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The Alpha-Omega Report's

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Middle East News Spotlight

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For May  24, 2010

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A week after announcing its controversial "compromise" to satisfy UN demands, Iran warns Western nations such as the U.S. to accept its compromise offer with Brazil and Turkey. The compromise deal is a sham that enables Iran to continue producing in secret as much uranium as it desires.

Iran has essentially outfoxed and ountmaneuvered the Obama Administration abouit like professional basketball players could outmanuever high school players on the basketball court. Team Obama has been made to look like totally incompetent fools in much the same way Hitler did to Britain's Neville Chamberlain befoer WW2. For more on the diplomatic track with the UN and Iran LINK HERE.

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The Obama Administration is trying to push forward with new, ultra weak UN sanctions against Iran even after Iran's compromise agreement with the UN on enrichment. It's is part of a face-saving effort by the White House to avoid diplomatic embarrassment after the Iranian compromise left Iran with the ability to continue to enrich uranium. The new UN sanctions proposal needed Russian support and to gain that support, the US agreed to drop its own sanctions against key Russian firms doing business with Iran. Additionally, there is a loophole in the new UN sanctions proposal that will allow Russia to sell the S-300 air defense system to Iran. The U.S. State Department acknowledges that a loophole slipped into the language of the draft resolution that would ban major weapons sales to Iran. More more details on this story, LINK HERE.

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Never known for giving an inch, an Iranian lawmaker warned that new, but extremely watered down sanctions are approved by the UN Security Council, Iran may cancel its compromise agreement to give up 1,300 kilograms of enriched uranium to Turkey for advanced enrichment processing for a medical reactor in Tehran.

Brazil and Turkey had brokered a surprise deal last week in which Iran agreed to send some low-enriched uranium abroad in return for fuel rods for a medical research reactor. The first batch is due to arrive in Turkey within a month.

Despite the deal, Washington has circulated a draft sanctions resolution, agreed to by all five permanent U.N. Security Council members after months of negotiation. The new sanctions would target Iranian banks and call for inspection of vessels suspected of carrying cargo related to Iran's nuclear or missile programs.

The new UN sanctions proposal does have a loophole that will allow Russia to complete its 3-year old sales agreement to provide Iran with Russia's vaunted S-300 air defense missile system - something the Iranians desperately want to defend themselves against air attack from either Israel or the United States. For more on the Iranian response, LINK HERE.

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Israel will now become less dependent upon water disputed by Syria and Jordan and less inclined to buy water from Turkey. More details, LINK HERE.

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