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Israel at War Watch: Lebanon Falters Over Cease-Fire
Israeli soldiers carry their injured comrade by the Israel-Lebanon border. Israel launched an 11th hour bid to crush Hezbollah with waves of deadly air strikes and the Shiite fighters unleashed a barrage of rockets, just hours before a UN-brokered ceasefire was due to take effect.
BBC: Lebanon falters over truce detail
Crucial Lebanese cabinet talks on disarming Hezbollah fighters in southern Lebanon under a UN-brokered ceasefire have been put off.
A truce between Israel and Hezbollah is due to come into force at 0500 GMT.
The postponement, amid reported divisions, seriously complicates the establishment of a stable ceasefire, the BBC’s Nick Childs in Beirut says.
Israel’s cabinet has backed the truce, but says its forces will not leave until peacekeepers are deployed.
Mark Malloch Brown, the UN’s Deputy Secretary General, said it might take a month before a joint UN-Lebanese force was fully in place.
Flap guarantees that there will be NO cease-fire at the United Nations deadline.
Lebanon has cowered to the demands of Hezbollah and is not demanding Hezbollah’s disarming.
Lebanon’s cabinet indefinitely postponed its meeting.
After five hours of discussions on Saturday, it had agreed to accept a UN Security Council ceasefire resolution with reservations.
The second gathering was meant to consider the details of implementation.
However, the issue of Hezbollah’s disarmament and its military presence in southern Lebanon continues to cause major tensions within the fragile government, our correspondent reports.
He says that without a meeting and an agreed plan, it seems that the deployment of 15,000 Lebanese army troops to the south is unlikely to go ahead.
Even if the planned ceasefire happens, the prospects of continuing skirmishes on the ground will remain high, he adds.
Hezbollah, a member of the government, says it will abide by the resolution but retains the right to continue attacks until the last Israeli soldier has left Lebanese soil.
Lebanon’s failure to act should be a sign to Israeli Prime Minister to finish the job and disarm Hezbollah. Why accept a cease-fire when only Israel will abide by the United Nations terms?
From Flap’s prespective there is NO cease-fire agreement and Israel should proceed to militarily neutralize and physically disarm Hezbollah.
This cease-fire agreement was bad for Israel and bad for the United States in the Global War on Terror.
Hezbollah was called out and performed as expected.
Will the United Nations try again?
Doubtful……
Cars burn following a rocket attack by Hezbollah militiamen on the northern coastal port of Haifa. Israel launched an 11th hour bid to crush Hezbollah with waves of deadly air strikes and the Shiite fighters unleashed a barrage of rockets, just hours before a UN-brokered ceasefire was due to take effect.
Captain Ed has BBC: Lebanon Refuses To Disarm Hezbollah
As expected, Nasrallah and Siniora have let Israel off the hook — and provided the political cover for further military action against both. If Lebanon refuses to abide by the terms of the cease-fire, expect the UN Security Council to wash its hands of the issue.
Stay tuned for the ceae-fire deadline? in a few hours……
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Israel at War Watch: Israeli Cabinet Approves United Nations Cease-Fire
L-R) Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Transportation Shaul Mofaz, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, an unidentified official and Vice Premier Shimon Peres. Israel will negotiate for the release of two soldiers whose capture by Hezbollah militants on July 12 sparked the Israeli offensive in Lebanon, Livni said.
JPost: Israeli cabinet approves UN cease-fire deal 24-0
The Israeli cabinet approved the UN cease-fire deal after a stormy debate on Sunday, clearing a key hurdle to ending the monthlong Mideast war, the government said.
The 24-0 vote, with one abstention, came a day after the Lebanese government approved the agreement, and Hizbullah leader Hassan Nasrallah gave his grudging consent. The truce was to take effect on Monday morning, but the potential for new flareups remained high.
Former Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz abstained in the vote, said a senior government official.
But, will the cease-fire take effect? Or go forward?
Captain Ed of Captain’s Quarters is reporting that the Lebanon government is about to fall and the Cabinet meeting of Siniora’s government has been abruptly cancelled.
