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The 4th November is celebrated every year in Tehran. In 2009, 30 Time: the storming of the U.S. Embassy and the following 444 days ongoing hostage taking of 52 U.S. diplomats. The U.S. reaction seemed to confirm Ayatollah Khomeini's assessment that the U.S. would be powerless against Iran ("America can not do a damn thing against us", page 105, Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi).
What then took its beginning and to this day - continuously - backlog, was the leitmotif of American foreign policy towards Iran. The search for "moderate" Mullahs. The desire to enter into a major diplomatic deal with them. The embassy takeover was the first act of war against the theocratic Iran, the United States. It comes at the beginning of a long series of similar crimes. The murder of Iranian diplomats and military personnel in Europe and North Africa. To U.S. soldiers in Lebanon, Iraq and Afghanistan. Bombings in Africa, the Middle East, Saudi Arabia. Iran trained, financed and controlled terrorist organizations, whose squad includes tens of thousands. The facts are known, from the diplomatic focus of the West, they have not changed. 
"We do not worship Iran. We pray to Allah. Patriotism is another name for paganism. I say You: Let's burn this country (Iran). I tell you. Let this country rise up in smoke, provided Islam triumphed in the rest of the world, "Ayatollah Khomeini in 1979 It is a mistake to assume that the mullahs would think like the leaders of traditional nation states. They are religious zealots who even at the cost of loss of the world, the return of the 12th Imam yearn. In order to free the kidnapped hostages 30 years ago, agreed to the then U.S. President Jimmy Carter in a series of humiliating concessions. On the penultimate day of his term, he signed the "Executive Order" 12 283, because of the legal action against the Islamic Republic of Iran der Stürmung der Botschaft, des verursachten Schadens und der Misshandlung und psychischen Folter der Gefangenen ausgeschlossen wurden.
Carters Versagen wird durch eine Begebenheit aus dem Jahre 1979 besonders anschaulich. Um die durch die Revolution im Iran zutiefst verunsicherten Saudis zu beruhigen, sandte Carter eine Staffel von Kampfflugzeugen. Um die Mullahs nicht aufzubringen, waren die Flugzeuge unbewaffnet. Die Saudis waren angewidert, die Mullahs zogen ihre eigenen Schlüsse über amerikanische Entschlossenheit.
Ronald Reagan wird heute weitestgehend als erfolgreicher Hardliner betrachtet. Er führte den Fall des Sowjetimperiums herbei, er ordnete die Bombadierung von Libyen nach dem Attentat auf die Berliner Diskothek "LaBelle" and approved the spectacular operation by special forces to arrest the Palestinian terrorists who are disabled on the cruise ship "Achille Lauro" the American citizen Leon Klinghoffer murdered.
With regard to Iran was no hint of this hardness. The Iran-Contra affair was a low point of the Reagan presidency. The withdrawal of U.S. troops from Lebanon in 1983 another. He followed the controlled by Iran and Hezbollah carried out terror attack on the barracks of the marines at the 241 U.S. soldiers were killed. Again, this reluctance is not the mullahs remained hidden. While
the Clinton administration's repeated all the set pieces of this diplomacy. The belief that there are moderate clerics, and the hope for the great diplomatic deal. This was all the more surprising as the Clinton policy directed against the mullahs decided originally appeared.
