I wonder how much money Amano got in this deal from Iran. Can't trust anyone who works for the UN.

IAEA will monitor compliance just so US officials don't become confused again. Supposedly a deal is near with an economically sensitized leadership. Rather than slap dentures here, some of you might try aljazeera for another point of view.

I can't see trashing Iran right out of the gate - just like the US, the deeper the foot is in the mouth, the harder it is to hide.

Excellent!

Iran denies that it is interested in developing nuclear weapons, saying it wants nuclear power only to generate energy and for medical use.

Yeah, and I have a bridge in Brooklyn I would like to sell you

This is not the end, Anyone can say anything at anytime. Remember the saying "Money talks and bull@!$%# walks."

J.P

If you are a soldier I respect your opinion.

If you are an Armchair Monday morning soldier (Quarterback)? Sitting in a safety of your couch in front of a TV. Be quiet, unless you are wiling to die for your country. War is Hell, not a TV show. You do what ever you can in win. If you don't, you friends and fellow soldiers may die.

Diplomacy is preferable to yet another costly war dragging for over a decade with no end in sight.

max, many Americans said the same thing before WW 2 thinking Hitler will negotiate....

... but he lied and died in a hole. Maybe these guys read that book.

US > Iran in anything descent and that matters.

You are welcome for some perspective.

For all the wrongs the US has committed, Iran is not an equal nation in any regard, until the current government is gone. This agreement is BS and I am just waiting for Israel to bomb their nuclear facilities.

Iranian should give up nuclear programs.

I have doubts Iranian mullahs will use their brains.

They will take a brick and claim: we have nukes!

They should buy "good" nukes from Pakis or N. Korea if non-Mullah Iranians have some brains!

Atlas - anybody comparing Iran to Nazi Germany in 1938 is either delusional or works for the Israel propaganda machine.

Hmm we shall see the details of this.It must be without conditions.any time .any place and as long as necessary.NO "come back tomorow"" you can`t see this or that".If they want to avoid attack they have to do what Libya did.Abandon all nuke bomb work and enrichment above 5%.When the U.N gives a favourable report with proof then the world might listen. The inspections must start today.and for as long as necessary.If Iran is caught with their pants down the bombing of Iarn must start almost immediately.If they try anything funny after the inspectors leave..its bye bye Iran And yes! Iran is as bad as nazi Germany brainwashed finatic perverterd thugs..!!

This is just another of Iran's stalling tactics. How many times no have they signed agreements to allow inspections of their facilities only to g back on those agreements later when the IAEA tried to actually conduct visits. Until the Iranians actually allow the IAEA to walk into any of their facilities at any time without prior notice I will not believe a thing the Iranians say. It is really that simple. So long as they get away with their tactics of saying where the inspectors can visit and when or requiring advanced notice of inspections this will all be meaningless. All they will do is play a shell game with inspectors, moving the incriminating material around between sites as each prearranged visit occurs. The only reason that Iran is signing this agreement know is that they know the international community has had enough and is getting ready to authorize military action to put an end to their program. Once the tensions ease a little they will abrogate the agreement and continue with the work.

The Iranians claim that they are only interested in nuclear power and medical research, but this is refuted by their actions. Nuclear power plant only require uranium enriched to 3-5%. They continue to enrich uranium to 20% when they already have enough at that level to fuel their medical research reactor, the only one that needs this higher enrichment, many times over. They have installed a huge number of advanced centrifuges in their Fordo facility for the purposes of doing even more enrichment. The only purpose in stockpiling 20% enriched uranium is that it is the precursor to feed into the centrifuges to make highly enriched uranium, enriched to 90%, that is needed for nuclear weapons. By stockpiling 20% enriched uranium they are ensuring that they can rapidly produce large quantities of highly enriched uranium for weapons. This is the only logical reason for stockpiling uranium at this enrichment level since there is no other use for it once they had enough to fuel the research reactor. It is only a matter of time before the international community is forced to take out the Fordo facility, the other enrichment facility in Natanz, and all other nuclear research facilities in order to put an end to the Iranians covert weapons program.

