Iran Nuclear Watch: Condoleezza Rice – Ahmadinejad’s Letter Does NOT Resolve the Standoff Over Iran’s Nuclear Program.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is interviewed at the offices of the Associated Press in New York Monday, May 8, 2006.
ASSociated Press: Rice: Iran Letter Doesn’t Resolve Standoff
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice dismissed a letter that Iran’s president sent to
President Bush on Monday, saying the first direct communication from an Iranian leader in 27 years does not help resolve the standoff over Tehran’s disputed nuclear program.Iran’s top nuclear negotiator called the surprise letter a new “diplomatic opening” between the two countries, but Rice said it was not.
“This letter is not the place that one would find an opening to engage on the nuclear issue or anything of the sort,” the top U.S. diplomat said in an interview with The Associated Press. “It isn’t addressing the issues that we’re dealing with in a concrete way.”
Rice said the letter from Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was 17 or 18 pages long and covered history, philosophy and religion.
Rice’s comments were the most detailed response from the United States to the letter, the first from an Iranian head of state to an American president since the 1979 hostage crisis at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran.
She would not discuss the contents in detail but made clear that the United States would not change its tack on Iran.
“There’s nothing in here that would suggest that we’re on any different course than we were before we got the letter,” Rice said.
Well, Iran President Ahamdinejad’s letter is plain BULL – More bloviations to cloud the issues.
The UNSC meets tomorrow – time to vote folks.
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The Natanz uranium enrichment complex in Natanz is pictured in this January 2, 2006 satellite image.
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