Leaked letter in full: UK diplomat outlines Iran strategy!!!!!!!!!!

[AGENDA21]

John Sawers, a leading British diplomat, outlined his strategy for winning Russian and Chinese support for tougher action against Iran in a confidential letter dated March 16. It was addressed to his counterparts in France, Germany and the US:

"Stanislas de Laboulaye, Michael Schaefer, Nick Burns, Robert Cooper.

Nick, Michael and I had a word yesterday about how to handle the E3+3 meeting in New York on Monday. We agreed that we would need to have a shared concept of what would happen in the Security Council after the period specified by the proposed Presidential Statement. I agreed to circulate a short paper which we might use as a sort of speaking note with the Russians and Chinese. This is attached.

Implicit in the paper is a recognition that we are not going to bring the Russians and Chinese to accept significant sanctions over the coming months, certainly not without further efforts to bring the Iranians around.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-2098203,00.html

[Justice]

1. unbelievable - the leaks are happening faster and faster

[AGENDA21]

2. Nobody wants a repeat of iraq....that might be the reason.

[Stockholm]

9. I think you nailed it there

Kick

[bananas]

3. So negotiations will continue at least thru June

"Our thought is that we would need to finalise this during June, and the obvious occasion to do so would be in the margins of the G8 Foreign Ministers’ meeting."

[AGENDA21]

4. So we can kinda relax till june...then who

knows whats gonna happen!

[redphish]

6. I'm sure the plan is for this to happen just before the elections.

All this menas is that things are going right on schedule.

[robertpaulsen]

12. Bingo. We're going to have another IWR in October, just like 2002!

Didn't some Russian diplomat describe this as deja vu all over again? Bolton is going to be stirring a shitstorm at the UN all summer, but Russia and China will not agree to any kind of resolution that hints at the use of force if Iran does not comply. Cheney will then go to Congress and coerce them into another game of chicken.

This making me sick! :puke:

[Octafish]

5. How wars get done.

K&R #5.

[helderheid]

7. whomever is leaking is a patriot and I salute them

:patriot:

[DLnyc]

8. Sounds pretty clear they're going to war before midterms

this paragraph:

In parallel with agreeing a new proposal, we will also want to bind Russia and China into agreeing to further measures that will be taken by the Security Council should the Iranians fail to engage positively. That would be reflected in Step Four. We would not, at this stage, want to be explicit about what would be involved then – there will need to be extensive negotiations on that in May/June.

"Step Four"??? . . ."would . . . not want to be explicit about what would be involved then????"

The non US-UK world needs to wake up and plan a total boycott/embargo of all American and British products. Or else just accept being reduced to colonies in a sick, decaying, dying American Empire.

[annabanana]

10. Sweet Mother of God!

This needs to get hollared from the rooftops.. If it gets loads of publicity, they can't pretend that it's "idle speculation" or that

"We'd never attack Iran" or "we just need the resolution for leverage"... or any of that other crap.

[annabanana]

11. kick. . . .

[deminks]

13. Here we go.

down the crapper.

"I've...got...a... never ending war for you
From now on, that's all I want to do.
From the first time we met, I knew,
I'd have a never ending song of war for you."

[berni_mccoy]

14. k&r!

:kick: