I guess I was wrong during yesterday's TOCS news segment when I said that Geneva would give Iran time to limp across the nuclear finish line. They're actually sprinting ahead:

Iran plans to install a more advanced type of centrifuge at its newly revealed uranium enrichment site, an Iranian newspaper reported Tuesday, a development certain to add to international concerns about the country's nuclear work. Iranian scientists have carried out research and development in recent months for the new generation of more efficient centrifuges, and most of the machines' components are made domestically, said the head of Iran's nuclear agency, Ali Akbar Salehi, according to the Kayhan daily newspaper.... Iran insists its enrichment work is only meant for use in generating power.

The size and nature of the Qom facility put to rest even the pretense that they might be telling the truth only wanting to generate power. But it's nice to see they're still willing to unblinkingly trot out the line. Saves people the trouble of unpacking new lies.

On sanctions, here's that NYT story about how we couldn't implement a robust sanctions regime even if we got Russia or China on board. Luckily we can get neither Russia nor China on board so that's not an issue.

Not that Obama seems particularly interested in trying. First there was that September deadline that he set and that the Iranians made a huge show of totally and completely blowing off. It promptly and mysteriously vanished, only to be replaced by a new December deadline.

Then there was that hardline announcement that Iran had two weeks to let inspectors into Qom. Guess how it went:

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."

As for our broader strategy - I can't blockquote this entire Fox News blog post so I'll just send you there directly. Title: "US Won't Push for Sanctions in Nuke Talks With Iran, Open to Direct Negotiations, Denial of Access to Covert Enrichment Facility Not a Deal-Breaker."

Meanwhile our State Department has taken to granting emergency visas to Iranian regime toadies "with unusual speed." Just to be nice, ya know?

References and previously after the jump...