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But Yoni said we were invading them and Syria next week!
You gotta try bribes first, folks.
Don't say I didn't tell you.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13165152/
U.S. offers Iran nuclear technology as incentive
Bush sees Tehran’s initial response to West’s package as a ‘positive step’
WASHINGTON - President Bush said Tuesday that Iran’s initial response to a package of incentives and threats on the nuclear impasse “sounds like a positive step to me.”
“We will see if the Iranians take our offer seriously,” Bush said in Laredo, Texas, where he was speaking about immigration overhaul. “The choice is theirs to make.
“I have said the United States will come and sit down at the table with them so long as they are willing to suspend their enrichment in a verifiable way,” Bush said. “So it sounds like a positive response to me.”
European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana laid out the potential rewards and consequences in a visit to Tehran. He later told Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice by phone that the Iranians had said they would need time to consider the proposal, State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said.
Solana called the discussions “very useful and constructive,” McCormack said.
Bush said in Laredo that he wanted to resolve the issue with Iran diplomatically.
Time for consideration
Earlier in the day, the administration said it would give Iran “a little bit of space” to consider the package but added that the offer was not open-ended.
“It’s a matter of weeks, not months,” McCormack said, echoing the vague deadline set out by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice before the package was presented to Tehran.
U.S. officials would not discuss specifics, saying that Iran needed time to review the package and ask questions in private.
“We want to give this every opportunity to succeed,” McCormack said. “The diplomacy, I would say, is at a sensitive stage.”
Promise of nuclear technology
The package includes a promise of Western technical help in developing peaceful civilian nuclear energy if Iran stops enriching uranium, a waiver of U.S. legal restrictions to allow export of some agricultural technology, access to U.S. aircraft parts or new Boeing Co. planes to upgrade Iran’s aging fleet and U.S. and European backing for Iran to join the World Trade Organization, diplomats and others said.
The proposal was agreed on last week by the United States, Britain, France, China and Russia — the five veto-wielding members of the U.N. Security Council, plus Germany. Those nations would be expected to move for Security Council sanctions such as travel and financial restrictions on Iranian officials if Tehran does not take the deal or if negotiations fall apart.
Top Iranian nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani said the initiative contains “positive steps” but also some “ambiguities.”
“There are robust measures on both sides, both the incentive side as well as the disincentive side,” McCormack said. “It presents the Iranian government with a very clear choice on both sides of the road.”
The incentives package offers other economic and political rewards, but also contains the implicit threat of U.N. sanctions if Iran remains defiant.
In a breakthrough last week, the United States agreed to join in multinational talks on the package.
Hoping for 'a modern Iran'
German Chancellor Angela Merkel, meeting in Germany with French President Jacques Chirac, urged Tehran to respond positively to the incentives, saying that they show the world’s interest in the success of “a modern Iran” and its sincerity in seeking a diplomatic solution.
“I hope that Iran shows a positive reaction and understands that there is a broad interest in a diplomatic solution to this conflict,” she said.
Chirac echoed Merkel’s hopes that the package would bring progress.
“We truly hope ... that we can reach an accord that respects the demands of the IAEA toward Iran,” he said, referring to the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency, which has demanded Iran once again suspend its enrichment of uranium, a process that can create fuel for a nuclear reactor or fissile material for a bomb.
Mottaki told Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Aso by phone that Tehran would “seriously study” the incentives, Japan’s Foreign Ministry said.
Mottaki also said Iran had the right to develop nuclear technology for peaceful purposes, the ministry said in a statement.
He added that the United States was to blame for the lack of trust between Washington and Tehran, and said he felt the international community shared Iran’s distrust of the U.S., according to the statement.
Iran says its nuclear development is for peaceful production of nuclear energy, but Washington, the European Union and others accuse Tehran of covertly trying to build a nuclear arsenal.
In recent days, Iran’s leadership has alternated between talking tough and signaling it is open to negotiations — perhaps an attempt to portray to the Iranian public that it is not backing down even as it considers reversing its refusal to suspend enrichment.
Additionally, the U.S. offer to join in direct talks with Iran might have taken Tehran’s top officials off-guard.
Oil supply at risk
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, normally a hard-line critic of the United States who insists that Tehran has a right to enrichment, said over the weekend that a breakthrough in negotiations was possible and welcomed the U.S. offer to join talks, while rejecting preconditions.
But threats by Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, to disrupt the world’s oil supply if Tehran is punished over its nuclear program reflected Tehran’s nervousness.
Although other Iranian officials have repeatedly ruled out using oil as weapon, his comments propelled oil prices to $73 a barrel Monday. Iran is the world’s fourth-largest oil exporter and the second-largest producer in the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries.
But Yoni said we were invading them and Syria next week!
You gotta try bribes first, folks.
Don't say I didn't tell you.
This is a good move. We should never stand in any countries way in developing cheaper, safer, cleaner and more "foward-looking" (meaning non fossil fuel) sources of energy. Obviously someone (doesn't matter who) decided Iran can't have nukes. Iran says they just want the energy... we'll give it to them. If a deal isn't eventually worked out (barring there are any outlandish riders on the deal), then all the blame will be on Iran.
Is this part of the agreement between France, Russia, China, US, German, and England?
Don't you think that is already a predetermined conclusion?
This is hilarious. Anyone remember when Dubya commented on how Clinton gave N Korea incentives and it didn't work, and now he's doing the same with Iran. Right out of the Rethug playbook, blame the Clenis then ultimately copy him and hope no one notices.
"We should never stand in any countries way in developing cheaper, safer, cleaner and more "foward-looking" (meaning non fossil fuel) sources of energy."
The Repugs stand in the way of the USA developing such energy sources even for the USA. They refuse to force the coal industry and coal-fired plants to install scrubbers on existing plants and to build less-polluting new plants.
The US has clean coal-buring plant technology and could be World Champions in developing it more and spreading it around the globe, as about 1000 coal-fired plants are scheduled for the near future.
Why aren't the Repugs figuring out how to reduce coal-fired plants emissions and how to fire up nuclear plants? Is it because the coal and oil companies have bought enough Repugs to do what's best for campaign donors and what's worst for America?
Even the greens are coming around to the fact the nuclear is the least bad electrical generating energy option.
all this bull . It's takes real leadership, vision, and hard work.
Let's get back to the horrible crises of Gay Marriage and Flag Burning.
Let's get out the Rabble and Bigot Votes, NOW!
Last edited by boutons_; 06-07-2006 at 08:10 AM.
Oh they aren't going to have nukes. How much you want to bet? And
do you really think they care that we can blame them (Iran) for developing
them..... o......that's what they are doing now. And will continue to do
so.
They will have their nukes and they will use them at the first opportunity.
And sooner than many think.
Ever hear of auto-wrapping text? You don't need to hit return when you type dude...
Anyway... I have no clue what you said, since you contradicted yourself in the same post.
The reason for the "blaming" is for you people. Bush knows you guys eat that up!
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