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Geneva Talks Rehabilitate Iran's Beleaguered Regime
[Wall Street Journal] Editorial - Inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency won't find anything incriminating at the Qom facility. Having lied about it for years, the Iranians now have plenty of time to clean the place out. A freeze on enrichment used to be the U.S. precondition for talks with Iran. Now the U.S. and Europeans say that in exchange merely for a promise to send low-enriched uranium outside Iran for enrichment, they'll freeze any additional sanctions. Iran has timed its olive branch well. The Europeans are more frustrated with past Iranian stalling than is Washington and have started to hanker for tougher measures. Those demands will now be muted. Expect Iran to follow the North Korean model, stringing the West along, lying and wheedling, striking deals only to renege and start over. In the end, North Korea tested a nuclear device. On long evidence, the regime has no intention of stopping a nuclear program that would give it new power in the region, and new leverage against America. This supposed fresh start in Geneva only gives Ahmadinejad and Iran's mullahs new legitimacy.