Iran Uses Negotiations to Play for Time -Ephraim Asculai & Emily Landau
Iran has demonstrated that it uses negotiations to play for time. Even if Iran is ultimately interested in a negotiated deal with the West, it knows that the further it advances its program, the better its bargaining position will be. Therefore, Iran's rational choice is to continue to play for time until it has gained the upper hand in its nuclear program - when it has produced enough enriched uranium for the production of a few nuclear explosive devices.
Iran cannot be allowed to gain the precious time it needs to arrive at a potential that would increase its bargaining position multifold.
(Jerusalem Post)
Iran has demonstrated that it uses negotiations to play for time. Even if Iran is ultimately interested in a negotiated deal with the West, it knows that the further it advances its program, the better its bargaining position will be. Therefore, Iran's rational choice is to continue to play for time until it has gained the upper hand in its nuclear program - when it has produced enough enriched uranium for the production of a few nuclear explosive devices.
Iran cannot be allowed to gain the precious time it needs to arrive at a potential that would increase its bargaining position multifold.
(Jerusalem Post)
2 comments:
Probably true, but there is only so much the world can do when a country is contemplating nuclear weapons and it is not always clear what the right actions are. Iraq was contemplating them and the U.S. took action. Our invasion did not make Iraq or the MidEast more secure. And the future of Iraq is far from certain.
Action anywhere [and particularly in the oft unpredictable MidEast] does lead to unintended consequences. But the impact of a nuclear Iran on world jihad is exceedingly frightening.
I hope Obama gets this right.
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