By ROBERT BURNS
AP National Security Writer
updated 4:50 p.m. ET, Fri., July 10, 2009WASHINGTON – After a half-year of extending patient feelers to Iran, President Barack Obama has set a timeline — warning Tehran it must show willingness to negotiate an end to its nuclear program by September or face consequences.
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Obama said that in September “we will re-evaluate Iran’s posture toward negotiating the cessation of a nuclear weapons policy.” If by then it has not accepted the offer of talks, the United States and “potentially a lot of other countries” are going to say “we need to take further steps,” he said.The president did not say what steps he has in mind. He mentioned neither sanctions nor military force. But it seems clear that a next step to pressure Iran would entail some form of sanctions.
UPDATE:
Today Pres Obama announced that Iran has been building a secret underground nuclear facility and hiding it from the UN for years. In response, he said that he will bring up the nuclear issue at talks with the Iranians on October 1st (recall the Iranians agreed to talks as long as the nuclear issue was not discussed). Obama-along w the British and French-then went on to threaten that there might be sanctions if Iran doesn’t seriously talk about resolving the nuclear issue at the talks where they’ve already said they won’t talk about the nuclear issue.
question: At what point does threatening to take action no longer seem as though it’s a threat?
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As long as we keep dancing to the Iranian tune, of endless negotiations, America will wake up to Iranians successful nuclear test.
Politicians will wail and moan in dismay, and there will be fingers pointed. But the decision has been made. America will allow an Iranian bomb. And if Israel gets hit… it gets hit. More counterfeit outrage, and Washington moves on. The pageantry of negotiation, and sanctions, is just PR.
Shame on our leaders. Shame on them….
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Iran’s response will go something like this…
Ooooooo….
Heavens No! Not the “Sanctions…” Of course, we’ll stop our nuclear programs…
And, naturally, Russia and China will say, ” WHAT THE?! A SECOND nuclear facility?! Well, that makes all the difference in the world! Iran you bad boy. Stop that immediately”.
There are times when I wish my life operated like that awful movie “Click” and I could just FFW to when Iran has their first above ground nuclear test and skip all this fake BS.
Diplomacy in Obama’s world consists of apologizing for the greatness and power of the United States, betraying her friends and allies and congratulating her enemies for NOT being the corrupt US. This sort of “diplomacy is an OBVIOUS failure…unless, of course, the intent is to sell-out one’s own country!
Anyone listening to Obama’s UN speeches will wonder by what right we would impose our beliefs and values on Iran.
After such a stirring speech of moral equivalency, who are we to tell them that they are not good enough, or equal enough, to possess nuclear facilities?
What wiggle room did Obama’s speech give him to allow him to threaten sanctions?
Like no one expected this from a neophyte Usurper who has never led anything successful in his life…
You get what you voted for America….
Better find a location that is not prime for an attack and ride it out…
Sanctions against Iran will accomplish very little no matter how deserving. They won’t be as worthless as the meek attempt to apply sanctions to Iraq because France may actually help this time around with Sarkozy replacing Saddam’s friend and business partner, Chirac. My preference would be to apply sanctions against any nation conducting business with Iran. That would make a difference but those pigs have not been fitted with wings yet and likely never will.
Even more ominous is that I have not heard one thing from Israel about it. The silence is deafening, and damn scary.