Lebanon’s cabinet was supposed to vote on a plan to deploy 15,000 Lebanon troops to displace Hezbollah. These troops along with 15,000 troops from the United Nations are to comprise the international force charged with enforcing the United Nations’ resolution.
If Lebanon does not fulfill its obligations under the cease-fire, then there is no cease-fire and Israel will have no choice but to proceed with the invasion of southern Lebanon.
Lebanese Red Cross and civil defense rescuers search for survivors under the rubble of a collapsed building, as smoke rises in the background, in the southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday, Aug. 13, 2006, following an Israeli attack. Israeli warplanes pounded south Beirut with at least 20 missiles in a two-minute period Sunday.
A critical Lebanese Cabinet meeting set for Sunday to discuss implementation of the cease-fire between Israel and Hizbullah was postponed, a move that was likely to delay the dispatch of the Lebanese army to the south and an end of the fighting.
A top aide to Prime Minister Fuad Saniora said the meeting had been indefinitely postponed but would give no reason. Published reports said the Cabinet, which approved the cease-fire unanimously Saturday night, had been sharply divided over demands in the cease-fire agreement that Hizbullah surrender its weapons in south Lebanon.
That disagreement was believed to have caused the postponement of the Sunday meeting that was to have taken up the dispatch of some 15,000 troops to the south.
And it doesn’t look like Hezbollah is disarming either with its continuing rocket attacks on northern Israel. Moreover, the delay in Lebanon deploying its troops makes tomorrow’s cease-fire deadline unlikely.
But the Lebanese Cabinet postponed its meeting Sunday to discuss implementing the resolution, a Lebanese government minister said.
The meeting was postponed one to two days, the minister said, at the request of parliamentary speaker Nabih Berri, a key negotiator with Hezbollah.
The postponement will give government officials more time to meet with Hezbollah leadership to discuss details of implementing the U.N. resolution, the Lebanese minister said.
The resolution, approved unanimously by the U.N. Security Council on Friday, calls for boosting the number of U.N. troops in the area from 2,000 to 15,000.
They would be joined by 15,000 Lebanese troops and charged with ensuring Hezbollah could not operate anywhere between the Israeli-Lebanese border and the Litani River.
Remember the resolution requires a “full cessation of hostilities” followed by the deployment of Lebanese forces into southern Lebanon. At the same time, Israel is to withdraw its soldiers from the area.
Without Lebanon’s government authorizing the deployment of 15,000 troops pending the arrival of 13,000 additional United Nations troops to join them, Israel will NOT stop hostilities.
They would be fools otherwise.
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Israel at War Watch: United Nations Security Council Unanimously Adopts Resolution to End Israel-Hezbollah War
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice votes on a resolution during a meeting of the Security Council Friday Aug. 11, 2006 at the United Nations in New York. The resolution calls for an end to the fighting between Israel and Hezbollah, and authorizes the deployment of 15,000 U.N. peacekeepers to help Lebanese troops take control of south Lebanon as Israel withdraws.
AP: Security Council OKs Mideast Peace Deal
The U.N. Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution Friday that calls for an end to the fighting between Israel and Hezbollah, and authorizes the deployment of 15,000 U.N. peacekeepers to help Lebanese troops take control of south Lebanon as Israel withdraws.
The draft, which had been proposed by the United States and France, offers the best chance yet for peace after more than four weeks of significant bloodshed. It was the first significant action by the Security Council, the most powerful U.N. body, to address a war that has killed more than 800 people, destroyed Lebanon’s infrastructure and inflamed tensions across the Middle East.
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert endorsed the resolution late Friday, after a day of dramatic day brinksmanship including a threat to expand the ground war in Lebanon. But Israeli officials said Israel would not halt fighting until Israel’s Cabinet has approved the cease-fire deal in its weekly meeting Sunday.
Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Saniora also assured Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice that his country backed the resolution, a U.S. official said.
Raise the White Flag of Surrender.
