On Blixin’
Hans Blix, pro-bribing of humiliated mullahs:
Former chief UN weapons inspector Hans Blix said Monday the United States, Europe and the UN Security Council are ”humiliating” Iran by demanding that it suspend uranium enrichment before any negotiations and then dictating its rewards …
”The first incentive, I think, is to sit down with them in a direct talk rather than saying to them ‘you do this, thereafter we will sit down at a table and tell you what you get for it,”’ Blix said. ”That’s getting away from a humiliating neo-colonial attitude to a more normal (one).”
”People have their own pride whether you like them or don’t,” he told a media briefing ahead of a daylong conference on ”Weapons Threats and International Security” organized by The Century Foundation, a Washington-based research institute on domestic and international challenges.
… Blix criticized the demand first by the Europeans, then the US, and now by the Security Council, that first Iran must suspend enrichment and then there will be talks where ”they will explain what the Iranians will be given.”
”This is in a way like telling a child, first you will behave and thereafter you will be given your rewards,” Blix said. ”And this, I think, is humiliating. The Iranians have resisted all the time saying, no, we are willing to talk, we are willing to talk about the suspension of enrichment, but we are not for suspension before the talks.”
”I would be surprised if a poker player would toss away his trump card before he sits down at the table. Who does that?” he asked.
Well, if Blix had his way, Saddam Hussein would still be in power and the sanctions would be off. Even though Blix thought Saddam was in violation of the UN resolutions. Iran’s sponsorship of terrorism throughout the Middle East and its desire to wipe Israel off the map are matters of national pride. The mullahs must not be treated like children!
“I don’t think military threats are useful,” he said. ”They will scare a number of people in Iran, yes. But at the same time, I think they are also very dangerous. A spark could fly, and they are very dangerous.”
Blix said the West should put itself in Iran’s shoes, facing 140,000 American troops in Iraq, bases in Pakistan and Afghanistan which are major US allies, and the US talking to another Iranian neighbor, Azerbaijan.
”It’s not absurd that they might feel a little worried about their security and that security guarantees from the US — in the same manner as in North Korea — could be useful,” he said.
Security guarantees. That’s all Iran wants. To live in peace, unmenaced by the United States.
Topics: Iran
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 10:37 pm on Monday, February 26, 2007
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February 27th, 2007 at 1:50 am
Taking Hans Blix seriously is not recommend for the sound of mind.
February 27th, 2007 at 2:46 am
Oh, what does it cost ol’ Hans is to bet everyone else’s life on the good will of the Iranians? If he’s wrong, who’ll have the time to remember what a quisling he is?
February 27th, 2007 at 2:48 am
Shoot. Drop the “is” in “Hans is to bet”.
Preview is no guarantee, but it is a help.
February 27th, 2007 at 8:17 am
Saltydog says “If he’s wrong”. But he was right with Iraq and Bush was dead wrong. Maybe we should listen to the people who have credibility.