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Post by nereah on Dec 8, 2012 18:37:02 GMT 3
obama administration at the behest of israel tighten the screw on iran with indefinite extension of ban on iranian oil imports. the ban is however discriminatory if the available info is anything to go by.my informant, www.bloomberg.com amuses me with news that obama will turn the other way as india,malaysia,south korea,singapore,south africa,sri lanka,turkey and taiwan pump in iranian oil but not countries like kenya.iran is one of the biggest markets for kenyan tea and nairobi has been gobbling iranian oil untill obama twitched. the question is, how do you defeat the very purpose of the sanctions when it is applied indiscriminately and what moral basis can the world validate this ridiculous unilateralism? all in the name of stopping iran from nuclear weapon. whatever became of the soft power!
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Post by nereah on Mar 17, 2013 15:02:38 GMT 3
just learning that president obama is boarding airforce one for israel, a visit that my types are watching with keen interest.
it comes at a time when the ultra conservatives are still holding forte in the jewish state. just when the catholics cardinals were selecting one of their own as the next vicar of christ and venenzuela was celebrating the life of hugo chavez, pm bibi over in jerusalem was sweating through his biggest test in the jerusalem's murky politics. finally,when all seems lost, he pulled through with a dubious coalition.
but pm netanyahu has to deal with the soft paddling john kerry who unlike hillary whose ties with israel extended to her daughter's marriage to a jew.why am i tempted to believe that obama's historic return to israel is more than just a courtesy visit?
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Post by nereah on Mar 18, 2013 20:44:56 GMT 3
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Post by jakaswanga on Mar 18, 2013 23:29:33 GMT 3
I am keeping an eye on the going-ons in Washington. There is a political stalemate there, and Obama is effectively stuck on the budget issue. Historically, when internal contradictions threaten to tear an elite apart, they export the contradictions, as in they go to war to mobilise public opinion toward an external scapegoat. You will see daily interviews of ordinary Americans expressing disgust at Washington and their politicians, whatever their party, at failing to fix the national problems. A good time to find some as,s abroad to kick, to deflect public anger. So Obama's much sabre-rattling at Iran. North Korea dared him flat, and the USA found out they have not many options. Iran easier?
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Post by nereah on Mar 21, 2013 20:14:28 GMT 3
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Post by OtishOtish on Mar 21, 2013 21:23:56 GMT 3
So Obama's much sabre-rattling at Iran. North Korea dared him flat, and the USA found out they have not many options. Iran easier? The Korean Peninsula is a funny place. Almost exactly 20 years ago, the North promised to turn Seoul into "a sea of fire". Almost exactly 10 years ago, they promised to turn it into "an ocean of destruction". I think we are now due for a lake or river. (And in-between, there have been smaller promises.) Oh, and a new leader must always show what he's made of: Kim Il Podgy has just promised to "break all spines" in the South and "show them what real war is about". (I think he has yet to master menacing language.) But ... Like most "tough" poor countries, North Korea cannot feed itself, and the tough talk is frequently followed by a request--obliged--to the South, for massive food-aid. The tough talk has also been used to get the South to invest capitalist dollars up North , in various "joint industrial & other ventures to promote peace". Sometimes re-capitalization is needed, and then the North will start mentioning all sorts of watery things. Down on the ground, Koreans (north and south) see themselves as one people and see re-unification as a matter of when, not if. (Many people on either side still have relatives on the other side.) Thus South Korea actually has a Ministry of Unification that is involved in all sorts of joint activities with North Korea. In fact, the general view, as far as I can tell, is that the only people who don't care for the unification are the outsiders---the USA, China, and Russia. Lastly, it seems to me that most South Koreans don't want the USA getting into any fisticuffs with North Korea. Time permitting, I might give details later; but for the last 5 years, the USA has appeared to be preparing for a major conflict on the Korean Peninsula---and one in which it will play the leading role.
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Post by jakaswanga on Jun 20, 2013 22:30:14 GMT 3
Two evenst have happened this past week which have not appeared on the radar of Jukwaa, but I think they deserve a mention, even if only in passing. 1. The election of Hassan Rouhani to the presidency of the Islamic republic of Iran. ---Not that you heard anybody in the west rush to congratulate the 'democratic process' in that country! www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/15/iranian-cleric-hassan-rouhani-lead-presidency2. The G7 summit in Aylesbury Ireland, tucked away in middle of nowhere like some gathering of mafia dons, fearful of the FBI the USA during the Prohibition. Iran issue has replaced even the perenial Palestinian problem in the middle east as the hottest potato, and indeed the current stalemate in Syria owes a lot to the Iranian question. Yet there is no great idea [apart from war] on the Iranian problem from the opponents ---with their all options open! But what is a moderate in Tehran? given the public popularity of the nuclear program? 2. In the g7, definitely big donors to Kenya, Minus India, China, and the other nations like Korea, does not look that much of a relevance to Kenyan economic policy. They look like our past. Any gathering of important people these days, without the two Asian Giants and Brazil does not really look convincing. ---Resolutions where 75% of the world is not represented have a hollow ring to them nowadays, methinks. Aylesburry Ireland was thus a mere curiosity at best! Those preparing to be 'have beens'! www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/international-business/us-business/no-subject-is-taboo-at-g7-talks/article11846666/
