“There will be a strong majority for a resolution to report Iran to the Security Council. The fact that Russia and China signed on to this plan provides cover for other members.”
“For the first time the Security Council will be able to consider enforcement measures and Iran for the first time will have to face the prospect of paying the cost for the path it is on.”
“They've now walked across the line in such a blatant way that it's hard to see where any other red line could be drawn. Now they've done what everybody was afraid of.”
“Iran is moving faster than some observers had expected. It appears to be determined to establish news facts on the ground, a functioning enrichment capability, before it is faced with Security Council action.”
“The deal reverses in many ways 40 years of U.S. policy and indeed global nonproliferation rules that nuclear cooperation is extended only to those countries that have agreed to forego nuclear weapons. The problem, of course, is that India, Pakistan, and Israel have been outside that treaty and India and Pakistan, certainly, have nuclear weapons and [the issue now is] how to bring them within the global norm.”
“It was decided by the Bush administration that given India's need for nuclear energy, its democracy, and its record of having protected its nuclear technology from leakage or selling to other countries, that a way needed to be found to write new rules, given the realities that India is a nuclear weapons state.”
