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Always To The Right on Friday, October 02, 2009 6:23:43 PM
The One laid down the two-week deadline yesterday at around 3 p.m. ET; this dispatch from The Hill was posted at 2:23 this afternoon. The big “ultimatum” didn’t last 24 hours.
A State Department spokesperson on Friday signaled the
president’s mandate that Iran has two weeks to permit inspections of
its recently unveiled uranium refinement plant was not “written in
stone.”
“I don’t think that there’s a hard-and-fast deadline,” State
Department Spokesperson Ian C. Kelley said during Friday’s press
briefing, after a reporter asked what the consequences of Iran’s
inaction might be.
“I think that we’ve made it quite clear this was a matter of some
urgency; that we expected [Iran] to take urgent and concrete steps to
open up this facility, and not only just open it up but also make sure
that we were able to — or that the IAEA would be able to — talk to some
of the engineers there and see documents and plans,” Kelly added.
No worries: Kelly promises that we’ll be coordinating with IAEA chief Mohammed ElBaradei, who, in case you missed last night’s Ron Paul post, you may recall is a notoriously corrupt Iranian stooge.