Obama: Iran will pay a price for stalling nuclear talks

Obama and EU leaders keep bullying Iran to com- ply with their standards and when it says "no" they apply more sanctions and double standards. How stupid it is to always reach for the same thing when they know it is not working and wont work either. In addition , they are escalating this sitution instead of calming it down and showing progress towards an agreement. Iran has rights and concerns and Obama & others need to recognize and respect them and let this guide the way forward and stop the bullying. Dutch

You have it all wrong, it is Israel and the world that will pay the price over Iran,s failure to heed the world,s message. And, while the UN. procrastinates, Israel will have to take out Iran by itself. Then the uproar in the UN. and around the world will be deafening . Yes , then all of Israel,s so-called friends, will come to her support. And if you believe that , then you must believe that hyenas are vegetarians.

her 'leaders' if they can. If not, someone else will. Iran has over 1 million heroin addicts, her latest 'response' drill to an attack, left Iran facing the fact that they are not prepared. Iran talks a good talk. Finances terror but, can she defend herself? I don't think so. We may find out soon.

England was hardly bombed by its errors, US is on the same way.

What consequences? Will Obama make another speech?

He is not comfortable with the Afghan and Irak wars and he certainly couldn't cope with anymore, nor does he have the will. He could , if he really wanted to, try to pull together a coalition between Europe, Israel ,USA, Saudia, Egypt, UAR+Kuwait,Bahrain, (all would love to see Iran stopped), but he's not the man to do it. In that case, he should just pull out altogether within weeks not months, from Afghanistan and Irak and Pakistan and let them sort themselves out : perhaps then he will achieve his goal of respecting the Moslem countries and perhaps then those countries will stop blaming USA, they might even come forward and plead for help as Kuwait did to get rid of Saddam with the blessing of Saudia and others.

This guy, although President, has become a joke. ( a shame to Americans instead of a source of pride) Obama, as fierce as a new born kitty cat. If Obama ever reflects on his errors, one of the biggest will be his stance of demanding Israel 'freeze' settlements and criticizing Israel while bowing to the Saudis whose oil $$ finances this terror and takes our money at the pump. The joke will be on them both when we successfully use alternative fuels and re elect an American as President who trusts both US and our best ally, Israel, equally. Is there anything worse than an unfaithful ally? Obama, the ridesalmost up. I doubt he can be re elected, and that's good.

is your question genuine or whining, ahmir? the answer is rather obvious don't you think? ponder and you'll see the light

I found the carictaure exquisite! I wish all the best for the great country of Iran. I am sure we will soon see its liberation from the fascists criminals and dictators who have kidnapped the country. By the way what does the sentence "Shohrabim, Nedayim, Ma hameh yek sedayim" mean?

Anyone listening to the President last night, was treated to another dazzling performance of pathological narcissism - man, can that boy talk! As the world burns, he fiddles to the teleprompter, characteristically bowing to evil and revealing the substance of his "Peace Prize" - good oratory. Taking full credit for "undeniable progress", perpetual deferrence to responsibility and characteristic, political, double-speak all substatiates his delusion. His "new sanctions" are surely to be another non-starter - I'm sure our little friend in Teheran is giddy with aprehension. Still, I continue to pray for peace, while our inspired leaders are clearly distracted in the bright lights of self-promotion. Ultimately, G_d gets the last word. Shalom.

Blaming Obama for the lack of peace in the ME ignores the 61 years of history which preceded his term in office. The problem existed before he took office and will likely be a problem after he's gone. Iran will not use nukes in a preemptive attack Israel because to do so will guarantee Iran's demise. However, if Israel truly believes Iran is a threat to her existence, then by all means she should attack those Iranian nuclear facillities and destroy them...just be prepared to fly solo. The argument that a nuke-equipped Iran is certain to use them against Israel is also baseless. I heard Nikita Khrushchev direct the same kinds of threats toward the US during the Cold War. Khrushchev never launched then for exactly the same reason that the mullahs won't do so now.

We'll see where you stand in 2 weeks....we are here.....we are countless....we are GREEN. And we'll get you. Here's a pic of what your life would look like on Bahman 23rd (Feb 12th): http://www.iranian.com/main/2010/jan/23-bahman Shohrabim, Nedayim, Ma hameh yek sedayim.....

The mullahs are hanging on by an iron thread with very big rust spots. A little more push and the Revolutionary Guards and the mullahs are going to meet the same fate as the Shah's goons. Sanctions ARE going to make the difference--ll the Iranian dissidents agree. The big players with Iran are being isolated--China and Russia. But the others are sensitive: Siemens just dropped out. The socialist hypocrites, the Norwegian Government's Norsk Hydro and sovereign wealth funds are next. No to Jarlsberg cheese and smoked salmon

