Translation: Do as you are told., or else!

Iran is not rejecting the IAEA proposal; it is simply asking for time to develop a counter proposal.

Iran hasn't started any war for the last 200 years.

The leaders of Iran may be many things, but they are not stupid. They understand that any attack on Israel would lead to a massive counter-attack by the US and Israel which would pulverize Iran into a puddle of green glass.

And knowing, without any bit of ambiguity, that Israel has nuclear weapons, refuses to sign the NNPT, and refuses inspections of their nuclear sites, it is Iran which is probably feeling a great deal of existential dread right the heck now.

Every single inspection by the IAEA has indicated that absolutely no nuclear material has been diverted, nor has any been enriched beyond the level necessary to run a power plant.

This article, and the fact-challenged and fact-devoid articles like it, are journalistic equivalent of junk food, intended for massive consumption to prepare the American public for an Israeli attack against Iran in the near-term.

But please don't drink the koolaid on this one; because it will be our kids serving in our active military who will be called to defend "poor little Israel" with their lives.

The only "limits" she is discussing are those imposed by Netanyahu earlier this year, who threatened that if the US couldn't take care of the (non-existent) threat of a nuclear armed Iran by the end of this year, Israel would take care of that with a military strike.

It's the first of November, and the clock is ticking toward such a potential scenario.

There's no deal here which has been cast in cement; it is completely reasonable that Iran wants more talks. This is a framework for a potential agreement only.

Let us hope that the adults in the room in Tehran, Tel Aviv, Vienna, and Washington will find a win/win way to make this work.

Otherwise, we may well be looking at a military confrontation which could spell the beginning of World War III, as Russia has made very clear upon whose side they would be fighting, should such a confrontation happen.

Unflipping believable.

How can the US say in one breath that they are in support of this deal while at the same time supporting what will amount to unilateral sanctions??

A deal is not a deal unless and until all sides agree to it.

Asking for more time, more clarification, and more meetings is certainly not unreasonable here on the part of Iran.

"Negotiations, schmegotiations; Israel ordered us to attack Iran, so we attack Iran. Get used to it!" -- Official White Horse Souse

Kill them! Kill them! They've ... they've ... they've ... Okay they haven't actually done anything. But they could do something! And soon! They are evil, evil people! They reject the holy writ of compound interest!!! Kill them! Kill them! Kill them!

It is not a deal until everyone agrees to it.

But since the US, France, Britain, and Germany broke the last deal (the NNPT) I can understand why Iran is cautious.

It isn't a deal until ALL sides agree to it.

The big lie here is the attempt to claim that Iran did agree to the original deal, which they did not, then to portray Iran as having broken the agreement which was never agreed to.

It isn't a deal until ALL sides agree to it.

Of course, the obvious purpose here isn't Iran's power station and medical isotopes, but to justify another war of conquest for Americans to die in while trying to make it look like Iran is the bad guy here.

Here is a recap of what they are trying to make you forget.

1. Last Spring, Rose Gottemoeller, an assistant secretary of state and Washington's chief nuclear arms negotiator, asked Israel to sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. Israel refused.

2. The United Nations passed a resolution calling on Israel to sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and to submit to inspections. Israel refused.

3. The IAEA asked Israel to sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and to submit to inspections. Israel refused.

4. Iran's formal notification to the IAEA of the planned construction of the backup fuel-rod facility underscores that Iran is playing by the rules of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty which Iran has signed.

5. Iran allows IAEA inspections of all its facilities.

6. Contrary to face-saving claims, it appears that the US and Israel were both caught off guard by Iran's announcement. The reasoning is simple. Had the US or Israel announced the existence of he new facility before Iran's notified the IAEA, it would have put Iran on the defensive. As it is now, the US and Israel seem to be playing catch up, casting doubt on the veracity of Israel's claims to "know" that Iran is a nuclear threat.

7. The IAEA and all 16 United States Intelligence Agencies are unanimous in agreement that Iran is not building and does not possess nuclear weapons.

8. In 1986, Mordachai Vanunu blew the whistle and provided photographs showing Israel's clandestine nuclear weapons factory underneath the reactor at Dimona.

9. Israel made the same accusations against Iraq that it is making against Iran, leading up to Israel's bombing of the power station at Osirik. Following the invasion of 2003, international experts examined the ruins of the power station at Osirik and found no evidence of a clandestine weapons factory in the rubble.

