Ahmadinejad is dancing rings around Obama and West,
Round 147 begins in a talk Battle between Iran and the West,
The Bell has now sounded by the Talking Heads of President Obama,
Expect Announcements of ringside propaganda when POLITICALLY Needed,
DIPLOMATIC DIALOG Off Again, On Again, Stop Again, Delay Again, Stalled AGAIN!
October 7, 2009
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Begin Series of Excerpts from Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs/Daily Alert
October 6, 2009
Begin Excerpt 1 from Financial Times – UK
Anger in UK as Iran Holds Up IAEA Inspectors’ Visit
James Blitz and Daniel Dombey
Britain on Monday expressed irritation that the International Atomic Energy Agency was being forced to wait three weeks before being given access to Iran’s hitherto secret enrichment plant, amid fears that the delay could allow Tehran to cover up possible evidence of military links to its nuclear program.
(Financial Times-UK)
Begin Excerpt 2 from Times – UK
Tehran Spins It All to Its Advantage Against the West
Bronwen Maddox
Iran has again proved world-class at spinning the West’s red lines and deadlines into more months in which to move its nuclear work forward.
“This is an ongoing contest and we’re in round, oh, about 147 in an open-ended bout,” said Anthony Cordesman of the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington. “We honestly need to understand that these technologies are being disseminated to the point that a country wanting to have a breakout capability [can do so] or can create a structure so confusing we can’t tell if it’s complying or not.” The West has a promise without numbers. Tehran has a few solid more months to spin its uranium centrifuges. (Times-UK)
Begin Excerpt 3 from Washington Times
Iran’s Brilliant Chessmanship
Kaveh L.
Afrasiabi
On the surface, President Obama seized on the disclosure about a second uranium-enrichment plant in Qom to mount new pressure on Iran. Yet the disclosure about the “hidden site” provides leverage for Iran.
It shows that it is now harder for the military option to achieve its objectives and that Iran can just as easily construct multiple similar sites. Furthermore, Iran’s move has channeled focus to the transparency issue instead of
the tougher subject of outright suspension
of enrichment.
Of course, none of Iran’s maneuvers may save it from the wrath of tougher sanctions in case the talks fail.
But for now, Tehran relishes the fact that it has upstaged its rival diplomatically through a brilliant move that has advanced its chess pieces in the pretalk game. The writer is a former adviser to Iran’s nuclear negotiation team (2004-05). (Washington Times)
Begin Excerpt 4 from Telegraph – UK
Ahmadinejad Is Running Rings around the West
Con Coughlin
Rather than facing the wrath of a UN Security Council that claims it is determined to call a halt to Iran’ s illicit nuclear program, Ahmadinejad ha
s bought Iran more time, without making any serious nuclear concessions.
During the six years that Iran has been negotiating with the West over its nuclear program, it has taken the politics of procrastination to an entirely new level. Keep the talks going, and keep those centrifuges spinning. From the outset of the West’s attempts to negotiate a nuclear deal with Iran, the Iranians have promised much and delivered little.
They have repeatedly promised to freeze their enrichment activities at Natanz, only to resume enrichment once they realized there was nothing the West could do to stop them. (Telegraph-UK)
Begin Excerpt 5 from Foreign Policy
Missile Defenses: The Other Ticking Clock in Iran
Christian Caryl
In addition to uranium enrichment, there’s another ticking clock the Israelis are worried about that hasn’t been in the headlines quite so much.
For years, Tehran has been working hard to acquire Russian S-300 antiaircraft missiles, essentially the Russian equivalent of the American Patriot. Although never tested under combat conditions, military experts have a high opinion of its capabilities – especially more recent variants like the PMU-2 Favorit (the SA-20B), which can track 100 targets while engaging up to 12, and hit targets 120 miles away. Russia first offered the Iranians the S-300 in 2005, but then pulled back due to diplomatic controversies surrounding Iran’s nuclear programs.
In 2007, Tehran signed a contract to buy several S-300 batteries. In April 2009, Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Mehdi Safari visited Moscow to push things along and declared, “There are no problems with this contract.” Yet so far none of the systems have been delivered to the Iranians.
(Foreign Policy)
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