Being A Bit Brunt On Iran

I had written previously that a military strike on Iran to prevent it going nuclear is now a surety because in chilling out Israel, Obama has assured us that we cannot trust him.

That was a bit brunt, but true.

Yaakov Amidror, until this past month the head of Israel's National Security Council, puts it better:

There is no reason to think that the six powers will have more leverage in the future than they had before the Geneva agreement. On the contrary, they just gave that leverage away. After years of disingenuous negotiations, Iran is now just a few months away from a bomb.

The West has surrendered its most effective diplomatic tool in exchange for baseless promises of goodwill. I pray its gamble pays off, for if it does not there will be only one tool left to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear weapon. The Geneva agreement has made the world a more dangerous place. It did not have to be this way.

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Obama As A Possible Failure

Martin Kramer:

It would be an astonishing lapse if a man who promised to roll back nuclear proliferation watched proliferation develop in one of the least stable parts of the world, a place where the United States has only been able to maintain even a modicum of stability by a massive projection of its own forces. The region is of prime interest to the entire world for its energy resources. If it becomes nuclearized, it will be the one thing for which Barack Obama would always be remembered by history, and he would be remembered by history as a failure.

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A Horrendous Thought

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You're Not Really Going to Trust This Man, Are You?

This man:-



He wants to hold on to Iran's uranium reserves in a:-

...uranium swap proposal that Iran intends to submit to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)...Iran signed the nuclear swap deal on May 17th after three days of mediation involving Turkey and Brazil. Under the deal, Iran will send 1,200kg of low-enriched uranium to Turkey, in exchange for 120kg of more highly-enriched uranium within a year.

This is what he says about Israel:

“No one should test Turkey’s patience. Our hostility is as strong as our friendship. It is a serious harm to lose Turkey’s friendship,” he said.

Calling Israel’s raid on the ships carrying aid to the Gaza Strip a “bloody massacre”, Erdogan said: “The bloody massacre deserves every kind of curse. This massacre is against the international law, the conscience of humanity and peace. Israel must end its blockade of Gaza and be punished for the attack on the aid ships. We will go till the end. Turkey is not a young state, or a tribal state. No one should test Turkey’s patience,” he said.

And more:-

In 2004, Erdogan called Israel a “terrorist state” after we eliminated Sheikh Yassin. In February 2006, he hosted Hamas leader Haled Mashal in Ankara. In January 2009, he staged a temper tantrum at the Davos Conference calling Shimon Peres an expert killer. In October 2009, the Turkish state television channel started airing a fiction series showing Israeli soldiers intentionally murdering Palestinian children. In November 2009, Erdogan declared that he’d rather meet with Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir (accused of war crimes and genocide by the International Criminal Court) than with Benjamin Netanyahu. In March 2010, Erdogan claimed that the Temple Mount, Hebron and Rachel’s tomb were never Jewish sites. The list goes on.

Catholics should be wary:

A Roman Catholic bishop was stabbed to death in eastern Turkey on Thursday, a day before he had planned to travel to Cyprus for the visit of Pope Benedict XVI...In recent years, several priests have been attacked in Turkey; one was shot to death in 2006 amid widespread Muslim anger over the publication of cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad.

Of course, Argentina needs to be careful, too:-

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan canceled a trip to Argentina on Sunday [May 30] after Buenos Aires authorities halted the display of a bust of Turkey's founder, a move Turkey blamed on Armenian lobbyists.

The row over the statue, due to be unveiled in a park, comes during a high-profile trip to South America by Erdogan. Turkey's Foreign Ministry said in a statement the two-day visit, which was to have begun Sunday, had been canceled, and it hoped Argentina would take steps to remove the shadow cast on Turkish-Argentine relations.

Whew. So We Do Have Them?

It seems that it is quite possible that Israel possesses nuclear weapons.

Whew.

I was getting worried with all this ambiguity.


P.S. But read this about the standards of The Guardian's reporting.