I was about to post this yesterday, which was when this news appeared online, but I didn’t get round to it. I couldn’t find anything about it at all on the BBC, so all I asked was: Is there any sign of this news on the BBC yet?
- Iran Announces Use of More Advanced Centrifuges (Voice of America)
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| Ali Akbar Salehi |
- US-trained Iranian nuclear scientist: ‘With the grace of God, I start the gas injection’, doubles centrifuges World Israel news
- Iran announces new centrifuges on 40th anniversary of US embassy siege CNN
- Iran spins more centrifuges on U.S. Embassy crisis anniversary NBC
- Iran doubles advanced centrifuges in blow to nuke deal AA.com
- Iran scales back nuclear pact compliance with new centrifuges move Global news
This morning we did hear about it. From Sir Richard Dalton on the Today programme.
“It’s our own fault” seemed to be the gist of his message. Are these views still representative of “our” FCO?
How many of our wonderful diplomatic corps foresaw the fall of the Shah back in the 1970s? How many foresaw the rise of Hamas? How many foresaw the rise of IS, the Islamic Caliphate? How many foresaw that Assad would survive?
ReplyDeleteHow many could fathom the Mullahs were simply not genuine in their professed desire for peaceful development and that the nuclear deal was all a sham? The idea of a temporary truce while you build up your strength for another push is well accepted in Islamic ideology on both the Sunni and Shia sides.
One things is sure, the British and US Foreign Offices know FA about the mentality of foreigners where ever they live, and are especially dim witted about those in Asia and Africa.
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