Iran’s Deal: We’ll Trade Our Bloody Hand For Brit’s Blind Eye
For any of you who insist that Iran has no culpability in killing American and British soldiers in Iraq:
Iran offered to stop attacking British troops in Iraq to try to get the West to drop objections to Tehran’s uranium enrichment project, a UK official says.
The disclosure by UN ambassador Sir John Sawers in a BBC documentary throws new light on backroom discussions between Iran and the West.
Roadside bombing attacks on British and American soldiers in Iraq were at their height in 2005.
The extent of Iran’s role in arming and training those militias was uncertain.
Tehran denied a role, while British officials tended to hedge their accusations with references to ‘circumstantial evidence’.
But now a senior British official has revealed that not only did the Iranians privately admit their involvement, they even made an astonishing offer to switch off the attacks in Iraq if in return the West would stop blocking Iran’s controversial nuclear programme.
Sir John Sawers, currently Britain’s ambassador to the United Nations, said Iranians raised the offer during informal private talks at a hotel in London.
I’m shocked, I tell you! Shocked! But it seems that Iran got the best of both worlds – they continued killing our soldiers and continued to refine uranium. The United Nations (eternal optimists) announced today that Iran has enough nuclear material for one nucler bomb. Tea, anyone?
In a development that comes as the Obama administration is drawing up its policy on negotiations with Tehran over its nuclear programme, UN officials said Iran had produced more nuclear material than previously thought.
They said Iran had accumulated more than one tonne of low enriched uranium hexafluoride at a facility in Natanz.
David Albright, the head of the Institute for Science and International Security, said: “If Iran did decide to build nuclear weapons, it’s entering an era in which it could do so quickly.”
Suddenly Netanyahu’s election seems providential…
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