10. The United Nations has just released the Goldstone Report, a scathing report which accuses Israel of 37 specific war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza earlier this year. Israel has denounced the report as "Anti-Semitic (even though Judge Goldstone is himself Jewish), and the United States will block the report from being referred to the War Crimes Tribunal at the Hague, thereby making the US Government an accessory after-the-fact.

It isn't a "deal" until ALL sides agree to it!

Note that not a word here is mentioned about Iran's counter-proposal.

Look at this from Iran's point of view. The deal the US and Israel want is for Iran to simply ship most of their uranium out of Iran, then trust that somewhere down the road the processed uranium will get shipped back. But Iran is having trouble trusting the US on this deal and for a very good reason; the United States is already violating the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty by asking Iran to cease peaceful uses of nuclear power. For that matter so are France, Britain, and Germany. They all signed the NNPT alongside Iran but are in violation of that treaty by supporting the US position. Israel is not in violation of the NNPT for the simple reason that they never signed it nor have they allowed the same inspections that Iran allows. The fact that France previously reneged on a similar deal involving Iranian uranium shipped to France but never shipped back does not help.

There is one other reason for Iran to be cautious about letting all their processed uranium leave the country. The presence of refined uranium at Iran's facilities is a major reason those facilities have not yet been bombed. If Israel were to attack those facilities while the uranium is resident it would create a disaster on a scale equal to Chernobyl that would poison the middle east including Israel itself (already dealing with leakage issues from the Dimona reactor). If Iran sends the all the uranium in a given facility to Russia, that facility becomes an instant target. It is rather unrealistic to expect Iran to trust the very nations that have been threatening to attack Iran for months now, especially after seeing the war waged on Iraq on the basis of lies and deceptions.

The problem we face today is that too many governments see a new world war as their best way to get out of the troubles they are in, and they are perfectly happy to see millions of people continue to die horrible deaths to prolong their power.

Isn/t diplomacy where both sides negotiate to reach a deal?

Instead the "we gotta have a war NOW" crowd is taking the position that Iran has to do as they are told without question or face war.

This strikes me as odd because as we have pointed out many times already, Iran has a right to build nuclear power plants and other peaceful uses of nuclear energy as guaranteed by the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, which Iran has signed.

The United States has also signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, which means that under international law, the US is required to recognize Iran's right to peaceful uses of nuclear power. Under Article IV, the United States is required to assist Iran in building peaceful applications of nuclear technology.

For that matter, France, Britain, and Germany, which are reported in this article to reject Iran's proposal, are also signers of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. Which means they are also required by treaty law to recognize Iran's right to peaceful uses of nuclear power.

The message here is clear. "Someone" has made the decision that Iran is to be destroyed and it does not matter what concessions Iran makes, the war will be on. Apparently to please the warhawks, France, Britain, and Germany have no problem being seen as treaty-breakers and rogue nations.

Meanwhile, of course, there is the problem of Israel which has NOT signed the NNPT does NOT allow IAEA inspections, and yet leads the charge to demonize Iran (just as it did Iraq) over a non-existent weapons threat.

War with Iran will mean war with Russia.

Do you really want to go through that for Israel?

MORE EXAMPLES OF THE PRO-WAR SPIN

Iran's conditions push nuclear deal close to collapse

Iran heads for nuclear row

Iran accused of playing games on nuclear deal

Look back at the headlines before the invasion of Iraq. You will see the same fear-mongering, demonization, and above all, the demand that Iraq/Iran must simply do as ordered to avoid invasion.

And meanwhile, Israel continues to build nuclear weapons with which to

"Israel has told us to start a war with Iran and BY GOD WE MEAN TO DO IT!!!!!" -- Official White Horse Souse

This is why nobody wants to deal with Israel (or the US) any more. NO matter what concessions are made, it is never enough.

Israel, who has never signed the NNPT and does not allow IAEA inspections, wants the world to see Iran, which HAS signed the NNPT and DOES allow IAEA inspections, as the villain.

And the fact that Israel is no longer able to shape global perceptions to her own design is the reason we are seeing an entire nation throw a tantrum.

Desperation on the cusp of madness.

NOW THEN, ABOUT ISRAEL'S NOT-SO-COVERT ARMS MAKING ABILITIES...

1. Last Spring, Rose Gottemoeller, an assistant secretary of state and Washington's chief nuclear arms negotiator, asked Israel to sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. Israel refused.

2. The United Nations passed a resolution calling on Israel to sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and to submit to inspections. Israel refused.

