Credibility. In international affairs, credibility is vitally important. It makes negotiations possible and agreements stick.Iran does not have any credibility. They have been lying to the world for more than a decade about their nuclear program. The meeting on Thursday between Iran and the 5 permanent Security Council members plus Germany (P5+1) was aimed to test Iran's credibility and develop confidence that they mean what they say about the peaceful nature of their program.To that end, Iran agreed to allow inspectors into its recently revealed site near Qom. The president gave the Iranians 2 weeks to comply.Or did they? The State Department doesn't think Iran's credibility needs to be tested. Tony Romm writing in The Hill: A State Department spokesman on Friday signaled that 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...(Read Full Post)