China Peoples Daily editorial: Beware of the changing US policies on Iran

[philly_bob]

http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90780/91343/6256188.html

Long, turgid editorial, clumsy translation, asks why Bush Administration threatens Iran at the same time it negotiates with it (through IAEA, International Atomic Energy Association).

--SNIP

"On August 15, the US media reported that the US government planned to list Iran's Revolutionary Guards as a terrorist organization.

The Iranian side warned Washington that the Gulf would become "hell" for Iran's enemies if they were to attack the Islamic Republic. However, a senior Iranian diplomat laughed at the media report, calling it a "propaganda game" of the US.

After Iran and IAEA reached an agreement on lingering issues concerning nuclear inspection on August 21, US representative to the IAEA Gregory Schulte said the agreement "has real limitations".

Some IAEA officials expressed in private their disagreement with Shulte's comment, saying it is unrealistic to expect Iran now to comply on the whole package of demands by the Security Council, all at once, when they remain under sanctions.

Why does the US keep threatening Iran while negotiating with the Gulf country? One popular explanation is that the United States' recent proposal at the UN to subject Iran to more sanctions ran into objections, and by mounting threats against Teheran the Bush administration can placate the "hawks' within its ranks who want to use force against Iran on the one hand and pressure other parties concerned for more efforts to push a new resolution on further punishing Iran through the UN Security Council on the other."

End SNIP--

Concluding paragraph begins: "So, countries concerned should think rationally about any negative impact from a US policy shift before deciding whether to go along with any US initiative."

In other words, Bush Administration is unpredictable, a loose cannon.

[tom_paine]

1. The Bush Adminstration are multiple murderers and serial felons

In other words, EXACTLY like the Chinese Communist Leadership. Who better to understand the untrustworthiness of bloodthirsty monsters like the Bushies than those Chinese who are like them?

In either case, any nation that does business with a totalitarian tyranny like Amerika should expect to be lied to and cheated. It what's nations like ours do (at least since Old America died in 2000).