Iran makes a promise (that they in all likelihood will never keep) and the Wests intelligentsia is so relieved it loses control of its collective bladder...
Iran promises to provide answers on past nuclear activities
MADRID, Spain: Seeking to evade new Security Council sanctions, Iran has pledged to end years of stonewalling and provide answers on past suspicious activities to the U.N. nuclear monitoring agency investigating its atomic program, an official said Friday.
The offer, which the official said was made Thursday by top Iranian nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani to EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana, falls short of the concession sought by the international community — a promise to freeze Iran's uranium enrichment activities.
Iran refuses to consider such a freeze, but the U.N. Security Council insists on it, and past meetings between the two men have made little progress on resolving the deadlock. Larijani's overture and the decision by Solana to treat the Iranian offer seriously reflected mutual recognition that the talks needed to advance on other issues or face the risk of collapse.
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, en route to Madrid for a bilateral visit not connected to the talks, signaled that while Washington was willing to be creative, it continued to insist that Tehran cease all enrichment activities.
"Where we've been flexible is on how we get to suspension," Rice told reporters.
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Friday, June 01, 2007
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