Obama's November surprise: President's sanctions force shutdown of Iranian nuclear program. Update: Not so fast America!

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To the right-wing, Iran was the devil itself, something to bring up in order to pound the war drum. It did not matter that they could not find the nation on map, it was the enemy and they were marching to war. 

To Mitt Romney’s rhetoric, the sanctions were meaningless, that Iran was “spinning its centrifuges” to making a bomb. It was only a matter of time. Vote for Romney or else Iran would have a nuclear device virtually overnight. 

Today, the Iranian Foreign Policy and National Security Commission of Parliament Mohammad Hossein Asfari told the Iranian Student’s News Agency, the second largest news organization in the nation, that Iran was shutting down their centrifuges, suspending its entire nuclear program, as a symbol of “good will.” 

In the discussion, Mohammad admitted that the sanctions have been crippling to the Iranian people. With their trade effectively shut off, the exchange rate for their currency was slashed by over 80%, and continuing to plummet. The nation was facing crucial shortfalls of crucial goods, from wheat, flour, sugar, and red meat, as well as aluminum and steel. The sanctions have effectively turned Iran into an international pariah. 

Nuclear development is not something you can just suspend and restart at will. The materials degrade, decompose, and pollute themselves over time. Any successful nuclear program requires continuous active development. Once a program is shut down, in effect it will need to be restarted from scratch. Years of effort, gone. 

The Obama sanctions have restored balance to the region.

Well that takes care of that!

What else have you right wingers got?

Oh, are you still trying to make a mountain out of the Benghazi molehill?

Well good luck with that.

Update: Apparently the  Iranians did not like being portrayed as having caved under pressure and are now saying that ""Twenty percent uranium enrichment activities continue as before and no change has happened." (By the way uranium needs to be enriched to 90 percent in order to be used in a nuclear weapon.)

Interestingly enough the second article does NOT dispute the toll that sanctions have taken on the Iranian economy, and I still have to wonder if their government is not trying to find some way to negotiate some compromise with the US, especially since they seem to have pushed their diplomatically clumsy President aside and claim that it "never broke off talks with the West," while still saving face among their people and the rest of the Middle East.

By the way the Right Wing is spinning this supposedly new desire to talk as due to the Iranians fear of a Mitt Romney presidency. But I think if the Iranians have been paying any attention at all they surely realize that Romney's point of view about EVERYTHING changes with the direction of the wind.

Obama is the one that has been putting the squeeze on them, and HE is the one that has the patience of Job and the determination of a man who has systematically disabled Al-Qaeda until they are a mere shell of their former selves. If they are going to negotiate with anyone it is our current President, and NOT somebody who bullies them one day and flip flops the next.