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Aug 24 2006

Iran Nuclear Watch: P-5-Plus-1 – Will Likely Reject Tehran’s Terms for Talks

Posted by Flap in Iran Nuclear Watch

An Iranian worker lifts a barrel of ‘yellow cake’ to feed it into the processing line of Uranium Conversion Facility (UCF) in Isfahan, about 420 km (261 miles) south of Tehran, August 8, 2005. The United States said on Wednesday that Iran’s request for talks fell short of the U.N. Security Council’s demand for it to halt its nuclear program.

AP: Envoys: Iran terms likely to be rejected

The six world powers studying Iran’s response to their offer of nuclear negotiations will likely reject Tehran’s terms for talks because they do not even touch on the possibility of freezing uranium enrichment, diplomats said Thursday.

The diplomats, who have been briefed on aspects of the Iranian overture, told The Associated Press that the 25-page response from Tehran does not even suggest an enrichment moratorium even once negotiations start beyond vague references to a willingness to discuss all aspects of the country’s nuclear program. The diplomats, who spoke from two European capitals, asked for anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the confidential Iranian proposal.

The P-5-Plus-1 will reject Iran’s counter-proposal, then what?

NOTHING

The United States should disengaged itself from any more discussions of Iran’s covert nuclear weapons program and bolster up its deterrent capabilities of its military.

Negotiations and engagement with Iran have been a success ONLY in that it has provided a small degree of diplomatic cover for the United States and demonstrated the fecklessness of the United Nations and the Europeans. Besides diplomatic cover the negotiations have been WORTHLESS to American foreign policy interests.

When the “POINT OF NO RETURN” is reached then the United States will have to make the call to launch a war against the Islamic Republic or Iran or not.

A NEW IRANIAN COLD WAR has begun……

Stay tuned…..

Iran Nuclear Watch: Iran to Announce Nuclear â€œBreakthroughâ€

Iran Nuclear Watch: Showdown at United Nations Next Week?

Iran Nuclear Watch: Carrot and Stick?

Iran Nuclear Watch: Iran Responds to the P-5-Plus-1

Michael Ramirez on Nuclear Iran and the United Nations

Iran Nuclear Watch: Iran President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad – â€œThe Iranian People Will Make You Bow and Surrenderâ€

Iran Nuclear Watch: Iran Blocks United Nations Nuclear Inspections

Iran Nuclear Watch: Ayatollah Ali Khamenei – Iran Will Continue Nuclear Program

Iran Nuclear Watch: Iran Says It Will NOT Halt Uranium Enrichment

Iran Nuclear Watch: Iran Military Exercises to Test Asymmetrical Warfare Combat Doctrine

Iran Nuclear Watch: Iran Information Blackout – Police Destroying Satellite Dishes in Tehran

Iran Nuclear Watch: United States Ready to Impose United Nations Sanctions on Iran Over Uranium Enrichment

Iran Nuclear Watch: Iran Ready to Discuss Suspension of Uranium Enrichment?

Iran Nuclear Watch: Iran Cleric Ahmad Khatami Warns Israel of Missile Attack

Iran Nuclear Watch: Iran Rejects â€œILLEGAL International Obligationsâ€ of the United Nations Security Council

The Iran Nuclear Files

The Natanz uranium enrichment complex in Natanz is pictured in this January 2, 2006 satellite image.

Technorati Tags: Iran, Ahmadinejad

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Aug 24 2006

Israel at War Watch: Syria Opposes UNIFIL Force Along Its Border

Posted by Flap in Israel, United Nations

AP: Syria opposes U.N. forces on its border

Syria on Wednesday opposed deployment of an international force along its border to prevent arms shipments to Hezbollah, and Israel called the situation in Lebanon “explosive.” A cease-fire was further shaken by artillery shells and explosions that killed three Lebanese soldiers and an Israeli.

Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Saniora asked the U.S. to help lift an Israeli blockade on his country’s coast and airport â€” something Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said would not happen until U.N. troops deployed along the Lebanon-Syria border to block the flow of weapons. Hezbollah’s vast arsenal of rockets and other weapons, much of which is believed to originate in Iran, reaches the guerrillas across the Syrian border.

What cease-fire?

United Nations Security Council Resolution 1701 is a JOKE. Hezbollah is NOT dearmed. Hezbollah is rearming and now Syria is refusing any international UNIFIL force to patrol its borders to prevent in-bound arms to Hezbollah.

An Israeli girl walks next to a metal cut-out statue of a firing soldier, left, in an army post from the 1967 war at Mt. Bental in the Golan Heights, overlooking Syria, Monday, Aug. 21, 2006. Speaking hours after an Israeli Cabinet minister called for renewal of negotiations with Syria and said Israel should give back the Golan Heights in exchange for peace, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Monday ruled out a resumption of peace talks at this time, denouncing Damascus as the ‘single most aggressive member of the axis of evil.’ Israel accuses Syria, along with Iran, of arming and supporting Lebanese Hezbollah guerrillas who fired nearly 4,000 rockets at Israel in the 34-day war that ended last week.

This is a LULL in the war against Hezbollah. Israel will have an opportunity to rearm and re-equip the IDF to better combat the asymmetric warfare and Iranian anti-tank missiles of Hezbollah.

European Union ambassadors and deputies met in Brussels, Belgium, to drum up volunteers for the force, but tentative pledges reached just 4,200 troops by Wednesday â€” far short of the 15,000 called for by the U.N. cease-fire resolution. Deployment was likely take weeks or months.

Meanwhile, Syria indicated it might impose a blockade of its own.

“They will close their borders for all traffic in the event that U.N. troops are deployed along the Lebanon-Syria border,” Finland’s foreign minister Erkki Tuomioja said after meeting his Syrian counterpart, Walid Moallem, in Helsinki. Finland holds the rotating presidency of the European Union.

This cease-fire will NOT last much longer before full time hostilities resume.

Stay tuned…..

Israel at War Watch: Iran and Syria Ready to Re-Arm Hezbollah

Israel at War Watch: UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan Expected To Give UNIFIL Teeth

Israel at War Watch: Israel Preparing for More Fighting?

Cox & Forkum: Disproportionate Response II

Israel at War Watch: Kofi Annan – Israel Raid Violates Cease-Fire

Israel at War Watch: Lebanon Warns Israel After Israeli Raid Against Hezbollah

Israel at War Watch: Lebanese Army Reaches Southern Border with Israel

Israel at War Watch: Lebanese Army Moves Below Latani River

Israel At War Watch: Israel Defense Forces To Withdraw Despite Plans To Leave Hezbollah Armed

Michael Ramirez on Israel-Hezbollah War