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The Missile Impasse In the Iran Negotiations
Lasrick writes: Upon resuming talks to end the nuclear crisis with the P5+1 (the five permanent members of the UN Security Council, plus Germany) in 2013, Iran made it clear that its missile program was behind a redline and would not be negotiated away. The missile program, Tehran argued, was an entirely separate issue from the nuclear program, part of the country's conventional capabilities and not aimed at deploying non-conventional weapons such as nuclear warheads. Last week, Tehran's missile program arose—seemingly suddenly—as an obstacle with the potential to derail the process altogether. Ariane Tabatabai explores the fascinating history of Iran's missile program, the largest in the Middle East, and asks whether negotiators for countries that hold such diametrically opposed views of the Iranian missile program can reach a compromise. We should know the answer to that within the next day or two.
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Iran is (or soon will be) a state capable of nuclear weapons delivered by missiles. The genie is out of the bottle. Life sucks, deal.
Either Iran nukes Israel or Israel nukes Iran (or both) within the next 10 years. Place your bets.
Don't forget Sunni Saudi Arabia and Egypt - if Shi'ite Iran get get nukes, so will those two countries.
See now why allowing Iran to get nukes is a BAD idea? Which is why the FRENCH of all people seem to think Obama's hell-bent need to get any deal done no matter how bad is fucking stupid.
What I thought was hilarious (sorry I can't find a link ATM, it was several years ago I read this and my Google-Foo sucks) was when they did DNA testing to show their claim to the land.....and found more than 90% of the Israelis were 100% of European origin. That makes them no different than the Brits in India or the Dutch in Africa, a colonial conqueror.
And AIPAC can label anybody that says anything against their policies an anti-semite all they want, 5 minutes of watching the behavior of their "security forces" and their policies wrt settlements and its pretty easy to see that Israel 2015 is South Africa 1970,same methods of intimidation and brutality, same disregard for the lives and property of the natives, etc. Its ironic that 70 years after the liberation of the camps and they have gone from being the oppressed to being the oppressors, guess some just never learn from the mistakes of history.
As for Iran? Considering that a former POTUS labeled them an "Axis of Evil" and several prominent neo-cons have stated repeatedly their destruction is part of their plans for the ME, along with a history of the USA actively destroying governments including installing the Shah after murdering their democratically elected president? I'd want a nuke too, pretty much the only way you can insure the USA won't try to pull a "regime change" on your country. Look at the history of CIA involvement in the region post WWII and there isn't a single country there besides Israel that hasn't had repeated attacks by the US government, and Saddam proved that kissing Uncle Sam's booty doesn't gain you any loyalty.
Israel will always have the USA as its attack dog thanks to "When the Jews return to Zion" causing every ultra right winger to fear their deity won't have a place to park his fluffy cloud and without the USSR to balance things out all the other countries in the ME are truly alone. This is why I really don't blame countries like India, Pakistan, and Iran getting or trying to get nukes, all one has to do is look at the history of false flags, CIA coups and outright lies from the US government to realize that the only guarantee of not getting your country bombed into the stone age by the world's largest carrier fleet is to have a nuke.
ACs don't waste your time replying, your posts are never seen by me.