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© (c) Copyright Thomson Reuters 2015.Iran, 6 powers explore nuclear compromises; Israel alarmed
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Wc626
Here they are negotiating Iran's future nuclear agenda while iranians chant, "death to america". Meanwhile, the obama administration snubs Netanyahu (strongest US ally in ME) It gets worse when the new "Arab coalition" boots hit the ground in Yemen. But, hey go ahead obama- give them opportunity to make a bomb soon.
MrBum
There's six nations involved in the negotiations, but yeah, whatever happens it'll all be his fault. Thanks Obama... The other five powers should just listen to Netanyahu and walk away from any talks with Iran. There's no way keeping them economically handicapped will breed any anger or resentment. Yes sir, the best way to avoid conflict is to avoid peaceful negotiations and back the other side into a corner.
Pandabelle
1979 was a LONG time ago. Do you actually know any Iranians?
Wc626
Negative. They chant "death" while these negotiations happen now. Not 1979. What planet are you from?
kcjapan
"Iran and six world powers tried to break an impasse in nuclear negotiations on Sunday" - article
That's the interests and knowledge of seven nations working together to solve a real world problem.
Alone, 'Net-the-Yahoo' is trying to stop any chance at progress. Maybe Bibi likes the Billions from America more than peace? He seems to be the only one trying to destroy any chance for negotiations, except, of course, the GOP-Tea.
JJSullivan
Netanyahu accused Iran of trying to “conquer the entire Middle East”, that is a classic case of projection. It is Israel who is trying to “conquer the entire Middle East”, and they have managed through deception to destroy most of the countries that could interfere with their plans (Iraq, Libya, Syria...). Iran is next, and again these accusations are all based on lies. Iran has no plans to build nuclear weapons, while Israel has been building them.
turbotsat
Hey, dateline on this story was last month.
But never mind that. If you like.
http://abcnews.go.com/International/iranian-crowd-chants-death-america-huge-revolution-rally/
JJSullivan
Crippling sanctions will make crowds chant the darndest things, especially when they result from baseless accusations.
Wc626
Here is a regime saying that it is their "right" to enrich uranium. And who won't agree to snap inspections if the deal goes through. Time is running out though, prob no deal.
SuperLib
The problem is that regime change is off the table.
lostrune2
Iran is holding up the negotiations by retracting a supposedly agreed-upon point to send excess uranium to Russia.
Fadamor
Of COURSE Israel is alarmed! That's exactly how ISRAEL developed its nuclear weapon capability - by hiding it as a nuclear power program. Of course, there weren't a bunch of countries requiring that Israeli program to be monitored, like the one in Iran will be.
Nope, Saudi Arabia is the strongest ally in the ME. The U.S. has caught and convicted an Israeli spy passing U.S. secrets to Israel, and Israel harbored an American murder suspect simply because the suspect's parents had Israeli citizenship at one time. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Sheinbein
Madverts
Do any of the fundies in Israel, Iran or the equally insane Republican party have an alternate plan?
The Three Stooges. None of them want peace. They are all warmongers.
Kobuta Chan
Senior Iranian negotiator Abbas Araqchi told reporters dispatching stockpiles abroad “was not on Iran’s agenda”.
It means Iran has planned to use them in future and its possibility of producing unclear weapons. I don’t think Israeli Government will accept it.
Madverts
Who cares? They are not part of the negotiations or the decision making process.
Maybe they should practice what they preach and open up their nuclear weapons for international inspection. They have a nut running the place that beats even nut of the decade Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who's word can be trusted as much as that of Vladimir Putin.
RichardPearce
@wc, Iran agreed to, and has permitted (indeed, cooperated) the IAEA inspections and audits, prearranged and snap, of every site in Iran where enriched material exists. Don't let the spin masters and distorters confuse you with their attempts to brand sites with no nuclear material as 'nuclear sites' despite the obvious.
turbotsat
Previously made in response to RichardPearce's similar comment on the "U.S. rebukes Israel's victorious Netanyahu on Mideast policy" JT article, "RichardPearce: To address a couple of myths (deliberate misinformation) that have been posted, ... the IAEA inspectors have free reign, with full Iranian cooperation according to their reports, to inspect, audit, and test to their hearts content, every site in Iran where enriched material is made, stored, processed, used, or disposed of, and they consistently note that there is NO evidence of the sort of even research into inventing the technology and techniques that would allow for the Iranian enrichment process to produce weapons material. If you tried to ramp the Iranian enrichment process up to make 90%+ material, even the American weapons makers couldn't produce working warheads from it. " ...
turbotsat: Mar. 21, 2015 - 04:25AM JST
Iran is not serious and the five powers and UN are not serious. If any of the parties were serious, Iran would not be enriching any uranium, and would not have thousands of centrifuges. They'd have zero. The anti-proliferation forces are not serious enough to start a war, and Iran knows it. So their progress is slowed by trying to appear to conform to inspection measures, but not slowed as much as it would be if any of the powers wanted full stop to research, instead of just enough stop to pretend at success in diplomatic negotiations and inspections.
It would be so simple to stop research, stop mining, stop enrichment, and buy fuel. Russia has offered to make available to Iran the nuclear fuel it needs for its power plants. Instead Iran insists on dragging the UN to a halfway point at which it can bamboozle the world until it finally declares itself a nuclear-weaponized state.
Weapons can be produced with 50 pct enriched uranium, 90 pct is needed for lightweight warheads. http://tinyurl.com/pckndj6
Iran, for many years and until only recently, refused IAEA inspections including inspections of uranium mines, and still refuses inspections of certain facilities, including a suspected weaponization research facility, Parchin. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parchin
IAEA says in their recent report that Iran is not NOW enriching above certain percentages but properly limits their statement to Iran's "declared facilities". Note that at least two of Iran's enrichment facilities were undeclared until their hand was forced: http://foreignpolicy.com/2012/01/11/the-20-percent-solution/: "Iran disclosed neither the Natanz nor the Fordow site to the IAEA until forced to do so, in 2002 and 2009, respectively, when outside observers discovered and publicized them."
Just googling 'iaea inspections iran cooperation' or 'iaea iran centrifuge' or 'iaea iran undeclared 2015' turns up many recent articles contradicting your claims, including:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2015/03/02/un-iran-is-still-hiding-nuclear-info.html
http://www.iranwatch.org/sites/default/files/iaea-iranreport-02192015.pdf
http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/patrick-goodenough/iaea-warns-possible-iranian-activities-related-development-nuclear