Iran to meet with EU official over nukes

The European Union's foreign policy chief and Iran's senior nuclear negotiator tentatively agreed to meet Wednesday in a last-ditch attempt to bridge differences over Tehran's atomic program, U.N. and European officials said.

With the Vienna meeting seen as the last chance for Iran to avoid sanctions, U.N. Secretary- General Kofi Annan threw his weight behind a negotiated solution, saying Monday that confrontation with the Security Council "will not be in Iran's favor or that of the region."

The officials, who agreed to share confidential information about the meeting with The Associated Press only if their names weren't used, stressed that the date and venue of the talks could still change.

While word leaked last week that Iranian chief negotiator Ali Larijani agreed to meet with top EU envoy Javier Solana to discuss ways to solve the impasse, details of the talks were being officially kept secret in an apparent attempt not to jeopardize any chance of their success.

Asked to confirm the reports, Cristina Gallach, the spokeswoman for Solana, would only say that "the lines of communications are being kept open" between the two sides.

EU keeps ignoring, while Iran keeps getting closer and closer to having nuclear bombs.

U.S. Stands Alone (Stark Iran nuke readiness facts)

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1695583/posts

"Just last month, for example, it doubled output at a heavy-water enrichment plant. This lets Iran use unenriched uranium mined from within its borders — rather than having to buy it from others.

Iran already has 18 nuclear sites, carefully placed around the country. It has hundreds of sophisticated P-1 and P-2 centrifuges — used to enrich uranium for bombs — and plans to have 3,000 in a few years. All this translates into a burgeoning nuclear capability.

The International Atomic Energy Agency [IAEA] recently warned that Iran's Isfahan nuclear facility had already turned 37 tons of "raw uranium . . . into uranium hexafluoride" — enough, experts say, for as many as six atomic bombs.

The U.S. believes another Iranian nuclear reactor, at Bushehr, could eventually produce enough plutonium a year for 30 bombs."

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How much longer do they want to wait?!

I think these Iranian "negotiations" have reached a level of absurdity where Comedy Central should consider televising them.

I know there are only a couple of replies so far, but I believe yours is destined to be the high point of this particular thread.

My bet the EU will cut a secret deal with Iran that the EU will look the other way , remain neutral, on Iran the nuk program and Iran can threaten any one else (The US, & Israel in particular) as long as a Iran "promises" not to threaten the EU..Bottom line expect the bulk of the EU (save for the UK) to cave to Iran and bail on US...European appeasement is alive and well

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