September 25, 2009
(NOT) Shocking News of the Day: Iran has nuclear ambitions!

Posted at 9:31 am, in: Foreign Relations
Tags: Barack Obama, Gordon Brown, Iran, Nicolas Sarkozy, Nuclear Program

Don’t worry, people, it’s all good. Iranian officials claim it’s peaceful:

President Barack Obama joined other world leaders in accusing Iran of setting up a second site to create nuclear materials and of hiding the underground facility from the international community on Friday.

In a late addition to his schedule, Obama, who is in Pittsburgh for a meeting of the G-20 economic summit, delivered his remarks in an early-morning press appearance.

As Obama leveled the nuclear charges at Iran, he was flanked by British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and French President Nicolas Sarkozy. The leaders called on Iran to open the facility to inspection by the International Atomic Energy Agency.

Western intelligence services have known about the secret facility for years but kept quiet about it, even as the controversy built over Iran’s nuclear ambitions, the New York Times reported.

On Monday, Iran sent a letter disclosing a new “pilot plant” to the IAEA, several news agencies reported. Experts suspect that Iran made the disclosure after learning that Western governments had discovered the existence underground plant.

The maneuvering over the new facility came just days before the U.S. and five other nations are set to open talks with Iran over its nuclear program, which Iranian officials claim is peaceful.

Obama says Iran is breaking the rules:

Iran’s newly unveiled uranium enrichment facility “is inconsistent with a peaceful (nuclear) program,” Obama said.

“Iran is breaking rules that all nations must follow,” he said.

He called on Iran to “take concrete steps” to demonstrate it will comply with its international obligations to ensure its nuclear program is for civilian use and not a covert weapons program.

Or else what? He called on Iran to take concrete steps to demonstrate it will comply with its international obligations to ensure its nuclear program is for civilian use and not a covert weapons program or else what? What is President Obama prepared to do about it? What’s the threat? Or, are we just making polite requests at this time?

Iran doesn’t follow rules. That is why the UN is a joke. No one plays by UN rules when it is not advantageous to their country and the bad guys disregard it and just use it as a ploy to manipulate other world leaders into thinking they’re going to cooperate so they can have more time to pursue their nuclear ambitions. President Bush, with all of his faults, recognized this and that is why he didn’t much care what they said and did and acted unilaterally to protect the country he was elected to lead. Take a note, President Obama.

Your father act isn’t working with America and now, because you’ve apologized to the world and shown your weakness by letting them know you’ll do anything to play nice and be liked on the playground, your father act isn’t going to work on Iran. When they don’t listen and continue to seek nuclear weapons and continue their nuclear program, what’s your next move?

Considering you have already agreed to talks with no preconditions, what are you going to do when Iran does whatever the heck they want to do (and, in case you were wondering, Iran is definitely wanting to build some nuclear weapons)? Are you going to stomp your feet and tell them how unfair it is and that they’re not playing by the rules? I hear throwing a temper tantrum, which you have proven quite effective at with this health care debate, is very effective with rogue world leaders. You should just keep giving that a try and see how that works out for you.