Why Is the U.S. Following a New Resolution?

During recent years, the West, and especially the United States, has consistently tried to use pressure to sway Iran’s nuclear policy and strategically change Tehran’s stance on global issues. In this way, the U.S. has benefited from two kinds of weapons: the threat and the sanction. Recently, Iran’s nuclear case has become a new political discussion in the world, and the fact that the West tried using an embargo to dissuade Iran from access to peaceful nuclear technology is testimony to the importance placed on this issue.

Of course, the historical record of sanctions by the Security Council against Iran is longer than our country’s nuclear program itself. However, here is the current question: why is Obama looking to once again approve a resolution against Iran in the Security Council?

About two months ago, on April 20, U.S. President Barack Obama sent a two and half page letter to Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva asking him about the exchange in Iran’s nuclear fuel agreement that the United States didn’t follow up on last October. In the letter Obama emphasized that signing this agreement with Tehran would build confidence in the international community and would remove recent tension regarding Iran’s nuclear program. Despite this, the completely hostile intentions of the U.S. toward Iran have been proven. Immediately following the signing of this tripartite declaration, Washington imposed a resolution of tougher sanctions against Iran through the Security Council. The primary reason for this action should be assessed as a weakness in the strategy of the White House. Since the end of 2009, the United States has launched comprehensive efforts against Iran’s activities toward peaceful nuclear technology. America seeks to further isolate Iran.

In fact, America never thought that Iran would accept this plan. During this process Hillary Clinton, before Iran’s trilateral meeting, announced to Brazil and Turkey that this meeting would be deadlocked. In other words, the U.S. was trying to create distance between Brazil, Turkey and Iran. However, the most important thing to come from this has been in regards to the diplomacy of Iran. Our county [Iran], by accepting western conditions for the exchange fuel, has put the West under pressure. Iran’s agreement to the terms proposed by the West was so unexpected for the White House that Western media spent hours of contradictory analysis in regards to this agreement once the news came out. On the one hand, the European Union called this action a new step; on the other hand, Tel Aviv expressed its fury regarding this agreement. In fact, with anticipation, Iran defeated the West’s assumptions and put Western countries on a new front — one on which Iran has announced it is prepared to exchange fuel. And this readiness has reached the world’s public by loudspeaker. Now it is the turn of the West and the Vienna group to respond to Iran.

Iran’s plan to trade fuel outside the country is a message transmitted to the public stage, building world-wide opinion in support of the idea that Tehran has made an effort — it could even be said that Tehran has taken the first step. Meanwhile, if the West and the Vienna group (including France, Russia and America) had agreed to the exchange of fuel, Iran officially would have been able to prove its legitimacy to the West; in other words, Iran’s requirement of 20 percent enriched uranium would have been resolved. However, Western countries are trying to disturb the exchange, thereby creating another failure. Once again, the West, by placing sanctions against Iran, displayed to the world that the good nature of Iran’s peaceful nuclear activities was met with hatred from the White House — hatred which is directed specifically toward Iran's push for self reliance. The world watched and saw that if the issue was over a nuclear Iran, Iran is ready to attempt a fuel trade. But everyone saw that the issue is not a nuclear issue — if it were, the West would have to follow the specific demands, which should include its own illegal activities.

We can therefore say that the West, with its newly approved sanctions against Iran, was defeated diplomatically in the international field. Today, all throughout the world, the peaceful nature of our nuclear activities has been realized, and this is the biggest diplomatic achievement. The White House was trying to pull Brazil and Turkey into the game of Iran’s nuclear issue in order to further isolate Iran, but our country managed to get Brazil and Turkey on our team: they both voted no to the resolution against our country. In fact, the result of this game is that the White House and its allies lost much more heavily than Iran did.