The US and the UN Nuclear Inspectors Must Stop Appeasing Iran

In this mailing: - Con Coughlin: The US and the UN Nuclear Inspectors Must Stop Appeasing Iran - Chris Farrell: Biden's Emergencies [] [The US and the UN Nuclear Inspectors Must Stop Appeasing Iran]( by Con Coughlin • March 1, 2021 at 5:00 am [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [WhatsApp]( [Telegram]( [Send]( [Print]( - In the latest example of Iran's increasingly reckless approach to the nuclear issue, the country's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has threatened to increase uranium enrichment to 60 percent, just below the 90 percent threshold required to produce weapons grade material. - Thus, while IAEA director general Rafael Grossi claimed the talks had been a success, the IAEA now finds itself in the invidious position whereby it will not be able to ascertain whether Iran is actively working to produce nuclear weapons until after the event. - Even Mr Grossi has been forced to concede that, as a result of Iran's decision to withdraw access to inspection teams, the IAEA's ability to monitor Iran's activities will be reduced by 70 percent. - In the latest blow to the IAEA's credibility, within hours of Mr Grossi concluding his compromise deal, Mr Khamenei exposed the futility of this approach with his threat that Iran was prepared to increase uranium enrichment to 60 percent, a move that would make any attempt to revive the JCPOA utterly doomed. As Iran continues to maintain its defiance over its controversial nuclear programme, the failure of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the UN-body responsible for monitoring Iran's activities, is only lending further encouragement to the ayatollahs to indulge in further acts of dangerous brinkmanship. Pictured: IAEA director general Rafael Grossi at the organization's headquarters in Vienna, Austria, on November 18, 2020. (Photo by Christian Bruna/Pool/AFP via Getty Images) As Iran continues to maintain its defiance over its controversial nuclear programme, the failure of the UN-body responsible for monitoring Iran's activities is only lending further encouragement to the ayatollahs to indulge in further acts of dangerous brinkmanship. In the latest example of Iran's increasingly reckless approach to the nuclear issue, the country's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has threatened to increase uranium enrichment to 60 percent, just below the 90 percent threshold required to produce weapons grade material. The ayatollah's threat, moreover, which was made on state-run television, came just hours after Rafael Grossi, the director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the UN-sponsored body responsible for monitoring Iran's nuclear programme, made an emergency visit to Tehran after the regime announced it would no longer allow IAEA inspection teams to visit key sites. [Continue Reading Article]( [] [Biden's Emergencies]( by Chris Farrell • March 1, 2021 at 4:00 am [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [WhatsApp]( [Telegram]( [Send]( [Print]( - Often, the emergency is declared as a means of blocking targeted persons and governments from moving money, contraband, and property. - Most Americans probably have no idea that the United States is in the midst of ongoing "national emergencies" over matters in Nicaragua, Burundi, or the Central African Republic -- but we are... - We are increasingly being subject to rule-by-decree.... President Biden just declared that the decades-long crisis on the Mexican border is not a problem. No debate, no vote, no ratification -- just the stroke of a pen. Who objected? Any protests or marches? If organizations were to protest or march, would they be called "white supremacists" or "insurrectionists?" - Remember: with Mexico, everything -- cartels, "coyotes," smugglers, drugs, traffickers, sexual violence -- is A-OK. Mexico = good. Libya = bad. - If you are against a Biden policy, does that mean you are against the government? Does that make you suspect in some way? - Some "emergency" decrees dropped down the Memory Hole; others manufactured, seemingly, from thin air. President Joe Biden has reversed and cancelled the national emergency declared by President Donald Trump concerning the border security, humanitarian and COVID-19 crisis at the southern border of the United States. Pictured: The US Border Station at Brownsville, Texas, on the border with Mexico, on February 24, 2021. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images) President Joe Biden has reversed and cancelled the national emergency declared by President Donald Trump concerning the border security, humanitarian and COVID-19 crisis at the southern border of the United States. Nothing to see here. Move along. In fact, on his very first day in office, Biden terminated that emergency, which he said had been a mistake from the get-go. Ironically, Biden has re-opened the exact same Texas facility the Trump administration used in order to detain the overflow of illegal aliens at the border. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has criticized Biden the same way she criticized Trump. At least she is consistent. Perhaps you remember the claims of children in cages and drinking from toilets? That must have all been a terrible misunderstanding. Biden wrote in his February 10 Presidential Communication: [Continue Reading Article]( [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [RSS]( [Donate]( Copyright © Gatestone Institute, All rights reserved. You are subscribed to this list as {EMAIL} You can change how you receive these emails: [Update your subscription preferences]( or [Unsubscribe from this list]( [Gatestone Institute]( 14 East 60 St., Suite 705, New York, NY 10022