Hmmm....
Especially when the world's only superpower is trying to 'lead from behind,' there are advantages to at least giving the appearance of having junk. Sometimes, if you appear to have the junk to take action on your own, you'll force that superpower to step up and do what it should have done months ago. That may now be happening.The United States has been unwilling to put real pressure on Russia and China to support - or at least not to veto - sanctions that bite Iran. That may now be changing according to a report in Monday's Yedioth Aharonoth, which is picked up by its sister site at YNet.
A senior US State Department official said there is growing fear among Obama administration officials ahead of an IAEA report indicating considerable progress in Tehran's development of its military nuclear program which is set to be published in November.Make no mistake about it: If the United States did not perceive Israel as having both the ability and the willingness to do something about Iran, it would do nothing. Stronger sanctions could push Iran back into a revolution against the Ayatollahs and Ahmadinejad. At the least, it could help ensure that Iran will be somewhat weakened by the time a confrontation takes place. And it could even push the US into a position where it realizes that it must confront Iran.
The US is concerned that the report may trigger Israeli actions against the Islamic Republic which may not necessarily be in line with US interests in the region.
The official said that Washington's reevaluation of an Israeli strike in Iran is based on various maneuvers Israel has performed in the past few years.
The US administration is now bent on exercising more pressure on Tehran in order to dissuade Israel from this path, the source said.
Washington is therefore pressing China and Russia who are currently opposed to the publication of the IAEA report. The report may cause embarrassment to both countries who are strongly against harsher sanctions on Iran.
According to the US official, it is possible that the report, coupled with the exposure of the US evaluation of Israeli potential to strike Iran, will encourage Russia and China to support the US initiative to aggravate penal measures against Tehran.
November 2012 is approaching. What could go wrong?
Labels: IAEA, Iran sanctions regime, Iranian nuclear threat, Israeli first strike capability
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 10:57 AM
2 Comments:
Nonsense. All Obama will do is threaten Israel and disclose some of Israel's sensitive strategic capabilities to Iran, Turkey and Egypt.
Empress Trudy is right. The American people are a passive lot when it comes to Obama. The media is lying and lying and the people are swallowing it (possibly because it is SO unpleasant to do otherwise). I do think there is some chance to vote these marxist caliphate people out of many layers of govt., but the people currently with Obama and somehow in D.C. are actually on the other side. I would not count on them to back the West while they still have their dictatorial control. Someone pushes to do something about Iran and I predict Obama will motate on Iran's side, not the U.S.'s or Israel's.
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