Posted by Arnold Ahlert Bio May 22nd, 2012
Monday, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) head Yukiya Amano met with Fereidoun Abbasi-Davani, head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI), in an initial conference over Iran’s nuclear program. The Iranian Fars News Agency said the meeting represented the ”eagerness” of the UN to “further develop cooperation with Iran in various areas of nuclear applications,” and it is clear the rosiness of the state media’s characterization is not without good reason. For, while the West is banking everything on an appeasement strategy with Iran, the Islamic Republic is busy broadcasting to the world its Hitlerian intentions to annihilate Israel, daring the international community to bat an eyelash.
Renewed talks with Iran come on the heels of a speech delivered Sunday by Major General Hassan Firouzabadi, Iran’s military chief of staff, in which he called for the “full annihilation of Israel.” Like every other Iranian pronouncement revealing the murderous nature of the current regime, it will likely be brushed aside when negotiations between Iran and P5+1, (the United States, Russia, China, France and Britain plus Germany), begin in Baghdad tomorrow.Amano’s rare trip to Iran marks the fourth meeting between the IAEA and Tehran. Two rounds of talks took place in Tehran in January and February this year, followed by a third round in Vienna on May 14-15. Yet despite reports of a more “upbeat atmosphere” both last week and yesterday, a large degree of genuine substance apparently remains beyond reach. “We have extensive activities in fighting cancer, food safety and security, supplying water needs and other applications of the nuclear technology,” Amano said. In other words, there was no indication of progress regarding the principal disagreement between the IAEA and Iran, namely a deal allowing the IAEA to inspect Iranian nuclear sites, most specifically the Parchin research facility, where IAEA inspectors were refused entry as recently as February.
Saeed Jalili, Iran’s top nuclear negotiator who attended the meeting Monday and who will be in Baghdad tomorrow, inadvertently confirmed the banality of the talks between the two sides, noting that his country was “a serious supporter of…global disarmament, confronting the spread of nuclear weapons and the usage of peaceful nuclear technology for (non-proliferation treaty) member states.” “Today we have good negotiations with Amano on these three fields and we hope to have good cooperation with the agency in the future in these areas,” Jalili said.
Furthermore, Iran’s official Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) may have revealed Iran’s true intent in negotiating with the IAEA prior to the Baghdad meeting. “The IAEA’s opposition to the U.S. false claim over Iraq helped the agency steer clear of Washington so that the U.N. agency’s officials could not be considered as accomplice to the crimes committed by the U.S. statesmen in Iraq,” it reported. “Iran considers IAEA’s independence and promotion as a factor which would prevent violation of the member states’ rights,” it added.
This is a useful gambit in that it seeks to draw a dividing line between the IAEA and the United States. For optimists, it presents the possibility that Iran might be willing to make substantial concessions as long as it can make them directly to the U.N. instead of the U.S., thereby saving a certain amount of face should that reality come to pass. For realists, it is little more than an attempt to introduce another stumbling block between the international body and the P5+1, one either designed to gain Iran leverage in Baghdad–or give the Islamic nation still more time to develop nuclear weapons.
Adding to the intrigue is the idea expressed by many diplomats that Amano would not have traveled to Iran — his first trip to that nation since becoming the IAEA chief in 2009 — unless a deal between his agency and Tehran was close. Yet when Amano was asked if some sort of framework had been found that would answer questions about Iranian intentions, he declined to get specific. “I will not go into details but the agency has some viewpoints and Iran has its own specific viewpoints,” he said.
Anyone with any understanding of history should have all the red lights flashing with this terrorizing of the Israeli nation. Racism and genocide are never a step in the right direction but to have an inexplicable hatred towards the children of God’s special friend, this carries international consequences. Is the world in stupor?
They say that the black death was the result of increased international trade following the crusades. What they don’t mention is the slaughter of Jewish (and protestant Christian) peoples because of the fanaticism stirred up in association with the crusades. Europe’s population plummeted.
Hitler of course was possessed of an overpowering consuming drive to rid the world of what he saw as the Devil – tens of millions dead, not all Jewish by any means, and Germany a pile of rubble.
Look at the area now known (approximately) as the Ukraine – heartland of the anti-Jewish progrom, violent riots and looting carried out with the tacit approval, it seems, even of the Russian Orthodox Church(?). Thousands of Jews killed, all the Russian Jews terrorized. Something like seven million Ukranian peasants alone then died of starvation, and today, the site of the world’s worst peace-time atomic land degradation.
I wouldn’t assume anything and I wouldn’t assume Australia is safe. Any peoples sitting on their hands while another people are terrorized are neither safe nor innocent but when the peoples in question are the children of God’s best friend! You just don’t do this sort of thing!
Phil