Flap can see Sheik Hassan Nazrallah, the leader of of Hezbollah tomorrow crawling out of his bunker and mocking Israel as a toothless paper tiger and declaring victory. A victory that the United States and France helped broker.
This is an unbelievable turn of events.
Omert will lose the Prime Ministership and his government WILL fall within a week.
President Bush and more specifically Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice have lost credibility with American conservatives and have paved the way for GOP electoral disaster in November.
Flap cannot simply fathom this surrender to the Hezbollah.
Yoni the Blogger, a former IDF member cannot believe it either. And what of the troops that have to maintain the peace while under fire as the Israeli cabinet draws out its acceptance of the deal?
Michelle Malkin has Wave the white flag–and Hizballah’s
Israel and the West surrender to Hizballah.
Terrorists and the U.N. win.
Here are the depressing details.
Read Allah, Rick Moran, and Phares for more gloom.
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Israel at War Watch: United Nations Security Council Resolution to End War?
Reuters: Key powers agree deal to end Israel-Hizbollah war
Key U.N. Security Council members have agreed on a resolution to end Israel’s month-old war with Hizbollah and a vote was possible later on Friday, British Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett said.
An Israeli political source said Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was reviewing the draft resolution. Earlier in the day, Israel ordered an expansion of its ground offensive and said it would press ahead with the campaign if it was unhappy with any deal.
Israeli tank forces were preparing for orders to sweep into Lebanon after the wider offensive was approved, Israeli TV said.
“We have an agreed text,” Beckett told reporters, adding she hoped that Israel and Lebanon would abide by it. She said the full Security Council would receive the draft at 1900 GMT.
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice flew to New York in anticipation of a vote on ending the war, in which at least 1,030 people in Lebanon and 123 Israelis have been killed.
In the meantime, Israel is pressing ahead with a wide scale land invasion of Lebanon.
Flap does not trust the United Nations and this had better be a good deal or……
Update #1
The resolution will be under Chapter 6 of the U.N Charter and would include U.N forces with an “enhanced mandate.”
It looks like an appeasement deal to Lebanona and Hezbollah. Flap predicts if Omert and the Israeli government accepts this proposal that Olmert’s government will fall.
LET ISRAEL PROCEED.
Israeli soldiers walk in Lebanon towards the south of Ramiya after they crossed the border in northern Israel, August 11, 2006
Stay tuned…….
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John Bolton Watch: Senator Schumer – Democrat Filibuster Unlikely
The UN Security Council has expressed “extreme shock and distress” at an Israeli air strike that killed 52 people, mostly children, and called for an end to the violence. US ambassador John Bolton, seen here, led opposition to any stronger wording in the Security Council statement during another tough day of negotiations over Lebanon.
New York Sun: Schumer Says Bolton Won’t Face Filibuster
A Democratic filibuster of John Bolton’s nomination as United Nations ambassador is “unlikely,” Senator Schumer said yesterday.
Mr. Schumer supported an effort last year to block Mr. Bolton’s nomination from gaining a full Senate vote, but he confirmed that he is considering changing his position.
New York’s senior senator said he was weighing Mr. Bolton’s backing of Israel against his unwillingness to work with other countries at the United Nations. “There’s a good part of Bolton. He’s been a staunch and very good defender of Israel,” Mr. Schumer said on CNN’s “Late Edition.” “There’s a bad part of Bolton. He seems to have a ‘go it alone’ attitude at a time when we need the nations of the world on our side. We’ve seen that in Iran and North Korea.”
John Bolton has been a good United Nations ambassador. It is doubtful that the Democrats will be able to sustain a filibuster in any case during an election year. The Dems simply do not wish to appear to be obstructionists – especially for a friend of Israel.
So, what is Schumer doing?
Why floating a “TRIAL BALOON.”
Flap handicaps John Bolton WILL be confirmed in September when the Senate reconvenes.
In this photo released by China’s Xinhua news agency, U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. John Bolton, right, confers with Israeli counterpart Dan Gillerman during a break in an emergency session of the Security Council Sunday, July 30, 2006 at the United Nations headquarters. The session was called after an Israeli airstrike Sunday killed at least 50 people in a southern Lebanese village.
