How Iran can avoid war

[jmowreader]

All they need do is put a three-year hiatus on their plans to open a Euro-denominated oil bourse.

Unless Bush MIHOPs a Terra Attack That Requires Continuity of Government So Bush Can't Leave Office In 2009, three years should be enough (assuming the Republicans have the courage to act contrary to the best interest of their corporate masters) to restart enough of a manufacturing base that the US economy won't completely collapse when the Iranians cancel out the dollar's role as the world's reserve currency. In 2009, we won't have this particular warmonger in office.

If Iran acts in its own best interest by opening its bourse, Bush will invade Iran before the summer.

Odds of it happening? Almost nonexistent.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

1. Change it to Pesos and really piss 'em off.

[toymachines]

2. I keep telling people our economy is facing major danger in spring

We shall see. I think they will do what they want, and so will we.

[GreenPartyVoter]

3. Russia and China rattled their sabres back, though. I still feel that

this offers a fair amount of deterrent on **co.

[Dan]

4. There is only one way...

They need to remove our oil from under their land.

[stevietheman]

5. Or, they could voluntarily freeze their nuclear _energy_ program.

In reality, they're not producing nuclear weapons, but they could pull the rug out from Bush if they simply put a moratorium on any nuclear enrichment.

Then, Bush would have to create yet another rationale for going after Iran, and this would, of course, be 100% transparent to the world.

[G_j]

6. Surprise! Iranian offer of a two-year moratorium on uranium enrichment

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x368551

Iranian offer of a two-year moratorium on uranium enrichment

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/HB07Ak01.html

Middle East
Feb 7, 2006

Sideshows on Iran's frogmarch to the UN
By Kaveh L Afrasiabi

Early last week, Europe instantly rejected, without pause for breath, an Iranian offer of a two-year moratorium on uranium enrichment, thus setting its seal on a major international crisis.

Iran's "six-point" proposal was submitted by the Iranian delegation headed by Javad Veidi to the EU-3 (Germany, France and Britain) in Brussels on January 30. Instead of giving it careful consideration, the EU-3 diplomats rejected it as old news, devoid of anything new, and then, rather disingenuously, went on to blame Iran for "lack of progress".

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Yet, incredibly, no one in the European or US media even examined the nature and content of the six-point Iranian proposal, confining themselves to the official pronouncements of the EU-3 diplomats who are more keen on satisfying the US's march toward the Security Council than in breaking the nuclear stalemate on their own.

These diplomats, so adept at "leaking" their own highly-publicized proposal to Iran last summer, kept a tight lid on Iran's proposal and, what is more, there is no evidence that any respected member of the Western media made any attempt to get their hands on Iran's proposal.

That aside, the following is the nub of Iran's six-point proposal:

Iran pledges that its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes, not nuclear bombs.

Iran pledges that it will get the legislative approval in its majlis (parliament) of the Additional Protocol to the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and will continue with IAEA inspections.

Iran pledges to stay within the NPT.

Iran pledges that it will not resume enrichment prior to the next IAEA meeting.

Iran pledges that its nuclear research will be under monitoring by the IAEA.

Iran will continue negotiating with the EU-3 regarding enrichment issues for two years, and after two years, if the negotiations fail, will resume enrichment activities.

..more..

[stevietheman]

7. Hmmm... now why would Europe now want to give Bush anything? n/t

n/t

[Leopolds Ghost]

8. It's a new world... The Cartoons Changed Everything.

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