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

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.

[acmavm]

1. Or what Sleeza? You going over and kick ass? Because everyone

else is all tied up.

[StClone]

3. Money "lost in Iraq" may be funding

OPs in Iran and BushCo is pretty much set on an aerial bombardment with/without cute little "non-toxic" mini nukes.

[bananarepublican]

8. "Babbler-sleeza" does it again! "Blinker-sleeza... n/t

[whosinpower]

2. I thought they already gave the answer

They will not cease enrichment. But they will continue to do openly it under the watchful eye of the inspectors.

[Sinti]

7. Weird, this is what I read also - I guess I should watch Fox

then I'd be up to speed with the Neo-conscious. By the treaty they signed, they supposedly have the right to enrich for peaceful purposes. Oh well... we need someone to hate, don't we. If we're not rattling our sabers the natives start to get restless.

[jaysunb]

4. Sounds like : itchy trigger finger to me...

:evilfrown:
They whipping the flames as fast as they can because the public is catching on.

[rpannier]

5. And if they don't the US will do what exactly?

Send in the coast guard? The Boy scouts? A team of long since retired military retirees? She has no clue how to be Sec of State. She's a major embarassment.
But...what can you expect from scrubbies main squeeze.

[Junkdrawer]

6. Or else...We'll start a proxy war???

:shrug:

[Swamp Rat]

9. Or else what Condi?

[Spazito]

10. No one could have anticipated that Rice would....

continue to shoot off her mouth while having no credibility.

[uppityperson]

11. How many months qualify as "months"?

maybe she meant "working months"?