Iran Nuclear Watch: P-5-Plus-1 Ministers Send Iran Back to United Nations Security Council Over Nuclear Flap

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, right, waves to the participants, as he arrives for a meeting of foreign ministers of Iraq’s neighbours, plus Egypt and Bahrain as Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki, left, accompanied him, in Tehran, on Saturday July 8, 2006.

AP: Nations sending Iran to Security Council

World powers agreed Wednesday to send Iran back to the United Nations Security Council for possible punishment, saying the clerical regime has given no sign it means to negotiate seriously over its disputed nuclear program.

The United States and other permanent members of the powerful U.N. body said Iran has had long enough to say whether it will meet the world’s terms to open bargaining that would give Tehran economic and energy incentives in exchange for giving up suspicious activities.

“The Iranians have given no indication at all that they are ready to engage seriously on the substance of our proposals,” French Foreign Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy said on behalf the United States, France, Britain, Russia and China, the five permanent Security Council members, plus Germany and the European Union.

And did the West REALLY think Iran was going to accept the proposal?

Perhaps, but NOT the United States.

Remember, it will be the United States and Israel who will have to stop Iran’s nuclear program – when a “point of no return” is reached.

Expressing “profound disappointment,” the ministers said, “we have no choice but to return to the United Nations Security Council” and resume a course of possible punishment or coercion that the powers had set aside in hopes of reaching a deal.

Any real punishment or coercion at the Security Council is a long way off, but the group said it will seek an initial resolution requiring Iran to suspend its uranium enrichment. Debate could begin as soon as next week.

Don’t look for any quick United Nations Security Council action.

Next – Iran’s bloviations……

Captain Ed has Iranian Nuclear Crisis To Go To Security Council

Will the UNSC do anything about the situation? China and Russia have acted as obstacles to any resolution in the past, but today they joined the rest of the powers in the announcement. We can still expect them to resist the application of sanctions on Iran, but at least the stall has failed. The US and the EU have done what they can to placate Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the mullahcracy, and their silence shows that their intent has been to stall long enough to attempt to split what consensus exists at the UN.

Iran failed at that mission. Instead, their obstinacy has provided a moment of rare unity, and Iran may find that Russia and China will not provide the kind of political cover on which they rely.

Flap would never count on China and Russia to do the right thing with regards to Iran’s nuclear program.Â There are too many business interconnections between cash starved Russia, oil starved China and the nuclear fanatical Mullahs.

Ultimately, the United Nations will do nothing to stop Iran.

The United States and Israel will have to go it alone…….
Stay tuned……