[FONT=verdana, sans-serif] The Ayatollah's Windfall - [/FONT][FONT=verdana, sans-serif]Emanuele Ottolenghi and Saeed Ghasseminejad (National Post-Canada)
Look at the psychological impact the Geneva deal had on Iran's economy. Within hours, Iran's currency, the rial, appreciated by 5% and shares of petrochemical companies soared on Tehran's Stock Exchange.
By relaxing sanctions against the petrochemical and automotive industries, the U.S. is giving the Iranian Revolutionary Guards and the Supreme Leader a cash bonanza. Together, they control one-third of Iran's petrochemical sector.
Iran has used the automotive sector to procure needed dual-use items and materials for its nuclear and ballistic missile programs over the years. Khodro and Saipa, the two main players in the car industry, are government-controlled.
The agreement offers Iran much needed relief to its procurement efforts, a cash windfall to its channels of proliferation, and financial profit along the way. [/FONT]
Look at the psychological impact the Geneva deal had on Iran's economy. Within hours, Iran's currency, the rial, appreciated by 5% and shares of petrochemical companies soared on Tehran's Stock Exchange.
By relaxing sanctions against the petrochemical and automotive industries, the U.S. is giving the Iranian Revolutionary Guards and the Supreme Leader a cash bonanza. Together, they control one-third of Iran's petrochemical sector.
Iran has used the automotive sector to procure needed dual-use items and materials for its nuclear and ballistic missile programs over the years. Khodro and Saipa, the two main players in the car industry, are government-controlled.
The agreement offers Iran much needed relief to its procurement efforts, a cash windfall to its channels of proliferation, and financial profit along the way. [/FONT]
[FONT=verdana, sans-serif][FONT=verdana, sans-serif]Israel's New Focus on the Iran Nuclear Deal -[/FONT][/FONT][FONT=verdana, sans-serif][FONT=verdana, sans-serif] Michael Herzog
Iranian enrichment has been accepted as part of the endgame; the clock in the uranium and plutonium tracks continues to tick, albeit at a slower pace. While putting the brakes on Iran's nuclear program is better than allowing it to accelerate, Tehran is far too close to a critical breakout capacity for this to be an acceptable situation in the long term. Israel's sight is therefore fixed on the endgame.
For Israel, the endgame must deny Iran the capacity to swiftly break out a bomb before it can be stopped. Yet senior Israeli officials ask: if the pressure of sanctions could not get Iran to tackle the endgame now, why would relaxed sanctions produce the desired result in six months?
Israel wants its U.S. and European allies to define and stick to clear goals, to enforce remaining sanctions, and to clarify to Iran the consequences of non-compliance with the interim deal or averting a reasonable comprehensive deal. Israel could encourage additional sanctions in the U.S. Congress conditional on Iran's behavior, while also making clear that its own military option is on the table. Faced with possible additional sanctions and a credible military option, Iran is more likely to concede. Brig.-Gen. (res.) Michael Herzog served as head of the Strategic Planning Division of the IDF and worked with four ministers of defense as senior military aide and advisor, and chief of staff.[/FONT][/FONT]
Iranian enrichment has been accepted as part of the endgame; the clock in the uranium and plutonium tracks continues to tick, albeit at a slower pace. While putting the brakes on Iran's nuclear program is better than allowing it to accelerate, Tehran is far too close to a critical breakout capacity for this to be an acceptable situation in the long term. Israel's sight is therefore fixed on the endgame.
For Israel, the endgame must deny Iran the capacity to swiftly break out a bomb before it can be stopped. Yet senior Israeli officials ask: if the pressure of sanctions could not get Iran to tackle the endgame now, why would relaxed sanctions produce the desired result in six months?
