Iran rebuffs U.S. as UN powers ready incentives

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now the US is doing the same thing to North Korea:


http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060601/ts_nm/korea_north_usa_dc


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Every newspaper article, every goddam talk show..."The US inches towards agreeing to talks".. blah blah blah

That was NOT an offer.. It was an ultimatum!

The only thing we say we want them to do, (and not just as a condition for "talking") is to quit with the uranium enrichment business. How can they pretend to impose that as a condition for talking about quitting the uranium enrichment business??? And our "condition" for agreeing to talk about the uranium enrichment business?

IS THAT THEY GIVE UP THE URANIUM ENRICHMENT BUSINESS!?!?!

Why the hell isn't anyone calling them on this bullshit?

that they'll talk about allowing them to date that person if they forget all about ever dating that person.


:wtf:

Why isn't the question even being brought up?

http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/In_new_book_White_House_reporter_0601.html

BTW:

Bolton: ‘This is Put Up or Shut Up Time For Iran,’ Unilateral Military Action Is ‘On The Table’
http://thinkprogress.org/2006/06/01/bolton-shut-up


:banghead:

Six world powers meeting in Vienna to discuss nuclear crisis reached an agreement on package of incentives, penalties to be presented to Tehran, diplomats say. Rice: We agreed on package containing both benefits, if Iran makes the right choice - and costs if it does not

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3257935,00.html

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"Six world powers meeting to discuss the crisis over Iran’s nuclear program have reached an agreement on a package of incentives and penalties to be presented to Tehran, diplomats told The Associated Press Thursday.

The diplomats were speaking on the sidelines of a meeting between officials from France, Britain, Germany, the United States, Russia and China. They requested anonymity because they were not authorized to make a public announcement.

The United States said Wednesday it would join direct talks with Iran if it agrees to suspend uranium enrichment - a major reversal of a decades-long US policy of avoiding formal high-level contact with Tehran. But Iran has remained defiant.

“Iran welcomes dialogue under just conditions but (we) won’t give up our (nuclear) rights,” State-run television quoted Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki as saying earlier Thursday in Tehran."