U.S.: Iran choosing isolation by planning 10 new nuclear plants

The Iranians think they invented poker. News flash... Tehran. When you hold a strong hand, you double-down. When you're holding zilch and double-down... you're bluffing. Larijani can announce he'll build a thousand enrichment plants. The US is well aware Tehran has technical difficulty with the enrichment process. Due to antiquated equipment, the inability to obtain replacement parts and lack of uranium ore. Even the Natanz facility is not up to snuff. Next bet... is to call their bluff, with banking and oil sector sanctions to follow.

Lets just assume that Iran has decided to negotiate from a position of strength. Iran does not have the funds for such an enterprise. Iran chose isolation ever since the rigged elections. Lets be clear, its the regime, not the oppressed great people of Iran. The problem lies with the possibility that said regime will supply some terrorist group with a nuclear device, which could well be used against the US,Europe,Gulf States or Israel. Good day from rainy Swiss Alps.

why are we all kidding ourselves about Iran's intentions? They are making a beeline to be a nuclear power. Last I looked ahmaddinajad and the mad mullah's are not anybodies friends, just self serving egoists with grudges to bear. They are not worthy of being in power. They are children and the adults better wake up.

What isolation? Like in economic? With Russia and China ignoring the true intentions of Iran to develop military nuclear capability in order to make a quick buck and/or out of animosity to the West no economic sanctions will work. Next step? USA and Israel launch a pre-emptive strike or Iran goes nuclear. I'm betting on the last option.

Peter Williams:"Abiguity is protecting Iran." The ambiguity is the rhetoric claiming Iran is developing nuclear weapons,a lot of it coming from your warmonger friends in Israel and Washington. Peter Williams:"The house of cards is starting to fall." It sure has Peter,Iran has called your bluff and swagger.What you're going to do about it?

ISRAEL must acquire or develop drones by the thousands to wreck havoc on Iran's nuke facilities.

Natalie--the US did not help Israel get the bomb and abandoned Israel to Nasser in 1967. When Israel won that war the US saw a likely top dog and used Israel against Russia and the pro-Soviet Arab bloc but it is not correct to paint the US as a strategic sponsor of Israel up to then. Meanwhile Iran is far from innocent and has regularly stiffed inspectors and withheld information. The NPT is de facto dead. Why not end it?

Guys, there is no doubt that Iran is out of compliance with the reporting requirements of NPT. That said, NPT has been hopelessly politicized, not least by those backing Iran who have subverted its restrictions on Iran, not to mention the big-power monopoly underlying it in the first place. It is no secret that multi-lateral diplomacy is fundamentally political, going back to, well forever---notwithstanding whatever legalisms are slathered on top of the cake. Let's start by putting the NPT into deep freeze and letting nation-to-nation diplomacy or military confrontation play out without all the double talk palaver.

Iran has the right to make a hundred enrichment plants. Iran has the same rights as Israel, USA, United Kingdom and every other country in the world. Where does the right to tell other people what to do ? Iran has never attacked a single country in 200 years, yet Israel has attacked nearly all of it's neighbours. I will say this if you are after moving to Israel then get out of that country because you have been duped and deceived to come to Isreal for one reason and one reason only, to continue the disruption of the Middle Eastern countries surrounding it, Israel is a creation by a force greater than jews themselves wake up Israel smell the coffee.

We 'could' build 10.. We 'might' build 10.. 'What if' we built 10..

Peter Williams:"Abiguity is protecting Iran." The ambiguity is the rhetoric claiming Iran is developing nuclear weapons,a lot of it coming from your warmonger friends in Israel and Washington. Peter Williams:"The house of cards is starting to fall." It sure has Peter,Iran has called your bluff and swagger.What you're going to do about it?

so any country but Israel possessing the bomb is anti Semitic right

Iran has put into operation 2 S-300 system which are likely Russian S-300 PMU-2 or Iranian upgraded Chinese PMU-1 system. This has been confirmed via commercial satellite pictures. Iran is using them for training and to protect nuclear sites. This will not stop bombing but makes it more risky to aircraft unless cruse missiles can take them out quickly. The question is how many aircraft is Israel willing to lose and how much damage they can do. Israel submarines with cruse missiles could take out 1 but other maybe out of range.

taken over the Shishkebots in Iran and is threatening the entire World with annihilation! Someone please contact Doctor Optimus Prime and notify him to bring the OCD Medicine with him to Teheran as soon as possible!

do as israel does, remove yourselves from the NPT, then they won't know a damned thing, they don't believe you now, so why bother.

