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**SAT** · 07-11-2006, 02:16 PM

Re: EU (Solana) says disappointed by Iran nuclear talks

Interesting the differences in the articles when they can be just minutes apart.
Iran vows not to back down, EU 'disappointed' after new talks

Iran vowed not to cave in to international pressure over its nuclear plans, as the European Union lamented a lack of progress in talks on a Western offer to defuse the standoff.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060711...s_060711182707

**TomT** · 07-11-2006, 02:22 PM

Re: EU (Solana) says disappointed by Iran nuclear talks

Iran’s latest complaints following the Solana meeting…

“One of the main problems of this proposal is that there are no clear legal guarantees,"

"For example, they offer us a reactor, but it's not clear which country is giving it, which company, and can the government oblige those companies to give Iran those reactors if pressured by the United States," the official added

Solana's spokeswoman rejected that assertion, saying: "All the questions were answered. If there were no more answers, it was because there were no more questions."

A EU diplomat speaking on condition of anonymity said the offer presented to Iran contained proposals that any agreement would be deposited with Vienna-based U.N. atomic energy watchdog the International Atomic Energy Agency, and be endorsed by a U.N. Security Council resolution.

http://today.reuters.com/news/NewsAr...1-ArticlePage3

**TomT** · 07-11-2006, 02:54 PM

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Iran Issues more Threats of Energy Cut-off if the EU Attempts to Play Hard-ball...More "stall and delay"...

Iran on Tuesday rejected Western pressure for an immediate response to an international offer of incentives to suspend uranium enrichment, telling the European Union the proposal lacked proper legal guarantees. A meeting between chief Iranian negotiator Ali Larijani and EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana ended with no sign of progress, although they agreed to keep in touch after Solana reports to major power foreign ministers in a Paris meeting on Wednesday.

"During these negotiations certain important points came up. Mr. Solana must consult his friends and then we will have to define together how we will proceed because we have a long road to travel," Larijani said afterward.

"We must be patient and try to negotiate ... We must allow more time for negotiations to work," he said, rebuffing calls for a quick answer to the offer.

While the Brussels talks were under way, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad breathed defiance back home, saying his country would defend its right to produce nuclear fuel.

"The Iranian nation will not retreat one iota on its way to realizing all of its rights, including complete nuclear rights and employing the capacities to produce nuclear fuel," student news agency ISNA quoted him as saying in northwest Iran.

Solana said he would report to the ministers from the six powers which drew up the offer and "we will make an analysis ... to see how we proceed."

Larijani responded to Western talk of sanctions if Iran played for time with a veiled warning of consequences for European energy supplies.

"Energy security for Europe is not a small thing, so we have to take into account all the dimensions," he said.

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article....ticle_id=73904

**TomT** · 07-11-2006, 03:14 PM

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Yet more talk by iran of "stall and delay" - having talks about having talks....

FM Spokesman Calls on EU to Remove Ambiguities from 5+1 Proposals

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi called on Europeans to clean up the ambiguities existing in their proposed package of incentives in order to hear Tehran's response in a shorter distance in future.

....Asked to comment on the west's threats concerning the heavy price Iran should pay in case of giving a negative response to the 5+1 proposals, he stressed that if the other party is interested in receiving a faster response by Iran, then European countries should remove the ambiguities residing in the package of incentives.

"If Europe cannot remove the ambiguities and respond to our questions, then the verification process by our expert committees would slacken and, thus, take a longer time," he continued.

Reiterating that the package did not contain any deadline concerning Iran's response, the official said that Tehran's response would not necessarily be a definite, one-word answer, "it could be brought up in the course of talks as well. It is wrong to ask for a date Iran should present its reply, rather our response would be formed in the course of talks and gradually."

Asefi reminded that all Iranians have already viewed and welcomed the measure i.e. presentation of a package of incentives as a positive step, "because now the issue at work is opting for the continued trend of talks rather than confrontation."

http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn=8504200387

Iran continues to make claims of all sorts of "ambiguities" in the UN offer - Solana is quoted as saying that all of Iran's questions have been fully answered..... so now lets meet again and again for weeks and months ot discuss whether or not the offer is "Ambiguous"....

