Iran Nuclear Watch: Iran Spurns Talks With United States
Iran’s Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki speaks to journalists in Tehran, June 1, 2006
Reuters: Iran spurns US talks
Iran on Thursday spurned a U.S. offer of direct talks on its nuclear program as major world powers sought agreement on incentives to coax it to scrap potentially weapons-related atomic work.
Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said Iran was open to talks with Washington, which severed ties with Tehran in 1980, but rejected a U.S. condition it stop enriching uranium first.
“We will not give up our nation’s natural right (to enrichment), we will not hold talks over it. But we are ready to hold talks over mutual concerns,” Mottaki said in Tehran.
Why, of course.
Did anyone think otherwise?
Iran wishes a nuclear weapon and no matter what incentives or disincentives developed in Vienna over the next few days NOTHING will be acceptable to Iran.
Speaking before Mottaki’s statement, a senior U.S. official said Tehran had only weeks to accept the diplomatic overture before facing sanctions.
And will Iran sit idly by and accept United Nations sanctions?
Nope.
Ahmadinejad and the Mullahs will provoke Israel and/or the United States in the Gulf.
The “POINT OF NO RETURN” is imminent.
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The Natanz uranium enrichment complex in Natanz is pictured in this January 2, 2006 satellite image.
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