3. The IAEA asked Israel to sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and to submit to inspections. Israel refused.

4. Iran's formal notification to the IAEA of the planned construction of the backup fuel-rod facility underscores that Iran is playing by the rules of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty which Iran has signed.

"Okay, forget about Iran. How about Sudan? Can we invade Sudan? They have oil and gas. We'll just say they harbor terrorists or something!" -- Official White Horse Souse

"Okay, forget about Iran. How about Lebanon? Can we invade Lebanon? They have water. We'll just say they harbor terrorists or something!" -- Official Tel Aviv Souse

This is your Tzipi on drugs. Any questions?

1. Last Spring, Rose Gottemoeller, an assistant secretary of state and Washington's chief nuclear arms negotiator, asked Israel to sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. Israel refused.
2. The United Nations passed a resolution calling on Israel to sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and to submit to inspections. Israel refused.

3. The IAEA asked Israel to sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and to submit to inspections. Israel refused.
4. Iran's formal notification to the IAEA of the planned construction of the backup fuel-rod facility underscores that Iran is playing by the rules of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty which Iran has signed.
5. Iran allows IAEA inspections of all its facilities.
6. Contrary to face-saving claims, it appears that the US and Israel were both caught off guard by Iran's announcement. The reasoning is simple. Had the US or Israel announced the existence of he new facility before Iran's notified the IAEA, it would have put Iran on the defensive. As it is now, the US and Israel seem to be playing catch up, casting doubt on the veracity of Israel's claims to "know" that Iran is a nuclear threat.
7. The IAEA and all 16 United States Intelligence Agencies are unanimous in agreement that Iran is not building and does not possess nuclear weapons.

8. In 1986, Mordachai Vanunu blew the whistle and provided photographs showing Israel's clandestine nuclear weapons factory underneath the reactor at Dimona.
9. Israel made the same accusations against Iraq that it is making against Iran, leading up to Israel's bombing of the power station at Osirik. Following the invasion of 2003, international experts examined the ruins of the power station at Osirik and found no evidence of a clandestine weapons factory in the rubble.
10. The United Nations has just released the Goldstone Report, a scathing report which accuses Israel of 37 specific war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza earlier this year. Israel has denounced the report as "Anti-Semitic (even though Judge Goldstone is himself Jewish), and the United States will block the report from being referred to the War Crimes Tribunal at the Hague, thereby making the US Government an accessory after-the-fact.

Well, we know one of the bombing targets for that first attack!

This is really the crux of the problem. Israel has a not-so-secret nuclear weapons lab under Dimona but calls for the blocking of other nations' power stations.

The US Army openly confirms Israel's nuclear arms.

So did Harry Reid.

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But the US Government pretends not to know about Israel's nuclear weapons so that they can continue to send Israel YOUR tax dollars in violation of the Symington Amendment to the Foreign Appropriations act.

Last Spring, Rose Gottemoeller, an assistant secretary of state and Washington's chief nuclear arms negotiator, asked Israel to sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. Israel refused.

The United Nations passed a resolution calling on Israel to sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and to submit to inspections. Israel refused.

The IAEA asked Israel to sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and to submit to inspections. Israel refused.

I would have preferred Ahmadinejad to be a bit less confrontational at this time, but he is correct when he says that the world cannot expect Iran to listen to requests to cancel their power plant while Israel, with a history of attacking their neighbors and accused of War Crimes in Palestine, is allowed to have nuclear weapons.

We have been down this road before.

Have you noticed how all of a sudden this renewed violence in Iraq happens just when the case for war with Iran collapses?

... which is why Israel has sent troops into the Al Aqsa Mosque to try to kick off a new Intifada. If Israel cannot get a war with Iran to distract the world from the Goldstone Report, then Israel's plan is to provoke the Muslims into a rage in order to portray them as savages unworthy of the world's sympathy, in order to collapse the growing support for Israel's war crimes to be referred to the Hague.

If you are in Palestine and reading these words, do NOT let Israel goad you into rash actions that Israel will then use to evade their war crimes.

Just stop and think. Israel's leaders are on the verge of being called to the Hague to face war crimes charges. Even if the US succeeds in blocking that, Israel's public image of helpless victim fighting for its existence is gone. Please do not hand it back to them on a silver platter with any rash actions.

