Glow of talks flattens nuclear reality

[unhappycamper]

http://atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/MID-02-081113.html

Glow of talks flattens nuclear reality
By Victor Kotsev
Nov 8, '13

The top Iranian nuclear negotiator, with two days of nuclear talks under way, announced on Thursday that the six world powers had accepted the framework for a deal he had proposed. While this prompted the outrage of the Israeli prime minister, who said that such a deal would be "a mistake of historic proportions", the exchange is little more than a charade, shifting the focus of the discussion and obfuscating the real issues at hand.

Uranium enrichment, the crux of the science in the Geneva talks between Iran, the five permanent members of the UN Security Council - United States, Britain, France, Russia and China - and Germany, is a very complex process that can hardly be broken down into simple steps and the "red lines" laid down in the diplomatic flurry that brought the negotiations to their current point. Middle Eastern politics is similarly complex and cannot be broken down into black-and-white enmities and friendships.

Though details about the agreement that is reportedly in the works are sparse, Reuters claimed that "the Islamic state would curb some of its nuclear activities in exchange for limited relief from sanctions that are damaging its economy." Down the road, this could potentially involve easing sanctions on trading gold and petroleum products in exchange for limiting the numbers of centrifuges working at the Iranian sites and stopping enrichment to 20% purity level altogether. For now, some reports have suggested, releasing some of the blocked Iranian funds for strictly humanitarian uses may be on the table.

None of what is contained in these leaks would meet Israel's official demands, [1] much less Saudi Arabia's. The two countries have been cooperating closely against Iran in recent years.

[chervilant]

1. Nuclear proliferation...

The very definition of insanity: doing the same thing over and over and over, expecting different results.