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              Rice: US still puts conditions on talks with Iran
Saturday, July 19th, 2008 AP News | Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Friday that the United States still has conditions for negotiating with Iran even though the Bush administration is sending a senior diplomat to weekend talks with an Iranian nuclear envoy. She said the shift in policy is a signal the administration is serious about diplomacy, but does not mean Washington is ready for open-ended discussions with Iran. Such talks can only occur after Tehran halts activities that could lead to development of atomic weapons. Rice spoke a day before the State Department’s third-ranking diplomat, William Burns, is to attend a meeting in Switzerland with Iran’s chief nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili. The US previously has shunned such gatherings, demanding that Iran first suspend its enrichment and reprocessing of uranium. “It should be very clear to everyone that the United States has a condition for the beginning of negotiations with Iran, and that condition remains the verifiable suspension of Iran’s enrichment and reprocessing activities,” she told reporters at the State Department. “That remains the U.S. position and it will continue to be the U.S. position.” Burns will attend a meeting on Saturday with Jalili in Geneva, Switzerland at which Iran is expected to deliver its formal response to a package of incentives being offered it in exchange for the suspension. Have Your Say: Rice: US still puts conditions on talks with Iran Please read our posting guidelines before posting. Alternatively you can discuss this report here. One Response to “Rice: US still puts conditions on talks with Iran”
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So if Iran insist they have a right as a sovereign state to enrich uranium for the purposes of nuclear energy, America are then able to say “we have tried all avenues with Iran but they just won’t listen, now we will have to shock and awe them”.
What moral right do the Americans have to act as the policeman of the world, if it were not so scary I think I’d find it hilarious! They act as if they are some kind of shining example, whilst in reality their meddling (overt or covert) in other countries business is the cause of the most of the world’s grief! They just can’t help themselves can they?
Look out Syria\Venezuela\North Korea\Libya\Pakistan once we’ve finished democratising (raping? pillaging?) Iraq\Iran\Afghanistan we’ll need another target to feed the military industrial monster we’ve built and your names are in the hat.
The UN and the IAEA have said that they don’t believe that Iran has a nuclear weapons programme, they say they are enriching uranium for the purposes of nuclear energy.
Iran are signatories to the Non Proliferation Treaty, there is an entity in the Middle East that isn’t a signatory to the NPT, that entity has an estimated 200-300 nukes. I don’t see any strict sanctions against them, let alone threats of attack!