Latest U.S. proposal to Iran just more of the same B.S.

Sham US Proposal to Iran Evokes Memories of Past Similar Ones
Submitted by davidswanson on Fri, 2006-06-02 15:07. Iran
By Stephen Lendman

It may be a new month, but it's the same old Wall Street Journal trumpeting the latest US gambit designed to hide its real intentions toward Iran. Again it was in a front page feature story on June 1 headlined: "In Shift, U.S. Offers to Talk to Iran, Aiming to Bolster Allies' Cohesion." The WSJ is never up to explaining the real motive behind the latest ploy and instead falsely claims it's "a nod to European allies' desire to offer carrots as well as sticks to steer Iran away from its efforts to produce weapons-grade uranium." So to achieve that supposed end, the US has now said it will join with the European-led "negotiations" currently ongoing and actually talk to the Iranians. One has to be impressed with such professed generosity, which, in fact, is just more barely disguised US audacity with a heavy dose of mendacity.

Don't be misled and believe this is a genuine step forward as surely it's not. It's simply just the latest ploy and example of US deceit designed to solidify support among its European allies as well as try to convince the Chinese and Russians to come aboard. It's unlikely they will as those two countries would have a lot to lose should they agree to what the US, in fact, has in mind which has nothing to do with Iran's legal right to enrich uranium for its commercial nuclear program. The Iranians are a signatory to the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) and under its rules are behaving in full compliance with it and doing so no differently than all other countries that have signed it and have their own nuclear reactors for commercial use.

The Real US Intentions Toward Iran Unreported in the Wall Street Journal and the Rest of the Dominant Corporate Media

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program as a pre-requisite to talks amounts to negotiations before the negotiations. There is no way that Iran would agree to that and the Bush administration knows it. This is the same political crap they used prior to the Iraq invasion. We all know that the primary motivation for this is the November elections. The amdinistration wants to create the illusion that they are strong on national defense by stopping Iran from doing nuclear research.

On the other hand, we don't mind sending nuclear and missle technoligy to Pakistan, a country that is one bullet away from being run by an American hating muslim.