"Iran cool to suspending nuclear agenda; Diplomat says issue is one of national pride" by Farah Stockman, Globe Staff | May 31, 2008
WASHINGTON - A series of increasingly strong UN sanctions against Iran has only hardened the regime's resolve to press ahead with its nuclear program.
As IS THEIR RIGHT per signature of the NPT!!!!
Mohammad Khazaee, Iran's ambassador to the United Nations, said this week during an hourlong interview at Iran's permanent mission in New York:
"This has become an issue of national pride. [Regardless of what Iran is offered in talks], the Iranian people will not accept suspension [of its enrichment program as the UN Security Council has demanded. Still we are seeking to resume negotiations over a wide range of topics, including some aspects of its nuclear program]."
As it WOULD BE for ANY NATION!!!!
A May 13 proposal by Iran to the UN secretary general suggested six months of negotiations on regional security, the Israel-Palestinian conflict, energy cooperation, and narcotics trafficking, as well as ways to improve international nuclear safeguards and monitoring and prevent the diversion of nuclear material....
Gee, I wonder why the Zionist-controlled AmeriKan MSM didn't publicize that... never mind.
Anyway, SOUNDS GOOD to ME!!!!
The timing led State Department officials and some European diplomats to dismiss Iran's own package as an attempt to divert attention... or change the subject from Iran's defiance of Security Council resolutions....
Yeah, right, it is only the OTHER GUY that does that.
That's why we are being fed Osama bullshit -- since McClellan has created a kerfluffle!!!
Of course, one can rest assured, ISRAEL NEVER DOES THAT, right, Zionist MSM?
They are the MASTERS at it -- with a SERVILE PRESS to HELP 'EM OUT!!!!
Khazaee said Iran would carefully consider Solana's offer, which reportedly includes new economic incentives and may allow limited enrichment research. The ambassador said his country would not suspend its own enrichment program, but would consider establishing an internationally owned consortium inside Iran that could produce nuclear fuel with Iranian participation. Iran's May 13 proposal referred to the idea, but gave no details.
Khazaee said Tehran expects negotiations to go forward on the basis of its own proposal and include the broader subjects that Iran wants to discuss:
"How it is going to work, what is the legal framework for that, what are the economics aspects of it, as far as investments are concerned; these are things that I think a group of experts should get together and discuss. The issues that are on the table for our cooperation with the other side are not only confined to the peaceful nuclear peaceful program of Iran. There are other issues that should be addressed."
I'm ALL for THAT!!!!
Like ISRAEL'S NUKES!!!!
.... Khazaee, throughout the interview, returned often to the theme of national pride and said historic talks on Iraqi security between the US ambassador to Iraq, Ryan Crocker, and Iranian diplomats broke down after the United States insulted Iran publicly after the meetings:
"After the negotiations, the US side came out . . . and made political statements, as if he was a judge in a courtroom, saying, 'OK, we ruled this, we ruled that, we told the Iranians this, we told the Iranians that.' What do you expect from your partner in negotiations when they see that you come out from the room and you talk like that?"
You see, it is o.k. to have national pride if your are an Israeli Jew or a shit-chomping 'murkn!
Anything else, no...
He also said the recent US attacks on Sadr City and other areas in Iraq made it impossible to continue talks, although he maintained that Iranian officials remain ready to resume if conditions improve.
Khazaee said tensions between Iran and the United States will ease if the next American president respects Iran and realizes Iran's power and role in the region and the world:
"Anybody who becomes president of the United States should realize that Iranians are a great nation, a great civilization, with great regional and global potential and capacities. [Recognizing that] would pave the ground for a better understanding and a reduction of tension."
Well, some Americans recognize that, sir!!
As for the understanding, not as long as U.S. presidents are servile vassals for Israel.
Looks like you won't get the chance with a new President, sir.
May God forgive the United States.
"IRAN: Former German official says war imminent
Borzou Daragahi
LA Times
Saturday, May 31, 2008
An opinion piece by the former German foreign minister published today in a leading Middle East paper says that Israel is planning to attack Iran over its nuclear program.
Joschka Fischer, German's top diplomat from 1998 to 2005, is a visiting scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
He wrote a piece that appeared in today's Daily Star, an English-language Lebanese newspaper, arguing that President Bush's recent visit to the Middle East was a precursor to a war on Iran's nuclear program:
The Middle East is drifting toward a new great confrontation in 2008. Iran must understand that without a diplomatic solution in the coming months, a dangerous military conflict is very likely to erupt. It is high time for serious negotiations to begin.
Fischer said Bush's speech during his address to the Israeli Knesset, or parliament, this month indicated a coming Israeli-U.S. attack on Iran's nuclear program:
He seemed to be planning, together with Israel, to end the Iranian nuclear program -- and to do so by military, rather than by diplomatic, means.... Although it is acknowledged in Israel that an attack on Iran's nuclear facilities would involve grave and hard-to-assess risks, the choice between acceptance of an Iranian bomb and an attempt at its military destruction, with all the attendant consequences, is clear. Israel won't stand by and wait for matters to take their course.
Fischer, former leader of Germany's Green Party, was one of the key diplomats involved in assessing Iran's nuclear facilities and pressuring Tehran for a temporary halt of its uranium enrichment program from 2003 to 2005, when he left office.
His piece was the talk of the town in Beirut. It stunned some abroad, as well. Conservative blogger Don Surber writes:
I had hoped that reasonable minds would by now have resolved this situation amicably and without violence. When a lefty like Fischer doubts that can happen, I worry.
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