Posted on 06/13/2008 3:44:58 PM PDT by Dawnsblood
Tehran will today be offered the chance of international assistance to develop a peaceful nuclear energy programme if it halts uranium enrichment — or face punishing sanctions within a month.
Javier Solana, the European Union chief, will deliver the message to Iranian leaders today as the head of a six-member international delegation of senior diplomats from Russia, China, Britain, France and Germany. The “carrot and stick package” outlined by British officials this week offers Iran a range of incentives to begin negotiations but not until it has halted all Iranian enrichment.
Officials acknowledge that the package differs little to that offered in 2006 but hope that its timing, greater international support for punitive measures should Iran refuse and more specific proposals of help may induce the Iranians to consider it more seriously. The package will be accompanied by a strongly worded letter signed by the foreign ministers of all the so-called “EU3 plus 3” countries, including the United States, the only one not sending a representative to Tehran. The Bush Administration refuses to negotiate directly with Tehran while it continues to defy the world over its nuclear programme.
Mr Solana will meet Manouchehr Mottaki, the Foreign Minister, and Saeed Jalili, Iran’s top nuclear negotiator — but crucially not President Ahmadinejad, who is seen as an obstacle to a settlement. The team hope to exploit divisions within Iran’s hardline leadership to sell the plan, pitching it towards more moderate leaders among whom a debate about the wisdom of an offensive nuclear programme has emerged.
Unlike 2006, the team plan to make the details of the package public at a press conference in Tehran to make sure the debate can continue outside the immediate circle of their meetings.
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Final Last Chance, sorta like double secret probation?
And of course, like Saddam, they will get “penalized” with a pile of USELESS U.N. RESOLUTIONS.....
chance of deal on nuclear power."
Betcha a buck Iran sez no. There is usually a “final warning” before the whoopazz starts.
I’m hoping that all of this is just obligatory nonsense that we have to go through before we bomb the sh*t out of them.
STOP!, or we shall say STOP! again.
Definition of Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. (Albert Einstein)
Err.. Is this really the last chance? Or maybe the penultimate last chance. Or the super penultimate last chance? Or is it the chance just before Amadinijad explodes his first nuke over Tel Aviv? We really have to know what chance is the one to worry about.
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