Pleased No End

"For 20 years, three presidents of both major parties proclaimed that an Iranian nuclear weapon was contrary to American and global interests - and that they were prepared to use force to prevent it. Yet negotiations that began 12 years ago as an international effort to prevent an Iranian capability to develop a nuclear arsenal are ending with an agreement that concedes this very capability, albeit short of its full capacity in the first ten years."
"[By] mixing shrewd diplomacy with open defiance of U.N. resolutions, Iran has gradually turned the negotiation on its head. Iran’s centrifuges have multiplied from about 100 at the beginning of the negotiation to almost 20,000 today. The threat of war now constrains the West more than Iran."
"While Iran treated the mere fact of its willingness to negotiate as a concession, the West has felt compelled to break every deadlock with a new proposal. In the process, the Iranian program has reached a point officially described as being within two to three months of building a nuclear weapon," they added. "Under the proposed agreement, for 10 years Iran will never be further than one year from a nuclear weapon and, after a decade, will be significantly closer."
Henry Kissinger, George P. Schultz, (former U.S. Secretaries of State) Wall Street Journal

Matters are shaping up nicely for the Islamic Republic of Iran. The irritating penchant of the West to dictate to countries they view as subservient to their views of the world order and their insistence on maintaining a social contract that all countries behave civilly toward one another, and not engage in violence, threats and sinister covert activities meant to emphasize their ability to enact a superior brand of violence should their threats be ignored, appears to have fallen on hard times.

When it becomes a matter of wills, of sheer persistence, or belief in entitlements and the exceptionalism of a country whose religious figures placidly inform the executive branch of government that God, their true head of state, has empowered them to avail themselves of nuclear weaponry as an aid in instilling fear and surrender to the Persian Empire wishing to reimagine itself as the true inheritor of Islam's throne, this assurance is all that is required.

Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif, left, Head of Iranian Atomic Energy Organization Ali Akbar Salehi, second left, Special Assistant to Iranian president Hossein Fereydoun, second right, and Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi wait for the start of a meeting with Britain, Russia, China, France, Germany, European Union and the U.S. officials at the Beau Rivage Palace Hotel in Lausanne, Switzerland Monday, March 30, 2015, during Iran nuclear talks (AP Photo/Brendan Smialowski, Pool)

By appearing to placate the concerns of Russia, China, United States, Britain, France and Germany that they truly do err in inferring that the Republic's zeal toward achieving nuclear independence is directed toward nuclear arms, they leave an aura of uncertainty among even the skeptical of the P5+1 negotiators. The primary force behind the West's position, after all, has convinced himself that even should the real purpose of Iran's insistence on nuclear attainment be weapons-directed, the benefit of the doubt calls to reasonable men.

Nothing ventured, nothing gained, that sort of thing. Give it a try. Offer a compromise and await the response. Perhaps the goodwill extended in the very nature of bargaining with a recalcitrantly entitled entity can demonstrate to its rulers that lightness of spirit can be shared; the generosity of the West in shrugging off such fearsome concerns for the human relations touch of proffering that proverbial olive branch, might inspire them to give second thought to accepting a role among other nations of the world who prefer the calm and serenity of good relations over conquest.

Nice thought, that. That a smile begets a smile. Sometimes it does, and sometimes the responding smile is that of a crafty crocodile recognizing that he has, by sheer dogged persistence, won the tedious game of tit for tat and there's no need for surrender, after all. On their part, that is. The surrender of watered-down demands for safety in the global public weal is interpreted in a culture that believes in winner-take-all, that their adversary is simply not capable of proving itself.

In surrendering the very key demands that would effectively set back the Republic's nuclear program sufficiently to cause it to set it aside, the P5+1, helped Tehran justify its need for the hideous arms of atomic fission. A cowardly surrender to the smug insistence of a bully, a terrorist-inciting, sanctimoniously-religious administration that no one has the right to interfere in any of Iran's business, official or unofficial.

It will continue to provide its terrorist proxies like Hezbollah and Hamas and even al-Qaeda, with advanced arms, and itself with the arsenal it so ardently pursues. In time, it may decide that sharing those impressive nuclear-tipped missiles with its partners in Islamofascism suits its larger world agenda. Little wonder all the negotiating principals in the photograph above are shown smiling their ulterior satisfaction with the successful cunning and intrepid refusals resulting in a win on this file.

"Iran’s foreign minister and nuclear chief both told a closed-door session of the parliament on Tuesday that the country would inject UF6 gas into the latest generation of its centrifuge machines as soon as a final nuclear deal goes into effect by Tehran and the six world powers."

"The AEOI chief and the foreign minister presented hopeful remarks about nuclear technology R&D which, they said, have been agreed upon during the talks (with the six world powers), and informed that gas will be injected into IR8 (centrifuge machines) with the start of the (implementation of the) agreement."

"[Qoddousi said the Iranian Foreign Ministry plans to release a fact sheet presenting Iran’s version of the framework understandings in the next few days.] Those issues that have stirred serious concern among the Iranians will be revised and released in this fact sheet."

Fars News Agency, Iran, quoting Javad Karimi Qoddousi, parliamentarian National security and Foreign Policy Commission