Inkwell Institute
International Studies Group
The big news the other day was that Iran may be close to a deal to ship their enriched Uranium to Turkey for processing….which if true could help eliminate some of the impasse there is in the Iran nuke debate….
The deal was reached in talks with Brazil and Turkey, elevating a new group of mediators for the first time in the dispute over Iran’s nuclear activities. There was no immediate comment from the United States and the other world powers that have led earlier negotiations as to whether the new deal would satisfy them and stave off a fourth round of UN sanctions.
The deal goes to the heart of international concern over Teheran’s nuclear activities. Earlier negotiations led by Germany and the five permanent UN Security Council members — the US, Britain, France, Russia and China — have sought to stop Iran from enriching uranium altogether, and thereby deprive it of a possible pathway to nuclear weapons.
Cool? Right? Turkey will be the neutral arbitrator…….really?
That is sort of good news……..but there was other news last week that did not get any attention in the US media…..as reported in the CS Monitor:
Turkey moved closer to becoming a nuclear energy nation after inking a deal with visiting Russian President Dmitry Medvedev to build a nuclear power plant on the Mediterranean coast.
The energy deals are part of NATO-ally Turkey’s broader strategy to expand its influence in the region and become an energy corridor between East and West, while also serving as an increasingly important diplomatic player seeking to help resolve Iran’s nuclear standoff with the West and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
This is all so much good news……but is Turkey stable enough or will it become another Pakistan? What a coincidence! Turkey cuts a deal with Russia for a nuke plant and the next week they are the big cheese in the Iran stand off over enriched Uranium. Is Turkey capable of play this important roll? What the rise in Muslim fundamentalism in Turkey?
Sorry, this does not pass the sniff test!
Well, who knows… it seems that these days almost any politician or bureaucrat is for sale, so where IS safe?
Has anyone tried asking the Martians to mediate and keep an eye (they have three each don’t they?) on what goes on?
I do not believe in coincidence……I find it suspicious that Turkey is the middle of the Iran nuke thing…..
It, like most things political, is simply a case of jumping on a bandwagon of opportunity that has arisen…
Isn’t that what they always do? The only thing you can be sure of about most politicians is that, if their mouths are open, they are lying.
Yes, but it is being reported, by some, as a good thing….I see a hidden agenda here…call me a conspiracist, but I do not believe the coincidence theory.
Okay – if you insist – you’re a conspiracist! 😆
However, in this instance at least, I don’t believe it either!