U.S.: Frustration mounting over Iran nuclear deal

don't ya just love all these self righteous, hypocritical american liberal anti zionists(anti jews) that come to this site but who themselves sit every day on stolen land, land they genocidally ethnically cleansed of the rightful historical owners... isn't it rich how all these americans who post here are themselves living on STOLEN land. I for one say to them, you need to move, you need to all go back to where your families originally came from. You also will need to make huge reparation payments to all indians and all african americans...and then, GET OUT.

"Nobama is getting a clenched fist. What do lefties make of this?" - 4:20 So far he has shown that he will cave into to Netanyahu and let Bibi crap upon him. In the case of Iran, there is no great public support for Iran as there is for Israel. Thus I think that Obama's attempts to forge a consensus to increase the sanctions on Iran will be carried out. Even Russia and China will be onboard for squeezing Iran's crown Jewels. The sanctions will not be decisive though. The matter which will bring Iran to comply is the rapid depletion of the fuel in the Tehran Research Reactor.

I don't understand why Iran sends arms to Taliban and Iraqis to kill as many as possible US army in their lands despite the fact that Hezbullah is faring far well to restrain Israel in the northern border. US- Israel be careful, your rainy days are ahead if you mess up with Iran, it is not a soft target alike your poor neighbors.

Iran needs nukes and will have nukes, and they will do so for two main reasons and one trivial one. The first of the main reasons is the fear that Pakistan nukes will fall in the hands of the sort of Sunni Salafi extremists who consider the powerful Shi'a state to be an even worse abomination than a zionist state. The second main and equally valid reason from Iran's point of view is the eventual struggle for Azerbaijan between the neo-russian empire attempting to grow to Soviet era levels, vice the persian empire of Iran which desires hegemony over ALL the azeris. By contrast, the third reason, which is the zionists state of Israel, is of consequence only as an excuse to stir up the islamic world and get backing of these states in the UN and other arenas.

"Double Standrds..!! Iran has not signed the Addional Protocol, so it is in its right not to abide with that. By a similar logic, Israel has not signed the NPT, so they are allowed to have nuclear weapons. You can`t have it both ways." There isn't "both ways." Iran signed the NPT and GAINED BENEFITS from it. Meanwhile, while it was enjoying the benefits of the NPT, Iran was in breach of the treaty for 8 years! If Israel benefited from an exchange of nuclear materials and technology while in breach of an international agreement -- THEN you'd be having it both ways.

Nobama is getting a clenched fist. What do lefties make of this?

Iran has not signed the Addional Protocol, so it is in its right not to abide with that. By a similar logic, Israel has not signed the NPT, so they are allowed to have nuclear weapons. You can't have it both ways. If Israel is not bound by treaties it did not sign, neither is Iran.

I wrote repeatedly that Obama should extend an open hand to Russia and China, India too, and forget befriending the little antagonistic fry (about the EU, just disregard). But include the UK, Canada and Australia.

Iran said it temporarily boosted gasoline production by about 30 percent on Tuesday to show the West it can cope with any sanctions targeting its fuel imports." - Haaretz Iran actually started increasing it's own refining of gasoline months ago. Imports dropped from 2,693,400 to 1,325,600 tons a month between March and September. Iran's primary sources for refined petroleum products are the UAE 87.89%, Netherlands (Vitol, from India) 8.35%, and Romania 2.63%. In response to fiscal reality Iran has been trying to reduce imports for 3 years. In response to conservative chatter it has drastically reduced dependency over the last year. So why the panic? China has overbuilt it's refining capability and is awash in gasoline. It is the only place Iran could turn to if sanctions were tightened. And China has just turned down a request by Iran to sell it fuel for the Tehran Research Reactor. . .

Many seem to have a problem separating the problem Iran created for itself and the crisis which the Bush administration and Israel fomented to create a cause for war. If Iran simply withdrew from the NPT it would have no problems with the IAEA. Iran has not withdrawn. Iran HAD signed the Additional Protocols to defuse the war hysteria being fomented by the US and Israel in 2003. It then dropped out when that agitation was drastically raised with actual threats of immediate attack. Iran's problem started when it tried to get into Uranium Enrichment on the cheap by buying used centrifuges and equipment from Pakistan on the black market. A clear violation of the NPT. Since then intense investigation by the IAEA has raised questions and Iran has been slow to answer requests for information, refused interviews, and not been fully forthcoming. This is the problem Iran created for itself. It violated the treaty, it got caught, it has not moved as fast as it could to remove any doubts.

