By Noam Chomsky
Truthout | Op-Ed - Wednesday, 04 December 2013
An interim agreement on Iran's nuclear policies that will provide a
six-month period for substantive negotiations was announced on Nov. 24.
Michael Gordon, a reporter for The New York Times, wrote, "It was the
first time in nearly a decade, American officials said, that an
international agreement had been reached to halt much of Iran's nuclear
program and roll some elements of it back."
The United States moved at once to impose severe penalties on a Swiss
firm that had violated U.S.-imposed sanctions. "The timing of the
announcement seemed to be partly intended to send a signal that the
Obama administration still considers Iran subject to economic
isolation," Rick Gladstone explained in The Times.
The "landmark accord" indeed includes significant Iranian concessions
- though nothing comparable from the United States, which merely agreed
to temporarily limit its punishment of Iran.
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