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Post by jakaswanga on Jun 20, 2013 22:30:27 GMT 3
Two evenst have happened this past week which have not appeared on the radar of Jukwaa, but I think they deserve a mention, even if only in passing. 1. The election of Hassan Rouhani to the presidency of the Islamic republic of Iran. ---Not that you heard anybody in the west rush to congratulate the 'democratic process' in that country! www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/15/iranian-cleric-hassan-rouhani-lead-presidency2. The G7 summit in Aylesbury Ireland, tucked away in middle of nowhere like some gathering of mafia dons, fearful of the FBI the USA during the Prohibition. Iran issue has replaced even the perenial Palestinian problem in the middle east as the hottest potato, and indeed the current stalemate in Syria owes a lot to the Iranian question. Yet there is no great idea [apart from war] on the Iranian problem from the opponents ---with their all options open! But what is a moderate in Tehran? given the public popularity of the nuclear program? 2. In the g7, definitely big donors to Kenya, Minus India, China, and the other nations like Korea, does not look that much of a relevance to Kenyan economic policy. They look like our past. Any gathering of important people these days, without the two Asian Giants and Brazil does not really look convincing. ---Resolutions where 75% of the world is not represented have a hollow ring to them nowadays, methinks. Aylesburry Ireland was thus a mere curiosity at best! Those preparing to be 'have beens'! www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/international-business/us-business/no-subject-is-taboo-at-g7-talks/article11846666/
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Post by jakaswanga on Nov 24, 2013 15:46:54 GMT 3
The cold-blooded Obama wuod Kogelo, in Total secrecy, even as his NIA hacked all world computer systems, spied the communications of the leaders all friendly nations like Germany, France and the UK, and intercepted the calls of the Brazilian president to her lover, had his senior most staff and those of VP Joe Biden have face to face discussions with the Iranians, and the wisdom of it all has just broken surface, even as perennial rejectionists like Bibi Netanyahu of Israel are livid with rage and tearing themselves to pieces in public. www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/24/iran-nuclear-deal-west-sanctions-reliefnews.yahoo.com/secret-us-iran-talks-set-stage-nuke-deal-045356533--politics.html It is an insistence nobody believes, but then, everybody else has a fully-operational nuclear weapons program. Why not Iran? www.dw.de/opinion-many-winners-in-deal-with-iran/a-17248633Obama does not want to bomb. He is going the extra mile not to. Perhaps that is the greatest danger now. If this deal unravels, what next? Total chaos in the middle east as, next to Syria and the turmoil in Iraq, bomb-runs start on Iran? Or may be Obama just wants to pass the hot potato to the next POTUS!
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Post by b6k on Nov 24, 2013 21:24:09 GMT 3
Jakaswanga, this is HUGE development considering the saber rattling against Iran that has been ongoing since the elections when McCain was singing "bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb Iran". This is what Obama had to say after the nuclear deal was struck: Peace in our time? Only time will tell. For one thing as you rightly point out the Israelis are livid for having been left out of the loop on this one. I also wonder what the Saudis think about this new arrangement. Coming quick on the heels of Obama's reluctance to attack Syria (thanks to chemical weapons usage which may have been perpetrated by the rebels <read Saudi backed thugs> in the first place), the prospect that Iran also is being left off the hook will not leave Uncle Sam's traditional allies happy as captured by this article from the New York Times. In the same article you will also learn that Turkey, another staunch US ally, was tempted to look east to China for their new missile defense systems. Excerpt: "Much of this anger at the United States is driven by a case of nerves. The Arab Spring uprisings shook the old order, plunged the region into chaos, created opportunities for Iran to expand its influence in Syria and Iraq and threatened to worsen the Sunni-Shiite divide. Saudi Arabia, a Sunni-majority country, in particular, fears an American rapprochement with Shiite-majority Iran. But Mr. Obama’s first responsibility is to America’s national interest. And he has been absolutely right in refusing to be goaded into a war in Syria or bullied into squandering a rare, if remote, chance to negotiate an Iranian nuclear deal." Zbigniew Brezinzki (National Security Advisor in the Carter administration) Tweeted earlier today from his handle @zbig as follows: "Do our Middle East "allies" really have our best interests at heart when they clamor for us to go to war for them?" If Obama can resist the likes of Netanyahu & forge ahead with the Iranian deal while at the same time taming Syria without attacking it he may go down in history as the greatest POTUS. The fact that Obama brokered the deal with five other world powers bodes well for it to stick...I hope!