I think and I believe many will agree with me that the West in absolute support for Israel have used every opportunity, every media house, every avenue to paint Iran as a country that needs to be destroyed at all cost, therefore, they dont believe in anything concerning giving Iran a clean bill on its nuclear issue. The problem with the west is their double standard and myopic ideals. I bet Iran will never attack Israel even if they have 100 nuclear war heads, because it will be an invitation of mutual destruction. Check the correct history of Iran, they never attacked any country but all the wars they fought was brought to them by another sovereign country, to note is Iran -Iraq war. If I were a jew, i will join hands with Iran to make the Meadle East a great continent. Check history, Iran protected Jews during the WWII when they wrote to Hitler to leave the Iranian Jews alone. To date, there are morethan 12,000 Jews in Iran that are living side by side with Iranians in peace

Beyond "chest thumping" which is exclusively for used for domestic consumption, Iran is on record that it has agreed "in principle" to ship a big portion of its LEU stock to Russia and France for further processing. The clearest sign of this agreement is Firouzabadi's statement that Iran will do so. Firouzabadi is a close adviser to Khamenie and a former commander of the Revolutionary Guards. The only glitch is Iran wants to send its LEU abroad in 200 pound batches instead of the one big shipment that the US has demanded.

"Both great nations have trouble on their borders with Islamic separatists. America has none and yet we can plainly see the danger. So what gives?" - Jason Neither wants to see nuclear proliferation. Both Russia and China, however, are not raving paranoids like the US and Israel. Obama has the Russians onboard for stronger sanctions, and has been conducting personal talks (following prior negotiations) with Hu on the matter this week. The fact that Obama has rationalized the US position from the previous irrational one has allowed this to happen. Iran, by being obtuse, has furthered Obama's attempts to get both Russia and China aboard for a coordinated world policy towards Iran. Despite all it's chest thumping and chatter Iran will eventually submit. The Atomic Energy Organization of Iran is strongly behind the IAEA in this matter and it is only the conservatives and Ayatollahs who are holding out for a fig leaf.

Kurdistan will emerge from Iran, Iraq, and Turkey. Ahwaz Arabs will unite with Iraqi Shiites, while Sunni Iraq will unite with Saudi Arabia. Iranian Azerbaijan will unite with the Republic of Azerbaijan. Iranian Baluchistan will unite with Pakistani Baluchistan, and everyone will live happily ever after

Both great nations have trouble on their borders with Islamic separatists. America has none and yet we can plainly see the danger. So what gives?

News Corp is notorious for inventing propaganda and spinning delusions. The Times is not reliable S, everyone knows that. Anyone who has the slightest clue has understood for some time that the IAEA goal is to bring IRAN into FULL compliance with the NPT and the Additional Protocols. That the IAEA is negotiating with that objective is no news at all.

"Like it or not, Iran will eventually acquire nuclear technolgy." - Ahmet The long-run is long over. The anxiety of Israel and the US over Iran's Low Enriched Uranium is over the FACT that said LEU could be further enriched to produce a bomb. What the warmongers do not admit is that this means that if Iran wanted to build a bomb it already could have. Producing the material, not building the bomb, is the big problem. No nation has failed to achieve a nuclear yield on it's first try.

"It would have involved a country, France, that showed unreliable in the past on that matter, and that is one of the most warmongering towards Iran" - Baptiste The problem isn't warmongering. The problem is that the Shah had invested a huge amount in a French reactor fuel plant to supply the original Bushehr reactor (never completed) and has refused to provide reactor fuel to Iran for the TRR or refund the money.

I agree the story was placed by the Israeli lobby for whatever reason. However I wouldn't call The Times a rag, it is afterall the newspaper which proved without doubt that Israel is a nuclear armed country.

"Iran is in full compliance with its agreements, having declared the Qom site more than 180 days before any insertion of nuclear material." - Baptiste Iran is in compliance with the Qum site. Iran is NOT in full compliance. There has been steady improvement in Iran's cooperation with the IAEA but there are still problems in several areas. The latest report has not been released to the public, but the last one is available from the IAEA at http://www.iaea.or.at/Publications/Documents/Board/2009/gov2009-55.pdf Nor has Iran returned to the Additional Protocols which is considered necessary for Iran to do before sanctions might be lifted.

Concern grows daily, over the rising price of staples such as bread. Apparently, as from January certain subsidies regarding electricity costs will be void. Unemployment is high. Though inflation has dropped to single digit numbers, its still there, lurking in the dark. Not easy at all, one can be sure that the good people of Iran as more concerned about the daily struggle of survival than all the BS vis a vis the UN watchdog. The increase in fuel output may cost Iran money it does not have, for importing is far cheaper. Sanctions will never be effective as we all know. Maybe its time for Iran to quietly exit from the daily news forefront and care rather for its citizens. Good day.

You folks can wait until the next IAEA report to hear that.

