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Iranians Pull Out of Nuke Talks
Update: White House defends implementation of sanctions, tells reporters to question Iranian delegation
Iranian negotiators abruptly ended nuclear talks with Western powers in Vienna on Friday just a day after the Obama administration announced tighter sanctions on Tehran.
Iran had threatened that new or tighter sanctions would nullify the recently reached Geneva interim deal, which is not yet in effect.
The Iranians abruptly “halted” the talks and left Vienna so that they could consult with higher-level officials about how to proceed with talks following the tighter sanctions, which were announced Thursday morning by the U.S. Treasury Department.
“The Iranian negotiators interrupted the talks with the [P5+1] for consultations in Tehran,” a negotiator said on Thursday, according to Iran’s state-run Fars News Agency.
“America’s move is against the spirit of the Geneva deal,” Iranian chief negotiator Abbas Araqchi reportedly told the Iranian press. “We are evaluating the situation and will make the appropriate response.”
Iranian and Western negotiators were in the middle of talks about ways to implement the interim agreement when the sanctions were announced, according to experts.
The “wild thing about today’s action [is that] Treasury officials [are] negotiating terms of [the Joint Plan of Action] w/ Iran right now in Vienna,” Foundation for Defense of Democracies expert Jonathan Schanzer tweeted on Thursday afternoon.
The White House told the Washington Free Beacon early Friday that it would address the development later in the day.
The interim accord reached in Geneva created the framework for a final deal that would halt portions of Iran’s contested uranium enrichment program for six months.
With final negotiations on the six-month freeze in limbo, it remains unclear when exactly Iran will begin halting its nuclear work.
Tehran would receive about $7 billion in sanctions relief under the accord and potentially be given the ability to continue its enrichment activities under a final deal.
The issue of new sanctions has been a particular irritant to the Iranians, who hope to reverse all of the West’s economic penalties.
Lawmakers on Capitol Hill had been trying to increase sanctions on Iran before the end of the year. However, the White House and its Democratic allies on Thursday successfully prevented the measure from coming to a vote.
The move was accompanied by Treasury’s sanctions announcement, which was viewed by experts as a middle ground meant to appease sanctions supporters in Congress.
“This was an action taken by the executive,” FDD’s Schanzer told the Free Beacon on Friday. “What this shows is that the White House is trying to on the one hand put a halt on new sanctions to placate the Iranians but enforce existing sanctions to placate Congress and their constituents. It’s a fine line.”
House lawmakers also launched a last minute bid late Thursday to redefine the parameters of the Geneva talks.
The new bipartisan resolution seeks to ensure that Iran fully dismantles its nuclear program and halts all weapons activities.
UPDATE 3:10 P.M.: The White House defended it’s implementation of sanctions and directed reporters to question the Iranian delegation when asked about their departure from the nuke talks.
“In terms of what the Iranians have said about their delegation, I will simply point you to the delegation and to Iran for them to speak for their actions,” White House Press Secretary Jay Carney told reporters during the daily briefing.
“But let’s be clear, the designations announced yesterday were related to the enforcement of existing sanctions, and we have made clear all along that we would continue to enforce existing sanctions,” Carney said. “We have been clear with Iran throughout this process that we will continue to enforce existing sanctions, which is consistent with what was done yesterday, the action taken yesterday.”
However, Carney said that the administration continues to oppose new sanctions.
“Let’s be clear also that we continue to oppose passage of new nuclear-related sanctions,” Carney said.
14 Comments on "Iranians Pull Out of Nuke Talks"
DC on Sat, 14th Dec 2013 12:54 am
LoL! I hope Rohanni has learned his lesson. He was being set up fail all along, and him and his advisors should have known that. Notice how smoothly WH liar Carney deflects the blame here:
Q/“In terms of what the Iranians have said about their delegation, I will simply point you to the delegation and to Iran for them to speak for their actions,” White House Press Secretary Jay Carney told reporters during the daily briefing.
Well played Jay. Shift the blame onto those crazy mad mullahs. Yea, FOX and CNN will certainly present whatever they ‘find’ in a unbiased and truthful manner /snicker.
Q/The new bipartisan resolution seeks to ensure that Iran fully dismantles its nuclear program and halts all weapons activities.?