Israel was hoping to distract the world from the Goldstone Report with a war on Iran. That appears to have collapsed with Iran's impending deal to allow Russia to refine their medical radioisotopes. So Israel stands naked before the world for their war crimes without so much as a fig leaf to hide behind. That is why they have attacked Al Aqsa. They are trying to provoke a new Intifada, and if they get it, the obedient media will use it to portray the Palestinians as a violent and unruly mob unworthy of any sympathy and world public support to send Israel to the Hague will collapse. The longer Palestinians refuse to be provoked, the worse Israel will look. Think Gandhi and the British. The British wanted the world to see the Indians as a primitive and barbarous people that "needed" British control. Gandhi and his supporters refused to be baited, and simply let Britain burn its own public image of "benevolent tyrant" out.

Israel's standing in the world has taken a major beating in the last year. They have been damaged far more than you may yet realize. The incursion into Al Aqsa is an act of desperation which if it is NOT responded to only makes Israel look more like a bully. In the end, Al Aqsa is just a building. God lives in your heart, in your head, and in your hands. Violence might save the building, but bring about the total war by Christians on Islam that Israel so badly needs right now.

"A lot of you Americans will die, but that is a sacrifice we are willing to live with!" -- Israel

OK, just a little logic here.

If the site was dedicated to enrichment of uranium to the level necessary to create weapons, why has Iran invited the IAEA inspectors here to see the facility?!?

So far, Iran, as a signatory of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, has played everything by the book. Their current power station plant, built with Russian assistance, has been inspected by the IAEA.

Never have those inspections revealed that nuclear material has been either diverted, or enriched to the level necessary to create nuclear weapons.

The facility at Qom was reported to the IAEA before it became operational, and no uranium has been enriched here as required by a signatory of the NNPT.

So, we've got Iran absolutely dotting every i and crossing every t in terms of compliance to the the terms and conditions of the NNPT.

But what about Israel? Israel has nuclear bombs at their Dimona facility (and probably elsewhere), but Israel refuses to become a signatory to the NNPT, and refuses to allow inspections of is nuclear sites, unlike Iran.

1. Last Spring, Rose Gottemoeller, an assistant secretary of state and Washington's chief nuclear arms negotiator, asked Israel to sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. Israel refused.
2. The United Nations passed a resolution calling on Israel to sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and to submit to inspections. Israel refused.

3. The IAEA asked Israel to sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and to submit to inspections. Israel refused.
4. Iran's formal notification to the IAEA of the planned construction of the backup fuel-rod facility underscores that Iran is playing by the rules of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty which Iran has signed.
5. Iran allows IAEA inspections of all its facilities.
6. Contrary to face-saving claims, it appears that the US and Israel were both caught off guard by Iran's announcement. The reasoning is simple. Had the US or Israel announced the existence of he new facility before Iran's notified the IAEA, it would have put Iran on the defensive. As it is now, the US and Israel seem to be playing catch up, casting doubt on the veracity of Israel's claims to "know" that Iran is a nuclear threat.
7. The IAEA and all 16 United States Intelligence Agencies are unanimous in agreement that Iran is not building and does not possess nuclear weapons.

8. In 1986, Mordachai Vanunu blew the whistle and provided photographs showing Israel's clandestine nuclear weapons factory underneath the reactor at Dimona.
9. Israel made the same accusations against Iraq that it is making against Iran, leading up to Israel's bombing of the power station at Osirik. Following the invasion of 2003, international experts examined the ruins of the power station at Osirik and found no evidence of a clandestine weapons factory in the rubble.

For the trillionth time: Iran did not "miss a deadline"; the date of 23 October was a suggestion by El Baradei of the IAEA for a timetable, but not a hard and fast deadline.

Iran has requested a couple more days to respond, and put together a counter-proposal for the IAEA, which will be reviewed by the IAEA team next week in Vienna.

Reasonable people in Washington and Tel Aviv should be listening, and watching appropriately.

But the worst possible solution to Iran's pursuing nuclear enrichment, which it has the legal right to do as a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, would be a war.

And as to Israel's all consuming desire for a "nuclear-free Iran (when all inspections by the IAEA indicate that there has been no weapons-grade enrichment, and that no nuclear materials have gone missing), I've got an even better idea for it.

How about a nuclear free Israel, which has nuclear weapons, and will not sign the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty, and not allow inspections?!?

Just something to think about.

You've got to love just how desperately TIMESONLINE is attempting to spin Iran's counter-proposal as a failure of Western diplomacy, the contents of which will be evaluated next week by the IAEA in Vienna.