Hmm, Is Iran a Sovereign nation or not? I mean if America can develop new nuclear weapons, new nuclear power plants, why can't Iran? Oh thats because the Jews rule the world and America. They tell the UN how high and when to jump. Israel got us into 9-11 or perhaps started it themselves. The Jews lied about Iraqs WMDs and got us into that war as well.

Iran can and should be allowed to do what it see's fit within its territorial borders, just as Israel is, Iraq is, Egypt, Russia, China, America, etc.. If we truly want Iran to be a good nation, we must set the example. We can't run around the world, selling nukes to Pakistan & India, Israel, while telling North Korea or Iran, sorry you can't have them.. Something doesn't jive, but you sheep keep drinking the kool-aid.

Let me paint this picture. What if China, Russia and the other members of the UN Security council, which we are apart of and have a major veto vote in, decided that the IAEA should be inspecting every location that we have any sort of nuclear material spread around this nation. What if the world wanted OUR 5000+ nuclear stockpile eliminated? We are scared of Iran maybe getting 1 nuclear device? Israel has 4, they are the biggest threat to the region. The others are just attempting to protecting themselves from the imperialist zionists of Israel.

America can't have her cake and eat it too.. Oh wait, yeah we can and we are getting fatter for it. We can't continue the paths we are on. We need to focus on OUR failing nation, let the world handle itself. We as a nation still haven't learned from 10,000 years of failed conquests and imperialistic history that trying to conquer the world, only makes you weaker at home. ALL the once great nations are now struggling to keep their heads above water. France, Germany, Greece, Russia, Egypt, etc, all once great military conquering powers, now broke. England isn't too far behind. We are only 236 years old, and sliding ever faster into that 3rd world status..

If we get involved with this fight with Iran and start that war, it'll be the last war we start for a long time. Russia & China both will support Iran. Russia has 5000+ nukes as well. Oh then North Korea will attack the South Koreans, and Japan will support the South, while China will support the North as would Russia.. Hmm then what? Lets ponder that. Do you GOPers understand the ramifications of a war with Iran? The Independents & Democrats and those with common sense know the results of war with Iran..

We complain about other countries trying to arm themselves while we piss away almost a trillion dollars per year on 'defense'...

If you are a soldier I respect your opinion.

So only soldiers have rights to opinions?

If you are an Armchair Monday morning soldier (Quarterback)? Sitting in a safety of your couch in front of a TV.

Let me clue you in. There are honorable soldiers. There are also soldiers that kill innocent women and children and create more problems for their country than they will ever solve.

There are also honorable citizens, just as there are dishonorable citizens. In a democracy, everyone has a right to speak and a right to express their opinion. Of course, no one has the right that you should respect them, but then, very few people are going to respect you if you are unable to show that you respect their opinion. I, for one, lost all respect for you with your first sentence.

The UN and any member thereof can NOT be trusted for anything, nor do any of those freeloaders have any expertise anyway.

And as for Iran. Well now, who is stupid enough to believe anything from them?

Well, if the UN is involved you know this is a joke. The Iranians must be laughing their you know whats off.

As austerity measures, wind up the the useless UN and its agencies!

might be bcause there are bigots like you out there

You have to earn trust , something Obama never did.

Pat...clean your glasses...Obama wasn't mentioned anywhere in this article. I know it's a very difficult concept for you Obama haters to digest but EVERYTHING isn't his fault.

Obama is an class 1 IDIOT

One HELL of a NUTJOB!!

Turbulence...thanks for the baseless rant. Now go back to your bong and let the big people talk.

Obama/Biden 2012.

@ turbulance, I can certainly tell you are a go nowhere, do nothing, bong sucking, inbred, waste of a mind with nothing more to do than imput nothing about nothing. Now copy this to your clip board and show it to all your friends so they now know that you can write somthing that can catch a persons eye. Yout daddy must be so proud of his little boy.

Hope you know that before 2003 Iraqi war, Saudis, oil companies, Jewish groups, lobbyists, Bushes and their puppets like UN and all its agencies did seventh century Saudi desert dances on WMDs in Iraq.