Friggen amerikans. Liars every last of them. One, dismantle completely was never part of any ‘deal, and two, Iran is not working on any ‘weapons’.
I mean, amerikans have now mastered the technology to talk out of both sides of there mouths at the same time, and both sides of the mouth are lying through there teeth.
“We oppose new sanctions, even as we are implementing them”. RoFL!
BillT on Sat, 14th Dec 2013 1:03 am
“Let’s negotiate while I keep beating on you with this big club. I have to look good at home and for my Israeli bosses.”
Does this look like an eventual world war to you? It does to me. The Empire is beating on many places at once trying hard to provoke war so they can print money and divert attention from their dying economy and growing police state. 2014 could be a very hot year.
GregT on Sat, 14th Dec 2013 2:44 am
We can’t have uncertainty hanging over the Christmas consuming season. After all, 70% of all retail is done during this time. I suspect the saber rattling will ramp up, right around the time that the lower than expected retail sales are reported in the new year.
Stilgar on Sat, 14th Dec 2013 3:28 am
Maybe the US should write an in house book for the Pentagon titled:
‘How to keep an enemy an enemy’
Introduction: The whole Syrian situation taught us it can sometimes be simple and quick to come to peaceful agreements, but that is contrary to justification of huge defense appropriations. It is with this in mind this book has been written.
Chapter 1: Throwing mud in the Iranians faces right after a good will settlement to years of disagreements on nuclear enrichment, to insure they remain an enemy.
DC on Sat, 14th Dec 2013 5:54 am
Yea, ‘negotiating’ with the Rogue US state is rather like negotiating with a robber that has a gun to your head and says,
“Give me everything you got or Ill shoot you in the head”
R:”Ok If I give you everything you ask, you’ll leave me and my family alone yes?”
“No, but if you do give me what I ask, ill only shoot you in the head 5 times instead of the six I was going to originally.”
R: Ohhh goody, let me show you where the silver is……
Arthur on Sat, 14th Dec 2013 9:28 am
It is difficult to understand what is going on here….
I would suggest that the very guy who claimed not being able to cough up the cash to join the funeral of black gentile Mandela…
http://www.haaretz.com/blogs/a-special-place-in-hell/.premium-1.562552
… I mean Netanyahu, the prominent Jew being the first in 4000 years of Jewish history to run out of cash.lol, that very Netanyahu had protested vehemently against the Geneva deal. And Washington obeyed, as always. But what do you expect from a political system that is completely corrupted by the Jewish ownership of the FED and Jewish ownership of the media (euphemism used by conservatives and the Alex Jones types: ‘corporate media’). Interest payments on the dollar are nothing but a global Jewish imposed tax. Bow for your masters, you stupid gentile sheep!
It is a comforting thought however that these people are not invincible. The last major defeat these people suffered was in the standoff against Uncle Joe Stalin in 1953. Yes, they managed to kill Stalin (google ‘doctor’s plot’), but then the Russian army intervened and the leading role of the Jews in the USSR was over for ever. This is nice precedent and template for the US as well.
Yes, it is true that the US keeps all options for war open, against Iran, China and/or Russia. But the US, UK and Israel are alone against rest of the world. Within this state of affairs I predict that Washington will not be able to mobilise the Americans for yet another world war and that the US will fall apart if it attempt’s to start a world war regardless.
Arthur on Sat, 14th Dec 2013 9:48 am
Not even the liberal lefties of Salon will follow Washington into a world war:
http://www.salon.com/2013/12/12/american_empire_is_over_somebody_tell_john_kerry/
It is going to be John Kerry and our own Preston Sturges against the rest of the world. This is going to be fun.
Bob Inget on Sat, 14th Dec 2013 8:01 pm
I won’t join in this anti semitic, anti American dribble. This sort of reaction does however presage more Jew Baiting to come.
This entire concept, threats of preemptive strikes but more to the point, “preemptive unilateral disarmament” is totally one sided, unfair and preposterous in concept.
The only reason any reasonable nation would agree to such coercion, bullying,
would be to stall for time.
For years now Israel and the US have been giving Iran reason after reason to
retaliate for military intrusions, cyber attacks on nuclear infrastructure, assassinations of scientific personal.
