De Amerikaanse en Israelische bedreigingen van Iran hebben niet het gewenste effect tot nu toe. Alleen diplomatie zal werkelijk iets oplossen. En nu afwachten of de Amerikaanse en Israelische extremisten zo gek zullen zijn om een gewelddadig conflict met Iran te beginnen.
Sen. Barack Obama, asked today about his response to Iran's test-firing of a missile reportedly capable of reaching Israel, maintained that the demonstration calls out for stepped up, direct U.S. diplomacy with Iran.
"There is no doubt that we're seeing rising tensions in the area," Obama said in an interview from Capitol Hill with the NBC Today Show's Matt Lauer. "It's part of the reason why it's so important for us to have a coherent policy with respect to Iran.... It has to combine much tougher threats of economic sanctions with direct diplomacy, opening up channels of communication, so that we avoid provocation but we give the Iranians strong incentives to change their behavior."
Republican rival John McCain has criticized Obama's support for direct negotiations with a regime that the Bush administration has labeled part of the "Axis of Evil," maintaining that tough international sanctions will prevent Iran from posing a greater threat to the region. Others have criticized Obama's call for diplomacy with intractable adversaries as naïve.
But the threat demonstrated by Iran today is nothing new, Obama maintained, asked what he would tell Israel in the aftermath of the newest Iranian test.
"They've had this kind of long-range capability for some time," he told Lauer. "It's part of the reason why we've got to proceed aggressively with diplomacy in the region as a whole... We've basically been farming out diplomatic activity to the Europeans... Part of what we have to do is get the Europeans, the Chinese, the Russians to recognize that it is in nobody's interests, including Iran's, I believe, to have a nuclear weapon that could trigger a nuclear arms race in the region. That's something that I intend to make a No. 1 priority when I'm in the White House."
Iran said it had test-fired a missile capable of reaching Israel early this morning, as part of war games that escalate the sabre-rattling between the Islamic Republic and the West. The new version of the Shahab-3 missile was one of nine medium and long-range missiles launched from the desert during wider war gaming in the Strait of Hormuz, a vital waterway off the south of the country through which passes about 40 per cent of the world's oil.'
"There is no doubt that we're seeing rising tensions in the area," Obama said in an interview from Capitol Hill with the NBC Today Show's Matt Lauer. "It's part of the reason why it's so important for us to have a coherent policy with respect to Iran.... It has to combine much tougher threats of economic sanctions with direct diplomacy, opening up channels of communication, so that we avoid provocation but we give the Iranians strong incentives to change their behavior."
Republican rival John McCain has criticized Obama's support for direct negotiations with a regime that the Bush administration has labeled part of the "Axis of Evil," maintaining that tough international sanctions will prevent Iran from posing a greater threat to the region. Others have criticized Obama's call for diplomacy with intractable adversaries as naïve.
But the threat demonstrated by Iran today is nothing new, Obama maintained, asked what he would tell Israel in the aftermath of the newest Iranian test.
"They've had this kind of long-range capability for some time," he told Lauer. "It's part of the reason why we've got to proceed aggressively with diplomacy in the region as a whole... We've basically been farming out diplomatic activity to the Europeans... Part of what we have to do is get the Europeans, the Chinese, the Russians to recognize that it is in nobody's interests, including Iran's, I believe, to have a nuclear weapon that could trigger a nuclear arms race in the region. That's something that I intend to make a No. 1 priority when I'm in the White House."
Iran said it had test-fired a missile capable of reaching Israel early this morning, as part of war games that escalate the sabre-rattling between the Islamic Republic and the West. The new version of the Shahab-3 missile was one of nine medium and long-range missiles launched from the desert during wider war gaming in the Strait of Hormuz, a vital waterway off the south of the country through which passes about 40 per cent of the world's oil.'
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Mijn vraag is, wat moet er worden opgelost? Iran heeft geen kernwapen programma, aldus de CIA zelf. Iran heeft al aangegeven te willen praten, over wat dan ook. Het enige wat moet worden opgelost is de bloeddorst van de VS, Israël en de oorlogsbusiness. Maar deze bloeddorst is pas tevreden met vele dollars, met olie in hun aderen en de totale vernietiging van nog een eeuwenoude cultuur. Hoe meer vernietiging, hoe beter, het liefst nucleair! Bin Laden berecht in Den Haag? Laten we eerst de zionisten en de Bush kliek maar uitnodigen.
Ook mijn vraag is wat er op te lossen zou zijn.
Er is inderdaad geen enkele aanwijzing dat Iran kernbommen aan he maken is, en zelfs al zou dat zo zijn, wat dan nog ?
Israel heeft er honderden, naar het schijnt.
Mag Iran zich niet verdedigen ?
Hèt probleem in deze wereld is USrael, zoals nieuwbakken Amerikanen kort geleden Bush in z'n gezicht zeiden 'he brought us fascism'.
Het heeft weinig zin de westerse en joodse misdaden in het Midden Oosten sinds 1880 op te sommen, de lijst wordt heel lang.
De vraag is hoe er een eind aan komt, en gezien de joodse greep op het westen zie ik niet dat dat einde in zicht komt.
Het enige einde wat ik kan zien is het echte einde, de USraelische aanval op Iran escaleert naar het einde van deze wereld.
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