excerpts:
- Iran's supreme clerical leader threatened reprisals for the West's new ban on Iranian oil exports
- Iran says its nuclear program is for civilian energy purposes. [ Comment: That is questionable since the thorium fuel cycle cannot be used to make bombs, but it can be used to make energy.]
- The United States and Israel, Iran's arch-enemies, have not ruled out a military strike on Tehran if diplomacy fails to resolve the nuclear stalemate. [Comment: It should be pointed out that the mullocracy is the enemy, not the people of Iran.]
- Turkey was the venue of the last talks between Western powers and Iran a year ago which ended in stalemate because participants could not even agree on an agenda.
- Tehran has warned several times it may seal off the Strait of Hormuz, throttling the supply of Gulf crude and gas, if attacked or if sanctions mean it cannot export its oil.
A bad situation that doesn't promise to get better. It doesn't help when one's word is questionable.
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