During the 41st Legislature of Bush the U.S. was the third largest market for Iranian crude oil and the third year of the Clinton reign, Iran was America's third largest trading partner. Not a very convincing position to persuade the Europeans to support serious sanctions. In a political maneuver, the inferior of the Iran-Contra affair in anything, Clinton approved während der Jugoslawien-Krise die Lieferung von Waffen durch den Iran an die bosnischen Moslems. Kaum war diese Genehmigung erteilt – diplomatisch verklausuliert; der damalige US-Gesandte Peter Galbraith lies die Kroaten, über die die Waffenlieferungen erfolgten, wissen, er habe diesbezüglich „keine Anweisungen“ –, fielen die Iraner in Bosnien ein, die Revolutionären Garden organisierten die Waffenlieferungen und deren Offiziere unterwanderten die bosnische Armee. Iranische Agenten überall, Aufbau von Wohltätigkeitsorganisationen als Deckung für Terrorkader und khomeniistische Indoktrinationsschulen. In dem Abschlußbericht des Ausschusses des US-Repräsentantenhauses zur Untersuchung der Rolle der Vereinigten States in arms sales to Croatia and Bosnia, states:
"The Iranian secret service (MOIS) stormed into the area, formed intelligence networks, systems support terrorists, recruited sleeper '... .. The Iranians annexed large parts of the Bosnian security apparatus ... to the joint planning of terrorist activities ... ".
parts of the Bosnian government supported several Al Qaeda terrorists. Bin Laden was in 1993 by the Bosnian embassy in Vienna, a passport, Mohammed Atta trained in Bosnia, from where he went to Hamburg.
On 25 June 1996 terrorists killed by the Saudi branch Hezbollah in Dhahran (Khobar Towers), Saudi Arabia, nineteen U.S. military personnel. Hundreds of other Americans were injured, one was still unknown number of Saudi civilians killed or maimed. The terrorists acted under the direct leadership of Tehran, they have been trained by the Revolutionary Guards in Lebanon.
In March 2000, Clinton's Secretary of State Madeleine Albright apologized to the mullahs for alleged American sins: The help with the coup against Mossadegh, the support of the Shah and Iraq in the war against Iran.
History provides no example of a revolutionary regime ever consider would voluntarily moderate and successful. But the case is required. Bill Clinton, like all presidents before him since Jimmy Carter, the necessary steps never seriously considered.
George W. Bush agreed at least the rhetoric. But despite his speeches lacked until the end of the second legislature of a coherent Iran policy. Bush - so far - a formidable internal opposition: Colin Powell, Richard Armitage, Condoleezza Rice, CIA Director George Tenet, a holdover of the Clinton administration. was
reasons for a more consistent and clearer strategic action against Iran is enough. 9 / 11 and later designed the Bush Doctrine, which include eliminated in addition to the desire to pre-emption, the distinction between terrorists and their supporters. The pursuit by the mullahs of mass destruction weapons. And the actions of Iran in Iraq and Afghanistan.
members of the Revolutionary Guard Corps were operating in Iraq, killed U.S. troops and traditional - produced in Iran - roadside bombs, and the more dangerous EFPs, which led to a number of U.S. soldiers to the victim. Comparable Iran was operating in Afghanistan.
A reaction of the Bush Administration came.
The diplomatic activities regarding Iran's nuclear program was left to first the EU3 (Germany, France, England) and their foreign ministers Fischer, Straw and de Villepin (from Colin Powell as the Three Tenors "taunts).
Their activities are handed, uncoordinated, naive, weak and dangerous described flattering. The Foreign Minister wanted to demonstrate the United States in the wake of the Iraq war that they could prevent the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction better and without the use of force. The seemingly endless negotiations with Iran, (act writing the EU3 as petitions) by grotesque correspondence and were based before the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), on the hope of the EU-3 to Iran move to the interruption of the enrichment of uranium and to use these negotiations to a standstill. For a half years, this gave Iran just what he wanted. Time to meet with Russian assistance, the technical difficulties in enriching uranium. The negotiations brought nothing, apart from the increased risk presented by a highly advanced nuclear weapons program. They were a classic example of diplomacy, which was based on nothing but hot air. She created the illusion of security while actually undermining it.
Sadly, it was Germany, which on Iran showed even less spine than England and France. The chaotic and embarrassing image that the EU3 negotiators in terms of Iran (Sawers, Michael Schaefer and de Laboulaye, Powell: "The three young tenors") at the G8 meeting on 15 have been charges in October 2004 as it relates to the question of what the EU meant by "suspend enrichment of uranium", the word was confused and contradictory, probably one of the low points of European diplomacy (or not). During these negotiations broke
of Iran IAEA seals on the centrifuges that enrich uranium in fact not interrupted and there - constantly - from statements such as that of the deputy negotiator, Hossein Mousavian:
"Europeans want to end the Uranium enrichment. But this will never happen. "
undergo such statements - until now - like a red thread through the public pronouncements of the regime. The only reaction of the EU3 was to water down their demands even further, to make even bigger promises and simply fail to recognize the "no" answer is negative.