The U.S. and Israel have already died morally for their murderous deeds in Iraq, Afghanistan and Gaza. Now the U.S. has become a Zombie banana republic with its economy in shambles and its dollar in the process of crashing and collapsing taking with it America's influence and arm twisting on the world. The white house and Israel are just barking without any real teeth to use against Iran.

because they know that NPT is nothing but worthless treaty that is violated day in and day out by more powerful countries

Next glacial era it will be really out.

#1 Do exactly what we want or sanctions and no negotiation is not dipomacy but simply bullying.

Any kind of attack on Israel (the US proxy in the ME) regional hegemony in the ME will not be tolerated by western powers, unless you get down on your knees and beg for mercy and swear allegience to the US O A. It has nothing to do with logic or security.

You have to read Newsweek's Maziar Bahari:"118 days in hell" about the time he spent in prison in Teheran during the last riots in Iran. It has been published in Newsweek, Nov.30. It's a must if you want to understand better what is going on in the evil empire.

Iran has said no to various solutions which would allow atomic energy without the military aspect. If the motives of the Iranian leaders were simply for domestic energy we wouldnt be in this situation. Heading for war.

People have to learn that other people, even their enemies, are not worse. Congratulations to Iran!

Obama has him on a short leash.

Since you have chosen this path what are you going to do with the toxic waste? It has a half life of 1000 years? Are you going to bury it under your cities and what if there is an earthquake? What are you going to do with your citizens who are radiated and have four arms due to contamination? What about your babies who are all born with cleft lips and hearts outside their chest. What about making wind mills and solar panels on everyones buildings. Trees are nice except when they all grow like a chinese tortured cherry tree there a reason it called that. Rankoo-Karoon

Reminiscent of Hitler's piecemeal approach. Worked exceedingly well. No one cared then, and no one cares today (it's been going on for many years).Empty talks, the trademark of Politicians. If we take the same ratio of victims in WWI to WWII, it should amount to approx. 200 - 300 millions corpses. It only shows that the same type of the so-called world leaders are in very much in charge today. same schools, same books -- decisions made based on "my needs first" - the hell with the others. Top of the list of this exclusive club: islam, Iran, China?, Russia?,or approx. 3 1/4 billion of the total mother earth is capable of handling.

Only a fool would put their money in a swiss bank account when they need it to cover operation costs.... Thus it was inconcieveable that Iran would consent to such a deal. Now, it is unfair to slam it with a resolution and at the same time, let the Israelis off the hook when they failed to reveal their nuclear war head arsenals. It's all looking like a gross double standard and the IAEA will fail if it doesn't play fair & isn't an equal opportunity negotiator. Dutch

Thanks to the shortsightedness of the 5+1, Iran now the perfect excuse, and reason, to drop the NPT as a hot potato. NPT membership has not helped Iran a bit to achieve its legitimate goal of developing a nuclear program. Instead, the NPT membership has been used as a club to beat Iran over the head by ever increasing political demands to hinder its open and legal nuclear program. In my view, let's say bye bye to NPT.

Is that the one there is absolutely no evidence for?

"..everyone knows what iran`s after .." Please tell us again and again.. Maybe it'll come true.... thus far there is no evidence that it will...

Natalie----- you seem to be a little confused ads to the meaining and pupose of the NPT as well as the obligations to those who are signatories. But you are quite in error if you think that the US a France in any way violated NPT protocol for any involvement they may have had in assisting Israel to obtain their nulcear capabilities----- as it was accomplished prior to the existence and creation of the NPT. As far as Iran is concerned- they've failed miserably to live up to any of the obligations assocoated with the NPT and have been quite clearly in violations thereof as so stated by the IAEA. I say they should in fact withdraw their participation and therefore make it 100% clear to everyone their true intentions so as to convince the remaing few non believers as yourself !

