The game by Iran isn’t a shell game, it’s a master stall Game,
The Glick Five Group Should DO Well On A Musical Tour In Iran,
SINGING: “FIRST You Say You Won’t AND THEN You Say You Will,”
Iranian officials have tuned their government to practice the Song,
So it became a Hallmark Song of their dealing with Western Nations.
Nobel Peace Prize Winners Obama & ElBaradei aid Iran’s STALL Game!
November 7, 2009
http://www.tribulationpweriod.com/
It would be nice if all men and women always told the truth, then there would not be any need for an oath, because all yes’s would be yes, and all no’s would be no. The essence of Diplomatic Dialog today is so encased in hypocrisy it is now based on one saying yes when he or she really means no!
James 5:12 – But above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by heaven, neither by the earth, neither by any other oath: but let your yea be yea; and your nay, nay; lest ye fall into condemnation.
I first prepared this Blog in October but, knowing the Iranian expertise in stalling, I decided to hold it for a while until their actions validated my case, and indeed they have done so. If you have kept up with their stalling tactics as long as I have, you know they are quite predictable in their mode of operation. The first Excerpt from the Jerusalem Post of November 7 is the latest application of stalling.
The others following it show their October stalling tactics.
Begin Excerpt 1 from Jerusalem Post
Iran MPs: ‘Shipment of uranium abroad out of the question’
November 7, 2009
AP and jpost.com staff , THE JERUSALEM POST
Senior Iranian lawmakers rejected on Saturday any possibility of Teheran shipping uranium abroad for further enrichment, intensifying pressures on the government to reject the UN-backed plan altogether.
Prominent conservative lawmaker Alaeddin Boroujerdi said Iran will not ship its low enriched uranium abroad in a single batch or in several shipments, a compromise suggested by some government officials, under any circumstances.
“Nothing will be given of the 1,200 kilograms (of low enriched uranium) … to the other side in exchange for 20 percent enriched fuel, not in one batch nor in several. It is out of question,” the semiofficial ISNA news agency quoted Boroujerdi as saying Saturday.
The UN-brokered plan required Iran to send 1.2 tons (1,100 kilograms) of low -enriched uranium
– around 70 percent of its stockpile – to Russia in one batch by the end of the year, easing concerns the material would be used for a bomb.
After further enrichment in Russia, France would convert the uranium into fuel rods that would be returned to Iran for use in a reactor in Teheran that produces medical isotopes. Fuel rods cannot be further enriched into weapons-grade material.
Boroujerdi added that Iran’s ambassador to the UN nuclear watchdog, Ali Asghar Soltanieh, was currently “in talks to find an approach for the issue.”
Earlier, Iran had indicated that it may agree to send only “part” of its stockpile in several shipments. Should the talks fail to help Iran obtain the fuel from abroad, Iran has threatened to enrich uranium to the higher level needed to power the research reactor itself domestically.
The Teheran research reactor needs uranium enriched to about 20 percent, higher than the 3.5 percent-enriched uranium Iran is producing for a nuclear power plant it plans to build in southwestern Iran. Enriching uranium to even higher levels can produce weapons-grade materials.
The United States and its allies are unlikely to accept anything substantially less than the original plan, which aimed to delay Iran’s potential ability of making nuclear weapons by at least a year by divesting Iran of most of its enriched uranium and returning it as research reactor fuel.
On Saturday, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev signaled that Moscow could back sanctions against Iran if it fails to take a constructive stance in international talks over its nuclear program.
He told the German magazine Der Spiegel that it would be better to avoid sanctions, but they cannnot be excluded if there is no progress in the talks.
If 70 percent of Iran’s uranium is exported in one shipment – or at the most two shipments in quick succession – Teheran would need about a year to produce enough uranium to again have the stockpile it needs for a weapon.
While the Iranian government is still considering the UN plan, the hardening posture of Iranian lawmakers has raised strong doubts that Teheran will approve the deal.
Another conservative lawmaker, Hossein Naqvi Hosseini, said Iran had three options to procure fuel for its reactor; to buy the fuel from other countries; to accept the UN-brokered plan; or to enrich uranium to a higher level domestically and produce the required fuel itself.
“The countries proposing … are not trusted by the Islamic Republic of Iran because they didn’t carry out their obligations to us in the past. Therefore, the second option is out of question,” ISNA quoted Hosseini as saying.
“Exchange of uranium in return for fuel is out of question,” another conservative lawmaker Ali Aghazadeh was quoted by ISNA as saying.
“We have reached this point ourselves and we need to continue the path ourselves. It is their (US and its allies) obligations to give us fuel. If they fail to do so, we will supply it ourselves.”
Iran has not formally rejected the UN-backed plan outright and Boroujerdi says the Supreme National Security Council, the country’s top security decision-making body, is deliberating over the proposed deal.
Iran has officially asked for more talks on the issue and some hard-liners say they should receive the nuclear fuel first before shipping out the enriched uranium stocks.
