Top officials of six major powers to meet on Iran

[maddezmom]

NEW YORK (AFP) - Top foreign ministry officials of the five veto-wielding members of the UN Security Council and Germany are to meet to plot long-term strategy on how to tackle the Iranian nuclear crisis.

Participants at the meeting, to be held at Britain's UN mission, will be US Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Nicholas Burns, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Kislyak and foreign ministry political directors John Sawers of Britain, Stanislas de Laboulaye of France, Zhang Yan of China and Michael Schaefer of Germany, officials said.

Germany is one of three European powers -- along with France and Britain -- which have pursued three years of inconclusive negotiations to coax Tehran into renouncing plans to seek nuclear weapons in exchange for economic incentives.

The high-level meeting comes as the 15-member Security Council is reporting progress in efforts to agree a revised Franco-British draft urging Iran to comply with demands of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) that it restore international confidence in the peaceful nature of its atomic program.

more:http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060319/ts_afp/irannuclearpoliticsungermanymeeting_060319092336;_

[DRoseDARs]

1. All this talk about Iran. What ever happened to North Korea?

Not that we need another shooting war to get ourselves into.

[salin]

2. and once again... John Bolton is intentionally shooting off his mouth

in order to attempt to frustrate the talks. He did this with NKorea - to the point where NKorea would not come back to negotiate unless Bolton was barred from the talks.

[bemildred]

3. This is such bullshit on so many levels you don't know where to start. nt

[4dsc]

4. What crisis

notice how this arguement is being framed?? Now there's a crisis when there really isn't one!!

[george_hurley]

5. ***PETITION TO SIGN: NO WAR WITH IRAN ***

Hello,

For the past year, the growing tensions mounting between the US, Israel, and Iran are reaching a point where military action against Iran is w/in months of becoming reality. The repercussions are terrifying as such military action could involve countries such as China and Russia as they share massive energy/economic interests w/ Iran. The most likely scenario we would face would be the collapse of the US economy as the combination of a massive rise in oil prices and a run on the US dollar would surely be the weapon many countries would use to fight back against a preemptive US or Israeli strike.

For a collection of articles and resources on this subject you can visit this link: http://reseaudesign.com/research/iran/iran_summery.html

I'm starting up a petition which I will be sending out to as many members of Congress as possible. I'm asking for help to get this signed by as many people, possible in the next month. Send it to as many people you can.

http://www.petitiononline.com/n0war1rn /



Also, here is another petition you can sign from another group:
http://stopwaroniran.org/statement.shtml



Thanks for your time

[freefall]

6. Egregious mistake in Yahoo's article -- mistake? or MSM propaganda?

"Germany is one of three European powers -- along with France and Britain -- which have pursued three years of inconclusive negotiations to coax Tehran into renouncing plans to seek nuclear weapons in exchange for economic incentives"

Iran is seeking to produce the type of uranium that will allow it to produce nuclear POWER. At this time Iran is definitely NOT seeking to build a nuclear weapon. The ability to convert uranium (I can't remember the exact term) could eventually lead to the ability to produce nuclear weapons however, nobody has any proof that they are trying to produce weapons and if they are it will be approximately ten years before they would have this capability. Everying Iran is trying to do right now is COMPLETELY within their rights as signatories to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty unlike our 'buddies' in India and Pakistan. The MSM is conveniently ignoring this fact as they join the administration in beating the war drums. And the ONLY reason this is a crisis is because the US has made it one.

What gives with Yahoo? I had previously thought they were relatively neutral. Now I have to put them in with all the other suspect news outlets. This article might as well come from Fox it is so distorted and propagandistic.

:mad:

Peace,

freefall

[oblivious]

7. It's AFP, not Yahoo - same as AP - Western propaganda mouthpiece.

You're right. Iran has renounced plans to seek nukes over and over and over and has more than complied with the NPT since 2003. As a reward for its transparency it is being punished. Proof that this is about oil (and/or something else), not nukes.

[HuffleClaw]

8. just one more piece of the puzzle bushco. will use to 'demonstrate'

that 'diplomacy has failed' when they announce the coming war on iran.