Powers agree on new incentives offer to Iran

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Source: Yahoo News

LONDON (Reuters) - Major powers have agreed to make a new offer of incentives to Iran to halt its sensitive nuclear work, Foreign Secretary David Miliband said on Friday, but declined to discuss the details.

"I am glad to say that we have got agreement on an offer that will be made to the government of Iran," Miliband, flanked by senior officials from Britain, France, China, Russia and the United States, said in a televised statement.

"We very much hope that they will recognise the seriousness and the sincerity with which we have approached this issue and that they will respond in a timely manner to the suggestions that we are making," he added.

Miliband spoke after a meeting during which the permanent five U.N. Security Council members and Germany discussed how to update an offer of economic and political incentives that they made to Iran in 2006. Tehran has so far spurned the proposal.


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1. In this day of zero credibility in the Republican leadership and some Dem leadership,

a person has to ask themself whether Britian, France, China, and Russia are going a long with The U.S. and Israel in another attempt to set-up an invasion of one more country or if they are peace seekers. I don't trust the UK and have come to not trust France. All five have credibility problems. I don't get the Germany connection above.

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2. Germany is not a permanent member of the UN

Don't think so anyway. They are however significant in Europe and hence I guess their involvement. I don't think the populations of any of the 3 European countries mentioned would wear their governments open involvement in plans to make Iran suffer as a result of The Boy Blunder and Uncle Dick's antics and as a result diplomacy is still at the forefront.

Now that Iran has banged another nail in the US$s coffin, by no longer accepting petrodollars for oil etc , the other countries mentioned may effectively get their oil marginally cheaper and this may provide some motivation for the above.