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Rice Offers Iran Prospect of Normal Ties
Reuters ^ | 01/23/08 | Sue Pleming

Posted on 01/23/2008 10:24:23 AM PST by cowdog77

DAVOS, Switzerland (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Wednesday she believed the nuclear stand-off with Iran could be resolved diplomatically but that Tehran must not be allowed to become a nuclear weapons power.

Just one day after getting agreement on a draft U.N. Security Council resolution against Tehran, Rice offered the incentive of a "more normal relationship" and expanded trade if Iran gave up sensitive nuclear work, according to the prepared text of her speech to the World Economic Forum in Switzerland.

"Ultimately, though, we believe that we can resolve this problem through diplomacy," Rice said according to the text, which was distributed by conference organizers.

"If Iran would suspend its uranium enrichment and reprocessing activities - which is an international demand, not just an American one - then we could begin negotiations, and we could work over time to build a new, more normal relationship," she said.

Rice said this new relationship could be defined not by fear and mistrust but growing cooperation, expanding trade and exchange, and the peaceful resolution of differences.

In a conciliatory note after weeks of anti-Iranian rhetoric by the Bush administration, Rice said the United States had no desire for Iran to be a "permanent enemy".

"Iranians are a proud people with a great culture, and we respect the contributions they have made to world civilization," she said.

But she said Washington had real differences with Iran's government, from its pursuit of a nuclear weapon to support for terrorism and what the United States sees as Tehran's destabilizing policies in Iraq.

Rice said that agreement reached between foreign ministers of major powers in Berlin on Tuesday for a third sanctions resolution showed that the world remained united over not wanting Iran to become a nuclear weapons power.

"We will continue to hold Iran to its international obligations," said Ric


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: davos; iran; iraniannukes; iraq; korea; olivebranch; rice
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Shades of North Korea ~ The State Department just never learns!!
1 posted on 01/23/2008 10:24:24 AM PST by cowdog77
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“The State Department just never learns!!”

Come on another Daft UN resolution? Gotta be good, maybe we can use it in our next ‘authorization of force’ declaration.


2 posted on 01/23/2008 10:26:56 AM PST by CJ Wolf (To Join or leave the offical Ron Paul 'let freedom' Ping, Freepmail me.)
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In some strange fashion, I almost wish that the Iranians would light a test nuke off in their desert just to prove to Condi and her State Department minions exactly how stupid they have been in dealing with both the mullahs and North Koreans.


3 posted on 01/23/2008 10:27:49 AM PST by Virginia Ridgerunner (“We must not forget that there is a war on and our troops are in the thick of it!” --Duncan Hunter)
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Condippeasment.


5 posted on 01/23/2008 10:28:39 AM PST by BigFinn
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I’m sure she’s just obeying her orders.


6 posted on 01/23/2008 10:33:22 AM PST by stuartcr (Election year.....Who we gonna hate, in '08?)
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To: F15Eagle
I didn't know until today that in October 1999, North Korea towed the captured US Navy ship Pueblo from Wonson on the east coast to Nampo on the west coast. to get from one side of the peninsula to the other, the NKs sailed through international waters and, no doubt, under the steady view of our satellites.
Who was president of the United States in 1999 ?
7 posted on 01/23/2008 10:35:10 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (ENERGY CRISIS made in Washington D. C.)
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Go get ‘em Jorge. Fight that WOT, and the war on drugs, and the war on American citizens, and the war on the conservatives, and the ...


8 posted on 01/23/2008 10:36:14 AM PST by G.Mason (And what is intelligence if not the craft of out-thinking our adversaries?)
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Agreed. Does anyone really think they will truly give up their quest? I think this would just push it further underground... Shades of N. Korea is right! UGH...


9 posted on 01/23/2008 10:36:59 AM PST by LibertyRocks ("Islam - The Religion of Pieces" -- quote from LR's "Infidel & Proud" Daughter)
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Yesterday, the state department spokesman note the North Korean 6 country discussions were in complete breakdown.

They give billions of our dollars away for nothing and it is exactly what we get.


10 posted on 01/23/2008 10:41:49 AM PST by edcoil
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Bring Ahmadinejad and the mad mullahs an autographed basketball and a bottle of Pierre Jouet. They’ll forget all about the 12th Imam and their dreams of a caliphate.


12 posted on 01/23/2008 10:46:58 AM PST by WhistlingPastTheGraveyard (John McCain: Bush Derangement Syndrome's "Patient Zero")
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13 posted on 01/23/2008 10:48:11 AM PST by SJackson (If 45 million children had lived, they'd be defending America, filling jobs, paying SS-Z. Miller)
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To: cowdog77

Peace in our time.


14 posted on 01/23/2008 10:48:13 AM PST by rjp2005 (Lord have mercy on us)
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To: F15Eagle

I’m just astounded.


15 posted on 01/23/2008 10:49:10 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (ENERGY CRISIS made in Washington D. C.)
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The U.N.’s top humanitarian affairs official, John Holmes, rebuked Israel for meting out collective punishment and Condoleezza Rice urged Israeli leaders to avert a humanitarian crisis. She did not repeat her “failure is not an option” mantra. Perhaps that’s better left for a bumper sticker, along with “Rice go home.”


16 posted on 01/23/2008 10:49:56 AM PST by cowdog77 (Circle the Wagons)
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(finally... a new "Breaking News" story)
17 posted on 01/23/2008 10:51:14 AM PST by kinsman redeemer (The real enemy seeks to devour what is good.)
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I get a horrible vision of Rice visiting Tehran like Albright’s fiasco in Pyongyang.


18 posted on 01/23/2008 10:52:00 AM PST by AU72
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Didn’t the Shah of Iran send Lazlo Toth/aka Fr. Guido Sarducci a nice tie in the 1970s?


19 posted on 01/23/2008 10:55:49 AM PST by weegee (Those who surrender personal liberty to lower global temperatures will receive neither.)
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To: cowdog77
Great idea. We normalize relations with Iran. Just as soon as (1) our embassy is rebuilt, (2) the people kidnapped and held for 444 days are paid reparations, (3) the parties responsible including Mahmoud Ahmadinejad are imprisoned for breaking Iranian and international law in the matter, (4) the sitting government issues a public apology for the outrageous and illegal violation of U.S. property and people there, and (5) the survivors and heirs of Iranian-sponsored terrorism such as the Marine barracks bombing in Beirut are properly compensated and the instigators brought to justice.

Until then no deal.

20 posted on 01/23/2008 10:56:42 AM PST by Billthedrill
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