Delay, Delay, Delay, Let Iran Play Today!
January 31, 2006
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The five permanent members of the Un ite
d Nations Security Council have agreed to refer Iran to the Security Council because of breaking the seals and starting to produce elements that could be used to make a nuclear weapon.
The following usurps were extracted from an Associated Press article in the Jerusalem Post, which follows.
I suspect that Russia and China went along with it to allow Iran to keep up its drive to develop a nuclear bomb.
It will be months before all the haggling, debating, negotiating, and stalling is finished on how severe or light the sanctions should be against Iran. And I will almost guarantee that China and Russia would veto any severe sanctions that would diminish their lucrative weapons, building,
and oil contracts they already have with Iran. Iran has been conducting one of the best delaying cons I have ever observed in the Middle East.
Now Iran will have China and Russia helping them in their delaying game with the Western powers.
While all this negotiating, maneuvering, and jockeying for pos ition is gaining time for Iran,
it should keep Israel or the United States from attacking their nuclear facilities, which is probably another reason the Chinese and Russians agreed to refer it to the United Nations.
BEGIN USURPS EXTRACTED FROM JERUSALEM POST
Permanent Members Agree to Refer Iran to Security Council
Associated Press, THE JERUSALEM POST
January 31, 2006
The five permanent members of the UN Security Council reached a surprising agreement Tuesday that Iran should be hauled before that powerful body over its disputed nuclear program.
China and Russia, longtime allies and trading partners of Iran, signed on to a statement that calls on the UN nuclear watchdog to transfer the Iran dossier to the Security Council, which could impose sanctions or take other harsh action.
Foreign ministers from those nations, plus the United States, Britain and France, also said the Security Council should wait until March to take up the Iran case, after a formal report on Tehran’s activities from the watchdog agency.
Foreign ministers from Germany and the European Union also attended
the dinner and agreed to what amounted
to a compromise – take the case to the Security Council but allow a short breather before the council undertakes what could be a divisive debate.
Any of the five permanent members of the Security Council, all nuclear powers themselves, can veto an action voted by the full council membership.
It is still not clear how Russia and China would vote if the questions of sanctions came before the Security Council.
It is also not clear that the United States will win the broad international consensus it seeks when the IAEA votes.
The IAEA “will report on the situation in Iran and the way the Iranian authorities are not cooperating with the international agency,” said a French government official, speaking on the customary condition of anonymity.
He said the Russian and Chinese ministers had initially been reluctant to agree to refer Iran to the Security Council, but were persuaded of the need for the council members to show a united front.
END USURPS EXTRACTED FROM JERUSALEM POST
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