Obama says Iran shouldn’t misinterpret U.S. response to Syria

[Jesus Malverde]

Source: Washington Post

President Obama declared that the United States is still prepared to act militarily to stop Iran from developing nuclear weapons despite the decision to pursue a diplomatic deal and not strike Syria over its alleged use of chemical weapons.

He also acknowledged his approach to the Syria crisis has been uneven, but defended it as producing the right results.

Obama spoke in an interview broadcast Sunday on ABC’s “This Week” with George Stephanopoulos,” taped Friday before the United States and Russia agreed on a plan to bring Syrian chemical weapons under international control in order to avoid military strikes.

But Obama said Iran should not interpret the diplomatic response — coming after he threatened to use strikes -- as suggesting that the United States wouldn’t attack Iran to stop the development of nuclear weapons.

“I think what the Iranians understand is that the nuclear issue is a far larger issue for us than the chemical weapons issue, that the threat.?.?. against Israel, that a nuclear Iran poses, is much closer to our core interests,” Obama said. “My suspicion is that the Iranians recognize they shouldn’t draw a lesson that we haven’t struck [Syria] to think we won’t strike Iran.”


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[rug]

1. "they shouldn’t draw a lesson that we haven’t struck to think we won’t strike Iran.”

Next!

[Comrade Grumpy]

2. Just what I want from Obama: More war bluster.

The rank hypocrisy of the US threats is mind-boggling.

[Leontius]

3. BREAKING NEWS: Nobel Commission to the world, "Sorry folks we really fucked up on this one."

[mazzarro]

4. Maybe The Committee Should Ask For The Return Nobel Peace Price -- n/t

[cpwm17]

5. Threatening war is a serious war crime

A nuclear weapons possessing nation threatening a non-nuclear weapons possessing nation over an unproven nuclear weapons program should disturb any decent person.

[arewenotdemo]

6. It absolutely is criminal. But then, Obama has been both threatening force and conducting a covert

war against Syria for two years now.

The UN Charter reads in article 2(4):

All members shall refrain in their international relations from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state, or in any other manner inconsistent with the purposes of the United Nations.

[ronnie624]

7. Most certainly.

It also violates the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, the Declaration of Principles on International Law, the International Covenant on Economic Social and Cultural Rights, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, and the Charter of Economic Rights and Duties of Sates. Each one of those Charters, of which the US was instrumental in framing, forbids the use or the threat of the use of force by one state, for the purpose of coercing other states to its bidding.

[Sunlei]

8. I'm glad President Obama takes the time to do these interviews.

Even though different media/ powerful lobbys grab at 'statements' to use for their various political agendas.

It is more positive for the world and Americans- for the President to speak in public often.