BE CAREFUL, BE CAREFUL – AT 8:48 A.M. ET:  This will be sold to us as progress, but be careful of the details.  Looks like another UN hustle:

VIENNA (AP) -- Iran has agreed to give the U.N. nuclear monitoring agency greater inspection and monitoring rights to a sensitive site where it is enriching uranium to higher levels, diplomats said Friday.

The move -- indirectly confirmed by a senior Iranian envoy -- comes as Tehran mounts a diplomatic offensive meant to stave off new U.N. sanctions for its defiance of Security Council demands that it curb nuclear activities that could be used to make weapons.

And that's the point.  This is part of a propaganda campaign.  Nothing the Iranians have done has ever resulted in any restrictions on their nuclear program.  It's a hundred-percent record.

They said Iran agreed in principle about 10 days ago to give the IAEA the greater overview it sought, but the increased access and monitoring still had to be put in place.

''The have not agreed to the full measures sought by the agency but enough so that the agency would be happy'' after being stonewalled for two months, said one of the diplomats.

COMMENT:  The IAEA would be happy?  Really?  These people are easily pleased.  Maybe someone should ask why the Iranians aren't agreeing to all the measures requested.  Yeah, we're really wondering. 

Actually, the IAEA has a new Japanese chief, whose first report on Iran was unusually tough.  But I've observed that, over time, UN executives start sipping the Kool-Aid, and begin to conform to the world body's appeasement style, just as new members of Congress, no matter how they advertise their "independence," quickly fall into the Washington way of doing business. 

Iran will not stop its nuclear program.  And, earlier this week, a leaked memo from Secretary of Defense Gates accused the White House of not having a real strategy to deal with an Iranian bomb. 

So, while you're paying the coming VAT tax, you might ponder what the money is being used for.

April 23, 2010