Israel Matzav

Business as usual for Iran's mad dash to nuclear weapons

Iran’s drive to jump-start an operational nuclear program reached a turning point today. Speaking of Iran’s Bushehr nuclear power plant, Vladislav Bochkov, a spokesman for the Russian state company Rosatom which constructed the plant, said, “This means that a nuclear reaction has begun. This is one of the final stages in the physical launch of the reactor.”

In other words, it is business as usual for Iran’s mad dash to become a nuclear powerhouse. The international community, particularly the Obama administration, simply ignores the Russian-Iranian duo’s nuclear plant in the southwestern port town of Bushehr. As part of its “reset” strategy with the Russians, the Obama administration appears to have chalked up the Bushehr plant to a harmless desire for Iranian civilian nuclear energy. President Obama and Secretary of State Clinton’s naïve departure point is that the Russians can housebreak any renegade Iranian military proliferation activity at Bushehr.

Given that the Russian government has consistently watered down sanctions against Iran for its illicit nuclear program, and that its country’s gas and oil companies continue to violate U.S. Energy sanctions targeting Tehran, one wonders what the Obama administration’s “reset” policy has achieved.

Labels: Barack Obama, Iran sanctions regime, Iranian nuclear program, Russian re-set

posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 9:35 AM