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Post by jakaswanga on Nov 27, 2013 22:37:55 GMT 3
Jakaswanga, this is HUGE development considering the saber rattling against Iran that has been ongoing since the elections when McCain was singing "bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb Iran". This is what Obama had to say after the nuclear deal was struck: Peace in our time? Only time will tell. For one thing as you rightly point out the Israelis are livid for having been left out of the loop on this one. I also wonder what the Saudis think about this new arrangement. Coming quick on the heels of Obama's reluctance to attack Syria (thanks to chemical weapons usage which may have been perpetrated by the rebels <read Saudi backed thugs> in the first place), the prospect that Iran also is being left off the hook will not leave Uncle Sam's traditional allies happy as captured by this article from the New York Times. In the same article you will also learn that Turkey, another staunch US ally, was tempted to look east to China for their new missile defense systems. Excerpt: "Much of this anger at the United States is driven by a case of nerves. The Arab Spring uprisings shook the old order, plunged the region into chaos, created opportunities for Iran to expand its influence in Syria and Iraq and threatened to worsen the Sunni-Shiite divide. Saudi Arabia, a Sunni-majority country, in particular, fears an American rapprochement with Shiite-majority Iran. But Mr. Obama’s first responsibility is to America’s national interest. And he has been absolutely right in refusing to be goaded into a war in Syria or bullied into squandering a rare, if remote, chance to negotiate an Iranian nuclear deal." b6k True! in fact from the grapevine, the Americans had to drive this point in for the French to shut up! France can be a bit of a diva on these things, and was stamping her foot about being excluded from the initial round of USA-Iranian talks. Obama asked Kerry to remind them they are the guys who rushed people into the war in Libya, and where are they now as Libya descends into chaos? --Okay, let them pull out of the nuclear deal! the rest will see it through. This is why the French foreign minister, Fabius or somebody, was very tight lipped in Geneva, while the rest waxed endless! Kerry, tired, had said: go if you want. Who needs you anyway? Germany is in, and last time I checked, France don't run the EU anyway! They say the chemical gas attack in Syria has now been certified by the americans to have been a plot to lead her by the nose into intervening in the war. Kerry had a message for Netanyahu on that one. Fall dead bibi, I don't owe you shit after what you did! No doubt people are scratching their heads in the middle east! Some big change is afoot! And I thought second terms were lame ducks! Obama: -----''Iran like any nation should be able to access peaceful nuclear energy. But because of its record of violating its obligations, Iran must accept strict limitations on it program that make it impossible for her to build nuclear weapons!'' ..... ''The burden is on Iran to prove to the international community that its nuclear program is exclusively for peaceful purposes!'' NB: India, Pakistan, Israel, North Korea, all have nuclear weapons, and their records of violating [international or otherwise] obligations are longer than Iran's. Obviously when it comes to clear thinking, Harvard lawyer Obama does not get top marks. His mind is too hypocritical. That hypocrisy at such a high level, a necessary affliction, must therefore be enforced by Iron, otherwise it becomes comical, and opens one to ridicule. Therefore Obama must enter the trap of all power. Overwhelming Force, and Might is Right. The USA possesses the power to destroy Iran many times over. And that is the only reason this nonsense from Obama has to be taken seriously. Intent, capacity and resolve to strangle. Bibi Netanyahu with his nuclear arsenal has threatened severally in the course of the past two years to bomb Iran. Surely The onus can not be on Iran to prove its nuclear program is for peace only. Perhaps those who already have the bomb, can prove they have no intention whatsoever to, once upon a future date, wipe Iran off the surface of the earth. But Obama is the top dog. And when a top dog snarls, however unfairly, lesser dogs must wag tail in compliance. This is a predator's game, and that is not justice. Let Iran blink, and bide time. The truth is the world can live with a nuclear Iran, just like it can live with a nuclear North and South Korea, a nuclear Brazil. Is there something really the world can not live with? Even the extinction of mankind wont really be the end of the world, methinks!
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Post by Omwenga on Nov 28, 2013 3:00:38 GMT 3
Obama: -----''Iran like any nation should be able to access peaceful nuclear energy. But because of its record of violating its obligations, Iran must accept strict limitations on it program that make it impossible for her to build nuclear weapons!'' ..... ''The burden is on Iran to prove to the international community that its nuclear program is exclusively for peaceful purposes!'' NB: India, Pakistan, Israel, North Korea, all have nuclear weapons, and their records of violating [international or otherwise] obligations are longer than Iran's. Obviously when it comes to clear thinking, Harvard lawyer Obama does not get top marks. His mind is too hypocritical. That hypocrisy at such a high level, a necessary affliction, must therefore be enforced by Iron, otherwise it becomes comical, and opens one to ridicule. Therefore Obama must enter the trap of all power. Overwhelming Force, and Might is Right. The USA possesses the power to destroy Iran many times over. And that is the only reason this nonsense from Obama has to be taken seriously. Intent, capacity and resolve to strangle. Bibi Netanyahu with his nuclear arsenal has threatened severally in the course of the past two years to bomb Iran. Surely The onus can not be on Iran to prove its nuclear program is for peace only. Perhaps those who already have the bomb, can prove they have no intention whatsoever to, once upon a future date, wipe Iran off the surface of the earth. But Obama is the top dog. And when a top dog snarls, however unfairly, lesser dogs must wag tail in compliance. This is a predator's game, and that is not justice. Let Iran blink, and bide time. The truth is the world can live with a nuclear Iran, just like it can live with a nuclear North and South Korea, a nuclear Brazil.Is there something really the world can not live with? Even the extinction of mankind wont really be the end of the world, methinks! Ori Jakaswanga,Ain't you being a bit harsh here on "Harvard lawyer Obama?" Or are these not your words? Anyway, that being said, I do agree with you in what you say I have put in italics. The reason there has been this much clamor to stop Iran from arming itself with a nuclear weapon is simply because Israel doesn't want it to have one--and for understandable reasons. At the same time, the