When will there be sanctions?
Laura Rozen has an interview with President Obama's 'WMD czar,' Gary Samore. The sanguinity is astounding. “I am very confident that unless Iran does something significant that demonstrates that it is taking confidence building measures, I am very confident we will get a Security Council resolution that is supported by the majority of the UN Security Council,” White House WMD czar Gary Samore told journalists Tuesday.And meanwhile the centrifuges are churning. What could go wrong?
“I think we will get a resolution with Russian and Chinese support,” Samore said. “I believe those countries recognize that Iran has been unresponsive to international demands to limit Iran’s nuclear program.”
Two key non-permanent members of the UN Security Council, Turkey and Brazil, are both sending leaders to Tehran this month to try to negotiate a nuclear fuel deal.
But Samore said the U.S. is convinced Iran does not have a serious interest in a nuclear deal at this point, and that the Brazilian and Turkish efforts are unlikely to achieve a diplomatic breakthrough.
Despite Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki’s dinner invitation to UN Security Council diplomats last week, and he and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad traveling to UN Security Council member states to make the case against the Council taking action, “those arguments have proved not very persuasive,” Samore said.
“The Iranians have frankly not been prepared to accept that offer, it’s pretty clear to anybody,” Samore said. “And Turkey will soon satisfy themselves of that.”
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 12:54 PM
1 Comments:
Sanctions? What sanctions?
Don't hold your breath waiting for tough sanctions to be imposed on Iran any time soon.
There's no moral urgency to stopping a nuclear Iran.
What could go wrong indeed
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