The New York Times reports: With high-stakes negotiations over Iran’s nuclear program at an impasse, the Obama administration is under mounting pressure to rethink a diplomatic exercise that many argue is simply stringing along the rest of the world.
After two days of fruitless talks in Moscow, negotiators for the United States and other major powers did not even schedule another high-level meeting with Iran, committing only to a lower-level session in July to go over the technical details of a proposal to suspend the enrichment of uranium that Iran has already rejected in principle.
Dennis B. Ross, a former senior White House adviser on Iran, said he believed the negotiations had become a trap, allowing Iran to continue enriching nuclear fuel while the two sides fail to agree on even interim measures to slow the Iranian program. The major powers, he said, should scrap the step-by-step approach in favor of a comprehensive deal that would test Iran’s sincerity, but could also hasten a military confrontation.
“The issue here is, ‘How do you deal with a process that’s going to be harder and harder to justify?’ ” said Mr. Ross, who left the administration in December and is now a senior fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. “If it looks like you’re engaging in a process for the sake of process, that’s a bigger problem.”
Other critics are even blunter, labeling the talks a “charade” and demanding that Congress pass another round of sanctions against Iran. On Friday, 44 Republican and Democratic senators sent a letter to President Obama urging him to abandon the negotiations if the Moscow meeting failed to produce any concessions from Iran.
Dennis Ross/WINEP/Israel cannot be considered exactly a disinterested decider in attacks on Iran. Iran has to make MORE concessions while the “US Congress” pushes even crueler and more extreme sanctions on Iranians while aiding Israel in its nuclear secrecy, its illegal occupation and attacks on its neighbours as well as the Palestinians.
The man is a Zionist propaganda hasbaraist for Israel disguised as an American diplomat. When he wasn’t working working for a Democrat president (now he hopes to work for a Republican President– Romney, God forbid) he was working in Zionism’s hasbara mills. That he was given the posts he got only goes to show who had a firm grip on Clinton’s and Obama’s scrotum. He’s a damned foreign agent!!!!
Thank God for the internet, or I’d be believing every word Dennis Ross spoke or the New York Times wrote.