Israeli lobby in the US is so powerful and formidable only Obama has been able to tame it while pursuing his vision for the Middle East that may or may not be in sync with Israel's wishes, depending on what day it is. My sense is when Obama leaves office, he may not accomplish all he had hoped for in the region, but he will leave it in a less volatile and more safer than his predecessors and this nuclear deal, if it happens, will certainly propel him to greatness as an American president, if his baby project "Obamacare" doesn't. If he accomplishes both, meaning a having a permanent nuclear deal with Iran that works and successfully implementing Obamacare, then we're talking about greatness rivaling that of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, if not greater. If he fails in both, then he be deemed of average to slightly above average success on account of having saved the country from total economic collapse courtesy of George W Bush's. Btw, I have been reading or watching on TV some of the most nonsensical and straight up idiotic commentary on this nuclear deal here is my twit as regards to one of them the other day: link
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Post by Deleted on Nov 28, 2013 4:57:27 GMT 3
In this web-only exclusive, MIT Professor Emeritus Noam Chomsky talks about the past 60 years of U.S.-Iranian relations since the 1953 coup organized by the CIA. "The crucial fact about Iran, which we should begin with, is that for the past 60 years not a day has passed in which the U.S. has not been torturing Iranians," Chomsky says. "It began with a military coup which overthrew the parliamentary regime in 1953."www.democracynow.org/blog/2013/9/11/noam_chomsky_us_has_been_torturing_iran_for_60_years_since_1953_coup
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Post by b6k on Nov 28, 2013 11:36:10 GMT 3
Jakaswanga, this is HUGE development considering the saber rattling against Iran that has been ongoing since the elections when McCain was singing "bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb Iran". This is what Obama had to say after the nuclear deal was struck: Peace in our time? Only time will tell. For one thing as you rightly point out the Israelis are livid for having been left out of the loop on this one. I also wonder what the Saudis think about this new arrangement. Coming quick on the heels of Obama's reluctance to attack Syria (thanks to chemical weapons usage which may have been perpetrated by the rebels <read Saudi backed thugs> in the first place), the prospect that Iran also is being left off the hook will not leave Uncle Sam's traditional allies happy as captured by this article from the New York Times. In the same article you will also learn that Turkey, another staunch US ally, was tempted to look east to China for their new missile defense systems. Excerpt: "Much of this anger at the United States is driven by a case of nerves. The Arab Spring uprisings shook the old order, plunged the region into chaos, created opportunities for Iran to expand its influence in Syria and Iraq and threatened to worsen the Sunni-Shiite divide. Saudi Arabia, a Sunni-majority country, in particular, fears an American rapprochement with Shiite-majority Iran. But Mr. Obama’s first responsibility is to America’s national interest. And he has been absolutely right in refusing to be goaded into a war in Syria or bullied into squandering a rare, if remote, chance to negotiate an Iranian nuclear deal." b6k True! in fact from the grapevine, the Americans had to drive this point in for the French to shut up! France can be a bit of a diva on these things, and was stamping her foot about being excluded from the initial round of USA-Iranian talks. Obama asked Kerry to remind them they are the guys who rushed people into the war in Libya, and where are they now as Libya descends into chaos? --Okay, let them pull out of the nuclear deal! the rest will see it through. This is why the French foreign minister, Fabius or somebody, was very tight lipped in Geneva, while the rest waxed endless! Kerry, tired, had said: go if you want. Who needs you anyway? Germany is in, and last time I checked, France don't run the EU anyway! They say the chemical gas attack in Syria has now been certified by the americans to have been a plot to lead her by the nose into intervening in the war. Kerry had a message for Netanyahu on that one. Fall dead bibi, I don't owe you shit after what you did! No doubt people are scratching their heads in the middle east! Some big change is afoot! And I thought second terms were lame ducks! Obama: -----''Iran like any nation should be able to access peaceful nuclear energy. But because of its record of violating its obligations, Iran must accept strict limitations on it program that make it impossible for her to build nuclear weapons!'' ..... ''The burden is on Iran to prove to the international community that its nuclear program is exclusively for peaceful purposes!'' NB: India, Pakistan, Israel, North Korea, all have nuclear weapons, and their records of violating [international or otherwise] obligations are longer than Iran's. Obviously when it comes to clear thinking, Harvard lawyer Obama does not get top marks. His mind is too hypocritical. That hypocrisy at such a high level, a necessary affliction, must therefore be enforced by Iron, otherwise it becomes comical, and opens one to ridicule. Therefore Obama must enter the trap of all power. Overwhelming Force, and Might is Right. The USA possesses the power to destroy Iran many times over. And that is the only reason this nonsense from Obama has to be taken seriously. Intent, capacity and resolve to strangle. Bibi Netanyahu with his nuclear arsenal has threatened severally in the course of the past two years to bomb Iran. Surely The onus can not be on Iran to prove its nuclear program is for peace only. Perhaps those who already have the bomb, can prove they have no intention whatsoever to, once upon a future date, wipe Iran off the surface of the earth. But Obama is the top dog. And when a top dog snarls, however unfairly, lesser dogs must wag tail in compliance. This is a predator's game, and that is not justice. Let Iran blink, and bide time. The truth is the world can live with a nuclear Iran, just like it can live with a nuclear North and South Korea, a nuclear Brazil. Is there something really the world can not live with? Even the extinction of mankind wont really be the end of the world, methinks! Jakaswanga, at least Barry is finally thinking outside the box. If he pulls it off, this will make Camp David look like the picnic that it was. However, the Jewish lobby in the US cannot be taken lightly. They have deep pockets & like anywhere else, money talks. Also, the US Military Industrial Complex may not take it lightly that they cannot test their latest toys on yet another helpless third world nation. How else will they justify their burgeoning budgets? Barry better watch his back as those two groups have never been known to have an aversion to resorting to "wet works" when they can't get their way...
