That's not what people close to the Iranian government seem to think. People close to the Iranian government seem to think that there is a way out of the confrontation through negotiations. So, it's not obvious why that path should be so readily dismissed.
[...] 'The same basic bargain was also endorsed by Seyed Hossein Mousavian, an Iranian diplomat currently at Princeton University, who served as spokesman for Iran's nuclear negotiating team, in a column for Bloomberg News in mid- February. Iran should accept the maximum level of transparency with the IAEA, limit enrichment activities to less than five percent, and clear up its nuclear file with the IAEA, he argued, while the West should recognise Tehran's right to enrich and ease sections as part of a "step-by-step plan" proposed by Russia last year.' [...] - Despite War Drums, Experts Insist Iran Nuclear Deal Possible Jim Lobe, Inter Press Service, Feb 23, 2012 http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=106870 On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 7:02 PM, Michael Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, 24 Feb 2012 18:15:18 -0600 > Robert Naiman <[email protected]> wrote: > >> It doesn't matter much to the fate of the world if we consider their >> concerns to be "legitimate." If the most powerful countries in the >> world have a concern, if they say that concern is pressing, that >> concern is not going to go away by declaring it illegitimate. > > The point is not that it's illegitimate; the point is that they're > lying about it. There is not way Iran could address the 'concerns' > os the US and Israel and probably the oil sheikhs, too, except by > exhuming the Shah and propping his putrid corpse back on the Peacock > Throne. > >> The >> question is whether those concerns will be addressed by legal >> political means, or through illegal violence. Legal, political means >> will have the added benefit of subjecting those concerns to greater >> public scrutiny. >> >> On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 6:06 PM, Carrol Cox <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Robert Naiman: Largely missing from the recent political debate, until now, >> > has been >> > a full-throated defense of diplomatic engagement with Iran towards >> > negotiated agreements that would resolve or mitigate international >> > concerns about its disputed nuclear program. >> > >> > But there are no legitimate concerns. . .Those "concerns" are merely an >> > excuse for the unrelenting U.S. hostility to an independent Iran. They are >> > the equivalent today of the cascade of lies that led up to the overthrow of >> > Mossedegh 60 years ago. >> > >> > Carrol >> > >> > Carrol >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-naiman/ellison-iran_b_1300255.html >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > pen-l mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l >> >> >> > > > -- > -- > > Michael J. Smith > [email protected] > > http://stopmebeforeivoteagain.org > http://fakesprogress.blogspot.com > http://cars-suck.org > > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l -- Robert Naiman Policy Director Just Foreign Policy www.justforeignpolicy.org [email protected] _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
