Iran rejects 'language of force' over nuclear programme_(russia against sanctions)

the citizen ^ | 8/25/06 | afp

[Flavius]

Iran is ready for unconditional talks over its nuclear programme but rejects the West's "language of force" over the issue, one of the Islamic republic's religious leaders has said. "Yesterday, today and tomorrow, Islamic Iran is favourable toward negotiations that are just, logical and without preconditions, but refuses the language of force," Ahmad Khatami said in a Friday sermon broadcast on state radio. "Using the language of force with Iran is a foolish and clumsy attitude," said Khatami, who is a member of Iran's Assembly of Experts, which supervises the work of supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. The United States and other world powers have reacted coolly to Iran's response to a package of incentives offered by the five permanent Security Council members and Germany in return for a moratorium on sensitive uranium activities. "During the war in Lebanon, the Security Council showed that it acted as the United States' valet ... We advise Russia and China not to fall into the Americans' trap," he said. Russian Defence Minister Sergei Ivanov said on Friday that sanctions against Iran after its response to the world powers' demand to freeze uranium enrichment and reprocessing activities was as yet "premature". "It is at least premature and unsound to speak of sanctions" as of now, Ivanov said as quoted by the ITAR-TASS news agency. Iran is suspected by the West of trying to build nuclear weapons under cover of a civilian nuclear power program. Tehran has consistently rejected this suspicion, and has insisted it has the right to its own nuclear power program.

[Kolb]

Sanctions my rear end, how about this for starters Iran? Get some!

[Rutles4Ever]

Islamic Iran is favourable toward negotiations that are just, logical and without preconditions, but refuses the language of force,"

Except that part about wiping Israel off the map. Evil. Pure evil.

[Proud_USA_Republican]

As Hezbollah is a proxy of Iran to fight and destabalize Israel. Iran is a proxy of Russia to fight and destabalize the US.

Putin and his Kremlin mafia are deluding themselves if they think the rabid dog they are arming isn't going to turn on them eventually.