Rice Gives Iran Weeks, not Months, To Decide on Nuclear Talks - 6/2/06

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http://usinfo.state.gov/is/Archive/2006/Jun/04-829348.html


By David Shelby
Washington File Staff Writer


Washington -- Iran has weeks, not months, to respond to the proposals from the international community to resolve the diplomatic impasse over Iran's nuclear activities, according to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.

“{W}e can't wait for months while Iran again says on the one hand maybe they're interested in negotiating, on the other hand maybe they're not. They need to make a choice and the international community needs to know whether negotiation is a real option or not,” Rice told reporters in Vienna, Austria, June 2.

The international community is putting forth a package of incentives and penalties aimed at persuading the Iranian government to suspend its uranium enrichment activities and return to negotiations about its nuclear program. (See related article.)

“I hope that the Iranian government will take a little time to think about the proposal that is being presented to it. This is a way out of the impasse if Iran indeed wants a way out of the impasse,” she told a CBS News reporter.


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[serryjw]

1. ..and what is the international

community going to do then? If he doesn't enrich uranium, he will get what ever he wants from A.Q Khan.

[bowens43]

2. These war mongering f*ckers who have hijacked our

need to be taken down. Removed from office. Arrogant, ignorant pieces of garbage.

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3. Making empty threats is not very smart n/t