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“Non-threatening” Iran reveals second uranium enrichment plant
Somebody better tell both the President and Joe Biden, both of whom have said before that the size of the country of Iran meant it wasn’t a big a threat to our nation than bigger countries (via Memeo):
PITTSBURGH, Sept. 25 — President Obama and the leaders of France and Britain on Friday blasted Iran’s construction of a previously unknown uranium enrichment facility and demanded that Tehran immediately fulfill its obligations under international law or risk the imposition of harsh new sanctions.
“Iran is breaking rules that all nations must follow,” Obama said, detailing how the facility at Qom had been under construction for years without being disclosed, as required, to the International Atomic Energy Association. “International law is not an empty promise.”
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown accused Iran of “serial deception” that he said “will shock and anger the whole international community, and it will harden our resolve.”
“We will not let this matter rest,” Brown said. ” . . . Iran must abandon any military ambitions for its nuclear programs.”
Iran acknowledged the existence of the facility for the first time on Monday, in a letter to the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency. The letter said “a new pilot fuel enrichment plant is under construction in the country,” said Marc Vidricaire, a spokesman for the watchdog agency. “The letter stated that the enrichment level would be up to 5 percent.”
The kicker? The US and other western intelligence agencies knew about this second plant for years:
White House officials said Western intelligence agencies have been tracking the facility for years. Obama said officials from the United States, France and Britain briefed the IAEA in Vienna on Thursday on what they knew about the facility. The three heads of state decided to publicly disclose the existence of the facility after learning that Iran had become aware the site was no longer a secret.
Iran’s report of the facility’s existence — and Obama’s plans to accuse Tehran of hiding it — were first reported Friday by the New York Times.
Jim Geraghty blasts The Powers That Be:
Wow. Since January, we’ve sought re-engagement with Iran, soft-pedaled criticism of a brutal crackdown of Iranian civilians, and scuttled missile defense…
… and now we learn that they’ve been hiding a second nuclear facility the whole time, and that the U.S. government and its allies have known about this facility for a number of years, and we’ve pretended, in pursuing this re-engagement, that they could be trusted. And for months, we’ve made outreach after outreach, all aimed at establishing a relationship of trust with a government that lied to us, and continues to lie to us.
Dana Loesch adds:
Why did he not say anything to Ahmadinejad who was on our soil at the United Nations just two days ago? Do you realize how impotent this foreign relations #fail makes our President appear? How ineffective we appear?
Well, to be fair, if this President was truly and sincerely concerned about the possibility that his speeches would make him – and via extension this country – appear weak on a world stage, I feel certain he’d do us all a favor by never opening his mouth again at the UN or at any other “international” function. And for that matter, he’d probably instruct Biden to keep a cork in his, too.
One guy who didn’t play the role of appeasement/apologist at the UN this week when it came to the issue of Iran – and the UN? Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. You can read/watch it here.
So that’s what leadership looks like. I’d almost forgotten.
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In the 1930s, the British statesman Lord Lothian expresssed the opinion that Germany could not be expected to accept armament limitations without first being permitted to re-arm. His thought process is summarized in the book The Appeasers: “”If Germany were allowed to rearm, this would give her an “equality” that would enable her to sit without any sense of weakness or inferiority at the Disarmament Conference.”
Lothian’s thought process seems very close to that of Obama and his associates.
Does this cause a problem for the Israelis, or does it support them if they strike via air attack? One view is that revealing this now publicly might undercut them and cause them to stand down.
It’s all sort of like the SNL skit where Mohamed ElBaradei claims that he will write them a “stern letter” if the don’t comply.
bill, I’d bet dollars to donuts that it was Israeli intelligence that first tipped off the CIA.
And this has to be another “historic” moment in this presidency: Obama in a news conference with Brown and not dissing on him or his nation.
This is the same thinking the Rosenbergs had when they were giving the Soviet Union the secrets to the Hydrogen bomb. – Lorica
Once again Obama proves how out of touch with reality he is.
Apparently our spooks knew about this back when the 2007 NIE was released. Remember? The one that didn’t make any sense except as a politicized and falsified document meant to undercut Bush’s dealings with Iran? Guess what, boys and girls – that’s precisely what it was.
Further, Obama knew this during the campaign.
So don’t expect any real action. A little bit of handwringing, a tiny amount of weaselly “concern” which the cowardly left can pretend is “tough” and “realistic,” and Iran gets nukes and we dump the whole thing in the Israelis’ laps. Meanwhile, spectacular idiot Zbigniew Brzezinski is saying we need to threaten the Israelis, intercept their aircraft if they cross Iraqi airspace en route to Iran. And Obama and his clique are squeaky clean because whatever bad happens is Bush’s fault.
God help us all. We will be lucky not to have a global mass disaster during Obama’s watch. Not sure we deserve such luck.
Bush apparently was aware of this second facility, but he’s played enough poker to know you don’t let your opponent know what’s in your hand.
Bambi, on the other hand, apparently is like a giggly little adolescent behind a wall laughing because he knows something the Iranians don’t know he knows. Doesn’t have a clue what to do with the information, but he’s got it, by golly, tee-hee-hee.
And unfortunately, as enlightened as the Framers of the Constitution were they didn’t put any way of removing a president who suffers from insipid (but hopefully not terminal) stupidity.
What happens to these men when they go to Washington? They all loose their p***s once they get into office. What is wrong with urkel? He’s like one big limp pickle! Where are our macho men? We need some right about now. I don’t believe anything urkel says anymore about anything. He’s holding our troops hostage over the stupid health care bill and you know it. I can’t wait for karma. Boy it’s going to be good.
jeanee… “macho men?” People voted for the metrosexual, we apparently didn’t want a macho man.
The problem with “his” karma is that we all are going to pay. His mistakes and miscalculations and blunders are going to cost all of us. As satisfying as it might be to see him come a cropper, the dangers to the nation are far too grave to consider that possibility wiht equanimity.
Oh, and by the way: raaaaacist!