Tuesday, December 01, 2009

Iran's defiant posture: can Obama & the West put teeth into Iran policy?


Iran Announces Ten New Uranium Plants -Thomas Erdbrink

Iran's government will build ten new sites to enrich uranium, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said, a dramatic expansion of the country's nuclear program.

The announcement comes just days after a censure of Iran by the International Atomic Energy Agency over the Islamic republic's refusal to stop enriching uranium, a key demand of Western powers.
(Washington Post)


UN Censure May Start Confrontational Phase -Glenn Kessler & Joby Warrick

The resounding censure of Iran by the board of the International Atomic Energy Agency signals the start of a potentially more confrontational phase in the Obama administration's dealings with Iran...
(Washington Post)


The Arabs Have Stopped Applauding -Fouad Ajami

In the Arab-Islamic world, Barack Obama has come down to earth. He has not made the world anew, history did not bend to his will.

[T]he Indians and Pakistanis have been told that the matter of Kashmir is theirs to resolve, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is the same intractable clash of two irreconcilable nationalisms, and the theocrats in Iran have not "unclenched their fist," nor have they abandoned their nuclear quest.

Obama's election has not drained the swamps of anti-Americanism.
(Wall Street Journal)


Iran's Adventurism -Editorial

The plan to build ten new plants is a new declaration of recalcitrance. Coming from a leader who believes in a literal and imminent apocalypse and who gleefully anticipates the extinction of the Jewish state, it is chilling.
(Times-UK)


Iran May Be Planning Decoy Sites -Ali Akbar Dareini

Iran's announcement of plans to build ten more uranium enrichment facilities is largely bluster, analysts said.

Nonetheless, the...announcement is of major concern because it could signal an intention to put up numerous decoy sites to deceive the outside world, while building a few secret military enrichment sites [for] use in weapons production, nuclear expert David Albright said. "
(AP)
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