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Post by jakaswanga on Mar 3, 2015 0:47:36 GMT 3
THE ISRAELI-USA DOMESTIC: BAD BOY PAYS SAD DAD AN UNWELCOME VISITIsraeli chieftain Bibi Netanyahu arrived in Washington DC this yesterday sunday 01-03-15. He wont meet President Barrack Obama of the United States. They have a domestic. Bibi has lit a fire on Capitol Hill, and like an irretrievable pyroman, he will bask in the noisy glory and smoke, his eyes shining with passion, then wet with passion, as he immolates himself in media attention. Far away cross the wide pond in the ever serene Geneva, up in the paradise alpine Kingdom of ace bankers of devious morals, Nuclear talks featuring a so called P5+1 against the Islamic republic of Iran are at a critical phase. (P5+1 = The United States, Britain, China, France, Germany and Russia. A deadline to reach a workable compromise is set at the end this month sharp: March 31 2015. The Swiss are not interested in changing the world though. They are a success at in just the way it is. Their outlaw bankers for instance, are the best adapted to this immoral world. These lawless men reap maximum profit from the debauchery of a world elite jumping taxes, laundering drug and smuggling tax-payer's cash, in addition to peddling crime. The Swiss do not care where it is from, nor how it was got; they deal in money not in morality. And this innovative attitude, this inability to differentiate good from bad, has brought them much prosperity. A provincical Swiss (rofl)bank handles all Subsahara GDP per week. A Kenyan economist and social commentator, a Dr. David Ndii, bemoans the mediocrity of even the type corruption that infests Kenya. These tears would deduce the good doctor is filled with spiteful horror, watching the mediocre corruption in which such top bankers of Kenya as the outgoing chairman of the Central bank, a prof. Njunguna Ndung'u, have indulged to the best of their cretin abilities. The Swiss with their superior immorality would make our good Dr. Ndii significantly proud. I therefore say (our cabinet secretary for finance) Henry Rotich can claw a clue or two from the Swiss and bring a smile to Ndii's face, by endeavouring to transform Kenya into a sophisticated tax-dodger's paradise and safe multiplication fort for dodgy cash meant for laundering. And, most importantly, using the proceeds to build a tropical paradise. Switzerland, where we also have the annual Davos fanfare (of who is who in the globe), forms the decor for this last-minute hustle in the controversial nuclear issue. ENRICHMENT. The purpose of the USA is to curtail Iranian nuclear program for whatever purpose ----even energy, science or medical purpose as Iran has always said. This curtailment means making sure Iran has a restricted number of centrifuges, a restricted technological ability of those centrifuges, restricted threshold of low enriched uranium it can stockpile at home ---because at a certain quantity, low enriched uranium can quickly be enhanced further to be sufficient for one or more bombs. To make sure neither of all these can happen, the USA wants the program to be frozen. Israel wants it ended in totality. Iran insists on her national autonomy to make her decisions ---within international treaties which many of these countries, save Germany, are never too keen on. And anyway Pakistan and India, and the O O so-self-righteous Israel herself, have no time (and have never had time) for the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), which is the body to oversee and carry out inspections of these programs. This deal taking shape in Geneva which will not see the full stoppage of the Iranian nuclear program. This is what Netanyahu is out to scuttle. An existential threat to Israel, says bibi. The Lord protector of all Jews in the world, Bibi Netanyahu, is like a tribune who gallops from capital to capital in the western world, bellowing the tidings of exodus to the promised land. That the land offered is annexed from Palestinians is not an equation in this calculation of orthodox Zionism. I think that is why it needs to rely on unchallenged military superiority. This kind of massive land grab from a people not exterminated, can only be built upon and maintained by a total overwhelming force. A nuclear Iran, militarily at par, changes the power equation to at least a stalemate. And a stalemate, is a negotiation as equals. And equals do not grab each others stuff without agreed compensations. Then there is this. The Lord protector is not sure of his continued tenure. He is facing elections in three weeks, and the outcome of those elections are far from certain. Too close to call. The snake of loss slithering after our frog, makes for a jumpy and sometimes wreckless lurch around the globe. Gotta win votes. Show cause. Bibi is making Israelis nervous by the way he is playing American politics. Why be partisan and anger the president? Why connive with the republican party to fix a date to address congress without coordinating with the White house? Why such a deliberate affront? Why goad Obama who still will be president for two more years to vexatious modes? At the same time, remembering Obama's recent jovial quip to Angela Merkel --- I love you dearly Angela, but I doubt I would receive you in the white house if you had an election coming up in a couple of weeks!--- would it be Bibi was recalcitrantly calling bluff, daring Obama to declare most love!? Or was it the billionare Sheldon Adelson ---who has the power to summon leading lights of the republican party to wait on him-- pulling the strings of even AIPAC, the biggest organised Jewish lobby in the states? Tomorrow Bibi speeches before a joint house of congress. Will Hilary Clinton attend? Some leading democrats like Joe Biden and John Kerry have said they wont attend. Hillary is in a fix. Damned if she does. Damned is she does not. If she becomes president, she will surely remember the ugly trap Bibi and his rich backers set for her.