Captain Ed has No Bolton Filibuster: Schumer
I’m happy that Schumer has decided to stop playing partisan politics with foreign-policy positions, which clearly fall into the purview of the White House and have tenure limited to that of the president’s term. Hopefully, his caucus will follow his lead and quit acting like petulant children. However, it would also be nice if they could finally make up their mind about whether multilateralism is a virtue or a vice and get their stories straight forthwith.
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Israel at War Watch: U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan Calls For An Immediate Cease-Fire in Lebanon
Israeli soldiers look at smoke rising from Lebanon, in the northern Israeli town of Metula Sunday July 30, 2006. Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert expressed ‘great sorrow’ Sunday for the airstrikes that destroyed houses in the Lebanese town of Qana and killed dozens of people, many of them children, but blamed Hezbollah guerrillas for using the area as a base for launching rockets at Israel.
AP: Annan calls for end to fighting in Lebanon
U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan called again for an immediate halt to violence between
Israel and Hezbollah, telling the U.N. Security Council he was “deeply disturbed” that his previous appeals went unheeded.Annan condemned an Israeli airstrike that killed at least 54 people in Lebanon early Sunday, telling an emergency council meeting that it must demand an end to the violence.
“We meet at a moment of extreme gravity first and foremost for the people of the Middle East but also for the authority of this organization and especially this council,” Annan said. “Action is needed now before many more children, women and men become casualties of a conflict over which they have no control.”
The council been unable to take a stand on the fighting since it began three weeks ago. That is partly because the United States, unlike other members of the council, has refused to back Annan’s calls for an immediate cease-fire.
The United States should and MUST veto any resolution calling for an immediate cease-fire against Hezbollah. Will calling for Israel to lay down its arms be reciprocated by the terrorist Hezbollah?
There is NO gurantee.
There is NO international force that will fight and disarm Hezbollah.
An immediate cease-fire assures Hezbollah a VICTORY in the Global War on Terror.
Red Cross paramedics evacuate an injured Lebanese man recovered from the rubble of a demolished building that was struck by Israeli ware plane missiles at the village of Qana near the southern Lebanon city of Tyre, Sunday, July 30, 2006. At least 50 people, including scores of children, were killed Sunday in an Israeli airstrike on this southern Lebanon village _ the deadliest attack in 19 days of fighting. Infuriated Lebanese officials canceled a planned visit by U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, adding a major new hurdle to efforts to bring a cease fire.
In unusually frank terms, Annan said the council risked undermining its own authority if it does not take action.
“People have noticed its failure to act firmly and quickly during this crisis,” Annan said.
Lebanese special envoy Nouhad Mahoud criticized the council for its lack of action.
“Israel is committing atrocities against humanity,” Mahoud said. “The fact that such massacres are yet … to be taken up by resolutions of this august council,condemning an israeli airstrike that killed at least 54 people and that fact does not mean that the truth is to remain hidden.”
Israel is NOT committing atrocities against humanity.
Hezbollah started the conflict and continues to shoot rockets ATTEMPTING to kill Israeli civilians. Israel did not attempt purposely to kill these Lebanese civilians but why the hell are there still civilians in southern Lebanon anyway?
Israel was attacking Hezbollah “cowardly blended” terrorists who were using this area to stage rocket attacks on Israel civilians.
A cease-fire?
NO WAY – until Israel continues their campaign to seriously weaken and disarm Hezbollah. Anything less will be a defeat for Israel and protracted, yet postponed, continuing warfare with Hezbollah, Syrian and Iran.
Stay tuned…..
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John Bolton Watch: Too Effective
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, right, and U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. John Bolton, center, and Assistant Secretary Kristen Silverberg meet with, seated across from them from left, , Alvaro de Soto, Vijay Nambiar, and Terje Roed-Larson, the three-member U.N. team that just returned from Israel and Lebanon at the Waldorf Astoria Friday July 21, 2006 in New York.
John Hinderaker of Powerline has it RIGHT: Bolton is too effective.
