WASHINGTON (AP) – The United States said Wednesday it would join in face-to-face talks with Iran over its disputed nuclear program if Tehran first agreed to put challenged atomic activities on hold, a shift in tactics meant to offer the Iranians a last chance to avoid punishing sanctions.
Iran dismissed the offer as “a propaganda move.”
Before leaving for meetings in Europe on Iran, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said that while the U.S. was willing to join talks between European nations and Iran, it was also helping to prepare a package of sanctions that Tehran could face should it decline the new offer.
“We’re prepared to go either way,” she said
Look, we’ve covered this fairly thoroughly. Bottom Line Up Front:
-Iran won’t stop (verifiably) enriching uranium, therefore, the offer of the US participating in the talks is a diplomatic-based exercise, not a reality-based one.
-The EU-3 came to this conclusion 3 years ago, and is not prepared to either impose sanctions or lend their support to a military campaign.
-Russia and China will stick together. Until one of them can be peeled off to the West’s side, no sanctions will ever be imposed on Iran.
Therefore, working off of the “give a mouse a piece of cheese” model, the next move by the international community/Iran will be pressure on the US to engage in bilateral talks. This, of course, smacks of unilateralism.
But, hey… 2003 and OIF-1 was 3 years ago. I’m sure the world community would be fine with us engaging Iran in a good old-fashioned discussion like Southern and Southern (West Asian) gentlemen.
Oh, and additionally, it will now be exclusively OUR fault when negotiations fail (again).
“Sea of glass, visible from space.”
I’ll fly, you drop.
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Well, it takes two to tango. If ‘engaging’ with Iran on this is so obviously pointless, why are we trying so hard to do it?
“If ‘engaging’ with Iran on this is so obviously pointless, why are we trying so hard to do it?”
Simple Legion, to entertain the LLL’s like you. We got to for some reason so the EU and lightweight LLL’s can have that warm fuzzy that all options whether likely or not to succeed were tried.
But yeah it’s a waste of time and no nothing will come of the even further begging and offered bribes to pacify bad behavior. Ohhh and the part that really sucks is the LLL’s still wont support the war and they still wont help or even recognize that we tried. And somehow it all will be America’s fault and even more so Bush’s fault.
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