Israel wants its U.S. and European allies to define and stick to clear goals, to enforce remaining sanctions, and to clarify to Iran the consequences of non-compliance with the interim deal or averting a reasonable comprehensive deal. Israel could encourage additional sanctions in the U.S. Congress conditional on Iran's behavior, while also making clear that its own military option is on the table. Faced with possible additional sanctions and a credible military option, Iran is more likely to concede. Brig.-Gen. (res.) Michael Herzog served as head of the Strategic Planning Division of the IDF and worked with four ministers of defense as senior military aide and advisor, and chief of staff.[/FONT][/FONT]
Six Reasons to Worry About the Iranian Nuclear Deal - Jeffrey Goldberg (Bloomberg)
The nuclear agreement with Iran isn't done. Nothing was actually signed. The deal is not, as of this moment, operational. This means the Iranians are going about their business as if they've promised nothing.
Momentum for sanctions is waning. Many nations, many companies and the Iranians themselves are seeing this agreement as the beginning of the end of the sanctions regime.
The document agreed upon in Geneva promises Iran an eventual exit from nuclear monitoring. The final deal, the document states, will "have a specified long-term duration to be agreed upon." From what I'm told, the U.S. hopes this agreement would last 15 years; the Iranians hope to escape this burden in five. After the agreement loses its legal force, Iran could run as many centrifuges as it chooses.
The text of the interim agreement states that the permanent deal will "involve a mutually defined enrichment program with mutually agreed parameters." Essentially, the U.S. has already conceded that Iran is going to end up with the right to enrich.
There is no promise by Iran in this interim deal to abstain from pursuing work on ballistic missiles or on weaponization. Iran is free to do whatever it pleases on missiles and warhead development.
The Iranians are so close to reaching the nuclear threshold anyway - defined as the ability to make a dash to a bomb within one or two months - that freezing in place much of the nuclear program seems increasingly futile.
The nuclear agreement with Iran isn't done. Nothing was actually signed. The deal is not, as of this moment, operational. This means the Iranians are going about their business as if they've promised nothing.
Momentum for sanctions is waning. Many nations, many companies and the Iranians themselves are seeing this agreement as the beginning of the end of the sanctions regime.
The document agreed upon in Geneva promises Iran an eventual exit from nuclear monitoring. The final deal, the document states, will "have a specified long-term duration to be agreed upon." From what I'm told, the U.S. hopes this agreement would last 15 years; the Iranians hope to escape this burden in five. After the agreement loses its legal force, Iran could run as many centrifuges as it chooses.
The text of the interim agreement states that the permanent deal will "involve a mutually defined enrichment program with mutually agreed parameters." Essentially, the U.S. has already conceded that Iran is going to end up with the right to enrich.
There is no promise by Iran in this interim deal to abstain from pursuing work on ballistic missiles or on weaponization. Iran is free to do whatever it pleases on missiles and warhead development.
The Iranians are so close to reaching the nuclear threshold anyway - defined as the ability to make a dash to a bomb within one or two months - that freezing in place much of the nuclear program seems increasingly futile.
Sanctions did not bring Iran to its knees.
The war in Syria busted Iran. Iran like so many countries in the West found out how war busts you financially. It was the endless bottomless flow of money to support Syria that was the end game financially for Iran. They were still selling oil despite sanctions, notably to India. But their Syria support bled them.
Now Iran has the money it needs to support Syria financially, to afford to keep sending weapons and ammunition, to support the astronomical costs of thousands of Hezbollah fighting ion Syria. And to finance the supply of military hardware flowing through the tunnels into Gaza and the continuing fortification of Southern Lebanon.
The war in Syria busted Iran. Iran like so many countries in the West found out how war busts you financially. It was the endless bottomless flow of money to support Syria that was the end game financially for Iran. They were still selling oil despite sanctions, notably to India. But their Syria support bled them.
Now Iran has the money it needs to support Syria financially, to afford to keep sending weapons and ammunition, to support the astronomical costs of thousands of Hezbollah fighting ion Syria. And to finance the supply of military hardware flowing through the tunnels into Gaza and the continuing fortification of Southern Lebanon.
are you saying Iran beat Obama like a drum?
is that really news worthy?
at least we be talkin 2 r end-a-mes, just because they have mo money now to continie to wage war and they have the freedom to pursue nuclear ambitions don't be overcoming that talkin shit stuff
First of all I must say something to those who have written to my wife or myself in these last weeks to tell us of their gratitude for my efforts and to assure us of their prayers for my success. Most of these letters have come from women -- mothers or sisters of our own countrymen. But there are countless others besides -- from France, from Belgium, from Italy, even from Germany, and it has been heartbreaking to read of the growing anxiety they reveal and their intense relief when they thought, too soon, that the danger of war was past.
