See if you can spot which ally is most willing to suck Uncle Sam's rectum.
I'd be expecting some sort of Mossad-run false-flag operation soon, readers, to get the Europeans back on board!
"Europeans See Murkier Case for Sanctions
By ELAINE SCIOLINO
PARIS, Dec. 3 — The Bush administration’s new intelligence assessment that Iran halted its nuclear weapons program in 2003 is likely to complicate efforts to impose new sanctions on Iran at the United Nations Security Council, European officials said Monday.
The officials, who declined to be identified under normal diplomatic rules, stressed that their governments were formally studying the new assessment of Iran’s nuclear intentions and capabilities by the administration’s intelligence agencies.
But they added that they were struggling to understand why the United States chose to issue the report just two days after the six powers involved in negotiating with Iran — the United States, Russia, China, France, Britain and Germany — had decided to press ahead with a new Security Council resolution.
“Officially, we will study the document carefully; unofficially, our efforts to build up momentum for another resolution are gone,” said one European official involved in the diplomacy.
Another senior European official called the conclusions of the assessment “unfathomable.”
Russia and China have resisted the passage of more punitive sanctions, and Vitaly Churkin, the Russian ambassador to the United Nations, praised the report as vindication of Russia’s position.
“We have always been saying there is no proof they are pursuing nuclear weapons,” Mr. Churkin told reporters. He added, however, that he did not know what impact the report would have on the new initiative for more sanctions.
In Vienna, the American intelligence finding was embraced by the International Atomic Energy Agency as proof that its conclusions about Iran’s nuclear program were correct.
Mohamed ElBaradei, the director general of the Vienna-based nuclear watchdog agency, is seeking to resolve questions about Iran’s suspicious activities in the past, but has been criticized for not pressing Iran hard enough on curbing its current nuclear program and for conducting diplomacy that seemed at odds with Security Council strategy.
“Despite repeated smear campaigns, the I.A.E.A. has stood its ground and concluded time and again that since 2002 there was no evidence of an undeclared nuclear weapons program in Iran,” a senior agency official said. “It also validates the assessment of the director general that what the I.A.E.A. inspectors have seen in Iran represented no imminent danger.”
As the report was being released in Washington, the American mission to the International Atomic Energy Agency sent nuclear experts to the agency to brief officials on it.
Gregory L. Schulte, the American envoy to the agency, telephoned Dr. ElBaradei, who was traveling in Uruguay, and told him that the American assessment is “close to what you’ve been saying,” the agency official said.
Another official close to the agency said it was striking that the American assessment stated with certainty that Iran had a nuclear weapons program in the past, a conclusion the agency has never formally reached.
Of the three Western European governments involved in diplomacy with Iran — France, Britain and Germany — Germany seemed to cast the American assessment in the most positive light. The finding “contains a number of interesting details,” a spokesman for the foreign minister, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, said. The minister believes that the dual-track approach “to give incentives on the one hand and impose punitive measures at the Security Council was the right approach,” the spokesman added.
The British government was more cautious. “We will discuss the report with U.S. analysts in more detail in the coming days,” said a statement from the British Foreign Office. “But the report’s conclusions justify the action already taken by the international community to get to the bottom of the Iran nuclear program and to increase pressure on the regime to stop enrichment and reprocessing activities.”
The French Foreign Ministry said there would be no comment until Tuesday.
In Tehran, Foreign Ministry officials reached for reaction by telephone declined to comment, but raised the possibility that the government would issue a response on Tuesday.
In Israel, officials said there would be no official response on Monday.
But a senior Israeli official said that “the Israeli government is familiar with the report,” and that Iran was a major topic of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s meeting with President Bush last Wednesday, after the Annapolis meeting.
The official, who declined to be identified because he was not authorized to speak publicly on the subject, said Israel remained extremely concerned. “We think there is enough information in the report to give a strong factual basis to our very real concerns about the Iranian nuclear program,” the official said."
Did you spot the French cock-sucker, readers?
And before I forget:
FUCK that LYING, LAND-STEALING, MASS-MURDERING, GENOCIDAL STINK STATE, too!