Let the Senate Democrats filibuster – if they dare.
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John Bolton Watch: Senate Republicans Schedule Confirmation Hearing for United Nations Ambassador Bolton
John Bolton, United States Ambassador to the United Nations , addresses the Security Council meeting on the situation in the Middle East. Speakers at a UN Security Council debate demanded a quick end to the bloodshed in Lebanon and the Gaza Strip as UN relief coordinator Jan Egeland announced a trip to the region to assess a worsening humanitarian crisis.
Reuters: White House moves to confirm Bolton to UN post
Senate Republicans on Friday scheduled a confirmation hearing on John Bolton, who is serving as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations on a presidential appointment, as the White House renewed its bid to get Bolton approved by the Senate.
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee announced it will hold a hearing with Bolton on July 27 and top Senate Republicans said they would move quickly to confirm President George W. Bush’s pick.
The President is correct in pusing a vote on Bolton’s confirmation before the Fall elections. Bolton has done a credible job as United Nations Ambassador and he is who the President wants in this job. This is not a life-tenure appointment and the threshold for presidential courtesy is extraordinarily petty politically.
Bush bypassed the Senate and appointed Bolton during a congressional recess last year after Democrats blocked his confirmation amid accusations he had used his position as the top U.S. diplomat for arms control to bully intelligence analysts.
The White House moved again for a Senate endorsement after Ohio Republican Sen. George Voinovich (news, bio, voting record), who joined Democrats in blocking Bolton last year, said on Thursday he now backs him.
Senate Republicans and the administration expressed confidence Bolton would be approved this time, particularly with the need for an experienced hand at the United Nations during the Middle East crisis.
Will the President be successful this time with the Senate?
Possible…
But, at the very least, there will be GOP controlled hearings painting the Dems as weak on supporting America’s international interests by obstructioning the President. The Pro-Israeli lobby would also, most likely, way into the campaign for Bolton’s confirmation and these folks are already pissed at Lefty Democrats who are attacking Senator Joe Lieberman in Connecticut.
Several Democrats said they still opposed Bolton, a harsh critic of the United Nations known for an abrasive manner.
Sen. Joseph Biden (news, bio, voting record) of Delaware, top Democrat on the Foreign Relations Committee, said on Thursday Senate should not vote on Bolton unless the White House turns over documents that the Democrats sought last year.
Biden also said Bolton’s U.N. performance “confirms my conviction he is the wrong person for this job” and the administration should find someone else.
Senate Democrats have not yet discussed whether to try to block a vote on Bolton, a spokesman for Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada said.
White House spokeswoman Dana Perino said there was a desire to move to a Senate vote because “people have seen the fruits of John Bolton’s labor at the United Nations,” and said he was “doing a tremendous job.”
Slow Joe Biden who wants to be President will bloviate (as usual) to entertain the lefty netroot NUTTERS who have abandoned Hillary Clinton and Joe Lieberman for their Iraq War positions/votes. And besides good lefty theater who benefits from the obstruction of John Bolton besides the self-serving Democrat Senators who want to please Kos and Huggington?
The answer is NO ONE BESIDES THEMSELVES.
Flap handicaps that John Bolton will win confirmation as United Nations Ambassador after the September recess.
United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice (R) sits with U.S. Ambassador to the UN John Bolton as they meet in New York, July 21, 2006, with a three member United Nations team who just returned from Israel and Lebanon to discuss the current crisis in the region.
Captain Ed has Bolton Redux
Don’t expect too many of his caucus to attempt to force a filibuster to block Bolton. This time around, they will only expose themselves as obstructionists, dangerous obstructionists in a time of war. Bolton has already shown them up once, and the Democrats would be well advised to avoid it a second time.
Stay tuned……
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John Bolton Watch: President Bush Considering New Effort to Confirm John Bolton as United States Ambassador to the United Nations
U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton listens as U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan (not pictured) speaks during a Security Council meeting to discuss the conflict between Israel and Lebanon at U.N. headquarters in New York, July 20, 2006.