First paragraph: "The United Nations nuclear watchdog has been holding secret negotiations with Iranian officials to draft a deal ... The Times reported on Tuesday." Third Paragraph: "The newspaper said it had received the report from a concerned party privy to the issue. The IAEA has denied that the document exists, said The Times." So, what the heck is the subject for us to blog about? That IAEA lied?

Well lets see, ElBaradei is a Muslim dealing with a Muslim, both who are both enemies of Israel. What do you expect?

The Times article is a lot of hot air. Obviously options are proposed and explored constantly but it makes no sense to take them out of their broader context. There is not one iota of substance in The Times article but you would hardly appreciate that reading this piece here.

Like it or not, Iran will eventually acquire nuclear technolgy. Decades of sanctions have made it stronger and self suficient. They have successful scientists who have almost, if not mastered nuclear technology, sent a sattelite into space and produced missiles that can reach europe. They have a space program and are advancing their medical resaerch more rapidly than most countries. Even if Israel or US bomb Iran, which is a complex operation, they will only set back its program for a few years but as a result Iran will devote more resources to building an aerial defense system like the s-300 they want from Russia.To stop Iran from becoming a world power would require an Iraq or Afghan style invasion. I wouldnt be surprised if something like that was in plan for the long term.

Iran is in full compliance with its agreements, having declared the Qom site more than 180 days before any insertion of nuclear material. Also, show me that signed agreement on sending their uranium abroad? or something of substance, not western rhetoric. The reprocessing deal isn't obvious. It would have involved a country, France, that showed unreliable in the past on that matter, and that is one of the most warmongering towards Iran.

If this report is true, El Baradei should be taken to court to answer his treason to the world , to his own country Egypt, and conivance with the barbaric Iranian regime. How much was he paid for this treason, by Iran and by the UN ? Make him cough it all back, in the name of justice !

As seen on Aljazeera about a month before the so-called UN 'inspection' of Iran's newly-found nuclear facility, the body-language betweem El-Bareidi and Ahmadinejad, the triple-kisses & embraces, was clearly collusion, not the censure that was called for...

El Baradei has failed to stop nuclear proliferation. His reports are full of weasel words and he has failed to make a strong stand against NPT signatories such as Iran. His replacement comes from a country that has suffered two nuclear attacks. It is hoped that he will make a major stand against Iran however Japan is a major importer of Iranian oil and so pressure may be bought to bear upon him from domestic back channels.

El Baradei has failed to stop nuclear proliferation. His reports are full of weasel words and he has failed to make a strong stand against NPT signatories such as Iran. His replacement comes from a country that has suffered two nuclear attacks. It is hoped that he will make a major stand against Iran however Japan is a major importer of Iranian oil and so pressure may be bought to bear upon him from domestic back channels.

Good Riddance! This idiot makes Chamberlain look courageous.

ElBaradei is leading the world powers by their noses. Not long ago he dispelled the reports that Iran is building a secret Nuclear facility in Qum. Later he and the Iranians concocted an agreement where Iran will send their Uranium to a third country for enrichment but when it came before the UN the Iranians backed out of their own written agreement, saying they need more time before signing it, then they didn't like it. Yet the brilliant dignitaries at the UN are sitting idle and allowing this twisted Iranian regime to make a mockery of all of them while ElBaradei is the one facilitating this mockery. Why was he selected to this job to begin with? He has no knowledge of Nuclear Energy is an rabid Islamist and is a laughing stock of the Nuclear scientific organizations. No one understands how and why he landed this job?

Translation " El Baredei is shows Iran how they can get a nuclear bomb and everything that goes with it including lifting of sanctions".

Worse than being complicit in Iran's run-up to nuclear weapons, El-Baradei wants now to contravene and spit in the face of the very sanctions to which his employer (the UN) has committed and legislated in no uncertain terms. Not only has he proved himself to be incompetent regarding Iran's proliferation, he now obfuscates and eschews accountability and responsibility for his own failings. His so-called "legacy" is gross misjudgement and arrogance. Thankfully, his term is up.

Do they,have they,will they,that is the question in this mini-drama called the big yawn. You sure as hell don't need any ones approval to start another war,just get on with it,its getting boring.

I've always wondered where Mohamed ElBaradei's allegiances lay and I think we now know where. His position at the IAEA is a conflict of interest and thankfully someone else will replace him soon ideally from a Western or Asian country.

The bunkered hole in the ground near Qom reminds of the mineshaft gap from Dr Strangelove. It is an incomplete hole in the ground with no equipment in it. And maybe there are other incomplete holes in the ground in the country waiting for un-manufactured equipment. Watch out Bibi. Their out to pollute your purity of essence. Drink only bottled water. No fluoride.