Iran Nuclear Watch: P-5-Plus-1 – Will Likely Reject Tehran’s Terms for Talks

An Iranian worker lifts a barrel of ‘yellow cake’ to feed it into the processing line of Uranium Conversion Facility (UCF) in Isfahan, about 420 km (261 miles) south of Tehran, August 8, 2005. The United States said on Wednesday that Iran’s request for talks fell short of the U.N. Security Council’s demand for it to halt its nuclear program.

AP: Envoys: Iran terms likely to be rejected

The six world powers studying Iran’s response to their offer of nuclear negotiations will likely reject Tehran’s terms for talks because they do not even touch on the possibility of freezing uranium enrichment, diplomats said Thursday.

The diplomats, who have been briefed on aspects of the Iranian overture, told The Associated Press that the 25-page response from Tehran does not even suggest an enrichment moratorium even once negotiations start beyond vague references to a willingness to discuss all aspects of the country’s nuclear program. The diplomats, who spoke from two European capitals, asked for anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the confidential Iranian proposal.

The P-5-Plus-1 will reject Iran’s counter-proposal, then what?

NOTHING

The United States should disengaged itself from any more discussions of Iran’s covert nuclear weapons program and bolster up its deterrent capabilities of its military.

Negotiations and engagement with Iran have been a success ONLY in that it has provided a small degree of diplomatic cover for the United States and demonstrated the fecklessness of the United Nations and the Europeans. Besides diplomatic cover the negotiations have been WORTHLESS to American foreign policy interests.

When the “POINT OF NO RETURN” is reached then the United States will have to make the call to launch a war against the Islamic Republic or Iran or not.

A NEW IRANIAN COLD WAR has begun……

Stay tuned…..