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Post by jakaswanga on Jul 14, 2015 22:38:25 GMT 3
After a period of eterniTy haggling over tit and tat HABEMUS DEAL!So we have a deal. A deal to curtail Iranian nuclear weapon ambitions if any, and to lift sanctions as compensation. Obama wont be bombing. His time is up. Lame duck late duck! May be one his successors will, because the deal is built to be misinterpreted, misrepresented, and all kinds of forces are arraigned against it to do just that. It is like a deal no one really wants. But there is a silver lining if you ask me. Apart from there being no real alternative, there is money to be made in Iran, if her markets are opened up; and if one looks carefully at the major (ex-world?) powers maintaining sanctions, they are really in no position to keep it up. Germany and France are for instance, on paper, Eurozone greats, but the bailout bills from Greece and Ukraine scare them stiff, in fact career-threatening for the current heads of state. Then there are the EU sanctions imposed on Russia. One wonders who they are hurting more, with Hollande barely above Madame LePen in popularity. The United Kingdom is no better. Her minister of finance, George Osborne, just read a budget the other day in at Westminster, and it was not boisterous in its confidence in the wealth creation abilities of that once Great land. Russia for her part barely escaped a total currency crash the other day, and with oil prices rock bottom, the great bear is hurting, bad. And China? Well, her stocks have proved a bubble of late and the gas is running out, noisily. Threatening a global dip! They are world powers yes, but more in their capacity to destroy by war --like they did Libya and Iran. Building? Nah! Detroit America is like Kibera Nairobi, and sections of Paris are like Peter Abraham's Sofia Town in Mine Boy. If such a desperate, motley crew of nations vote to maintain sanctions, however great and powerful they are, their people who do not seem to enjoy that greatness may have other ideas. The recessions are long on receding, looking permanent, and the greed of bankers is not helping things. And taking a peek at the social disintegration in the United states due to poverty and heightened inequality, the American dream is barely saleable to the majority of Americans. Even the historically prosperous WASP is pensive and gloomy at a future in which he is no longer the demographic standard. And so it is not just Iran who would be hurting bad if the sanctions regime were to be continued. There is no more palatable alternative to the meal on the table now. But Iran must swallow a bitterest pill. She was the least powerful on the table, and was therefore the meal in the power game. It reminds of the deal reached yesterday in Brussels, Belgium, a deal in which a destitute Greece ceded the custodianship of its own destiny in the near future. In Brussels, Power spoke. German Power. But in Lausanne where the nuclear deal was sealed, the power which spoke was NATO power, of course under the beligerent captaincy of the hegemon America. China and Russia were sulking attendants, and may have gone ahead with the ritual because the see enough room for disagreement to their benefit. If at some point the West interprets Iran is in default and sanctions must continue, The East could disagree and open trade, knowing their combined power is beyond worthwhile retaliatory measures from the West. The accord is a pretext to move on if others decide to stay still. Iran, other sources have always maintained, has had no military nuclear program. Yet that is what she has been nailed for all this time. That is not Unique, Saddam Hussein's Iraq was nailed on a false pretext. The real pleasure of the USA would of course be regime change in Tehran, ushering in a client regime. A thing that would greatly smile the Saudis and the Israelis. But now is for the lawyers to comb through the words of the pact. Both in Farsi and English, and the rest of the languages. Everybody their own interpretations according to their interests; and the so-reported over 200 pages of small print footnotes. HALF A LOAF IS BETTER THAN NO LOAF It is a win-win the sense of war is not on the table for the time being. When Hilary or Jeb wins, that could be a different story. Congress does not want the deal. But that is AIPAC running them and not the American interest. Sadly we know about how inspections were used to hound and frame Saddam Hussein. History is not beyond farce!
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Post by wanyee on Jan 6, 2016 22:01:39 GMT 3
Iran Embarrasses Obama, Takes Nuclear Samples With No Supervision Submitted by Tyler Durden on 09/23/2015, 15:10-0400 Now that the Pentagon seems to have come to terms with the fact that Russia and Iran are coordinating their military activities in Syria in support of their mutual ally Bashar al-Assad, the Obama administration has a problem. As we said last month, “with the GOP unable to block the Iran nuclear deal in the Senate, should Iran's involvement in Syria become common knowledge, then Obama will be faced with the biggest diplomatic headache in his administration's history, namely the explanation of why he is scrambling to restore diplomatic connections with a regime that couldn't even wait for the Iran deal to be formally passed before it turned its back on its newest ‘best friend’ in the Oval Office, only to promptly side with the KGB agent who over the past two years has emerged as the biggest US enemy in three decades.” This will of course be complicated immeasurably in the event Congress gets the idea that Iran is attempting to hide anything and indeed, GOP lawmakers were enraged when, late last month, AP reported that “Iran will be allowed to use its own inspectors to investigate a site it has been accused of using to develop nuclear arms, operating under a secret agreement with the U.N. agency that normally carries out such work.” The site in question is Parchin which, amusingly, AP originally referred to as a "nuclear site” before getting a tap on the shoulder and correcting the article. “In fact, it's a military site where some believe nuclear work occurred,” the correction reads. Yes, some do believe that and before the P5+1 deal can be implemented and crippling economic sanctions fully lifted, Tehran must first satisfy the IAEA’s worries about Parchin. On Monday, in what will surely create a stir with Republicans and will likely be raised at the next raucous GOP primary debate, Iran and the IAEA said the first samples from the site were collected in the absence of international inspectors. Here’s AFP: Iran said Monday it independently collected samples at a suspect military site where illicit nuclear work is alleged to have occurred and later handed them to the UN's absent inspectors. The disclosure that international monitors were not physically present is likely to feed critics of a nuclear deal between Iran and world powers, who have poured scorn on measures used to check if Tehran's atomic programme is peaceful. In a mark of the high stakes at play it drew a quick reaction from the UN's International Atomic Energy Agency, whose chief insisted that "the integrity of the sampling process and the authenticity of the samples" was not compromised. The samples were taken under "established procedures", IAEA director general Yukiya Amano said, noting "significant progress" is being made in its long-running probe of whether Iran ever sought to develop a nuclear bomb. The site at Parchin, east of the capital Tehran, has been at the centre of international scepticism of Iran's activities, specifically that as late as 2003 it carried out work there aimed at developing an atomic weapon. Iran says accusations from Western intelligence agencies -- including that it conducted explosives tests at Parchin -- are groundless and based on malicious information provided by its enemies. "It was done by Iranian experts, in the absence of IAEA inspectors," said Behrouz Kamalvandi, spokesman for Iran's Atomic Energy Organisation. Needless to say, "it was done by Iranian experts" isn't a line that's likely to inspire much confidence with the deal's many detractors and neither is the IAEA's insistence that the "integrity" of the samples has been maintained. Meanwhile, concerns linger over the whether construction activity at the site will serve to undermine inspectors' ability to determine if in fact Iran ever tried to develop a nuclear weapon. Here's more from Reuters: IAEA Director-General Yukiya Amano said he and the head of the agency's