It is obvious that those who own this paper would love nothing better than to see a US/Israeli-led war against Iran; of course, none of their kids would ever wind up in the cross-fire, dead, or maimed for life.

And before lapsing into the great delirium of absolute jingoism, the owners of this institution had better ponder the following: Russia has stated that it will continue to supply defensive weapons to Iran. They have also previously warned the US and Israel that an attack on Iran will provoke World War III.

War with Russia, anyone?!?

Russia actually has nukes, and is just in the process of re-writing military policy, which will include under what circumstances they can engage in a pre-emptive nuclear strike.

Let us hope we have some adults in the room in Tel Aviv and Washington, as this alternate proposal is presented by Iran.

Which seems perfectly reasonable to me for an agreement of this scope, but of course the US and Israel wants this deal to fail because with out, they are in big trouble!

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Israel is cornered here. For that matter so is the United States. When this Iran deal goes through on Friday, the primary excuse for war with Iran evaporates.

Where does that leave Israel and the United States?

Israel now faces war crimes charges at the Hague. Yes, the United States will veto the Goldstone Report in the Security Council, but the ringer in the deal is that the General assembly, under Resolution 377, can bypass the Security Council and send the Goldstone Report to the Hague and the United States and Israel cannot stop it. Earlier this year, the General Assembly voted through a resolution requesting Israel to sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and submit to the exact same IAEA inspections that Iran (and every other NNPT signatory) submits to. Israel refused. The fact that Israel and the United States were not able to deflect this Resolution tell us that the General Assembly has lost all patience with Israel. The credibility of the UN as a world governing body is on the line. The probability that the General Assembly will bypass the Security Council is therefore very high. A war with Iran would have distracted the media from Israel's war crimes charges. That seems not likely to happen now.

As for the United States, the US Government was hoping to ignite a new major war, one which would distract Americans from the already failed wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, not to mention the economy destroyed by failed US Government policy. And based on prior history, the US Government probably anticipates that a new major war would persuade Americans to forget their anger over the aforesaid failed government policy, and imbued with a renewed patriotic fervor would suddenly return to being obedient breeders of soldiers and payers of war-taxes. As naive as that expectation might have been, the Iran enrichment deal ends the possibility of a new war with which to distract from the old war.

So both the United States and Israel are in serious trouble. They had wanted war with Iran to distract the world from their various domestic problems, and now that is not likely to happen. Israel has to live with their war crimes charges. The US has to live with their ruined economy and failed wars, and public anger. Both Israel and the US are showing themselves as desperate to block Israel war crimes charged from progressing, and may have wasted that political capital in vain if the UN General; Assembly invokes Resolution 377.

So, in short, Israel and the US are cornered politically. Cornered animals are the most dangerous and desperate. Our future is in the hands of whichever leader is the least mentally stable, and ready to hit the panic button. That panic move; that striking out from the corner could be something subtle like a new false-flag "terror" attack, or something as straightforward as simply attacking Iran without provocation.

But Israel and the US are cornered right now. and we should be prepared to see them act like it.

It would be reasonable for Tehran present a counter-proposal.

The US is attempting to "railroad" through an agreement without regard to Iran's point of view.

The US and Israel want to force Iran to surrender their rights under the nuclear non-proliferation treaty. Obviously, Iran has no desire to do so, especially in the face of an Israel which has refused UN and US requests to sign the NNPT, or to allow IAEA inspections.

Translation: every single thing Israel has attempted to do, so far, has not thrown the proverbial spanner into the works, and it appears that the deal may well be approved.

This story feels like a plant to scuttle the reports of a successful deal coming from other sources, primarily because of the line quoted above, which is a fabrication. Iran allows all inspections required by the IAIA under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.

It is Israel that refuses to allow inspections.

As I predicted yesterday, Israel is trying to find some way to scuttle the Iran deal and proceed with the war.

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Israel is cornered here. For that matter so is the United States. When this Iran deal goes through on Friday, the primary excuse for war with Iran evaporates.

Where does that leave Israel and the United States?

Israel now faces war crimes charges at the Hague. Yes, the United States will veto the Goldstone Report in the Security Council, but the ringer in the deal is that the General assembly, under Resolution 377, can bypass the Security Council and send the Goldstone Report to the Hague and the United States and Israel cannot stop it. Earlier this year, the General Assembly voted through a resolution requesting Israel to sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and submit to the exact same IAEA inspections that Iran (and every other NNPT signatory) submits to. Israel refused. The fact that Israel and the United States were not able to deflect this Resolution tell us that the General Assembly has lost all patience with Israel. The credibility of the UN as a world governing body is on the line. The probability that the General Assembly will bypass the Security Council is therefore very high. A war with Iran would have distracted the media from Israel's war crimes charges. That seems not likely to happen now.

