LGF has the text and video of an interview that aired August 4 on Iranian TV in which Iran’s chief nuclear negotiator Hosein Musavian explains how re-entering nuclear negotiations was meant to buy Iran time to finish building the Esfahan nuclear processing facility. An excerpt (via MEMRI TV):
[…] Thanks to our dealings with Europe, even when we got a 50-day ultimatum, we managed to continue the work for two years. This way we completed (the UCF) in Esfahan. This way we carried out the work to complete Natanz, and on top of that, we even gained benefits. For 10 years, America prevented Iran from joining the WTO. This obstacle was removed, and Iran began talks in order to join the WTO. In the past, the world did not accept Iran as a member of the group of countries with a nuclear fuel cycle. In these two years, and thanks to the Paris Agreement, we entered the international game of the nuclear fuel cycle, and Iran was recognized as one of the countries with a nuclear fuel cycle. An Iranian delegate even participated in the relevant talks. We gained other benefits during these two years as well.
One can only hope that—even as the IAEA, the US, and the European diplomatic mission all continue to piss away precious time—the Israelis are acquainting themselves with our bunker busting techology in preparation for what the whole civilized world understands needs to happen…
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(video available here)
This deserves a repost
Oh Protein Wisdom is you who are doing the confusing to obscure the fact that you are a liar and a cheap hate-peddling scumbag. I can only say that because I have caught you out on the sequence of events with your pant around your ankles. This is your comment on the 9th:
And this is Gandhi’s RESPONSE to you. Note the time. Also note how it makes more logical sense this way:
How shameful for you Jeff – caught out on your own blog!
OK – I have had my say – there is nothing much you can say Jeff – I don’t imagine you admitting your dishonesty so CYA – it’s been a peach.
Jeff, the short bus is double-parked at your site.
But back to the post… this is the sort of brinkmanship I can do without. And I will have to add to my restraint the next time someone says “give megotiations more time.”
Yeah, let’s get back to the post in a sec, but first let me do a repost of my own (from the thread where this conversation is taking place)
Hubris:
Mojo
Me:
At the time I wrote that, by the way, I had no idea he’d go and embarrass himself in yet another of my threads.
High comedy. Painful high comedy, the carbonated beverage literally came out my nose.
Put your pants back on, Jeff. you’re scaring the children.
Like a friggin’ donkey, baby!
Oh God, it’s like cancer.
And as I recall, the Israeli’s aren’t afraid to opt for the preemptive strike either, as they did in 88? 89? to Iraq I believe it was. Anyways, the Israelis are also a nuclear nation, so I’m sure as soon as they catch wind of impending threats, they won’t hesitate to fire a couple cruise missles or worse in Iran’s direction.
You know, I keep wondering when groups like the IAEA and the MSM will realize how crappy they’ve been treated by the Irans and the NARALs of the world and get kind of pissed off at what what contempt those organizations show to their enablers.
A hint, guys: Those organizations do not care about you, only what they can get out of you. They will lie to you if it suits their purpose. You would (rightly) resist if a right-wing and/or American group did that to you. Grow some fucking spines already.
First off, let me be clear in stating that the deepest desire in my heart will be fulfilled when the mullahs’ naked and scared bodies are publically hanging from the traffic lights in downtown Tehran.
However, I don’t think that Israel or the United States have a viable military option at this point. The Iranians have not only moved pieces of their nuclear bunkers underground, they have spread them out over the country (in some places even placing them below soft targets such as hospitals and schools).
Not having any access to the intelligence, I have no idea just how crippling bunker military strikes would be to their nuclear capabilities, but I do know that the nuclear pursuit is popular even among those that oppose the Islamic theocracy. We also run the risk of “missing” and the political fallout of even successful strikes is going to be a major headache to deal with.
I think American energy should be more focused on figuring out ways to help overthrow the regime, versus curtailing their nuclear program.
In any case, time is very, VERY short and none of our options at this point are very good.
Jeff – I wouldn’t be relying on the time/date-stamp any more, as it seems that Blogger commenting will roll-over the 24hrs and not incriment the day, which is meaningless for sequencing events:
If you are correct in your relating of the sequence of events, I will apologise. If not I will happily hammer you. We are going have to ask Ganhdi :smile: himself
I have no idea what you are talking about. Seriously. It’s like you’re learning-impaired or something. We are in different time zones, and we set our clocks based on local times. I told you the sequence of events as they actually transpired. I never commented on his blog until he first commented here. He came over from a link I made to his site. At which time he commented. At which time I answered him in the thread to which he posted his comment. Following which, I returned the favor and commented on his site.
That is the actual sequence of events. There is no debate. End of conversation.
Wadard, whatever you are drinking, I’ll trade you some Bombay Sapphire for it!
Man, I am making soooo much money off this Troll Food Dispenser I installed here.