Cuz We Said So

The Guardian noted over the weekend that Germany trumpeted an October deal with Iran, under which Iran promised to freeze its enrichment activity, "as a triumph for European diplomacy, implicitly criticising Washington's more confrontational approach."

Sunday, Iran followed up with the logical response.

Withdrawing from previous pledges to freeze all uranium-enrichment activities, Tehran said yesterday it would resume manufacturing parts for centrifuges tomorrow and would also restart the assembly of the centrifuges, the machines that refine crude uranium into bomb-grade material or nuclear fuel for power stations.

...The announcement was a blow to Britain, France and Germany which reached the Tehran Agreement last October, an accord under which Iran promised to freeze its enrichment activity.

One might cynically conjecture that Iran agreed to the deal because it felt it could continue with covert development under the plan until such time as it had to undertake development activities that could be detected by the west--a place at which they have now arrived? I wonder how much they got done during the eight month "freeze"?

In a devastating counterattack, the EU, the IAEA, and the White House each targeted Tehran with a merciless talking to, a clear warning that further attempts to develop nuclear weapons would be met with a swift and deadly further scolding.