The world’s major powers [sic]: Britain, France, Germany, Russia, China and the US have agreed to an extremely generous incentive package to be presented to Iran. The package includes a host of favorable trade concessions to the Islamic Republic and technology transfers in exchange for one thing: Iran must end uranium enrichment and terminate is nuclear program.
The Iranians, who have rejected other such offers in the past, have reacted cautiously to the proposal. Regardless of whether Iran accepts or rejects this proposal it is a lose lose scenario for the West. If Iran accepts the offer, which they probably won’t, a dangerous precedent will be set, soon the developing world and tyrants-in-training will follow Iran’s lead in extorting financial concessions from the West under the threat of developing an indigenous nuclear program. Such appeasement cannot work. This proposal serves only to reward Iran for her renegade behavior and because of persistent inaction first by the EU3 and then by the UN, Iran has nothing to fear from non-compliance.
As we have seen in the distant and recent past, such efforts NEVER yield the desired results, lest we forget the example of North Korea, who agreed to a host of incentives provided by the US, yet they flagrantly violated the agreement and now possess a nuclear weapons capability. Iran is following the same example. If they agree to the West’s appeasement package, the West will be forced to offer a dozen more such packages to every rogue state with nuclear ambitions. If they do not accept this package, the world will teeter on nuclear extermination as Iran will most certainly proliferate once its nuclear weapons capability is established.
Link to New York Times article
