Saturday June 24, 2006

I've Been Thinking:

Iran is at it once again, playing their games - and winning.
It's about time that the United States - the most powerful of all Western nations - also become the smartest Western nation.

Here's what happened:
In Vienna, on Thursday, Iran's deputy Nuclear Negotiator delivered a speech at a Think Tank which was translated into German and distributed by the Iranian Embassy.
The translated version spoke of uranium enrichment - and whether it was a precondition for talks.
The Iranian Embassy, the people who distributed the translation, are calling the translation a mistranslation. They are saying that the text should have read that Iran can enrich uranium "without any preconditions."

Honestly, it doesn't make a difference what the text says.
Iran will do whatever it wants to do - which in this case is enrich uranium at will and whim - especially because they know that it irks the West in general, and the United States in particular.
Besides, the Nuclear Proliferation Agreement allows them to do so.

It's monitoring that should be the big issue, that's where Iran will put up the biggest fight.