Could Iran's Defiance of Western Nuclear Demands be a Rational Choice?
Global Spin / Tony Karon
15-Jun-2011 (3 comments)

Despite mounting pressure on Tehran to engage in substantial negotiations over its nuclear program, no serious analyst is expecting a diplomatic breakthrough any time soon. After all, the Iranian leadership continues to signal defiance despite sanctions pressure, and the ferocious power struggle currently underway within the Tehran regime militates against any near-term strategic change of course. But there's another, more telling reason why Iran shows little interest in reaching a compromise deal to break the standoff right now: A cold-eyed realist assessment by Tehran's leaders that their position grows stronger while America's grows weaker in the course of the current deadlock. Just as Washington is waiting for the effect of sanctions to weaken Iran's resolve, so are Iranian leaders waiting for the Arab Spring uprisings to further weaken the position of the U.S. and its allies in the region.

China and Russia this week both criticized Tehran's conduct, and urged it to get serious about talks. Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov told Presid... >>>

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Let Iran enemies know that Iran cannot be pushed !

by IranMilitaryForum.net on Wed Jun 15, 2011 02:28 PM PDT

"nothing in international law or in the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty forbids the enrichment of uranium... In Iran, this activity is submitted to inspections by the International Atomic Energy Agency. These inspections, it is true, are constrained by a safeguards agreement dating from the 1970s. But it is also true that the IAEA has never uncovered in Iran any attempted diversion of nuclear material to military use."

 "Iran's perception of the U.S.-Israeli-Saudi [alliance] as a declining regional power – incapable of shifting its policies in accordance with a new power distribution – seems to have cemented. Although the proverbial political and economic screws have been tightened through sanctions to increase Iran's international isolation, the Islamic Republic is paradoxically less isolated regionally. Iran's measured confidence vis-à-vis the U.S.-Israeli-Saudi [alliance] is further reinforced by the fall of pro-American dictatorships in Egypt and Tunisia; volatility across the region that has destabilized countless others; empowered pro-Iranian political factions ruling Iraq and Lebanon; and Iran's indispensible role in any long-term solution to stabilize American national security interests in non-proliferation, terrorism, energy security, Afghanistan, Iraq, and even the Israeli-Palestinian conflict."



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Only to those

by IranMilitaryForum.net on Thu Jun 16, 2011 02:18 PM PDT

you sound like a retarded 15 year old.

Only to those 5 year olds!

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Onlyiran

Seriously, IMF, how old are you?

by Onlyiran on Wed Jun 15, 2011 08:18 PM PDT

you sound like a retarded 15 year old.


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