They all made monies, became richer, we poorer and WMDs were "transferred" to Iran, Syria and other places for future Saudi seventh century desert dances!

Of course, Clintons, Liebermanns always dance as Jewish groups want!!!

Was Obama there?

Now games are beginning all over.

Sanctions on Iranian oil have started; oil prices have started going up and up the sky and WMDs are being searched in Pakistan!

UN dances are part of the games for fooling! If there are too many players, it is easier to fool again and again!

@ the dufuss 6Dogs and Oilman MD

You see its only retaliation like this from same nutjobs that reveal exactly the very personification of that Nutjob Obama.

But I sure got your attention... simpletons

Now listen here you two nutjobs....Bumbama hasn't done anything for this country and ...is now resorting to ideas that he didn't even have during his whole first term ...but now that election time is here ...what?... he tries to reach the area of society that he thinks will get him his second term...even though the the ideas that these people are holding were never his own condoning issues.

Only an a-holes work and manipulates office that way...and anyone who agrees with it...

Like you two nutjobs. As far as the Bong thing goes...you two dufuss's should pull the one out of you ass.....

Turbulence...you might want to think about getting that GED. Aside from more baseless rant, it's some of the worst grammar I have ever read on here. Did you even make it past the 8th grade?

Like I said before, run along and let the big people talk.

Of course everything is Obama's fault, just like over the previous 8 years it was all Bush's fault and prior to that Clinton's, etc. Too many simpleton's in our country that can't think for themselves and all they want to do is "what their party (or gang) tells them to.

Also, I'm not affiliated with any of the crooks in washington and in addition I refuse to vote for the lesser of two POS, but just like I laughed at the morons who insisted that Kerry and Edwards were going to "throw Bush's ass out of Washington", I'm laughing at any of you who honestly think Mitt Romney is going to beat Obama. Hate to break it to the other side of the crooked line this time, but Mitt aint winning S H I T.

Hasn't done anything for this nation? Ok so ordering the Seal Team 6 to carry out the killing of enemy #1 Osama bin Laden isn't doing anything for the nation? Willard, John McLame and King George all said it was a waste of resources to go after bin Laden, or they wouldn't invade Pakistans sovereignty to get him, yet they were all for invading Iraq's sovereignty in 2003.. Now Mittens Romney is totally in favor of the killing of bin Laden and lobbed a cheap shot at someone he even couldn't beat, Jimmy Carter.

turbulence you must be a GOP speech writer with your generalities about this that and the other. The GOPers just don't get it. They prefer to govern with laws based on morality, rather than reality. Stopping someone from making a choice won't put people back to work. Denying civil rights to a class of people based on who they CHOOSE to live their lives with is illegal and will be shot down by even the most conservative of SCOTUS in the history of America. You can't write discrimination back into states or the US Constitutions. The GOP want war with Iran. The GOP want to piss on the American people by rebuilding Iran after bombing them back into the stone ages. The GOP claim to love American & Americans by saying the world is a bad place and out to get us, so the only way to be stronger at home is to invade the world. The GOP have turned their back on Americans since the Reagan dictatorship. He cut corporate tax rates from near 80% to where it is now by the GOP at 35%. America has declined terribly under GOP rule and policies. The GOP are about hate, invasion of personal privacy and controlling your entire existence.

War with Iran will bankrupt this nation and cause the unemployment rates to spike to about 12-15% under a Romney Presidency within 2 years.

Obama won a free and clean democratic election. That means he's earned @!$%#ing respect.

That is what I was wondering. Before we all start "dancing in the streets," lets find out if the "deal" is to only agree to talk about it.

Do Americans need a Hummer to hitch to the Winnebago to drag to the lake to go Jet Skiing for a weekend?

Absolutely. If you can afford it and want to.

well if i have the money ill do anything i want. if you havent forgotten we live in america where everything is readily available you just have to match the price they want. if we had one tree left in the world and it had to stay alive for us to breath, some ahole would sell it that way they could die with more money than they had started with.

Interesting that you mention this because it is exactly what I thought when I saw the headline further down the page in small type - this seems like it would be bigger news... o_O

It is a GREAT GREAT GREAT NEWS.