Sanctions across the globe preventing sale of a principal export, oil. ANY
one of these actions have historically
been casus belli. (reason for war)
US and Israel justified these actions
as peaceful. IOW’s better then genocide.
I still have hope that the US military
will in the strongest terms reject the idea of another Bush Doctrine, Preemptive war.
mike on Sat, 14th Dec 2013 10:48 pm
Arthur (Seyss Inquart II) – why don’t you work Anne Frank into your vitriolic tirade against Jews? And ‘fess up – give it to us straight the truth from the Protocols.
We who urge an end to the unrelenting infantile hostility of the US against Iran really can do without your lullepraat ravings.
Arthur on Sun, 15th Dec 2013 12:18 am
Anne Frank was taken by the Germans from Auschwitz where she mysteriously was not gassed, to Bergen-Belsen, where she died of typhus as a result of the conditions intentionally created by the murderous Anglos who tried to kill every civilian they could lay their hands on.
I have always wondered if it was a smart move of the Americans to make Anne Frank the icon of the ‘holocaust’, but hey, they probably could not find somebody who was gassed.
Why don’t you google judge van Rooden, one of the few honourable Americans, who started an investigation into the ways the Anglos treated the Germans by torturing holocaust confessions out of the them. The real truth about WW2 is hidden in the allied archives, probably to be revealed by Putin soon. And oh boy, this is not going to be pretty for our former colony at all, the only colony in world history that turned against the mother civilization because the Euro’s could not develop an elite strong enough to withstand the jews (look what happened to the Kennedy clan), who are using their American serfs for their NWO project. Thank God there are still the Chinese, if necessary for a Eurasian coalition of last resort against the ZOG-bots, like brain-washed Soviet material mickey, unworthy of European civilization.
Arthur on Sun, 15th Dec 2013 1:03 am
The name was van Roden:
http://furtherglory.wordpress.com/tag/judge-edward-l-van-roden/
Nuremberg same story.
Arthur on Sun, 15th Dec 2013 1:09 am
Here is how the greatest American cultural achievemen, the holocaust, came into existence:
http://www.ihr.org/jhr/v07/v07p389_Faurisson.html
The Iranians already know and openly say so. They got their info from Wladimir the Great, who exactly knows what really happened.
mike on Sun, 15th Dec 2013 2:24 pm
Arthur – must be the chem trails and the reptilians getting at you.
Your only interest in peak oil, which is what this site is all about, is the opportunity to gloat at the impending doom of the “Jew controlled” USA as it runs out of energy, and the final triumph of your fantasy thousand year Fourth Reich. Just remember, hadn’t been for Canadian and British armies, you’d still be eating tulip bulbs for dinner.
Arthur on Sun, 15th Dec 2013 11:22 pm
Just remember, hadn’t been for Canadian and British armies, you’d still be eating tulip bulbs for dinner.
More BS. You understand nothing from history. The real reason why Germany invaded Norway, Holland and Belgium was because Britain had persuaded these countries to give up neutrality. Would you be grateful to the fire brigade if you knew they had set your house on fire first? Germany intercepted the plans of Britain and France to invade Norway in order to halt essential iron ore shipments from Narvik to Germany. Germans, British and French invaded Norway on the same day. 25,000 British and French got their war mongering asses kicked by 8,000 Germans. After they lost they had to think of something else: using the Netherlands and Belgium to directly invade the industrial heartland of Germany, the Ruhr. Germany preempted that attack by two days. Why do you think that French troops arrived at Breda on the very same day the Germans invaded?
You seem to speak Dutch, have a look then at this:
http://gerard45.bloggertje.nl/note/14067/bijzonderheden-over-de-zogenaamde-nederlandse-neutraliteit.html
See the documents under “Op 24 maart 1940 – dus ruim 6 weken voor de Duitse inval in Nederland – schreef Winkelman een memorandum aangaande de samenwerking tussen de Nederlandse, Belgische, Engelse en Franse legers”
And further the press conference given by Ribbentrop on the day of the invasion, under “En hier de Duitse verklaringen:”
And also see the newspaper clip where Jewish court historian of the Dutch government Lou de Jong declared that the Dutch were not neutral at all and admitted that there has been contacts between the Dutch and allied chiefs of staffs.
In other words, the Dutch government got what they deserved.