Posted on 08/22/2006 8:02:34 AM PDT by John Carey
Iran formally responded Tuesday to a package of Western incentives aimed at persuading Tehran to suspend uranium enrichment, with officials saying it has offered a "new formula" to resolve the dispute. The country's top nuclear negotiator said Tehran was ready to enter "serious negotiations." Iran's top nuclear negotiator, Ali Larijani, hand-delivered Iran's response to the Western package of nuclear incentives to ambassadors from Britain, China, Russia, France, Germany and Switzerland, state-run television said, without disclosing details.
Officials close to the meeting said Iran's response offered the "new formula" to resolve the dispute over Tehran's nuclear activities. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the information.
"Iran has provided a comprehensive response....
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"Iran has provided a comprehensive response...."
'comprehensive'...now where have I heard that word before..
The story doesn't provide more info than state run television. AP doesn't even say the nation/state. Talk about protecting their sources!
LOL good one. I'm out now currently eating yellow cake donuts in celebration the end of the world as we know it has had a stay of execution for the time being. Ha, sounds like that old REM song.
- The country's top nuclear negotiator said Tehran was ready to enter "serious negotiations."
Interesting and very revealing how they term it "serious negotiations."
That is a direct slap to the face of France, Britain and the former Schroeder government of Germany, who had been negotiating with the Iranians over this for years.
Only now the Iranians say they are ready to enter "serious negotiations." Of course it is still BS but will probably succeed in buying even more time from the useless UN.
"The negotiations before today, we were only playing around, ha ha... okay now it's series time!"
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