Reuters: Bush considering new effort for Bolton at UN post
President George W. Bush is considering a new effort to get John Bolton confirmed as the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, a year after appointing him to the job over Senate objections, aides said on Thursday.
White House spokesman Dana Perino said officials there were discussing strategy with Indiana Republican Sen. Richard Lugar (news, bio, voting record), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee where at least one key opponent has dropped his opposition.
Bush gave Bolton a recess appointment last August — meaning he appointed Bolton to the job when the Senate was in recess — after his confirmation was blocked by senators who said the former State Department official had an abrasive style.
That appointment will run out at the end of the current congressional session in January. Bush could make another recess appointment but Bolton would not get a salary.
Ohio Republican Sen. George Voinovich (news, bio, voting record), a member of the Foreign Relations Committee who blocked Bolton’s nomination a year ago, said on Thursday he would now support him for the job.
“My observations are that while Bolton is not perfect, he has demonstrated his ability, especially in recent months, to work with others and follow the president’s lead by working multilaterally,” Voinovich told a news conference.
Screw sobber Voinovich and reappoint Bolton immediately. John is doing a fine job and to think that fruit cake Voinovich crying like a baby about his grandchildren last year.
Get that MORON some Prozac and have one of his aides cast the vote for Bolton.
And……if the Democrats filibuster and the GOP cannot vote cloture, then reappoint him again and the GOP can take up a collection to pay him privately.
Damn to think the GOP could not muster 60 votes last year – pathetic! Hey, Senator John Thune, you gonna show up and vote this time?
Stay tuned…..
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Iran Nuclear Watch: Russia Says NO RUSH on Iran United Nations Security Council Resolution
Russian and Iranian technicians work inside the reactor building of the Bushehr nuclear power plant, in southern Iran, February 2006. Iran has said that it was still counting on support from Russia and China over its disputed nuclear programme, and warned the referral of the issue back to the UN Security Council would derail any possible negotiations
AP: Russia says no rush on Iran resolution
The U.N. Security Council is in no rush to pressure Iran over its suspect nuclear program, Russia said Wednesday, striking a more conciliatory tone than the United States as diplomats began discussing a resolution to put legal muscle behind demands that Tehran suspend uranium enrichment.
Ambassador Vitaly Churkin said the council wants an answer sometime soon to a June 5 package of incentives that six world powers offered to Iran if it stopped enrichment. But he stressed the council is not trying to push Tehran.
“We are not in a rush at all,” Churkin said. “We do not want to ambush Iran in any way. We’re very much in a negotiating political mode. We do not want to dictate things to Iran.”
“Nobody’s pushing Iran anywhere,” he said.
And does Ambassador Churkin REALLY think the United States and Israel will wait for the eunuch-like United Nations Security Council to impose sanctions on Iran for its nuclear program?
Probably…..but America knows what Russia’s interests are – to suck up to Iran and all of their oil money. Same goes for China.
And remember in the Cold War – WE WON, the Soviets LOST.So, naturally Russia loves to watch Iran and the Mullahs prod and poke the United States in the eye.
The Russian tone contrasted with Washington’s. The U.S. has been vocal in its frustration with the Iranian response so far.
U.S. Ambassador John Bolton said Washington had instructed him to get a resolution on Iran passed by the end of the week. But with the council so busy on Lebanon, and negotiations on Iran likely to take several days, other diplomats said that seemed unlikely.
The five permanent members of the council met Wednesday to trade ideas about the language of a new resolution. The dynamic appeared to be the same as it was when the council haggled over a statement confronting Iran’s nuclear ambitions in March: China and Russia looking for weaker action, with Britain, France and the U.S. seeking a tough response.
John Bolton can try all he likes but the UNSC will DO NOTHING to stop Iran’s enrichment of uranium. The United States and Israel WILL – when a point of no return is reached.
In the meantime, as the diplomats draft resolution after resolution, the centrifuges in Natanz are spinning…….Stay tuned……
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The Natanz uranium enrichment complex in Natanz is pictured in this January 2, 2006 satellite image.
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