The Iranian government, after weeks of delay and ambiguity, has finally responded to a UN Security Council proposal that offered a series of carrots (appeasement) and sticks (empty promises) designed to push Iran out of the uranium enrichment business. Iran, however, has already made it abundantly clear that they will not abandon their uranium enrichment activities, assuming Iran’s Supreme Leader is to be believed.

While the details of the Iranian response is unclear, it is a virtual guarantee that Iran has no intention of complying with western demands. Even if the Iranian leadership did wish to draw back from the brink, to do so would risk their influence and credibility within the Islamic world. And Iran certainly covets the position of leader of the Islamic world. For their part, the Iranians have indicated that they are ready for “serious” negotiations with regard to their nuclear program, which highlights the undeniable fact that their previous negotiations over the past 2 years were far from serious.

Indeed, Iranian officials have all but admitted that their efforts in these negotiations have been to delay action by the West, allowing the Mullahs of Tehran to gain a firm foothold in the development of their indigenous nuclear weapons program.

So if Iran has no intention of halting its uranium enrichment activities have we reached an impasse…certainly Not. As the Europeans have demonstrated throughout history, just because an aggressor makes unreasonable demands is no reason to draw a line in the sand, indeed, we can certainly expect the EU3 along with the consistently obstructive Chinese and Russians, to offer yet another appeasement package proving to Iran that they have nothing to fear from the west.

In the end their can be but one result: a nuclear armed Iran and the lessons learned during their proxy war with Israel will soon be visited upon the entire west with Atomic consequences, presumably at that point one could finally expect the west to stand up or perish, given their track record however, perish seems far more likely.
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