Posted on 05/15/2006 3:19:44 PM PDT by blam
EU to propose 'bold' Iran package
Solana says Iran will find it hard to refuse the "generous" EU package
The EU is preparing a new package of measures that it hopes will convince Iran to curb its nuclear ambitions, top EU diplomat Javier Solana has said. The "bold" package would include economic, nuclear, and possibly security guarantees, Mr Solana said.
The incentives would be difficult for Tehran to refuse if what it really wanted was nuclear energy, he said.
EU foreign ministers are meeting in Brussels, partly for discussions on Iran's nuclear programme.
The EU and the United States fear that Iran - despite its denials - is actually trying to develop nuclear weapons.
Iran says its nuclear programme is aimed at meeting its energy needs only. It insists on its right to enrich uranium.
Mr Solana dismissed comments on Sunday by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who said Iran will reject any offer to resolve the dispute over its nuclear programme that forces it to halt its "peaceful activities".
The US and some European governments are seeking a tough resolution on Iran at the UN Security Council.
Both China and Russia - both veto-holding members of the Security Council - do not want to support any resolution that might eventually lead to further resolutions threatening sanctions or military action.
Annan hopes
In a separate development, UN Secretary General Kofi Annan has called for urgent action to end the stand-off over nuclear issues with both Iran and North Korea.
"The international community has to take very urgent steps to deal with these issues before we have a cascade of a proliferation of nuclear weapons," he told a news conference in Seoul.
Mr Annan is in South Korea at the start of a two-week East Asian tour.
He said that that the meeting of foreign ministers from the five permanent members of the UN Security Council and Germany in New York last week was cause for renewed confidence in a diplomatic solution on Iran.
"I am encouraged by the intensified diplomatic efforts to resolve this issue peacefully and seek a negotiated settlement," he said.
My Top-Secret source informs me that the Euro's have secret underground bunker sites, heavily fortified with 10-metre thick reinforced concrete, with cascades of appeasement centrifuges where for years, they've been refining and enriching their appeasements.
Maybe I should have labeled my post with a "sarcasm" tag. I thought it was obvious.
But since you insist on being serious, I must say your last comment makes you a candidate for membership to the euroweenie elite class.
I suspected as much...
But if it provides the Iranian people (most of whom disagree with the leadership) with better living standards, it might help provide them the strength to revolt from within.
All of the bluster you hear from the Iranian leadership is a desperate attempt to create cohesion within Iran by defining an enemy against whom the population can unite - this is indication that Iran's leadership is losing control of the populace.
This is an opening that can be used against the leadership.
Or you can call me names, either way is fine with me.
-How many ways have the Iranians told the EU to 'stuff-it?'-
A LOT, but this time they get to take what's offered, and THEN tell 'em to stuff it again!
There's no reason to be generous to a suicidal freak who thinks he's a god. Lock him up in a loony bin and shut the nukes down.
Carrot go boom!
What is "shirk and appease"?
I'll take Old Europe for $500.
"But if it provides the Iranian people (most of whom disagree with the leadership) with better living standards, it might help provide them the strength to revolt from within."
You're dreaming...
Remember the oil for food program that was supposed to provide a better life for the Iraqis? Remember how well it worked?
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