It's time Israel realizes that it needs to FINALLY be ready to go do to Iran, what it has already in the past done to Iraq and Syria. Fly warplanes to Iran and DESTROY via air-strikes their Nuclear facilities. The more time is given to Iran, the more difficult and damaging it will be to Israel to pull this off. While all the major world powers don't like Iran building nukes, it's only ONE country they are building nukes with the intention to use them on. Israel needs to realize it cannot RELY any longer on other country's "diplomatic" efforts, Iran only understands force, as it only wants to exert force. DESTROY THEM ALREADY and if the world thinks Israel overstepped what they are "allowed" to do without the consent of the rest of the world, then SCREW the rest of the world. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!!!

This meaningless legalistic "diplomacy" has to stop--it certainly doesn't fool Iran, probably doesn't fool the domestic publics of the Western powers, and serves only to dramatize the "ignore the little man behind the curtain" pathos of our various poobahs of Oz. The West with Israel or Israel alone can decide rationally whether this is a cause for military action or not--if not, then an end to posturing would be welcome.

If it wasn't for contineous threat of bombing Natanz the place could hold enough centerifuge for the fuel needed for the current three reactors and possible 5 more to be built by ruissa in the next 7 years If the west ease its hypocracy iran could settle to only three sites for now

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of note; baradei openly saying that key information asked for a full year ago regarding military applications and weaponization studies have not been answered. everyone knows what iran's after and this charade of civilian energy is a joke as is the notion that iran deserves to have nukes because israel or the US or russia or china have them. Support for this rationale in some parts of the world are short sighted, naive and frankly,to a large degree, anti semitic. It's a very dangerous issue we are all involved in and we really have to put the good of all nations ahead of politically correct garbage. Surely you anti semites put the earths safety as a priority over your own personal anti semitism? I wonder....

"The Iranian government on Sunday approved a plan to construct 10 new uranium enrichment plants," - Reuters A hollow and desperate gesture. Iran has no need for, nor can it mine enough uranium to utilize, 10 more enrichment plants. One need only have followed for years the slow growth of production in the current Natanz plant to comprehend that Iran is barely able to operate that facility and cannot build and operate 10 more like it. The tension between the men actually tasked with developing nuclear energy as well as maintaining a supply of industrial and medical isotopes; and those who's political posturing is making it impossible for the former to achieve their goals, is intense. The politicians are breast beating and boasting. The technocrats are forced to stand aside, watching disaster overtake them.

this only unifies the west more and more and thats a very good thing !

The NPT was a method adopted by nuclear armed nations to help them maintain their advantage over non nuclear armed nations. The only signatories were nuclear armed nations and those nations that had no nuclear asperations. Nations such as Israel, India, and Pakistan would gain no advantage from signing the NPT. Since America (and France) made a gross violation of the NPT when they secretly helped Israel to obtain nuclear arms, all meaning was lost. Iran should drop from the NPT. So should everybody else. It has no point.

Signing the NNPT, and allowing IAEA inspections is supposed to get a country certain things, like technical assistance, access to nuclear material for peaceful uses, and a degree of protection from attacks on your nuclear facilities. What Iran has received for signing the NNPT and IAEA inspections that show no nuclear weapons program is sanctions, technical interference, legally purchased nuclear material not delivered, and the threat of attack on its civilian nuclear program. If you signed a contract, and got none of the promised benefits, would you not start talking about getting out of it?

Abiguity is protecting Iran. The more intransigent Iran becomes, the less ambiguous their Nuke program becomes. The house of cards is starting to fall.

What else would you expect Iranian regime to do? This is indeed very wise answer to the policies of Netanyahu.

You know what he did to us in Transformers I!

To satisfy Israeli concerns, I guess, the US is demanding that the already verified empty hole in the ground will stay empty and a hole in the ground. Further, the US is demanding that Iran disclose all other holes in the ground so we can match them with our list of holes in the ground. And if Iran has managed to dig a hole in the ground we don't know about, there'll be hell to pay at CIA photo analysis. Then the IAEA will have to go in and verify that the newly disclosed hole is in fact a hole and empty. or maybe is a bomb shelter. Can't have those either. What if a hole in the ground has beds and food in it? What about the mineshaft gap and the purity of essence?

the obama administration's so-called diplomacy with iran is a dead end. iran will never stop its nuclear weapons program, nor its imperialistic ambitions. iran is, and has been, a rogue terror state since 1979.