Rice's empty threats didn't work on Iran so now she wants to have direct talks with them

[NNN0LHI]

http://usinfo.state.gov/xarchives/display.html?p=washfile-english&y=2006&m=June&x=20060602134455ndyblehs2.624148e-02

02 June 2006

Rice Gives Iran Weeks, not Months, To Decide on Nuclear Talks

International community offers Iran incentives to abandon nuclear program

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. snip

U.S. officials showed little concern at Iran’s initial dismissal of a U.S. offer to join the Iranian-European negotiations. Iranian officials have rejected the demand that Iran suspend its nuclear activities as a condition for the resumption of negotiations. Rice said the Iranians do not yet have the full set of proposals from the international community and that they should be allowed time to consider the alternatives they face.

(The Washington File is a product of the Bureau of International Information Programs, U.S. Department of State. Web site: http://usinfo.state.gov)


http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=2&article_id=81250

Rice 'open' to talks with Iranian officials

Compiled by Daily Star staff

Friday, April 06, 2007

US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is open to direct talks with Iranian officials when she attends a meeting of Iraq's neighbors and world powers, the State Department said Thursday, as 15 British sailors freed by Iran flew home.

State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said the United States was considering a request from Iran to grant consular access to five Iranians captured in Iraq and accused of supporting Iraqi militants. US Defense Secretary Robert Gates said the United States was not inclined to release the five.

McCormack said Rice did not rule out bilateral talks with the Iranians at the ministerial-level meeting, which Iraq's government says is likely to take place early next month at an as-yet undisclosed location.

"We will not exclude any particular diplomatic interaction. There was one at the envoys level ... and the same would hold true for the secretary," McCormack told reporters.

At a meeting in Baghdad last month of Iraq's neighbors, the then-US ambassador to Iraq, Zalmay Khalilzad, had brief encounters with both Iranian and Syrian delegates and McCormack said it was possible Rice could do the same.

McCormack said the United States was considering a request from Iran to grant consular access to the five Iranians, whom he said were classified as "security detainees" and were being held under Iraqi law and according to UN Security Council resolutions.

[rodeodance]

1. She is jealous of Pelosi ------who showed her how to be an ADULT

[NNN0LHI]

2. I think you may be on to something

;-)

[rodeodance]

7. Pelosi talked peace---made headlines --and what has Condi done?--to

lead to peace efforts in the ME?---not much!! Jealousy is a factor I think

[uppityperson]

3. Sometimes life is just a pain, isn't it Condi.

[rodeodance]

4. WH --or Media dissed Pelosi for talking to terrorists---now Condi wants to.

[Demeter]

5. What Dumbya and the BushBots Cannot Comprehend Is:

They are sitting with a busted flush in a high=stakes hand, and everyone else has called.

Game Over.

Now Dumbya would just love to pull out the 6 shooter and bust up the game, but he's all out of bullets, and Condi isn't carrying anything in her corset, and Cheney is off rustling cattle. The bought and paid for sherriff Gonzo is locked in his own jail, and the rats have left ship, the ship has sailed off into the sunset, and I'm running out of cliches.

[HCE SuiGeneris]

11. Now

that was f'n hilarious! Thank you for that Demeter. :bounce: :toast:

[Jacobin]

6. but but but

I thought her boss said 'we don't negotiate with terraishts'

they'll laugh at her anyway because she is an idiot and this administration is an utter joke

[rodeodance]

9. I am ashamed of this WH---and how they project the US to the rest of the

world.

[Bitwit1234]

8. Does anybody know just what her job description is.

[NNN0LHI]

10. It appears to be purchasing go-go boots

These boots are made for walking...

[HCE SuiGeneris]

12. Official flyer to countries, and waver n/t

[ChairmanAgnostic]

13. certainly not she. that's been proved over and over.

But, think about it. She has acted no different than Alberto, Hadley, and countless others who have served king George with total obedience.

[Erika]

14. Just send her shoe shopping

She HAS her priorities.