administration is now being forced to scale back its proposed list of sanctions.
Because THEY ARE NOT GETTING A RESOLUTION THROUGH, period!
The UN inspectors operate separately from the diplomats who are developing sanctions. Still, the disclosures may be intended, at least in part, to underscore the belief of Western officials that the Iranian efforts are speeding ahead, and the assertions could aid in efforts to press Iran to open up locations where inspectors have been barred.
This is such horse shit.
This article was based on interviews with officials of several governments and international agencies deeply involved in the hunt for additional nuclear sites in Iran, and familiar with the work of the IAEA, the only organization with regular access to Iran’s known nuclear facilities. All the officials insisted on anonymity because the search involves not only satellite surveillance, but also intelligence gleaned from highly classified operations.
It's IRAQ ALL OVER AGAIN!!
US officials say they share the IAEA’s suspicions and are examining satellite evidence about a number of suspected sites. But they have found no definitive clues yet that Iran intends to use them to produce nuclear fuel, and they are less certain about the number of sites Iran may be planning.
In any case, no new processing site would pose an immediate threat or change the US estimates that it will still take Iran one to four years to obtain the capability to build a nuclear weapon. Given the complexity of building and opening new plants, it would probably take several years for the country to enrich uranium at the new sites.
And COULD NOT BE DONE without HEAVY INDUSTRIAL PROGRAMS that would be SEEN from the SPY SATS, so... !!!!!!!!!!!!
One European official noted that “while we have some evidence,’’ Iran’s heavy restrictions on where inspectors can travel and the existence of numerous tunneling projects were making the detection of any new enrichment plants especially difficult.
Sigh. Pfft! Sigh!
Iran boasted several months ago, after the disclosure of the Qum site, that it would build 10 more enrichment plants in coming years. That number was dismissed by US officials and others as a fantasy, far beyond Iran’s abilities, or its budget. But IAEA inspectors in Vienna now believe that Salehi was probably accurate when he referred to two sites.
According to US officials, in recent weeks Israel — which uncovered some of the evidence about Qum — has pressed the case that evidence points to what one senior administration official called “Qum look-alikes.’’
Then PUT THE BRAKES ON!!!!
No way I'm believing those bastards ever again!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The most compelling circumstantial evidence, people familiar with the inspectors’ view say, is that while Iran appears to be making new equipment to enrich uranium, that equipment is not showing up in the main plant that inspectors visit regularly. Nor is it at the Natanz site in the Iranian desert, or the new facility at Qum, which inspectors now visit periodically.
Says who? Israel? Or their western flunkies?
That has heightened suspicions that the equipment, which is produced in small factories around Iran, is being held in a clandestine storage area for later shipment or installed elsewhere.
Didn't we just go through this s*** with Iraq, NYT?
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The New York Times: Israel's Mouthpiece
Yeah, it shows.
And I guess the rest of them didn't learn either:
"Six major powers agree to push new Iran sanctions" by Robert Burns and Matthew Lee, Associated Press | April 1, 2010
WASHINGTON — Yesterday, however, two US officials said that in a phone call among officials from the United States, Russia, China, Britain, France, and Germany, the Chinese representative said his country was prepared to discuss specific potential sanctions.
One of the officials said China had made a “commitment’’ to discuss the specifics of a Security Council resolution, and that on that basis the United States would press ahead with an effort to pass such a measure. The officials cautioned that this does not mean there is a full consensus on UN sanctions. The Obama administration is hoping to get a UN resolution by month’s end.
And if they do not?
We going to here the same old "UN has failed" garbage like we did from Bush?
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has not publicly cited a specific timetable but in recent days sounded more optimistic about the chances of getting China to agree that new penalties are needed.
“We happen to think that action in the Security Council is part of negotiation and diplomacy that can perhaps get the attention of the Iranian leadership,’’ she said.
Oh, I'm sure they are paying close attention.
President Nicolas Sarkozy of France, after meeting with Obama at the White House on Tuesday, said Washington and Paris were “inseparable’’ in their thinking on Iran sanctions. “Iran cannot continue its mad race’’ toward acquiring nuclear weapons,’’ Sarkozy said. “The time has come to take decisions.’’
Yeah, never mind that they are not making a bomb.
Related: All in the Family in France
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Six major world powers have agreed to begin putting together proposed new sanctions on Iran over its suspect nuclear program after China dropped its opposition, US officials said yesterday.
Not exactly.
China, long a holdout against fresh international penalties against Iran, signaled its willingness to consider a UN Security Council sanctions resolution, the officials said.
Speaking at the United Nations, Clinton said the officials had “accurately described’’ the position of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council and Germany. She did not elaborate but said the group, known as the “P5-plus-one,’’ was unified.
What bulls***.
“There will be a great deal of further consultation, not only among the P5-plus-one but other members of the Security Council and other member nations during the next weeks,’’ she told reporters.
China’s change of position improves prospects for passing a resolution aimed at pressuring Iran to scale back its nuclear ambitions, which Tehran maintains are limited to developing nuclear power for peaceful purposes.
President Obama had said Tuesday he hoped to have Iran sanctions in place within weeks — a timetable that appeared highly ambitious given China’s previous reluctance. China had insisted that negotiation with Iran needed to be pursued....
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"Iran nuclear envoy wants dialogue, not sanctions; US reports suggest shift by Chinese" by Anita Chang, Associated Press | April 3, 2010
BEIJING — Tehran’s top nuclear envoy called for negotiations without threat of sanctions yesterday, following meetings in Beijing after US reports saying China had dropped its opposition to possible new UN measures against Iran.
