Clock Runs as Obama Faces Pressure for Strike on Iran

[Purveyor]

By Indira A.R. Lakshmanan and Terry Atlas - Mar 5, 2013
U.S. Vice President Joe Biden said there remains “time and space” for diplomacy aimed at averting military action to prevent Iran from becoming a nuclear weapons power.

Still, the pressure on President Barack Obama’s administration to move toward military action is growing as Iran advances its uranium enrichment capabilities, and U.S. lawmakers, Israel and Persian Gulf allies press for results.

Today, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said negotiating time is “finite.”

“The clock is ticking and the president has made that clear,” Kerry said in an interview in Doha with Andrea Mitchell of NBC News. “The president’s policy is that Iran will not get a nuclear weapon.”

Iran is using negotiations to “buy time” to pursue a nuclear weapons program, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said yesterday in a video address to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee’s annual conference in Washington. Although Iran’s uranium enrichment activities have yet to cross Israel’s “red line,” the Islamic Republic is “getting closer” to the point where it would be capable of quickly producing a nuclear weapon, he said.

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[Mass]

1. The media are once again pushing for war.

and so is Israel, apparently.

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/TheNote/secretary-state-john-kerry-interview-martha-raddatz-doha/story?id=18655479

[Lasher]

2. Maybe Iran has Weapons of Mass Destruction Program Related Activities

We should attack their weather balloon trailers.

[ProSense]

3. You know,

I've been reading and watching Kerry's statements at the State Dept. site, and I have to say the way the media reports on them is absolute bullshit.

[still_one]

4. I do not believe we will do an attack against Iran. This is just more media trying to beat the war

drums. The same media that cheered us on to invade Iraq based on a lie.

As far as Netanyahu's bellowing, that is all it is, a little less violent than Ahmadinejad bellowing, but essentially just posturing.

Unfortunately for the media, Obama is in office. He is working to restart Israeli and Palestinian peace talks, something bushco and the repukes destroyed completely after Bill Clinton left them a golden opportunity to continue, and perhaps finalize something.

In addition, the Obama administration has opened up a channel for direct talks with Iran

This is not the same destructive policies that were given us by the repuke party and PNAC