EU has now a deadline for the mullahs? It’s tomorrow! No wait, maybe next month…
Nearly a month after submitting a pacakge of "incentives" to the Iranian mullahs- the mouth-watering proposal of commercial and security measures intended to buy the Iranians into giving up their nuclear ambitions, the EU and the US are still waiting to hear from the mullahs. After numerous utterances from the regime, including the ones coming from Ahmadi-nejad in front of his Chinese friends in Shanghai last month, giving August 22 as the time for a mullahs' response, and those coming from the regime's foreign minister, Mottaki- and the head executioner, Khamenei, the EU is now mad. German foreign minister, Frank-Wlater Steinmeiser, said on June 26 (Reuters), "They have had the offer for two weeks already," after meeting with his Iranian counterpart. It is not obvious whether this was meant to scare the mullahs into action, or he was simply whining. A "knowledgeable" western diplomat was quoted in the Financial Times on June 27, as saying "if they are just playing for time, that's unacceptable." The Europeans are onto something here!
In a flash of courage that would put Neville Chamberlain to shame, the EU's version of a foreign minister, Mr. Javier Solana, will meet with the Iranian foreign minister tomorrow to elicit a response. One could even imagine the line of discussion, "come on my dear and truthful friend, Manoucher, you know that next week is the G8 meeting in Russia. Without a response, and hopefully one that says that yes, we will suspend and stop all nuclear-related activities, the G8 meeting will not be much fun. After all, we postponed the meeting so that you will have more time for a response"- the truth is that the meeting dates were pushed back so as to not clash with the football world cup in Germany, but the mullahs should not have to know that!
The fact of the matter is that unless, the EU grows spin and the US acts as the actor that pushes Europe toward a forecful policy- much the same way it did in Europe in the 40's and 50's, the mesage to the Iranian terror mongers, we're afraid, is that we're afraid of you. The same way that non action to the Iranian growing terror onslaughts in the 80's and 90's, both within and without Iran, made them bodler and more precise in their deadliness, appeasement today will bring about a more deadly Iranian regime. A regime that will not hesitate to flex an even more muscular strategy in Iraq, Lebanon, and elsewhere.
In a flash of courage that would put Neville Chamberlain to shame, the EU's version of a foreign minister, Mr. Javier Solana, will meet with the Iranian foreign minister tomorrow to elicit a response. One could even imagine the line of discussion, "come on my dear and truthful friend, Manoucher, you know that next week is the G8 meeting in Russia. Without a response, and hopefully one that says that yes, we will suspend and stop all nuclear-related activities, the G8 meeting will not be much fun. After all, we postponed the meeting so that you will have more time for a response"- the truth is that the meeting dates were pushed back so as to not clash with the football world cup in Germany, but the mullahs should not have to know that!
The fact of the matter is that unless, the EU grows spin and the US acts as the actor that pushes Europe toward a forecful policy- much the same way it did in Europe in the 40's and 50's, the mesage to the Iranian terror mongers, we're afraid, is that we're afraid of you. The same way that non action to the Iranian growing terror onslaughts in the 80's and 90's, both within and without Iran, made them bodler and more precise in their deadliness, appeasement today will bring about a more deadly Iranian regime. A regime that will not hesitate to flex an even more muscular strategy in Iraq, Lebanon, and elsewhere.
posted by Alborz Ledger at 5:12 AM
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