Posted on 09/02/2006 12:41:44 PM PDT by John Carey
Iran offered to help support the cease-fire in Lebanon in talks Saturday with U.N Secretary-General Kofi Annan, and insisted that diplomacy is the only way to resolve Tehran's nuclear dispute with the West.
The talks came two days after Iran defied a U.N. deadline to halt uranium enrichment, opening the door to consideration of sanctions to reinforce Western demands that the Islamic republic rein in its nuclear program and allay suspicions it is working on atomic weapons.
Before the Security Council discusses the issue, the European Union is taking another stab at diplomacy this week, and Annan said before arriving that he hoped sanctions could be avoided so as to keep from adding to tensions in "a region already subjected to a great stress."
The tone from Annan's first meetings in Tehran was positive. Iran's top nuclear negotiator, Ali Larijani, described his talks with the U.N. chief as "constructive" and said "both sides agreed that problems should be solved through negotiations."
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In a perfect world, those Islamomaniacs would have taken Kofi Anus hostage, held a gun to his head, and told him to convert to Islam or else.
As for Iran agreeing to "support" a cease fire, that's like Al Capone calling for a truce in old Chicago while his boys polish their submachine guns for city wide hits on all of his rivals.
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