Clinton Warns Iran Against ‘Disrupting’ NPT Conference
Insists Conference Must Focus on Iran's 'Violations' [not Israel's nukes] Despite repeated claims by the Obama Administration to that effect, neither the US nor any other nation has ever presented any evidence that Iran was in violation of the NPT, and the IAEA’s claims have strictly been limited to the additional demands imposed upon Iran through the UN Security Council, and not the treaty itself. Clinton expressed concern that the Iranian president would “disrupt” the conference from what she sees as its primary purpose, which is to rail against Iran’s civilian nuclear program.
The Nation: Crippling, Crushing, and Suffocating Iran:
On Wednesday afternoon, members of the House and Senate gathered for a conference committee meeting to discuss the bills passed by each house to impose sanctions on Iran. As I sat down at my desk to write this, I pulled out my Roget's Thesaurus to see how many synonyms for "crippling," 'crushing," "overwhelming," "suffocating," and so on there are. There are a lot. And many of them, including those just mentioned, were used by members of Congress competing to see strongly each one could condemn Iran. It wasn't pretty.