Iran says ready for nuclear talks with world powers

[Emit]

Source: Reuters

TEHRAN (Reuters) – Iran has prepared an "updated nuclear proposal" and is ready to talk to world powers, state television quoted the Islamic Republic's chief nuclear negotiator as saying on Tuesday.

The announcement was made a day before six world powers were expected to hold high-level talks in Germany on what to do about Iran's contentious nuclear program. The West suspects the Islamic state is seeking to build bombs. Iran denies the charge.

"Iran has prepared an updated nuclear proposal and is ready to resume negotiations with world powers," al-Alam, Iran's Arabic-language satellite channel, quoted chief nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili as saying. The official IRNA news agency quoted him as saying Iran was ready to use its "capacities to remove common concerns on the international scene."

Such language may cause suspicion in Western capitals that Iran's proposal, like others before, fails to specifically address their concerns about its nuclear ambitions and is a ruse to buy time and avert the threat of more punitive measures.

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Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090901/ts_nm/us_iran_nuclear

[BlooInBloo]

1. It'll be a predictable shitty offer, but you gotta start somewhere.

[Indenturedebtor]

2. Yeah it at least beats sabre rattling and tough talk n/t

[AverageJoe5]

3. Iran should stop trying to appease the "world powers"

Iran has a sovereign right, and also a right under the NPT (to which it is a signatory) to develop and advance its nuclear program.

There is no evidence that Iran is violating the NPT by diverting nuclear materials to the production of nuclear weapons. I think the "world powers" are aware of that, but they are pretending that there is some doubt about it because they need an excuse to thwart Iran's technological advance. The probable reason for their wanting to thwart Iran's technological advance may be purely selfish -- so that Iran can be perpetually technologically dependent on the "world powers."

Even if Iran were developing nuclear weapons, so what, given that the "world powers" and other nations have nuclear weapons? If nuclear weapons are bad for humanity (presumably that's why Iran shouldn't have nuclear weapons), why do the "world powers" have thousands of stockpiles of nuclear weapons and they are not making any effort to get rid of them? That's hypocrisy.

[Psephos]

4. That "sovereign right" talk has lost its luster after the election theft and violence in June

The government is de facto illegitimate, and its "sovereign rights" are forfeit.

[AverageJoe5]

5. So, if the "election theft" and "violence" hadn't occurred .....

.... then Iran would still have its sovereign rights and the "world powers" would approve of Iran's nuclear program?

[Psephos]

6. You're changing the subject

You originally said, "Iran has a sovereign right, and also a right under the NPT (to which it is a signatory) to develop and advance its nuclear program."

To which I said, "The government is de facto illegitimate, and its 'sovereign rights' are forfeit."

I have no control over what world powers approve or disapprove, and am not arguing on the merits of their opinions. But that's been mooted by the forfeit of legitimacy.

By the way, I notice that you used scare quotes around election theft and violence in the subject line. Is your position that the election wasn't stolen and that no violence was employed to put down the protests?