I guess it upsets those SPECULATERS of OIL who profit enormously from International Tensions.

Those Islamic PIGS and these wall street PIGS are one and the SAME.after 12 YEARS of BS rumors of war finally this BS is coming to an end.why this NEWS can hardly be found anywhere!!!!!!!?????

The biggest winners here are American and Iranian people.

Jimmy, Jimmy, Jimmy. Wasn't it just yesterday you trashed the veteran war protesters? Why don't you play pointman before all this diplomacy crap gets a hold?

Yes! As our country spirals further into recession, let's spend MORE money on military action! Let me guess, you are against funding "entitlement" programs because the government can't afford them, right? Balance that budget! Next stop, IRAN! Murdering and destroying seems to be a better use of our resources than helping the sick have healthcare and the hungry have food. Here! Here!

Alice's Restaurant

I believe Iran will comply and has been complying with its obligations, which it incurred when Iran signed the "nuclear non profiferation treaty." Iran's program has been under IAEA inspections and will continue to be inspected.

In 2006 Israel attacked Lebanon, killing over a thousand people, mostly women and children, which is their style. Then they claimed children were human shields. Yeah, like the Israeli pilots in their American supplied jets were really trying to differentiate their targets.

Israel also attack the civilian population of Gaza, killing over 1400 people, again, mostly women and children. Those Israeli are just fine humanitarians. They steal the land from a population and then have them designated as terrorists when and if they attempt to get their lan back or stop the stealing of even more land and water.

This news is tough luck for the war mongering Zionist supporters, who troll these forums, speading hate for Iran, a country that has no attacked another in over 180 years. It will be a lot harder to justify another war for Israel. Perhaps another false flag attack, such as the one Israelis and Zionists helped perpetrate on 9/11, will be coming.

Here are 4 links which you war mongers can ponder, which will show how and why, the neocons, allied
with Israel got the US into the war with Iraq and our present situation in
Iran. They will show the unholy relationship between high ranking Zionist members
of the Pentagon and the leadership of Israel.

http://www.rense.com/general29/perl.htm

http://www.serendipity.li/iraqwar/ignoble_liars.htm

http://www.thornwalker.com/ditch/snieg_conc1.htm

http://www.thornwalker.com/ditch/snieg_conc2.htm

No one cares about your articles written by IraNazi meth addicts RalphH!

latekate - If no one cares, why do you bother to respond? I have never even seen meth, kate. Is that your drug of choice?

Stop all US aid to the paranoid, parasitic leaches in Israel.

US and Israeli intelligence agencies mostly agree that Iran has not restarted its development of a nuclear bomb, the New York Times reported on Saturday.

According to the report, the assessment among top US officials is that Iran has
not yet decided to pursue a nuclear weapon, a conclusion which was established
based on intelligence analyses. (Zionists base their conclusions on whatever propaganda the right wing, war mongers in Israel are pushing that week).

Israel - while seeing an existential threat in Iran's possible pursuit of a
nuclear bomb - mostly agrees with those assessments, a US intelligence official
speaking on the condition of anonymity told the Times.

Good they seem to be able to read history books. The last petty dictator we had problems with in the Middle East over WMD got his country invaded by the US (Iraq) and he was hung (Saddam) and when he reached the end of his rope he lost his head. Smart move on thier part if they want to stay in power.

Larry Francis

US Navy Veteran

Ahmadinejad is hardly a mad man. He's a vary calculating person who happens to be on the other side of the fence from the US. He knows that any act of nuclear terrorism that is traced back to him means the end of Iran as we and he know it.

Keep in mind, the bombast notwithstanding, Iran has never attacked or invaded another country, unlike Iraq, Egypt, and the US.

How on Earth is any of this related to "the liberals" ?? And when did being "liberal" become such a bad thing? This country was founded by "liberals" who, at their time, were considered to be radical for bucking the English monarchy. Furthermore, I believe it was Thomas Jefferson who said that to protest one's government is the highest form of patriotism, it doesn't get any more "American" than Thomas Jefferson. You hate Obama so much, perhaps YOU should go to a "Muslim country" for awhile. But, then you would probably learn that Islam is actually a very peaceful religion not too dissimilar to Christianity, and like the small groups of Christian extremists here in America (the nut jobs at Westboro, to name one example) "Muslim countries" have them too (Al Queada).... That would blow your mind WIDE open...

