Russia and Turkey joined forces to declare that more sanctions against Iran will not help to resolve the nuclear issue. Instead of sanctions, they have called for more talks with the 5+1 group that includes the United States, Britain, France, Russia, China, and Germany:
“According to the Fars News Agency, Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov made the remarks at a statement issued at the end of a Joint Strategic Planning Group meeting in Moscow on Friday.
They said that Iran’s nuclear issue can be resolved only through diplomatic means and a resumption of talks without preconditions.”
China agrees. Her leaders have said that negotiations are the path to resolution of the conflict between the West and Iran.
In prayers yesterday in Tehran, Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami said “that European countries have in fact imposed sanctions on themselves because they are in [the] grip of financial difficulties and [the] oil embargo against Iran will aggravate their problems.” Earlier this week, Kazem Jalali, a member of Iran’s parliament said “that the European Union’s oil embargo against Iran is meant to politicize the atmosphere for a new round of negotiations between Tehran and the 5+1 group”; the Iranian Foreign Ministry said “that the European Union will be responsible for the consequences of its ill-advised decision to impose oil [an] embargo against Iran”; and a YouTube video showed Iranians rushing to the bank to buy gold coins and dollars. Last Saturday, Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi said “that talks between Tehran and the 5+1 group should start if [the] West has a sincere intention.”
Comments by Iranian religious and political leaders and the clamor for gold and dollars by Iranian citizens suggest five things:
- Despite what leaders in China, Russia, and Turkey have said, severe sanctions on Iran are working.
- They are long overdue.
- The Iranian people realize that their leaders are taking them down a path that threatens their nation’s financial security and could possibly lead to war.
- Iranian political leaders are using their clout with Turkey, China, and Russia to dissuade Western nations from pursuing further sanctions.
- The Iranian government is feeling the pressure and their call for more talks with the 5+1 group is a desperate attempt to return to the status quo.
Talks designed to prevent Iran from continuing to pursue the development of nuclear weapons have been underway for almost a decade, and they have produced no results. Finally, severe sanctions appear to be working, and they are the last step before a military confrontation between Western nations and Iran. Rather than back away from sanctions as China, Russia, and Turkey suggest, the U.S. should pursue an even more vigorous campaign to impose financial hardship on Iran for its belligerent attempt to develop nuclear weapons which can have but two purposes: the elimination of Israel and hegemony over the Middle East.
This SnyderTalk editorial first appeared as a blog in American Thinker on January 28, 2012.
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The Jerusalem Post:
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Yahweh to Jeremiah—Jeremiah 16: 21
“Therefore behold, I am going to make them know—this time I will make them know My power and My might; and they shall know that My name is Yahweh.”
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God also said to Moses, “Say to the Israelites, ‘Yahweh, the God of your fathers—the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob—has sent me to you.’ This [Yahweh] is my name forever, the name by which I am to be remembered from generation to generation.”
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