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...only surprise about Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's announcement Monday that Iran has moved to "industrial-scale" uranium enrichment is the timing. Back in January, Iranian officials informed the International Atomic Energy Agency that it was installing 3,000 centrifuges at its underground enrichment facility at Natanz, and would soon begin feeding uranium gas into them. Ahmadinejad had been expected to boast of this expansion from a 328-centrifuge pilot operation last Feb. 11, as Iran celebrated the 28th anniversary of its revolution...
...release of the Royal Marines and sailors--which Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, above left, called a "gift" to Britain--doesn't spell the end of the broader disputes between Iran and the West. Some analysts say Iran's move shows that U.S.-backed sanctions against Iran for its refusal to suspend uranium enrichment are moderating the regime's behavior. The end of the crisis was a boost to Larijani, who is also the country's lead nuclear negotiator. But hard-liners like Ahmadinejad have shown little willingness to bargain away the country's nuclear program. It will be tougher...
Although the current crisis with the increasingly radical Iranian government began less than two weeks ago and seems to have been resolved yesterday, it has become a media event that is monopolizing media coverage in Britain and in the rest of Europe at large. Understandably so. On March 23, Iranian Revolutionary Guards captured 15 Royal Marine sailors. Though at first, the Iranian government claimed they were held at gunpoint in the Iraqi waters that the Brits were supposed to be patrolling, it swiftly changed its mind...
Claiming the sailors were actually in Iranian waters, Teheran attempted to justify their imprisonment and shamelessly paraded them on TV for the world to see. While they were filmed apologizing for crossing into Iranian waters, they wrote letters rhetorically asking why British invasion forces were still in Iraq. And yesterday, in an act of true magnanimity, President Ahmadinejad announced he would free them: “I want to give them as a present to the British people.” Quite touching...
...only should the EU leadership continue using strong language, but also they should meet them with tangible and forceful economic and diplomatic consequences. After helping topple the Iranian government repeatedly for oil interests in the age of empire, Britain understandably has a rocky relationship with Tehran. But Europe is the main negotiator with the regime on its nuclear ambitions because of its perceived status as a counterbalance to American dogmatism. Furthermore, it is the largest trading partner of an increasingly isolated but affluent government. Using Professor Timothy Garton Ash’s terminology in a recent Los Angeles Times piece...