http://www1.oxfordbusinessgroup.com/economic_updates/turkey-business-usual-iran
Enriched uranium on sale on Georgian black market.
Georgia is a virtual colony of Israel -- now do the math....
IRAN's situational awareness and the nuclear break-out capacity....
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=21892
The US wants to weaken Iran as much as possible, no matter what Iran does. The need to *pretend* to be reasonable, to be seeking compromise, as Dennis Ross, but they have no intention of actually being reasonable.
So the US will continue to seek sanctions no matter what Iran does. If Iran halted its nuclear program today, you would quickly hear the refrain that Iran is a very large country and they are simply "hiding" their program. And the March towards more sanctions would continue (And war if they thought they could profit from it)
Iran's best bet is to gain as much regional influence as possible, cause as much hindrance to US objectives as they can, and hunker down and deal with sanctions as best as they can.
And if oil continues rising past 100$/barrel, so much the better....
Turkey agrees conditionally to NATO missile defence system --
There will be announcements of agreement publicly, but privately these conditions will not be accepted.... The target is Iran .... and Turkey knows it....
"A Republican Senator has sparked outrage at an international security conference after saying the U.S. should be prepared to launch a military attack on Iran to 'neuter' its hard-line regime.
Lindsey Graham, who represents South Carolina, told surprised attendees at the Halifax International Security Forum that an attack could cripple Iran's nuclear programme and armed forces.....
He said that although international sanctions were beginning to work, President Barack Obama should make it 'abundantly clear' that 'all options are on the table'."
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Natanyahu told Biden yesterday that the US must "man up" on its threat to wipe out Iran's nuclear program. This sounds like the same message delivered by Graham who is one of Israel's closest friends. I suppose that McCain and Lieberman cannot be far behind....
*** Israel now has effective control of US actions with regard to Iran. We can't prevent them attacking Iran. Public opinion and the howling of the "rented" Congress will insure that such a war quickly becomes America's war against Iran....http://www.strategycenter.net/research/pubID.47/pub_detail.asp
Hillary Clinton 2/22/2010
- http://www.acus.org/event/hillary-clinton-future-nato/transcript
And they have conjured reality out of the EU's fake intelligence...
NATO's Deputy Secretary General Ambassador Hüseyin Diriöz said Sunday Turkey's influence in international organizations rose as Turkey's contribution to global peace and stability increased....With technology, new security risks are coming forth. The cyber threat is one example of new security risks. A crash in the cyber world can negatively affect daily lives, all the way from banking to transportation. The security of energy routes also carries risks.... Terrorism poses a major threat to security. NATO continues to work against such threats, Diriöz said.
Turkey is the spigot from which the treasure of NATO's war booty is served to energy oligarchs of Europe and Israel....??
http://www.voltairenet.org/article165570.html