Department of Safeguards, which carries out inspections, visited a building at the Parchin site on Sunday that the agency had previously only observed by satellite. "Inside the building, we saw indications of recent renovation work," Amano said in a statement he read to reporters in Vienna, where his agency is based. "There was no equipment in the building." But in a report to its Board of Governors last month, the IAEA said activities it had observed at a location within Parchin since 2012 could undermine its ability to verify what activity occurred there. Amano repeated this point on Monday. In a confidential report to the board on Monday obtained by Reuters, Amano said the building to which the small extension had been added was not "the main building of interest". And here's Reuters with an interesting bit of color on the samples taken at the site: Amano said the environmental samples had been taken before his visit to Parchin on Sunday. He did not explain exactly how the samples were collected, but said "the Iranian side played a part in the sample-taking process by swiping samples". The IAEA has said it has a legal obligation to keep details of the arrangement confidential, but insists it is technically sound and will ensure the samples are not compromised. In the text of a statement to reporters, the head of safeguards at the IAEA, Tero Varjoranta, said one important element of sample-taking was that it is carried out "under redundant continuous surveillance", suggesting that the agency had carried out such surveillance when swipes were taken. When he read his statement immediately after Amano spoke, however, Varjoranta omitted that phrase. What's clear here is that the character and extent of Iran's nuclear ambitions will likely never be fully ascertained and it also seems very likely that the dynamic described above - wherein the West says one thing and Iran another with the details only leaking out incrementally by way of draft documents that find there way into the hands of the media - will persist in perpetuity. Maintaining the narrative is critical for both sides, which helps to explain the apparent tug-of-war between competing accounts. For Iran, the Rouhani government cannot be seen to have adopted an overly concilliatory stance without drawing the ire of Iranians who the Ayatollah is famously adept at whipping into a frenzy. For the Obama administration, the Iran deal is a key part of the President's legacy and The White House can ill-afford to see it jeopardized by the perception of Iranian intransigence. What all of this portends is that between Iran's involvement in Syria and the tenuous Parchin agreement with the IAEA, the cornerstone of Obama's foreign policy may ultimately blow up (figuratively speaking we hope) in America's face. SOURCE: www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-09-23/iran-embarrasses-obama-takes-nuclear-samples-no-supervision
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Post by wanyee on Jan 16, 2016 23:55:00 GMT 3
Western-imposed sanctions against Tehran to be lifted Saturday – Iranian FM Published time: 16 Jan, 2016 09:20 Edited time: 16 Jan, 2016 11:29 International sanctions against Iran are due to be lifted Saturday, according to Tehran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif. The move will take effect when the International Atomic Energy Agency has issued its final report concerning Iran’s nuclear program. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is expected to release a final report in the Austrian capital of Vienna, which will confirm that Iran has stuck to its end of the bargain in regard to honoring the nuclear deal, which was struck between Tehran and six world powers last year. "Today with the release of the IAEA chief's report the nuclear deal will be implemented, after which a joint statement will be made to announce the beginning of the deal," Zarif was quoted as saying by state news agency ISNA, as cited by Reuters. The nuclear deal, which was signed on July 14, 2015, saw Iran agree to shrink its atomic program. In return, the US, EU and UN said they would lift sanctions that have hampered Tehran’s economic growth. "Today is a good day for the Iranian people as sanctions will be lifted today," the ISNA cited Zarif as saying. The Iranian foreign minister is also due to meet US Secretary of State John Kerry later Saturday. Oil majors Total and Shell have already sent senior executives to Tehran ahead of the expected lifting of sanctions, Iran’s Mehr news agency reports. They are set to meet with officials from Iranian state oil companies on Sunday. On Wednesday, Iranian and US officials confirmed that Tehran’s Arak heavy water reactor had been disabled after its core was removed and concrete was poured into its central vessel. “Yesterday we finished the central part and the openings have been filled with cement,” Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization spokesman, Behrouz Kamalvandi said, as quoted by AFP. The reactor core was capable of producing plutonium and its fate was a major point of disagreement during the negotiations between six leading world powers and Iran. According to the agreement, the reactor is to be retrofitted with the help of foreign specialists to be used for research projects and the production of medical radioactive isotopes. The long-awaited green light for Tehran also comes just days after two US Navy boats were seized by Iran after straying into the country’s territorial waters, after one of them suffered a mechanical failure. Ten US Navy troops were briefly held, before being released by Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps. Commenting on the resolution of the conflict situation, Kerry thanked Iran for the prompt return of the sailors. "I want to express my gratitude to Iranian authorities for their cooperation in swiftly resolving this matter," he said in a statement. "That this issue was resolved peacefully and efficiently is a testament to the critical role diplomacy plays in keeping our country safe, secure and strong." SOURCE: www.rt.com/news/329164-iran-sanctions-lifted-zarif/
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Post by jakaswanga on Jan 17, 2016 10:40:24 GMT 3
Western-imposed sanctions against Tehran to be lifted Saturday – Iranian FM Published time: 16 Jan, 2016 09:20 Edited time: 16 Jan, 2016 11:29 International sanctions against Iran are due to be lifted Saturday, according to Tehran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif. The move will take effect when the International Atomic Energy Agency has issued its final report concerning Iran’s nuclear program. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is expected to release a final report in the Austrian capital of Vienna, which will confirm that Iran has stuck to its end of the bargain in regard to honoring the nuclear deal, which was struck between Tehran and six world powers last year. Wanyee, yes, the sanctions were lifted. $30 bn of the frozen monies of Iran in the West are accessible with immediate effect. (we will wait for the arguments about how much they have garnered in interest rates in the last 30 years, and just how much the loot was originally worth. Figures range from $100bn to 150 bn. Imagine the size of that argument! picking up the figures could last a century, lawyer's fees whole GDP's! But now we know OBAMA WILL NOT BOMB. He already did his last STATE OF THE UNION. He can only do covert hurts now. But there is the princess waiting on the wings to be coronated. Her name is Hilary Clinton. As late as last month, she was penning articles clearly stating SHOULD IRAN DEFAULT AT A LATER STAGE, THE MILITARY OPTION is there to reverse its nuclear ambitions! it is a bit unhinged to say that even in hot campaign period. But the world has never been spared made leaders of powerful nations out to destroy the world. So I wont be surprised Hilary is serious, and behind the scenes, everybody is preparing for war. everybody remembers her laugh at Gadaffi's walking corpse. Libya had disarmed as ordered, in a deal reminiscent of the Roman peace dictates with Carthago. And on verification: Endlessly Saddam Hussein's Iraq was kept dangling on that thread, ever into more intrusive inspections by spies. I would be surprised to find a fool in Tehran! he he! those are the guys out to prevent you from developing a nuclear bomb! threatening military options. obviously the military option will come or regime change by another method unless you are on top of your game. like this: US Sailors Arrested in Iranian waters.
