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U.S. says Iran will Get Incentives "Very Quickly"
AP ^ | May 5, 2008 | Sue Pleming

Posted on 05/05/2008 1:19:05 PM PDT by freerepublic_or_die

World powers very soon will present Iran with a revised package of incentives to give up its sensitive nuclear work, U.S. officials said on Monday, but expectations for a positive response are low.

"I think this will move very quickly," said a senior U.S. official, when asked when the incentives package agreed on by major powers in London last Friday would be formally offered to the Iranians.

Top government officials in China, Russia, the United States, France, Britain -- the permanent members of the U.N. Security Council -- and Germany are now reviewing the decision made in London and an approach would be made soon to Tehran, the official said. France has said it could be within days.

The incentives are based on an offer first made to Iran in June 2006, which diplomats say has been "refreshed" to include enhanced nuclear cooperation but do not differ substantially from the first one.

"It is not a major step forward, frankly, because we think it was a very good offer in the first place. We simply don't understand why the Iranians have not put more interest in it," the senior U.S. official told Reuters.

"It doesn't augur well for a reaction, given what they have said already," he added, anticipating Iran's formal response.

Iran said on Monday it would not consider any incentives that violated its right to nuclear technology, ruling out a precondition to halt atomic work the West believes is aimed at making bombs. Iran says its nuclear program is for peaceful power purposes.

"It is nice to see, I guess, that they are keeping such an open mind about this by rejecting it before they have even seen it," said State Department spokesman Tom Casey when asked about Iran's comments

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: armageddon; iran; iraniannukes; middleeast; us; wot
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LOL. You've got to love that title..

That is the title verbatim.... "Very Quickly". I would have to say that this double entendre is unintentional, unintentionally funny.

Let's all hope they get the only "incentives" they're really ever going to respond to, a glorious mushroom cloud over Towel-headed Tehran.

1 posted on 05/05/2008 1:19:06 PM PDT by freerepublic_or_die
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Meanwhile “Ayatollah: Iran won’t stop nuke program”.


2 posted on 05/05/2008 1:20:20 PM PDT by AU72
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the best incentive would be a ring of steel (US and British Navy ships) and a heavy cover of US and friendly aircraft.

Nothing in, nothing out.

mobilize and arm the Iranian students - they’re ready!

then stand back


3 posted on 05/05/2008 1:24:42 PM PDT by elpadre
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"We simply don't understand why the Iranians have not put more interest in it," the senior U.S. official told Reuters.

Because they want to blow people up ya big dummy.
4 posted on 05/05/2008 1:27:58 PM PDT by mmichaels1970
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5 posted on 05/05/2008 1:28:20 PM PDT by JZelle
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"It is not a major step forward, frankly, because we think it was a very good offer in the first place. We simply don't understand why the Iranians have not put more interest in it," the senior U.S. official told Reuters.

Condi, sweetheart, read the tag line.

6 posted on 05/05/2008 1:28:42 PM PDT by Carry_Okie (Islam offers us three choices: surrender, kill them, or die.)
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I always thought the best incentive package offer was “Stop your nuclear work, or we go nuclear on you.”

Of course, diplomats don’t think that way...


7 posted on 05/05/2008 1:29:41 PM PDT by BrewingFrog (I brew, therefore I am!)
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"It is nice to see, I guess, that they are keeping such an open mind about this by rejecting it before they have even seen it," said State Department spokesman Tom Casey...

Well, all you highly-paid Harvard-educated GS-18s at the State Department ought to be able to understand you're not offering them something to which they'll respond - but they will respond to force, like a bombing campaign ...

8 posted on 05/05/2008 1:29:46 PM PDT by Ken522
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"It is nice to see, I guess, that they are keeping such an open mind about this by rejecting it before they have even seen it," said State Department spokesman Tom Casey when asked about Iran's comments

At least there is one person in the State Department with some common sense (and sense of humor).

9 posted on 05/05/2008 1:31:57 PM PDT by OCC
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Are we such morons ?


10 posted on 05/05/2008 1:36:54 PM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks
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“I think this will move very quickly,” said a senior U.S. official, “almost as quick as the strike force amassing in the gulf ready to strike Iran if they refuse.”


11 posted on 05/05/2008 1:39:27 PM PDT by steel_resolve (Operation Chaos is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.)
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Didn’t we learn ANYTHING from N. Korea and their tactics?


12 posted on 05/05/2008 1:41:08 PM PDT by freebird5850
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I’m with ya bro. LOVE that title. I only wish it had the steel behind it that is implied.


13 posted on 05/05/2008 1:43:08 PM PDT by BOBTHENAILER (One by one, in small groups or in whole armies, we don't care how we do it, but we're gonna getcha)
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"I just wuv America! Where Maddie? I wuv Maddie wong time! "


14 posted on 05/05/2008 1:43:28 PM PDT by TexasCajun
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bttt


15 posted on 05/05/2008 1:47:08 PM PDT by txhurl
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Let's all hope they get the only "incentives" they're really ever going to respond to...

when I read the title I was thinking the same thing and started laughing to myself.

16 posted on 05/05/2008 1:47:22 PM PDT by jerri
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"It is not a major step forward, frankly, because we think it was a very good offer in the first place. We simply don't understand why the Iranians have not put more interest in it," the senior U.S. official told Reuters.

And therein lies the problem.

17 posted on 05/05/2008 1:47:25 PM PDT by airborne (LETS GO PENS!!! LETS GO PENS!!! LETS GO PENS!!! WOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!)
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“Stop your nuclear work, or we go nuclear on you.” Of course, diplomats don’t think that way...

That's too bad. If they did this world would be much more peaceful.

18 posted on 05/05/2008 2:08:28 PM PDT by Fox_Mulder77 (McCain's FR tag: McLlort)
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And therein lies the problem.

Though it reads like it, I seriously doubt that there's really any problem in "understanding" on the part of the "senior US official." It looks to me like a bit of diplo-speak, designed to elicit exactly the sorts of responses we've seen on this thread.

Pretty much everybody does understand the Iranian position ... but diplomats -- whose job is to negotiate settlements short of war -- can't afford to get too specific too soon. The threats need to come from a different quarter.

19 posted on 05/05/2008 2:16:12 PM PDT by r9etb
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20 posted on 05/05/2008 2:23:41 PM PDT 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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