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Neville Chamberlin boasting about his successful appeasement of Hitler
love them there women and children references, liberals doing the same ole shit 74 years later
and as usual, somebody else will have to come in and clean up the mess they make
http://www.historyguide.org/europe/munich.html
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Neville Chamberlin boasting about his successful appeasement of Hitler
love them there women and children references, liberals doing the same ole shit 74 years later
and as usual, somebody else will have to come in and clean up the mess they make
http://www.historyguide.org/europe/munich.html
We should seek by all means in our power to avoid war, by analysing possible causes, by trying to remove them, by discussion in a spirit of collaboration and good will. I cannot believe that such a programme would be rejected by the people of this country, even if it does mean the establishment of personal contact with the dictators.
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how did that work out for youse Mr Chamberlin?
PS: didn't it ever work in the history of the world?
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how did that work out for youse Mr Chamberlin?
PS: didn't it ever work in the history of the world?
My good friends, this is the second time in our history that there has come back from Germany to Downing Street peace with honour. I believe it is peace for our time. We thank you from the bottom of our hearts. And now I recommend you to go home and sleep quietly in your beds
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man, this Chamberlin dude has some real doozies
and libtards would call Churchill crazy
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man, this Chamberlin dude has some real doozies
and libtards would call Churchill crazy
speaking of Sir Winston, I just love the man's style
An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last
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An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last
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[FONT=verdana, sans-serif][FONT=verdana, sans-serif]U.S., Allies Reach Out to Syria's Islamist Rebels[/FONT][/FONT][FONT=verdana, sans-serif][FONT=verdana, sans-serif] - Stacy Meichtry, Ellen Knickmeyer and Adam Entous
The U.S. and its allies have held direct talks with key Islamist militias in Syria, Western officials say, aiming to undercut al-Qaeda while acknowledging that religious fighters long shunned by Washington have gained on the battlefield. At the same time, Saudi Arabia is moving to directly arm and fund one of the Islamist groups, Jaish al-Islam, the Army of Islam.
The Saudis and the West are pivoting toward a newly created coalition of religious militias called the Islamic Front, which excludes the main al-Qaeda-linked groups fighting in Syria - the Nusra Front and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham (ISIS).
The shift reveals the West's failure to unite Syria's rebels under the banner of a secular opposition force capable of toppling the Assad regime. The critical difference between the two camps of Islamists is that al-Qaeda's avowed enemies include not just Assad, but the West and its allies, including the Saudi monarchy. (Wall Street Journal)[/FONT][/FONT][FONT=verdana, sans-serif][FONT=verdana, sans-serif][/FONT][/FONT]
The U.S. and its allies have held direct talks with key Islamist militias in Syria, Western officials say, aiming to undercut al-Qaeda while acknowledging that religious fighters long shunned by Washington have gained on the battlefield. At the same time, Saudi Arabia is moving to directly arm and fund one of the Islamist groups, Jaish al-Islam, the Army of Islam.
The Saudis and the West are pivoting toward a newly created coalition of religious militias called the Islamic Front, which excludes the main al-Qaeda-linked groups fighting in Syria - the Nusra Front and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham (ISIS).
The shift reveals the West's failure to unite Syria's rebels under the banner of a secular opposition force capable of toppling the Assad regime. The critical difference between the two camps of Islamists is that al-Qaeda's avowed enemies include not just Assad, but the West and its allies, including the Saudi monarchy. (Wall Street Journal)[/FONT][/FONT][FONT=verdana, sans-serif][FONT=verdana, sans-serif][/FONT][/FONT]