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Post by jakaswanga on Jan 18, 2016 21:40:04 GMT 3
As they say, the ink is hardly dry, the echoes of the champagne glasses clicking cheers dead, than the spirit of the agreement is dead.
THE US HAS SLAMMED NEW SANCTIONS ON IRAN! AND THE EU IS SET TO FOLLOW!
Now it is about BALLISTIC MISSILES!
Israel and Turkey are working on super-range ballistic missiles, with Israel capable of nuclear-payloading theirs. India gave us the so-called CHINA-KILLER ballistic missile last year (5000km range). That means this year it could have added another 1000km to its range. That is technical progress. Saudi Arabia and the gulf monarchies have more than enough ballistics supplied by the US and her NATO allies.
Now, in that kind of neighbourhood Iran must not have ballistic missiles! ---she has to be a sitting duck!
Yeah, total disarmament of Iran is the agenda; the spiritual leader Khamenei or his successor is being undressed so that, defenceless like Gadaffi, they can end up sodomised by brutal pegs that go all the way to perforate intestines. in regime change.
Hilary wants to have that last laugh of hers again! the monster must feed! But this time the countess Dracula may get more than she bargains for.
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Post by jakaswanga on May 9, 2018 21:41:51 GMT 3
After a period of eterniTy haggling over tit and tat HABEMUS DEAL!So we have a deal. A deal to curtail Iranian nuclear weapon ambitions if any, and to lift sanctions as compensation. Obama wont be bombing. His time is up. Lame duck late duck! May be one his successors will, because the deal is built to be misinterpreted, misrepresented, and all kinds of forces are arraigned against it to do just that. ----------- History is not beyond farce! 08-05-2018 TRUMP TEARS UP THE OBAMA IRAN NUCLEAR DEALDriven by some species instinct, Donald Trump tramples on his predecessor's heritage with consummate rage. It is like he thrills in the desecration of a grave, that is Obama's tenure now buried under time. There is stuff like the withdrawal from the Paris Climate accord, retracts on Cuba, banking control regulations, some trade agreements, of which Trump has been steam rolling back, but the Iran nuclear deal is something else. But it clears a lot of air. For instance on the relationship between the NATO European bourgeoisie and DC power. Will European big capital, even as it has its own greed's to appease and notions of its own global grandeur, grumble but eventually coil tail and whimper in docility at the feet of their USA seniors, or will they break rank? No. They possibly can not afford to rebel. They are too exposed on several fronts and too dependent on the Big Uncle, DC. They can not afford to go it alone on the international stage. We have seen the hints from European political leaders trooping to Washington. First there was Emmanuel Macron. Visiting Trump to convince him to stay in the deal a week ago, the French President put up a show which embarrassed the sensibilities of a France still thinking of itself as a world power: 'Even Tony Blair lapping up George Bush's droppings now seems to have had more honour than Macron's poodle antics before Trump!' -fumed an injured Gaul. Then went Angela Merkel of Germany to pitch before Trump to save the deal. Trump toyed with her with churlish insensitivity. Britain sent the buffoon Boris Johnson of foreign affairs. He didn't even get to see Trump. Behind the scenes the Americans have made clear what the consequences will be of companies breaking the sanctions. In effect even as the Europeans still mouth diplomatic noises, the Americans have ordered them out of deals with Iran. Angela Merkel finds herself in the unfamiliar position of having to take lead on a global issue. It is crisis time in Berlin. The lady is huge in Europe, but then, that is where the men are Lilliput. Well, out there in the big wide, bad world? May be there is only one option on the table: all Lilliputians of the world unite --Merkel, Putin, Xi-Jinpin
.. to prevent another disastrous war in the middle east! Courtesy of a particularly stupid white man! It is called The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action: JCPOA!
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Post by jakaswanga on Jun 10, 2018 12:12:34 GMT 3
Obama is a gonna now. O-bomber is not gonna bomb. But the problem of Iran's rise in open challenge to USA hegemony, even if that hegemony dwindles by the day, stays a problem for the USA and her foremost fearful dependant, a supremacist colonial Israel. Very bad stuff can still happen over the issue in the middle east. NB: This week, the G7+Kenya met in Quebec Canada.
Donald Trump tore the agreement mid-air with a tweet. But there was another meeting in Asia, concurrently. And perhaps it was the more important of the two So we compare GDP's of the G7+Kenya, and the SCO+Iran and the rest. Then again we compare represented humanity on the globe.
I am not too sure Uhuru should have basked in this trip to Miguna's doorstep in 'Siberia'!
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