Excerpt 2 from DEBKAfile Special Report
UN team unwelcome in Tehran, Mottaki whittles down overseas enrichment plan
DEBKAfile Special Report
October 26, 2009, 5:48 PM (GMT+02:00)
Senior Iranian MP Alaeddin Boroujerd said Monday afternoon, Oct.
26 that the UN inspectors had carried out their mission to visit a newly-disclosed uranium enrichment plant and may leave Iran later in the day. DEBKAfile’s Iranian sources report that the nuclear watchdog team were supposed to have paid a second visit to the Fordu plant near Qom in the next two days
after their first trip on Sunday. So either the Iranians cut the inspectors’ mission short or they were denied access to the suspected facility and aborted.
Earlier, as world powers waited on tenterhooks for Tehran’s reply to the IAEA director Mohamed ElBaradei’s overseas enrichment proposal, Iran’s foreign minister Manouchehr Mottaki came up with a new offer: “There are two options on the table… either to buy it or give part of our fuel for further processing abroad.”
He said a final Iranian reply would come within days.
DEBKAfile’s Iranian sources report: The idea Mottaki threw out was aimed at seeing how far the Islamic Republic could whittle down the original proposal to send 75 percent of its low-enriched uranium to Russia and France
for conversion into unweaponizable fuel for a research reactor, without giving up its “inalienable right” to enrich its own nuclear material.
Iran was let off the hook of the Friday Oct. 23 deadline for its reply, although the US, France, Russia approved the deal on time. Mottaki took up the slack to try and push the powers and ElBaradei a bit further into accepting the reduction of overseas shipments and licensing Iran to import some more, a suggestion not included in the Elbaradei plan because it would violate UN Security Council Resolutions. In this way, Tehran hoped to let go of only a (negotiable) part of its enriched uranium – and so invalidate President Barack Obama’s plan to lose control of most of the enriched uranium it held in stock that could be used for making a nuclear device.
This new Iranian proposal boils down to a deal to break that stock down into consignments of, say, 100-200 kgs, each to be posted overseas over a period of months or even years.
This was confirmed by MP Boroujerd, the head of parliament’s foreign policy commission, who said: “Because the West has repeatedly violated agreements in the past, Iran should send its low enriched uranium abroad for further processing gradually and in several phases and necessary guarantees should be taken.”
He said this to Iran’s Arabic language al Alam television Monday.
Since Iran is known to produce 3,175 kgs of enriched uranium a day at its overt plant in Natanz, it would need 77 days to produce the 200 kg taken out
of stock for shipping to Russia and France. This is the quantity Tehran proposes to purchase to keep its stock level, refusing under any circumstances to be deprived of a sufficiency of material for producing a nuclear weapon.
Tehran will accept the world powers-IAEA deal only if it can be finagled to meet this fundamental principle – a process Mottaki has kicked off.
How far are the US, Russia and France coordinated on standing up to Tehran’s dickering? Speaking after the Iranian foreign minister, a senior Russian official Sergei Ryabkov urged the exercise of patience with the Islamic Republic: “We should not give the impression that everything has stayed as it was.
On the contrary, we need to give the Iranians positive stimuli.”
Excerpt 3 from DEBKAfile Special Report
ElBaradei whitewashes Iran’s negative response to overseas enrichment
DEBKAfile Special Report (3 days after Excerpt 1)
October 29, 2009, 7:37 PM (GMT+02:00)
Iran’s ambassador to the IAEA, Ali Asghar Soltanieh, Thursday, Oct. 29, submitted Iran’s reply to the IAEA proposal endorsed by world powers providing for Iran to send three-quarters of its low-enriched uranium to Russia and France for conversion into nuclear fuel. Its contents were not released by Tehran or the IAEA director Mohamed ElBaradei. Five hours after he received it, ElBaradei produced a formula for airbrushing its negative content: “Iran has provided an ‘initial response’ to a planned international nuclear fuel deal. More consultations were needed.
The Director General is engaged in consultations with the government of Iran as well as all relevant parties, with the hope that agreement on his proposal can be reached soon.”
IAEA director clearly handed Tehran a lifeline by withholding the contents of its response pending further “consultations” – a process Tehran is adept at spinning out forever. He thus helped Iran duck out of the Friday, Oct. 23 for submitting its answer – not once but twice.
DEBKAfile reports that Iran’s reply amounts to one yes and two nos.
The Iranian media reported that Iran would only agree to transfer its enriched uranium overseas in small batches over a period of time. These installments must be replaced by purchases of highly-enriched uranium.
This stratagem would defeat the entire purpose of the deal which is to reduce Iran’s stocks of enriched uranium and delay its progress toward a nuclear weapon.
According to DEBKAfile’s sources, instead of sending three-quarters of its enriched uranium overseas, Tehran is not prepared to ship more than 10 percent in each installment and have it replaced, which means at any given moment, Iran would remain with enough enriched uranium to build a nuclear weapon.
While Mahmoud Ahmadinejad earlier Thursday said his country was “ready to cooperate” with Western powers on a UN-brokered nuclear fuel deal, he stressed it would not give up an iota of its “nuclear rights.” He meant what he said.
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