Saeed Jalili sidestepped questions on whether China had confirmed to him that it had changed its position on a fourth round of UN sanctions against Tehran for its nuclear program. He maintained that both Iran and China sought a return to the negotiating table....
How frikkin' unreasonable!!!!
China has veto power in the UN Security Council, and its support would be key to passing a resolution against Iran, which is suspected of developing nuclear weapons. Tehran says its nuclear program is for peaceful power generation.
That will get a war going!
Only the US may veto for Israel without it being a problem down there.
“Negotiations should be conducted with logic, not with pressure. If negotiations and pressure occur at the same time, there’s no way these negotiations can go forward,’’ Jalili said in comments that were translated from Farsi to Chinese.
I am ALWAYS, ALWAYS for TALKING, folks!!!
During his visit to China, Jalili met with Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi and Wang Jiarui, who heads the Communist Party’s international affairs office.
China has refused to say publicly whether it is willing to consider new sanctions. On Thursday, Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang repeated the country’s longtime stance of wanting the dispute settled through negotiations.
Jalili hinted that Iran was looking to China to prevent another round of penalties, which UN diplomats have said would target Iran’s powerful Revolutionary Guard and toughen existing measures against shipping, banking, and insurance sectors.
“China is a big country and can play a very important role in preventing their incorrect policy,’’ which he described as wanting dialogue while also pursuing plans to punish Iran.
President Obama said in an interview broadcast yesterday on CBS’s “The Early Show,’’ that Washington would continue to “ratchet up the pressure’’ on Iran to disclose its nuclear intentions.
“All the evidence’’ indicates Tehran is trying to get nuclear weapons and such a capability could destabilize the Mideast and trigger a regional arms race, he said.
Ah, Bushie, we barely missed ye!
Obama also raised the issue of Iran’s nuclear program when he spoke on the phone yesterday with his Chinese counterpart, Hu Jintao, welcoming his decision to attend a nuclear security summit in Washington in less than two weeks.
“Obama underscored the importance of working together to ensure that Iran lives up to its international obligations,’’ a White House statement said.
Of course, Israel don't have to.
China depends on oil- and gas-rich Iran for 11 percent of its energy needs and last year became Tehran’s biggest trading partner, according to Iranian figures. Although China went along with three earlier UN sanctions resolutions against Iran, Beijing has been a vocal opponent of a fourth round.
Yeah, China has self-serving interests for what they do while AmeriKa is completely altruistic in its slavish service to Iz-ray-HELL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sickening, sickening, MSM -- and SO SAD!!!!!!!!!!
But US officials say a Chinese representative made a commitment in a phone call Wednesday with officials of the United States, Russia, China, Britain, France, and Germany to discuss the specifics of a potential Security Council resolution, and that on that basis the United States would press ahead with an effort to pass such a measure.
The officials cautioned that this does not mean there is a full consensus yet on UN sanctions. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because the diplomatic talks were ongoing.
The Obama administration is hoping to get a UN resolution on Iran passed by the end of April.
Then let the BOMBING BEGIN!!!!!!
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Orders can't come from any higher:
"Move quickly on Iran sanctions
THE OBAMA administration has been pushing hard for tougher UN Security Council sanctions on Iran, while Congress has been hammering out its own list of unilateral US sanctions.
Related: Clinton's Circles: At the Feet of the Master
Yet hawks and doves alike commonly presume that sanctions aren’t enough to compel Iran to forgo its pursuit of nuclear weapons. In the face of Iran’s defiance of the international community, sanctions feel like a squirt gun rather than a rifle.
Better use an A-BOMB then, huh?
There have been recent signs, however, that these assumptions may be wrong. The embattled Iranian regime may be much more vulnerable to the deprivations that go along with economic isolation than its leaders pretend.
Yeah, make their people suffer some more, you PoS war-criminal press!
The Obama administration and the United Nations should press ahead on sanctions as a prod....
You know where you can shove that prod, BG!
The mere prospect of tougher restrictions on trade with Iran has already caused many companies to cease doing business there. Two major insurance companies, Lloyds and Munich Re, have said they will no longer insure cargo going into or out of Iran. Major oil brokers have declared they will stop delivering desperately needed refined petroleum to Iran. And Shell,
So NO NEED for ANY ATTACK at all, right?
Asian companies may help fill the breach, but Iran’s costs for basic economic activities are rising steeply. Even China, the Security Council member most insistent on weakening the proposed new round of UN sanctions, has preemptively cut its purchases of Iranian crude oil by half in the past year.
Then NO WAR with CHINA, right?
Iran’s leaders, already coping with severe internal dissention, are not as indifferent as they pretend.
Wish that one could say the same about this government here in AmeriKa!!!
Until now, the regime has insisted that sanctions only make it more determined to refuse demands for proof that its nuclear program will be used for peaceful purposes. But last month the head of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization proposed a swap of 60 percent of Iran’s low-enriched uranium for fuel rods of a type that could not be used for a weapon. The offer is not comprehensive enough to satisfy the international community. But it opens the way for more bargaining, and it suggests Iran’s rulers are feeling the hot breath of new sanctions on their necks.
Related: Israelis Support Land For Peace Deal With Palestinians
Yeah, someone else feeling the hot breath of scorn.
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So it is a WAR CRIMINAL PAPER, too, New Englander!
