NEWSMAX: Western leaders routinely declare that no nuclear agreement with Iran would be better than a bad one. For the most part, it is empty rhetoric, according to former Spanish President Jose Maria Aznar, who says the United States and five other international powers are caving in to the Iranians on virtually every key issue.
More than a decade ago, the United Nations passed several resolutions calling for a complete dismantling of Tehran’s uranium-enrichment capabilities. But “in the past year and a half, that goal was abandoned by Western negotiators, and Iran was granted the right to enrich,” Aznar writes in the Wall Street Journal…
Last year, the West lifted some sanctions to reward Iran for coming to the negotiating table. There are new calls for additional “flexibility” on sanctions, even though such concessions “will only strengthen the hard-liners in Tehran who believe that the West is simply debating between appeasement and outright capitulation,” Aznar concludes… (more)
