Edwynn
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I hate to wade into this mess too because of the ultimately fruitless nature of it, but at the same time I despise the deception involved by the Western actors. If we are the more advanced and high minded culture, then it might be high time that we display ourselves as such.
The US especially and Germany and UK and France's reneging on contracts in the aftermath of the Iranian Revolution and the seizure of the US embassy and hostage taking I agree with entirely, and I heartily applauded all such actions in that regard. This of course included cutting off delivery of contracted enriched uranium deliveries with out any refund, and likewise halting construction of all Western built nuclear facilities in Iran, no refund. I would have enthusiastically applauded bombing the holy bejeezus out of them at the time (or possibly the holy be-hommed out of them) but I don't think I am alone in saying that ultimately I'm glad we did not go that route.
The restoration of civil exchange between Iran and the West was understandably slow in obtaining, and up to a point some bit of uranium deliveries and a few partial refunds eventually came into it. In the 90's the IAEA was fully involved and allowed, in fact invited into the whole process of Iran's nuclear program. But every attempt at further restoration of nuclear capacity by contracting with German, French, and even Chinese suppliers and construction companies, all of it low-grade/fuel-grade nuclear generation, was stymied and halted under pressure from the US. The IAEA and then the UN Security Council eventually succumbed to this same pressure (by the late 90's and early 2000's) and eventually started to constantly change the rules, ultimately getting to the point of making it up as they went along, and Iran's initial openness was eventually rewarded with essentially bogus IAEA negative reports concerning ill-defined and previously unknown (to anyone, not just Iran) 'safety measures.'
All that was before dinnerjacket came to the table. Any surprise how things have gone since? Not Pakistan or India or South Korea (who are making weapons grade uranium, no bomb yet and likely not anytime soon) or even North Korea, nor anybody else is being subjected to anywhere near the scrutiny and pinball machine regulatory constructs and ersatz diplomatic 'now you see it, now you don't' chicanery that Iran is currently being subjected to. The US has a nuclear co-operation deal with India, who refuse to be party to the nuclear non-proliferation treaty. Just to point that out.
Fuel grade uranium (for nuclear power plants) is quite the profitable business. I'm sure that Europe's fuel grade uranium production and sales have nothing, nothing whatsoever to do with their jumping on the sanctions bandwagon here.
To the extent that Ahmadinejad and Khomeini should just be considered as wacko nut jobs, it should thereby be considered that the actions of the US and Europe leading up to this point are nothing more than intentional and ill-intended cage rattling. There would be no better way to induce a country (especially one with somewhat quasi-stable leadership) to turn from from strictly fuel grade uranium production to contemplating bomb making than the actions taken by the Western countries thus far.
The US is now starting to show itself to be under great stress and worry concerning the hegemony of the dollar and such attendant advantages in international trade and especially international finance (most especially the latter). Oil being the most desired and needed and certainly most ubiquitous commodity of the time, any departure from dollar denominated oil sales is a diminution of that advantage. You can guess for yourself if Iraq then or Iran now went to non-dollar acceptance as payment of their oil exports.
Pure conjecture on my part here, but I wonder if the US scaling down on invasions of other countries and getting our regulatory house in order (conservatively speaking, $6 trillion saved, ergo not needed to borrow from China, right there) might reduce need for such vast sums of international finance to support these excursions and perhaps reduce the imperative of dollar hegemony as requisite to that.
Tail chasing is only cute when it's a puppy.
< Message edited by Edwynn -- 2/18/2012 9:42:32 PM >
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