Dan, those who won't be doing the fighting or paying for the wars are the ones who most quickly suggest we start invading and bombing.

Not surprisingly.

Would it have been more accurate if MSNBC didn't report what the military chief said? Don't we want to know what the military people say in addition to what the politicans say?

In complete agreement Chuck.

Chuck - On what basis do you make your prognostications that an Iranian nuke is inevitable? Did you just pull it out your anus or are you paid Zionist propagandist.

Iran 's nuclear program is under voluntary inspection, unlike Israel's nuclear weapons sites.

In 2007, all 16 US intelligence agencies concluded Iran does not have a nuclear weapons program. It is
irresponsible to punish Iran for things we "think" they
"might" do in the future.

Want to read about some crazy thinking? Read this from a noted Israeli:

Israeli military historian, Martin van Creveld, who in 2010 said that “Israel
could find itself one day forced to exterminate the European continent using
all kinds of weapons including its nuclear arsenal if it felt its demise
neared,” and stressed that “Israel also considers Europe a hostile target.”

“We have hundreds of nuclear warheads and
missiles that can reach different targets in the heart of the European
continent, including beyond the borders of Rome, the Italian capital,” Creveld
said, adding that most of the European capitals would become preferred targets
for the Israeli air force.

He reiterated “Israel’s ability to destroy the
whole world whenever it felt its existence would be doomed to extinction.”

Ralph,

You find the most random people to quote.

You are quoting an interview from a Professor of Military Strategy at an Israeli university. It's from an interview he gave in 2003... which happens to be 8 years ago.

Martin Van Creveld does not make military policy. In the article (which i cant seem to find on the internet the original article in the dutch weekly "Elsevier", and i can only find an article in the Guardian that has an excerpt from the the original interview.

Van Creveld doesnt make policy. He's an Israeli citizen, regardless of his background.

I have a family friend who is an Israeli (who lives in America) and he's a locksmith. I dont think you've tried to use a locksmith to bash Israel yet. Would you like his opinion? What about his opinion from 8 years ago?

Apparently Israeli military historian, Martin van Creveld is someone worth quoting, because I found this information in a news article.

Here is more about Mr Creveld. It appears to me that he is someone of note, as they use the word preeminent. Also,my original post showed he made his comment in 2010, not 2003.

But a growing number of analysts, including Israelis, are now saying openly that Israel’s warnings are at least partly a disinformation campaign.

The skeptics include Martin van Creveld, Israel’s preeminent military historian and theorist, who said in an interview that Israel could do some damage to the Iranian program
but could not knock it out.

“I would not be surprised if there was a strong element of political theater” to the Israeli threats,
he said.

Ralph - would you mind citing your source for the 2010 interview?

I do tend to research what most people say in debate settings, so please dont feel like i pick on you exclusively.

Van Creveld does seem to be a noted scholar on military history, i'll give you that... but i would still place him in the same armchair quarterback category that i would place you and I in. I'll chalk that up to difference of opinion.

Archeim - I will make an effort to locate the source for you. I normally just copy what I see in various articles into my documents, where they reside in a flash drive for further reference. I don't always record the sources. I do use csmonitor quite a bit. I also rely on my fine memory.

Prior to the war, it was a valuable source of material on the neocons, who planned and sold the Iraq war, such as Kagan, Wolfowitz, Kristol, Feith, Abrams, Wurmser and others. They called it neocon 101.

Archeim - I cannot find source of my post. The comments came in an article about the poet, Gunther Grass.

Ralph - it happens. no big deal this time.

If you could provide source material in the future that would be helpful. As i dont doubt that your memory is excellent, i lack the ability to network with your brain (or anyone elses).

I like to review the original source material for context and accuracy. I know for a fact that i am far from perfect.

Happy friday.