As for the United States, the US Government was hoping to ignite a new major war, one which would distract Americans from the already failed wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, not to mention the economy destroyed by failed US Government policy. And based on prior history, the US Government probably anticipates that a new major war would persuade Americans to forget their anger over the aforesaid failed government policy, and imbued with a renewed patriotic fervor would suddenly return to being obedient breeders of soldiers and payers of war-taxes. As naive as that expectation might have been, the Iran enrichment deal ends the possibility of a new war with which to distract from the old war.

So both the United States and Israel are in serious trouble. They had wanted war with Iran to distract the world from their various domestic problems, and now that is not likely to happen. Israel has to live with their war crimes charges. The US has to live with their ruined economy and failed wars, and public anger. Both Israel and the US are showing themselves as desperate to block Israel war crimes charged from progressing, and may have wasted that political capital in vain if the UN General; Assembly invokes Resolution 377.

So, in short, Israel and the US are cornered politically. Cornered animals are the most dangerous and desperate. Our future is in the hands of whichever leader is the least mentally stable, and ready to hit the panic button. That panic move; that striking out from the corner could be something subtle like a new false-flag "terror" attack, or something as straightforward as simply attacking Iran without provocation.

But Israel and the US are cornered right now. and we should be prepared to see them act like it.

Israel is already trying to spin this as meaning the Iran deal is off, but all Iran is saying is that while they are willing to go through Russia for the refinement process, that this should not be construed as surrendering Iran's rights under the Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty, which Iran and the US have signed, but Israel has refused to do.

From this report it appears that Israel is going to try to act like they are the primary movers in finding a peaceful solution to the "Iranian Question", both to counter the war crimes charged they are facing at the UN and to soften the public-relations blow that an Iran nuclear deal will create.

But I tend to accept the Iranian statement that there was no meeting to discuss non-proliferation in the Middle East, simply because any such meting would open with a discussion of Israel's illegal weapons factory under the Dimona reactor complex.

Crisis over.

War is called off!

Now on to Israel's war crimes trials!!!!

"Oh crap; who do we have the Americans attack NOW?!? If we don't get a newsworthy war going, we're gonna hang for war crimes!!!!"

"We will order the Americans to kill them next." -- Israel

Obama was only interested in Palestinian peace talks only so far as they could be used to convince other Arab states to put pressure on Iran.

In other words, Obama wants to be able to pretend to have peace talks to sucker the other Arab states into putting pressure on Iran, but in reality one does not move the peace process forward by allowing Israel to commit war crimes with impunity. That's like letting Jeffrey Dahmer go free and hoping indigestion will eventually make him stop.

Will Israel try to distract the world from the Goldstone Report by starting the war with Iran?

As the Iranian suspicions fly amid US denials regarding the recent assassination of top Iranian commanders, I wanted to relink this to remind everyone that as war with Iran looms close, to expect distortions of the truth from the corporate media.

This observation is absolutely correct; unfortunately, there are very powerful elements within the governments of both Israel and the US which see some kind of war - any war - as a way to get out of - or at least deflect public anger from - their domestic problems.

"It's false, I tell you. Totally false. I mean, I mean, I mean, we're the @#$%ing United States!! Would we do something like that?!? Of COURSE not! We're the @#$%ing United States!! We don't DO things like that!!! We're as clean as the preacher's sheets!!!! It's probably a suicide bomber. Yeah, yeah, sure, sure; a suicide bomber. That's it! Yeah, yeah, sure, sure!!!" -- Official White Horse Souse

The group taking credit for the bombing, Jandullah, "the Army of God", is covertly supported by the United States, and word from inside Iran is that they think the US is behind the bombing.

This is the group that supposedly took credit for blowing up Iran's key military officers.

Only a few days ago, senior Israeli officials talked very openly about destabilizing Iran through a series of covert ops; in looking at this attack, where senior officers of Iran's Revolutionary Guards Corps were killed, one has to wonder if this process has not already begun.

The group taking credit for the bombing, Jandullah, "the Army of God", is covertly supported by the United States, and word from inside Iran is that they think the US is behind the bombing.