This would be my question when i would belive the major consens narrative of the western media.
but my real question is what do you belive do the partys involved have in mind regarding the future of iran.
-The US would do good to reach an agreement with the mullahs and nobody believes that this is realistic conciderring Turky and KSA!?
-China would use Iran for there own puposess (buying oil and using the big iranian market for investments and export)
-Russia would like to do the same like china does but they also need iran for geostrategic purposes like oil-price, influence leverege in ME-region and parts of asia and the caspian see.
It seems to me that the Iranian dream of being a global player or a developed country like japan and S.Korea is hard challenged.

Posted by: some1 | Jan 29 2013 20:10 utc | 4

Reuters would have you believe Iran is stalling the process by not accepting Turkey as the host for further negotiations

Jan 28 (Reuters) – World powers have asked Iran to hold a new round of talks over its nuclear work in February, while expressing disappointment over Tehran’s reluctance to schedule negotiations.
A spokesman for the EU’s foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton said on Monday Iran had not agreed to her proposal, issued on behalf the United States, Russia, China, France, Britain and Germany, to meet at the end of January.
“Iran did not accept our offer to go to Istanbul on Jan. 28 and 29 and so we have offered new dates in February,” Michael Mann told a news briefing in Brussels.
“We have continued to offer dates since December. We are disappointed the Iranians have not yet agreed,” he said.

While failing to mention that Iran merely offered to switch Istanbul for Cairo.

TEHRAN – World powers have requested that their negotiations with Iran over the country’s nuclear program be postponed from January to February.
The request was made during a telephone conversation on Friday between Ali Baqeri, the deputy secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, and Helga Schmid, the deputy of European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton who represents the 5+1 group (the five permanent members of the UN Security Council and Germany) in nuclear negotiations with Iran.
Schmid said that the group is not ready to hold talks with Iran this month.
However, Baqeri, the deputy of Saeed Jalili who is Iran’s chief nuclear negotiator, said that Tehran is ready to hold talks in January and asked the 5+1 group to remain committed to the date agreed upon for talks.

So in actuality it’s the other way around, with Western powers stalling the process. We’re they to take these negotiations seriously, like their Russian counterpart, they would accept any given location. I’m guessing Egypt hosting the next round of talks isn’t exactly be a ‘hot idea’ with certain, influential and influenced alike, western politicians at the moment.
Perhaps Stockholm would be a more favorable venue?
Either way, the ball is totally on the western side of the courtyard.

Posted by: never mind | Jan 29 2013 20:49 utc | 6

As a recreational diver I have observed schools of fish swimming in a beautifully coordinated way. they turn and change speed as a group, there is no leader with the others following. they vary the formation with ease and an evasive maneuver of one is immediately acted upon by all the others and they never run into each other.
I thought of this upon reading that attention to Iran may decrease for the time being. Like watching fish, I am constantly amazed at how easy it seems for corporate media to present a united front when manufacturing consent. I find it remarkable that so many “serious” news sources from state run television to mega corporations like News Corp and seemingly different ones like Al Jazeera might have been carry the same stories with the same spin.
Just how do they pull that off? if the people making these decisions of what constitutes news are not extremely gullible, they must be ignorant. if they are not ignorant then what is left? Malicious? rough choice, evil or incompetent.
of course, I could be completely delirious and imagine things that aren’t. maybe there is a guide somewhere, something like “The Prince” that explains what words you must use to cause the common folks to act in a certain way, how to get one thing by pretending it is something else.
just wondering

Posted by: dan of steele | Jan 29 2013 21:36 utc | 8

never mind – 7
The “color revolution” process has already started in Argentina.

Posted by: вот так | Jan 29 2013 23:40 utc | 10

@8 “Just how do they pull that off? if the people making these decisions of what constitutes news are not extremely gullible, they must be ignorant. if they are not ignorant then what is left? Malicious? rough choice, evil or incompetent.”
All major news outlets are run by only a handful corporations and magnates, who represents the view of corporate World and few powerful countries. The top decides how to spin, and journalists have to follow the guidelines or they are fired. Also designated source like pizza guy from SOHR makes it easier. Templates are provided, mass-media just uses their own words to repeat it.
Goebbels would be proud of his pupils, they by far exceeded the teacher.

