The "solution": Israeli and Palestinian direct talks in Washington, D.C.
Yesterday, Iranian and Russian engineers began the weeklong operation of loading uranium fuel into the Bushehr nuclear power plant, a major milestone as Tehran forges ahead with its atomic program, despite Obama's attempt at U.N. sanctions.
The Bushehr facility may be under the close supervision of the International Atomic Energy Agency, but this is the same incompetent organization that failed to stop North Korea from obtaining a nuclear arsenal. It's the same agency that says it didn't even know that Syria was building a nascent nuclear reactor until Israel struck that clandestine facility in 2007.
Russia claims it will inspect the Bushehr reactor regularly to verify that it is not being used for a nuclear weapons program. An agreement between Moscow and Tehran dictates the Iranians must return the spent fuel rods to Russia, but this means the world must in part rely on Iran not to smuggle some of those rods to other plants for further enrichment.
Obama has been claiming that Iran is more isolated then ever and that his policies of dialogue and sanction threats are working.
First, however, this is untrue. Iran has cultivated alliances with Central and South American countries, is doing business with Russia and China, is aided by North Korea and is in partnership with Syria and Hamas in Gaza while Tehran nearly controls the decision-making process in Lebanon as well as that country's military.
Second, even if Iran were isolated, it wouldn't matter much. The main U.S. goal concerning Iran was supposed to be to stopping Iran from going nuclear. That goal has now completely failed.
By Aaron Klein - Read more at WND
