"Why did no one even try to engage them on these offers? Because the entire nuclear issue is pretextual, just as "WMDs in Iraq" was pretextual, and the US needs to keep this pretext alive rather than resolve it.
If you doubt any of this, the latest fiasco over the uranium swap offer should be sufficient proof. After blocking Iran's efforts to purchase nuclear fuel for a medical reactor that is totally safeguarded by the IAEA and presents no weapons proliferation threat, the Obama administration offered a deal to Iran whereby Iran would swap some of its low-enriched uranium fuel for finished reactor fuel rods. I said from the beginning that the offer was insincere and not meant to be accepted. And within hours of Iran's acceptance of the offer, the US changed its position, moved the goalposts, and claimed that the offer that it had reaffirmed just a week before, as evidenced by Obama's letter to Lula, was suddenly inadequate. As Gary Sick and Roger Cohen noted, the goalposts were moved (not for the first time) in order to prevent the peaceful resolution of the standoff. The pattern is now obvious, the strategy exposed. We can no longer pretend otherwise." Cyrus Safdari is an independent Iranian analyst. Visit his Web site Iran Affairs: IranAffairs.com. URL: mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2010/safdari090610.html -- You cannot build anything on the foundations of caste. You cannot build up a nation, you cannot build up a morality. Anything that you will build on the foundations of caste will crack and will never be a whole. -AMBEDKAR http://venukm.blogspot.com http://www.shelfari.com/kmvenuannur http://kmvenuannur.livejournal.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth?hl=en-GB.
