Kissinger and Shultz Give
Thumbs-Down to Iran
Deal
by Joel B. Pollak 3 Dec 2013,
12:23 PM PDT
In an op-ed in the Wall Street
Journal on Tuesday, former Secretaries of State Henry Kissinger and George
Shultz give a thumbs-down--as diplomatically as possible--to the new Iran
nuclear deal-in-progress.
After reviewing the sorry history
of failed diplomatic efforts to stop Iran,
across several administrations, the two veteran diplomats describe the core of
the problem with the agreement reached in principle in Geneva:
Under the interim agreement,
Iranian conduct that was previously condemned as illegal and illegitimate has
effectively been recognized as a baseline, including an acceptance of Iran's
continued enrichment of uranium (to 5%) during the agreement period....
Not surprisingly, the Iranian
negotiator, upon his return to Tehran, described the agreement as giving Iran
its long-claimed right to enrich and, in effect, eliminating the American
threat of using force as a last resort....
The danger of the present dynamic
is that it threatens the outcome of Iran as a threshold nuclear weapons
state.
Kissinger and Shultz then
recommend that the final agreement, to be negotiated when the six-month period
ends (though we still do not know when it begins!), must "ensure the
world's ability to detect a move toward a nuclear breakout, lengthen the
world's time to react, and underscore its determination to do so."
The U.S. should "be open to the
possibility of pursing an agenda of long-term cooperation. But not without Iran
dismantling or mothballing a strategically significant portion of its nuclear
infrastructure," they say.
This is about a charitable a
criticism of the Iran
deal as it is possible to provide. But when Iranian leaders are describing
nuclear enrichment as a "red line"--taunting President Barack Obama
in the process over his own failed "red line" against Syrian chemical
weapons--it is clear that diplomacy will fail unless the U.S. can once
again project an effective military deterrent. That requires a great shift that
this president will not make.
Henry Kissinger
Henry A. Kissinger is a director at the
Atlantic Council of the United States (think tank), an overseer at the International
Rescue Committee, a director at the American Friends of Bilderberg
(think tank), a co-author of A World
Free of Nuclear Weapons, interviewed in the Nuclear Tipping Point, was a lifetime trustee at the Aspen
Institute (think tank), and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant
(think tank).
Note: Open
Society Foundations was a funder for the Atlantic Council of the United States
(think tank), and Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think
tank).
George Soros
is the founder & chairman for the Open
Society Foundations, and the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open
Society.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the International Rescue
Committee, the Aspen Institute (think tank), the Committee for Economic Development, and
the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank).
George
P. Shultz is a director at the Atlantic Council of the United States (think tank), a
trustee at the Committee for Economic
Development, a co-author of A World
Free of Nuclear Weapons, and interviewed in the Nuclear Tipping Point.
Sam
Nunn was interviewed in the Nuclear
Tipping Point, is Michelle Nunn’s
father, and a co-chairman & CEO for the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank).
About Michelle
Nunn for the U.S Senate
Warren E. Buffett
is an underwriter for the Nuclear
Tipping Point, and an adviser for the Nuclear
Threat Initiative (think tank).
Ted
Turner is an underwriter for the Nuclear
Tipping Point, and a co-chairman for the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank).
Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace was a funder for the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank).
Jessica Tuchman Mathews is a director
at the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think
tank), the president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
(think tank), a director at the American Friends of Bilderberg
(think tank), and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).
Ed Griffin’s interview with
Norman Dodd in 1982
(The investigation into the
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace uncovered the plans for population
control by involving the United
States in war)
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