Iran's Leadership Not Republicans?

Funny, almost ironic political cartoon comparing the images of the Iranian leadership and the Republicans.
The GOP took the extreme, Tea Party backed stance and backed off quickly as polling took an immediate nose dive.

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Deal Reached to Halt Iran's Nuclear Program

GENEVA - The historic nuclear deal Iran signed with the United States and five other world powers early Sunday morning represents the biggest gamble of President Barack Obama's presidency, and the success or failure of that bet will have serious repercussions for the administration's standing on Capitol Hill, Washington's relationships with Israel and other Middle Eastern allies, and the national security of the United States itself.

The deal painstakingly assembled during four days of marathon negotiations at a luxury hotel here calls for Iran to halt most of its uranium enrichment efforts, eliminate its stockpiles of uranium already purified to near weapons grade quality, open its facilities to daily monitoring by international inspectors and significantly slow the construction of the Arak plutonium reactor. Nuclear weapons can be assembled using either enriched uranium or plutonium, and the new pact is designed to make it difficult, if not impossible, for Iran to gain enough of either material for a bomb.

In exchange, Iran would gain some relief from the punishing economic sanctions that had been leveled by Washington and its allies in recent years, freeing up roughly $6 billion. Tehran also won a commitment that the so-called P5+1 nations - the United States, Russia, China, France, Germany and Britain - wouldn't impose any new sanctions for the next six months. That was an important win for the Iranians since the existing measures have cut its oil exports in half and driven the price of its currency down to a historic low. 

One just wonders, how long till a Saudi Arabian backed Israel, bombs Iran's nuclear infrastructure committing an deliberate act of war and then demands the US back them up when Iran responds?

I could see theoretically, Israel's government and military leadership purposely destroying months of negotiations by the P5+1 nations to thrust the entire region back into turmoil.  (Link) 

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Fox host berates 'Joe the Plumber' after McCain surrogate says Obama vote means 'death to Israel'

Another day and we have more hate mongering from the McCain campaign.
These guys can't go a day without using the race or ethnic hate cards.
"Joe the plumber", how about changing the name to "Joe the racist" or even better "Joe the moron".

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Russia Pulls Experts From Iran Nuclear Reactor Site

Even the Russians know better when dealing with Iran, and now the region is a melting pot getting ready to explode. The article makes it seem like finances were at the center of a hastened Russian expert purge, but I have other theories.




I think the Russians have credible reasons to believe a U.S.-led attack is almost guaranteed to happen before Bush's term ends. I also wonder if Russia is under strong pressure from the U.S. State Dept. to pull out and not play ball with Iran anymore; basically the old "pulling out to save face" scenario as in alienating Russian/U.S. ties would have huge financial/diplomatic costs for both countries.




Russia could also be using the reactor construction suspension as a tool for leverage at the U.N., but I'm still not sure why they would chose this play. The Russians stand to make a mint off building reactors for other countries, and they already wield tremendous influence at the U.N., so they don't really need this diplomatic crutch.




The final and strongest theory is that Russia has good, verified intelligence that Israel is going to turn the site into a pile of rubble in the very near future. This scenario seems the most likely as Bush's team seems unwilling to start another war with Iraq falling to shreds and Israel willing to pull the trigger at a moment's notice. This would make a ton of sense. Russia would be protecting its intellectual assets and moving them out of harm's way.




If you knew that either G.W. or the Israeli air-force was coming , wouldn't you?




Russia reportedly exits Iran nuke site - Yahoo! News

Russia is pulling out its experts from the Iranian nuclear reactor site they were helping build, U.S. and European officials said Tuesday. The move reflected a growing rift between Iran and Russia that could lead to harsher U.N. sanctions on the Islamic republic for its refusal to stop uranium enrichment.

The representatives — a European diplomat and a U.S. official — said a large number of Russian technicians, engineers and other specialists have returned to Moscow in the past week, at about the same time senior Russian and Iranian officials tried unsuccessfully to resolve financial differences over the Bushehr nuclear reactor.

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