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Barack Obama's policy on brink of collapse as Tehran does last-minute nuclear stall
UK Times ^ | Oct. 24, 2009 | Catherine Philp

Posted on 10/23/2009 11:23:27 AM PDT by SmartInsight

President Obama's policy of diplomatic engagement with Iran is close to collapse as Tehran backtracks on a crucial deal aimed at cutting its stockpiles of nuclear fuel.

Tehran's latest move comes straight from a well-thumbed Iranian playbook and looks like yet another stalling tactic to test the West's resolve and buy time to avert new sanctions.

(Excerpt) Read more at timesonline.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: iran; irannukes; nuclear; obama
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Is anyone here surprised?
1 posted on 10/23/2009 11:23:28 AM PDT by SmartInsight
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Well SHAZZAM!!!!

SURPRISE, SURPRISE, SURPRISE!!!!!! /Gomer Pyle


2 posted on 10/23/2009 11:24:39 AM PDT by MortMan (Stubbing one's toes is a valid (if painful) way of locating furniture in the dark.)
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To: SmartInsight

Obambi, PUNKED AGAIN!


3 posted on 10/23/2009 11:26:30 AM PDT by WellyP
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To: SmartInsight
No. We were supposed to believe there would be a different outcome with BO at the helm, even if it meant betraying Poland and the Czech Republic. BO & Co. look even more naive and gullible. I liked this comment:

“It’s like Groundhog Day,” a senior Western diplomat involved in the Iran negotiations said. “Except in Groundhog Day you wake up every day and everything’s the same. With this, you wake up every day and everything’s just a little bit worse

4 posted on 10/23/2009 11:28:02 AM PDT by La Lydia
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Is anyone here surprised?

Obama voters?

5 posted on 10/23/2009 11:28:58 AM PDT by rhombus
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Bbbuttbuttt...they PROmised! Sniff!

Colonel,Usafr


6 posted on 10/23/2009 11:31:10 AM PDT by jagusafr (Kill the red lizard, Lord! - nod to C.S. Lewis)
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7 posted on 10/23/2009 11:31:35 AM PDT by b4its2late (Ignorance allows liberalism to prosper.)
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To: SmartInsight

Time for another Cairo speech.


8 posted on 10/23/2009 11:31:50 AM PDT by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
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Everyone knows Barry Soetoro is stalling so Iran HAS TIME to build whatever they want.


9 posted on 10/23/2009 11:32:52 AM PDT by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!
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Is anyone here surprised?

Obama voters?

Only the dead ones.

10 posted on 10/23/2009 11:33:00 AM PDT by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
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Ahmadinejhad knows that Obama (ptui!) is a coward and an appeaser, so it’s hardly a challenge for him to blow him off.


11 posted on 10/23/2009 11:34:05 AM PDT by OB1kNOb (As government grows, corruption flows.)
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Punk-A-Rooney!

The great Obambi, from recent news accounts, intervened in these negotiations personally many times to get this supposed “deal.” He refrained from criticizing the regime at the time of the fraudulent elections because he wanted to preserve his “grand bargain.”

What a maroon. What a dope. The Iranians have taken the measure of this girly-man, and he's been found wanting.

12 posted on 10/23/2009 11:35:00 AM PDT by mojito
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LIKE THE GENERAL SAID: “YOU CAN’T FIX STUPID”


13 posted on 10/23/2009 11:39:19 AM PDT by Citizen Soldier (Just got up from Bedroomshire)
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To: OB1kNOb

Could be, he is either too wesk to deal with Iran or he is in bed with them, hard to tell the difference.


14 posted on 10/23/2009 11:43:55 AM PDT by aeonspromise
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Obama voters don’t care, let alone know about the Iranian nukyaler problem.


15 posted on 10/23/2009 11:44:11 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (FreepMail me if you want on the Bourbon ping list!)
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Love the title.

Looks like the Brits have had enough of President Squarepants.


16 posted on 10/23/2009 11:45:48 AM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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he is either too wesk to deal with Iran or he is in bed with them, hard to tell the difference.

Ain't THAT the truth.

17 posted on 10/23/2009 11:48:06 AM PDT by paulycy (Predatory Pricing = Public Option = Unethical Competition.)
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Russia and China’s reluctance to consider new sanctions is forcing Washington to seek a coalition of willing allies to impose their own economic blockade on Iran if efforts to get UN sanctions fail.
"Willing allies"? We still have willing allies?
18 posted on 10/23/2009 11:55:23 AM PDT by TheGeezer
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To: aeonspromise

Either way makes a bad CIC and POTUS. He has not shown weakness before on this issue; in March, as well as his administration has gaffed Israel. So by process of elimination he may be taking sides and it is not Israel’s side.


19 posted on 10/23/2009 11:57:22 AM PDT by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!
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AS WELL as putting HIS politics before our national security is so very bltently clear.


20 posted on 10/23/2009 11:58:11 AM PDT by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!
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