Posted on 11/13/2014 7:43:11 AM PST by nuconvert
I am on record predicting that a nuclear deal with Iran will founder on the opposition of the Islamic Republic’s Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei. Iranian diplomats, I wrote in May, “will allow this round of negotiations to fail and bargain instead for an extension of the current interim agreement. It will get the extension and then play for time again. There will never be a final deal.”
I was vindicated on the first point in July, when John Kerry purchased a five-month extension for the talks with $2.8 billion in direct sanctions relief for Tehran. I’d be willing to make a modest bet that I’ll be vindicated again when the Nov. 24 deadline for a deal expires. The latest talks in Oman between Mr. Kerry and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif seem to have gone nowhere. As Jimmy Carter discovered during the hostage crisis, the mullahs are especially contemptuous toward those they see as weak.
But let’s say I’m wrong. What sort of deal would we likely get?
Above all, it will be a technical deal.
-excerpt- the abundance of detail will serve a more obfuscatory function. The Obama administration will count on a broad measure of public ignorance and media credulity, meaning it can sell a deal by citing experts who happen to agree with its conclusions.
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They will stall, then break off talks, then come back to the table, then stall some more, etc, until they finally just announce to the world that they already have nuclear weapons.
It worked for the Norks, so why should Iran pursue any different course?
Used to be the Wall Street Journal was a serious newspapers but apparently not any more.
Here’s a tip to the WSJ: If Iran says “yes” to any “deal” it will only be because they plan to violate the terms.
It’s not complicated WSJ.
? Did you read the whole piece?
We can't read it unless we pay the WSJ. You knew that.
? I searched for the article on Google, and read the whole thing and I don’t have a subscription.
I am on record predicting that a nuclear deal with Iran will founder on the opposition of the Islamic Republic’s Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei. Iranian diplomats, I wrote in May, “will allow this round of negotiations to fail and bargain instead for an extension of the current interim agreement. It will get the extension and then play for time again. There will never be a final deal.”Gosh, it sounds like the "peace talks" and "road map" and pretty much every UN resolution.
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