Archive for May 2012

Whenever Iranian officials have accepted a new round of nuclear talks with 5+1, those on the western side of the negotiating table considered this as a sign of Iran’s weakness in the face of western pressures. US and UK officials, quoted in the Western media both in papers and broadcast forms, celebrated the talks as a sign that pressures do work and Iran is now responding to these pressures.

But the other side of this discourse reveals much about the western intentions. It goes like this: Iran by refusing to join the talks, is defying the international request. Now to believing deeply in punishing this behavior, the west thinks it needs to apply even more sanctions. Did you get the logic: More sanctions to make Iran talk, and more sanctions because Iran came to talk! » Read more