Iran: Cheat and Retreat
Charles Johnson
Tue Oct 21, 2003 at 2:50 pm PDT • Views: 217
Iran has told the United Nations it will allow inspections and freeze their uranium enrichment programs: Iran Agrees on Nuclear Inspections, Uranium Freeze. European leaders think this is a step forward:
British, French and German foreign ministers, who flew to Tehran with a carrot-and-stick deal aimed at convincing Iran to comply with an October 31 U.N. deadline to prove it has no atomic bomb ambitions, greeted the agreement as an important step forward rather than a breakthrough.
But you just knew there would be a catch, didn’t you?
But a senior Iranian official said Tehran would only halt uranium enrichment — seen by Washington as the heart of a possible bid for nuclear arms — for as long as it saw fit, prompting some analysts to suggest Iran was playing for time.
What? Iran, playing for time? How dare these so-called analysts suggest that a totalitarian state ruled by a radical Islamic regime might not be completely honest!
Frank says: