Condi's Diplomatic Gambit Checkmates Iran

Condi's Diplomatic Gambit Checkmates Iran

The Rice proposal that the US will come to the negotiating table as soon as Iran "fully and verifiably suspends its enrichment (of uranium) and reprocessing activities," is not only a clever release of a trial balloon by the Bush administration testing the atmospherics of diplomacy, i.e., whether the latter will have enough pressure to bring Iran to the negotiating table, but also, a strategic move on the chessboard of gamesmanship with Iran, whose opening diplomatic gambit will checkmate the latter.

It's also, a test of the strength and acumen of Russian and Chinese diplomacy, since both of them, according to the ABC, have committed themselves unreservedly, that "they would agree to pursue UN sanctions against Iran if it rejects the offer or the talks fail." For if Iran dismisses the offer, as it has done one day after the offer was made, then this will flauntingly show the weakness and lack of acumen of Russia's and China's diplomacy, by its failure to suade Iran to accept the proposal.

And already this failure is a fact. Foreign Minister Mottaki stated, that "Iran welcomes dialogue under just conditions (we) won't give up our (nuclear) rights." And he continued, that Iran has no intention to halt its uranium enrichment, which is an unequivocal rejection of the core of Secretary Rice's proposal . Hence, falling into the net of the American ruse, as a result of Iran's rigid stand, which is an outcome of its determination to acquire nuclear weapons.

This is a brilliant diplomatic and strategic stroke dealt by the Bush administration against the Ahmadinejad regime. It exposes its intransigence and furthers its isolation from the international community, and hence adumbrates the inevitable.