Iran Nuclear Watch: United States Rejects Iran’s STALL in Response to P-5-plus-1 Proposal

US Undersecretary of State Nicholas Burns pictured here during a news conference in Moscow, in April 2006. The United States “expects” Iran to respond next week to an international offer to defuse the nuclear standoff between Tehran and the West, the number three in the US State Department said.

Reuters: U.S. rebuffs Iranian calls for time on nuclear reply

The United States rejected on Friday Iranian calls for more time to study an offer of incentives to curb its nuclear activities, insisting Tehran must respond by a G8 deadline next week.

The Group of Eight industrialised nations told Iran on Thursday they wanted a “clear
and substantive response” on July 5 to an offer of incentives to stop enriching uranium, but two Iranian officials immediately declared more time was needed.

Speaking to reporters during a trip to Brussels, U.S. Undersecretary of State Nicholas Burns insisted the offer was “very straightforward” and Iran’s chief negotiator Ali Larijani should respond as requested by next Wednesday.

“There will be a meeting here in this city next week, where we expect and hope that Larijani will give us an answer … This is not ancomplicated offer,” Burns said.

“It is now high time, frankly, that we had a response from the Iranian government … We always said this was a process of weeks not months,” he told a news briefing.

Flap can clue Nicholas Burns into Iran’s answer:

STALL

The real answer is NO. But, Iran is in a diplomatic box with the only acceptable answer to halt uranium enrichment for the foreseeable future.

Time to refer Iran to the United Nations Security Council for sanctions – whatever good this will do.

Stay tunedâ€¦â€¦..