Sept 20 was supposed to be a deadline...you know, the conference in Pittsburgh where obama pissed off Sarkozy...The next deadline was year end. Well, that came and went too. The UN was supposed to be about no enrichment, and everyone kinda seems to forget about that.Now it's about uranium swaps! obama sold out the Czechs and Poles on missile defense and got NOTHING from Russia...great RESET BUTTON obie... He got nothing from China. He bowed to Saudi king and got NOTHING! Trying to enact sanctions that don?t hurt the people but only the mullahs and guard is a total sham. If he were serious, there would have already been a naval blockade, but noooooo, everything this president does is for PR, not for substance. His whole outreach to iran has PROVEN to be completely naive. By the way, moussavi, the moderate, is in favour of nuclear weapons. Curiously, the leader of the FREE world is nowhere in sight. he is a creampuff and everyone knows it.

times are changing , we are not afraid of Obama with his 'change' talks. i thought that USA + Israel would bomb us in 2007 already ? , but now its 2010 and the Islamic Republic of Iran is getting stronger everyday. we have nothing to lose , this is what we live for .

Cuba has been under American sanctions for about 50 years and is doing quite nicely. This American President is running around in circles chasing his own tail, he may catch it and there is where the problem starts. Without world co-operation sanctions are useless and benefit China without any damage to Iran.Only way to stop Iran from obtaining nukes is military. Now the USA has in its arsenall conventional weapons that can wipe Irans nuclear facilities and everything within 5 miles of them of the face of the earth.This will start World War 3. Israel will have to bomb the facilities, Iran retalietes against Israel and American bases in Middle East and USA has right to attack Iran. If Iran justafibly retaliets against Israel only, USA can't interfeer, Israel demolished by IRANIAN, HEZBOLIAH, and HAMAS missiles. Interesting to see how this plays out. Nobody wants World War 3 (ARMAGEDEN)

the way i see it the democrat is trying to correct the destruction left it by Bush and his republican empty head

Obama does not have the guts to stop nethanayu from increasing more settlements., His mouth is pretty big for Iran. He is already going down hill as the worse president, with all his talk " we will, yes we can, we must" what garbage. He is afraid of Nethany as he has him around the waist. Keep up the good works, I see another war coming.

All this sabre rattling from Obama and Bibi against Iran is just badly written and acted theater. In the end, Iran will do as it pleases because no one, besides Israel, wants a war. Sanctions will not work, especially since Russia, China and a whole bunch of other countries will just ignore them. Iran will get nuclear weapons if they choose to and Israel will just have to swallow their pride and shut up about any more war. The US has neither the will nor the ability to go to war with Iran. To do so would kill the US economy so bad it might never recover - that would create a lot of starving angry people - with much of the anger focused on Israel!

Perhaps Obama simply recognized that Netanyahu was unwilling to pursue peace, and walked away to focus on more pressing problems. I know I would have. As for Afghanistan, the US has always tried to live up to the motto You Break It, You Fix It. You would have to admit, neither Iraq nor Afghanistan are anywhere close to being fixed. Not fighting republicans? Have you heard of the health care bill? And which statements did he not pursue? Mid East Peace? Go back and reread my first sentence. However I do think your statement about Iran is correct and one out of five ain’t bad. You could make the big leagues with a batting average like that.

JTA:"As far as giving a nuke to terrorists they have never given chemical or biological weapons so why on earth would you think they would give a nuke?" There are many reports that Iran has already given Hezbollah chemical weapons. eg: http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1112168.html So let's rephrase that question of yours. If Iran has already given chemical weapons to their proxies then why do you think they wouldn't give a nuke?

stand behind Iran. Nobody want really to be in trouble with them.

go get those iran ians peter!! show them!! sides it will do you good to get out...you spend your whole life here, so widen your horizons!!! go peter go!!! my hero

What`s Australia Doing About Iran? You might remember that Australian troops have supported the US in Korea, Vietnam, both Iraq wars and Afghanistan to name a few. Should the US president decide to take on Iran, I have no doubt we would be there to.

this is pure lie, just like it was iraq and afghanistan

So many warmongering cowards in this discussion from the 101st chicken hawk keyboard brigade. Why don't you enlist instead of begging President Obama fight your enemies? Either enlist in the military or just shut up, cowards.

The ME doesn't have time for Obama's naive try-out games, whereby he keeps on changing tactics, whenever a tactic doesn't do the job. Obama's ineptitude will soon be translated into Iran passing the nuclear threshold, introducing a new and chilling era in the ME, whereby Iran will be able to blackmail the West into acceding to all of Iran's demonic and irrational demands. What will Obama say when Iran will make use of its nuclear warheads via its proxies like Syria, hams and hizbollah? "Oops, I made a boo-boo? Sorry, Israel and Egypt, I was certain I was doing the right thing. Well, too bad. Let's go and ruin other peoples'lives."

Australians are as dumb as Texans. Murdoch dumbed down Ozzies to the point, they're attacking Indians thinking their Arabs. And you shouldn't worry about Iran, China is eyeing your resources. Go put that shrimp on the barbie!

