IRAN THUMBS NOSE AT MULTILATERAL DIPLOMACY

NYTIMES: Iranian Pushes Nuclear Talks Back to Square 1

In a sign that Iran has hardened its position on its nuclear program, its new nuclear negotiator said in talks in London on Friday that all proposals made in past negotiations were irrelevant and that further discussion of a curb on Iran’s uranium enrichment was unnecessary, senior officials briefed on the meeting said.

Saeed Jalili, Iran’s new nuclear negotiator, said in talks, “With me, you start over.”

The Iranian official, Saeed Jalili, also told Javier Solana, who represented the United States, Russia, China, Britain, France and Germany in the five-hour talks, that United Nations Security Council resolutions punishing Iran for not suspending its enriched uranium activities were illegal, the officials said.

Representatives of the six countries met in Paris on Saturday afternoon to discuss further punitive Security Council measures against Iran after the final talks in London failed to produce a breakthrough.

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In a sign that Iran has hardened its position on its nuclear program, its new nuclear negotiator said in talks in London on Friday that all proposals made in past negotiations were irrelevant and that further discussion of a curb on Iran’s uranium enrichment was unnecessary, senior officials briefed on the meeting said.

THE DYE IS CAST.

• SANCTIONS ARE BS: NOTHING SHORT OF A TOTAL BLOCKADE WILL HAVE ANY EFFECT.

• AND A BLOCKADE IS AN ACT OF WAR - FOR WHICH WE SHOULD EXPECT THE SAME REACTION FROM IRAN AS A MISSILE ATTACK - EXCEPT THAT AN EFFECTIVE MISSILE ATTACK (UNLIKE A BL0CKADE) SHOULD LEAVE THE UNABLE TO RETALIATE.

• THAT'S WHY, IF BUSH HAD BALLS, HE'D JUST GET THE INEVITABLE OVER WITH: BOMB THEM NOW: UNILATERALLY; PREEMPTIVELY; AND UTTERLY: SMASH ALL THEIR NUCLEAR, MILITARY, AND GASOLINE REFINING ASSETS. NOW.