The naive foreign policy of the current U.S. Administration is seamlessly integrated into the last thirty years. It works like a stale warm the feeble attempts of Jimmy Carter, with one, the more so after the "elections" of June, completely deligitimierten regime business zu kommen, zu dessen wesentlichen Glaubenssätzen der Ruf „Death to America“ gehört.
Die neue US-Regierung hat nichts erreicht. Ihr Ziel bei den aktuellen Verhandlungen war es, Iran zur Zustimmung zu bewegen, die Anreicherung seines Urans im Ausland stattfinden zu lassen und die gebrauchten Brennstäbe sofort ausser Landes zu bringen. Dahinter steht der Gedanke, die Menge des im Iran befindlichen Urans ständig auf einem so geringen Niveau zu halten, dass zu keinem Zeitpunkt genügend spaltbares Material für eine Bombe dort verbleibt und somit Zeit für weitere Verhandlungen gewonnen wird. Ein Plan, der keineswegs neu ist, sondern von den Israelis im Januar 2002 erstmals gegenüber den USA ins Gespräch gebracht was.
the mullahs but it was not obvious enough that the United States with this approach ensured equal to four binding resolutions of the UN Security Council that Iran prohibit uranium enrichment, ignored. And they also appeared not sufficient that Russia and France would, with the blessing of the Americans enrich the low-enriched uranium up to 19.75%, a whisker below the weapons-grade level of 20%.
The mullahs want rather keep their entire, slightly enriched uranium in the country and to purchase extra fuel abroad. For a "medical research reactor.
The "international community" begreift auch diesmal nicht die Bedeutung von „Nein“. Passagen wie die folgende sind skurril und grotesk:
„Die Vermittler verstärken nun den Druck auf die islamische Republik. Russland und Großbritannien forderten Iran auf, den Kompromissvorschlag anzunehmen. London erwarte eine “schnelle Reaktion”, sagte der britische Außenminister David Miliband nach Angaben der Agentur Interfax bei einem Treffen mit seinem russischen Amtskollegen Sergej Lawrow in Moskau. Lawrow verlangte zudem ein neues Treffen der fünf Vetomächte und Deutschlands mit Iran, um das weitere Vorgehen abzustimmen.
Auch Frankreichs Außenminister Bernard Kouchner wird ungeduldig. Er warnte die islamische Republik against delay tactics. If the answer of Iran to the compromise proposal in particular would serve to gain time, what was reasonable to assume they will not be accepted, he said. "
The mediators increase the pressure! It is more like Ahmadinejad, has the right when he referred to a statement of Khomeini makes reference stating,
"All Security Council resolutions in the world can absolutely not change the fact that Iran continues to develop its nuclear program."
And last Thursday In a speech in Mashhad, which was broadcast on state television:
"Several years ago we were told we would have all of our nuclear Activities it entirely. Now look where we are today. Now they are the ones that a nuclear cooperation with the Iranian nation's will ".
place on Tuesday, another slap in the face of the "negotiations-over-all" supporters. The "supreme religious leader" of Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei accused the U.S. of arrogance.
"If anyone intends to violate the rights of the Iranian nation will rise up against it and closed the nation to force him to his knees."
It would appear that the negotiators would do this favor of preventive knee Khamenei case. In an article in the Telegraph a part in the negotiations with Iran participating diplomat as saying
"It is as if you play chess with a monkey. He is in checkmate and then he swallowed the King. "
monkeys with nuclear weapons. Do we want to bet our lives that we can discourage them?
© Joachim Nikolaus Steinhöfel 2009
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