They fight they die their families get abusive letters from a local Sheikh. Dont underestimate us mate. In Viet Nam our soldiers called down artilery strikes on themselves when sorrounded by Viet Cong and fought their way out. In Timor they took on the embedded Indonesian special forces.The Indonesians high tailed it home. In Iraq the Persians tried to get Australians to surrender at gun point in a boat,twice, in Iraqi waters.The Australians,unlike others, assumed battle positions and told the Iranians to Farsi off-they did. Our education institutions bring in billions of dollars. Yes and many of our surfers are world champions as well Don't understimate us mate.Its been tried before.

Iran can easily drop out of the NNPT and will then be in the same position as Israel. As far as giving a nuke to terrorists they have never given chemical or biological weapons so why on earth would you think they would give a nuke?

You're so hot for the US to do something. What's your country going to do? How many hundred thousand surfers are you guys committing?

The new majority in the US Senate is 41 votes out of 100. Republicans got that earlier this week. It's not enough to stop a Democratic Party filibuster. But Republicans now control the agenda through their ability to filibuster everything. Almost nothing passes the Senate except pay raises. They even held up troop funding for almost a month.

Nuclear armed imperialist Iran will be in a position to threaten them.The Saudis know it and are working actively to prevent it.Remember how the Islamic games were cancelled over the"PERSIAN" gulf issue. Iran has already invaded an Iraqi oil field.What do you think will happen when they have nuclear tipped missiles capable of threatennning the whole M.E. and further. What hegemony? The Islamic bomb exists and Pakistan have gone to war against Israel in the past for the Arabs. Never mind keep blame shifting it sure is a good way to hide the truth.

He's the President of the United States. You don't like him? So What? We elected him to be OUR President.

If Israel have 'nuclear technology'; because Israel is the only country in the world that was threaten to be removed from the map ! Wouldn't you try to do the same yourself 'MarkL' ?! I mean try to develop 'nuclear technology' to protect yourself if you can afford it ?!

Maybe Obama will press for more sanctions (which only helps Russian and Chinese businesess) but we are definitely not going to war with Iran to guarantee Israel's regional nuclear hegemony.

This is how the leader of the free world must talk! "Obama: Iran will pay for stalling nuclear talks". Without Democracy there will never be a 'free world". Many countries mainly arab countries are living above the law.They are mistreating both their own people and the world. They are a menace to human's civilization. The free world must defend itself against such kind of countries or the world as we know it will perish from the earth. Iraq & Afghanistan are not the only ones. Terror is mushrooming every where. It is taking all shapes & forms to influence the world. Using religion is their first weapon mainly against the Jews. Isn't that how the Nazi started their filthy scheme? Aren't we witnessing the same in today's Iran !? Without the U.S might, the world is doomed. Appeasement is NOT the language of true leaders. Hitting where it hurts is what leaders are supposed to do. "Iran will pay for stalling nuclear talks" is a statement from a born leadership! Good luck Obama!

... them if the Republicans do not stop them. This is a matter of survival!

in return for buying from them and compliance with boycott-they refused. Repayment may yet come to the Chinese via Uighurs or Russia via Chechens supported by a Iran armed with nukes and long range missiles whose economy they helped keep afloat to support mischief in the M.E. and elsewhere.

when you sign the NPT which allows other countries to help you obtain nuclear technology, you agree to only use that technology for peacefull purposes, and have the world monitor you to make sure you dont weaponize it. Israel did not need to sign the NPT to obtain this technology. Therefore it does not have to abide by those rules. Furthermore israel will never use nuclear weapons unless its its last option. Iran will sell/give these weapons to terrorists.

external consumption ,with bombs going off in baghdad and uncertainty in afghanistan and failed nuclear state in pakistan ,emerging china ,reluctant japan al qaeda cells everywhere ,broken economy ,emerging opposition in iran and on on on...............i don't think he is ready to pick a fight with fanatic regime in Iran....Oh did i mention n korea?!

Charming fellow. Probably a great lawyer as well. He could well lull any suspicious jury, in acquitting a serial killer. Great orator. Well, now he has to prosecute. Thats not going to happen. For Iran's regime happens to have a jury that will revolt. Good day.

The only thing more useless than sanctions is doing nothing, but not by much, and they will have not the slightest effect on Iran

Why doesn't isreal comply with the NPT also? Also why is israel allowed to have nuclear technology AND weapons?

mark, you are a dreamer. there is no power on earth that can force iran to fully comply with its obligation under the ntp and its additional protocols.

the problem with this guy is that he's a phony...he doesn't belong where he is-he's over his head and anybody who thinks that he means what he says about Iran should re-examine their thought processes. Go back and look at what he's done and said-nothing with the "panty" bomber, and .."americans distrust moslems because of the way they pray?" He's gone around apologizing for US policy and has made all manner of overtures to Iran..without any response. Only Israel gets the full brunt of his effort-to surrender more land and security for nothing.

Obama chickened out on Mideast Peace the first time he met Netanyahu. He submitted to taking on Bush's Afghanistan bungle as his own. He refused to fight the republicans out to destroy him. He should not make statements he is unwilling to pursue. I think it is essential to return Iran to total compliance with the NPT and it's additional protocols. But does Obama know what he must have to do the job? A spine, and there is no evidence that he has one.