Posted on 10/27/2009 3:52:18 PM PDT by OldDeckHand
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran wants major amendments within the framework of a U.N. nuclear fuel deal which it broadly accepts, state media said, a move that could unravel the plan and expose Tehran to the threat of harsher sanctions.
The European Union's foreign policy chief said on Tuesday there was no need to rework the U.N. draft and he and France's foreign minister suggested Tehran would rekindle demands for tougher international sanctions if it tried to undo the plan.
Among the central planks of the plan opposed by Iran -- but requested by the West to cut the risk of an Iranian atom bomb -- was for it to send most of its low-enriched uranium reserve abroad for processing all in one go, state television said.
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""It's not a good sign ... it is a bad indication," French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner told reporters at an EU foreign ministers meeting in Luxembourg, referring to the latest, ambiguous Iranian statements."
If the French understand that this is a mess, it must really be bad.
New U.S. negotiating position:
We’re gonna make you an offer you can’t refuse.....
You guys quit the crap and maybe we don’t make a bunch of holes in your back yard.
I might believe that under a different administration, but under this one, hardly.
And OBAMA says what? Hu ?
Hummm i wanna talk without conditions with my bro tyrants and improve US image in ze world !
Watching the blood sacrifice in Afghanistan while the ‘bama wages war on Fox News, Ahmadinejad knows the time is ripe. He can expect concessions and indecision from an America that has no leadership at the helm.
screw negotiations, blow them off the face of the Earth.
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“expose Tehran to the threat of harsher sanctions.”
ROFL!!! Yeah, right.
Among the central planks of the plan opposed by Iran -- but requested by the West to cut the risk of an Iranian atom bomb -- was for it to send most of its low-enriched uranium reserve abroad for processing all in one go, state television said.
“expose Tehran to the threat of harsher sanctions.”
“Expose”, “threat”, “harsher”, “sanctions”—that’s only 4 degrees of separation from doing anything about it. They must really mean business now!
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