Posted by: Harry | Jan 30 2013 1:28 utc | 12

@13
True, the bully never backs off, but sometimes it loses to a pugnacious, even though smaller, adversary.
And, Anglo-Americans bullied catholic nations when they find it necessary to do so. South America is a clear example.

Posted by: ATH | Jan 30 2013 2:53 utc | 14

Egypt’s version of the Iranian revolutionary guard?
http://www.wnd.com/2011/02/261069/

Posted by: nikon | Jan 30 2013 4:07 utc | 16

Posted by: never mind | Jan 29, 2013 3:49:49 PM | 6
reuters is quiet over Turkey being run by a jihadi-backing megalomaniac

Posted by: brian | Jan 30 2013 5:58 utc | 18

@3: From Mohamed ElBaradei’s “The Age of Deception”, pp. 312 f.:
“The Iranian fuel proposal did not die when I left office, continuing instead to take its twists and turns. On February 9, 2010, the Iranians declared they would begin enriching LEU up to 20 percent to provide the fuel for their research reactor. Two days later, Ahmadinejad rather inexplicably declared that Iran had become “a nuclear state.” By midmonth, IAEA inspectors verified that Iran was enriching uranium to 19.8 percent in Natanz.
But a more positive development was evolving behind the scenes. After several months’ delay, Tehran was warming to the suggestion of a fuel swap that would feature interim storage of Iran’s LEU in Turkey. In April, Obama wrote directly to Brazilian president Lula da Silva — in a letter that was later leaked to the press — urging that any fuel swap include the measure of storing the fuel “in escrow” in Turkey. I remained in occasional contact with the foreign ministers of Brazil and Turkey, fully supporting this new arrangement.
On May 17, 2010, in a joint declaration, Iran, Brazil, and Turkey announced they had reached an agreement on a fuel swap. Iran would send twelve hundred kilograms of LEU to Turkey, in a single shipment, to be held in escrow while Iran’s research reactor fuel was being fabricated. It was a leap forward—particularly because it signaled the willingness of new players, Turkey and Brazil, to take an active role in resolving the diplomatic impasse.
But the very next day, in a masterstroke of diplomatic futility, the P-5 + 1 announced that they had reached agreement on a fourth Security Council resolution to escalate sanctions on Iran for not bringing its enrichment program to a halt. Hillary Clinton called the fuel swap deal with Turkey and Brazil a “transparent ploy” on Iran’s part to avoid new sanctions.
I was dumbstruck and, to say the least, grievously disappointed. Once again, as I noted in an interview with Jornal do Brasil, the West had refused to take yes for an answer. Brazil and Turkey were outraged. Ahmadinejad urged the United States to accept the fuel swap as a move toward openness and dialogue. At the Security Council, Brazil voted against the sanctions—to no avail. The Western powers once more had touched a solution with their fingertips, only to brush it away.”

Posted by: k_w | Jan 30 2013 7:28 utc | 20

Israels fighter jets hit targets Syria/Leb boarder; a recent news report – If they were missiles as the target? No secondary explosions were reported or footage seen, and the Israelis would be eager to show that and make that viral – Where’s the footage? All the while Mali is getting huge funding….

Posted by: Kev | Jan 30 2013 15:23 utc | 22

FBI arrests Malcolm X’s grandson before he departs for Iran
http://dogmaandgeopolitics.wordpress.com/2013/02/04/fbi-arrests-malcolm-xs-grandson-before-he-departs-for-iran/
“In US, FBI has arrested Malcolm Shabazz, Malcolm X’s grandson, a Muslim and civil activist, and has moved him into an unknown location.
Malcolm Shabbaz was preparing to travel to Tehran to attend ‘Zionist Holywoodism’ conference.
Tasnim News reported that FBI had arrested and moved him to an unknown place. FBI has not provided the reason for his arrest.
The arrest was coincided with Lifetime TV airing of ‘Betty & Coretta,’ a dramatization of lives of two women after deaths of their husbands. Betty was Malcolm X’s wife, and Coretta was Martin Luther King’s spouse.”

Posted by: вот так | Feb 4 2013 12:26 utc | 24