Mark Fitzpatrick Quotations

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.

Even if this is exaggerated, they are close to (enrichment ability) and the world faces a new reality.

by taking the minimal half-step to prevent being sent to the docket in New York.

The United States and Europe have clearly moved away from uranium conversion to set enrichment as the new red line but it's not clear if Russia, the key diplomatic player at this point, buys this.

The Europeans can be patient and I'm sure that they appreciated that the confrontation was postponed beyond the Christmas season.

But many of the centrifuge machines will crash upon start-up anyway, so contamination may be the least of Iran's worries.

Once they begin enrichment they have crossed a red line.

The dollar's a little weaker because Miyazawa retracted some of his comments, indicating there may be a need for foreign exchange intervention,

It will be very difficult to erase the knowledge they have achieved.

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.