U.S. Refuses Conference Contact With Iran

[sarcasmo]

Friday new dump time.

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The no-contact policy holds even if Iran wants to talk about its nuclear program, Burns said. The United States has had no diplomatic relations with Iran since the 1979 storming of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran.

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India on Friday supported a plan to allow Iran to enrich its uranium in Russia and said that the world "should avoid confrontation and work in the spirit of seeking a mutually acceptable solution."


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[acmavm]

1. Now let me see, where have I heard this crap before???? I think it was

just before a big boom went off somewhere in the Middle East. Oh yeah, that's right. It was just before Shock and Awe.

[sarcasmo]

2. Shock and Awe two on the way.

[Rex]

3. The road to war is one way.

Sorry no, we need a new distraction from 911, Iraq, Katrina, etc. There is still TRILLIONS to steal from working stiffs. Nope it is war in March.

[0007]

4. ...and then was ten months ago.

In March, 2005, Condy tried to intimidate Indian Foreign Minister Natwar Singh in New Delhi to back away from India's plan to import natural gas by pipeline from Iran, claiming that any such endeavor would frustrate U.S. efforts to isolate the hard-line clerical regime in Tehran. Indian leaders let it be known that their desire for additional energy supplies trumped Washington's ideological opposition to the Iranian regime. Declaring that the proposed pipeline will be necessary to meet India's soaring energy needs, Foreign Minister Singh told reporters, "We have no problem of any kind with Iran."

Following her attempt at extortion in New Delhi, Rice flew to Moscow and demanded of President Vladimir Putin that he cease his crackdown on the privately-owned energy giant, Yukos, and allow increased investment by American firms in Russia's energy industry. She threatened that the Bush junta would stop "collaborating" in the development of Russia's vast oil reserves. While embracing Rice's call for enhanced U.S.-Russian relations, Putin showed no inclination to back away from his plans to increase state control over Russian energy companies and to use this authority to advance Moscow's geopolitical objectives. Condi's animosity toward Putin really stems from the fact that he's been moving against the handful of billionaire plutocrats in Russia (many of whom also hold Israeli citizenship) who grabbed control of the Russian economy with the open connivance of then-Russian leader Boris Yeltsin, following the collapse of the old Soviet Union.

[cliss]

8. Yes! I remember reading about this

last year. Amazing! How quickly the public forgets. This is an ongoing thing now: starting in January 2005, the US started beating the War Drums maniacally. It reached a fever pitch, and then suddenly died down.

Everybody forgot about it. Or rather, no one knew what the hell the problem was, and then they went about their daily lives.

NOW exactly 1 year later, here we are again. Stupid clowns. Just stirring up shit, that's all. Like maggots, they are looking for some opening, some weakness (in Iran) then they can move in like a virus and take over, just like they did in Iraq.

[cantstandbush]

5. When you refuse to talk to your enemy, you want that enemy for life. n/t

[thecrow]

6. Wasn't the US position to be "Diplomatic" means????

I thought I just heard Chimpy say that a couple weeks ago.

Has our position changed that much in two weeks?

[OneBlueSky]

10. the BushCo, "diplomatic" means . . .

"we're right, you're wrong, fuck you" . . .

[Yupster]

11. I thought we were out of this ?

a couple years ago, it was agreed that France, Germany and Russia would negotiate this problem, and we'd keep our paws out of it.

I guess that's changed.

[bemildred]

7. Get Ollie North, he'll talk to Iran ... nt

[jpak]

9. Maybe they'll fall for that Cake and Bible trick again...

n/t