**StrongInTheLord** · 07-11-2006, 10:02 PM

Re: EU (Solana) says disappointed by Iran nuclear talks

Solana's spokeswoman rejected that assertion, saying: "All the questions were answered. If there were no more answers, it was because there were no more questions."

She's right. Solana never asks a question he doesn't already know the answer to, and he doesn't go into any meeting unprepared. I am beginning to think that this is more about furthering the EU's agenda than about Iran going nuclear.

**TomT** · 07-12-2006, 03:41 AM

Re: EU (Solana) says disappointed by Iran nuclear talks

Originally posted by StrongInTheLord

Solana's spokeswoman rejected that assertion, saying: "All the questions were answered. If there were no more answers, it was because there were no more questions."

I am beginning to think that this is more about furthering the EU's agenda than about Iran going nuclear.

I would personally modify slightly to say moreso "Solana's agenda(s)"

**TomT** · 07-12-2006, 04:45 AM

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EU warns of UN action in Iran nuclear standoff
Wed Jul 12, 2006 4:47am ET

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union joined the United States on Wednesday in warning Iran it faced U.N. Security Council action if no solution could be found to a stand-off over its nuclear program.

"If Iran is not ready for cooperation, then the process will have to continue at the U.N. Security Council," Foreign Minister Erkki Tuomioja of Finland, which holds the rotating EU presidency, told the European Parliament, a day after EU talks with Iran failed to make progress.

The talks on Tuesday between chief Iranian negotiator Ali Larijani and EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana ended with Tehran insisting it needed more time to consider an international offer of incentives for it to halt uranium enrichment.

Tuomioja said the EU was committed to pursuing negotiations with Tehran on the package of technology, trade and political sweeteners, and still wanted an early response, but added: "The outlook is very uncertain at this moment".

http://today.reuters.com/news/newsAr...archived=False

**Tennken** · 07-12-2006, 05:04 AM

Re: EU (Solana) says disappointed by Iran nuclear talks

I don't expect anything positive out of the security council. They are
all talk and no action.

**TomT** · 07-12-2006, 05:12 AM

Re: EU (Solana) says disappointed by Iran nuclear talks

Originally posted by Tennken

I don't expect anything positive out of the security council. They are
all talk and no action.

Agreed - but it appears that Iran (and NK) will soon be back on the the "front burners".... mix that with Israel's situation and we have a lot to look out for...

**Tennken** · 07-12-2006, 05:16 AM

Re: EU (Solana) says disappointed by Iran nuclear talks

Everyone is wanting to get there share of the attention, I wonder
what will be the next flash point.

**TomT** · 07-12-2006, 05:20 AM

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Putin says Iran sanctions could wreck nuclear talks
13:34 | 12/ 07/ 2006

MOSCOW, July 12 (RIA Novosti) - Sanctions against Iran could wreck the current positive process in the talks on Iran's controversial nuclear program, President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday.

"We are not favor of allowing everybody to buy nuclear weapons or delivery vehicles," Putin said in an interview with Canadian television channel CTV. "We are in favor of finding coordinated decisions together, including within the G8. We will be trying to achieve this."

"But if today, without receiving Iran's response to the proposals made by six countries, we impose some kind of sanctions, we will wreck the positive process that has only just emerged," Putin said

http://en.rian.ru/russia/20060712/51251262.html

More "cover" for Iran to keep thumbing their nose at the US and EU.....

**Tennken** · 07-12-2006, 05:22 AM

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President Bush continues to call Putin his friend and someone that he
can work with, if that is his idea of a friend I would hate to see his
enemy. When are we going to relize that Russia is as much aganist
us as the old Soviet Union was. They are a bear in sheeps wool.

**TomT** · 07-12-2006, 05:26 AM

Re: EU (Solana) says disappointed by Iran nuclear talks

Originally posted by Tennken

President Bush continues to call Putin his friend and someone that he
can work with, if that is his idea of a friend I would hate to see his
enemy. When are we going to relize that Russia is as much aganist
us as the old Soviet Union was. They are a bear in sheeps wool.

Likewise after talking tough about NK for close to 6 years Bush seems to know be pinning all hopes on the "chicoms" to come up with some sort of break-thru...

**Tennken** · 07-12-2006, 05:29 AM

Re: EU (Solana) says disappointed by Iran nuclear talks

Originally posted by TomT

Likewise after talking tough about NK for close to 6 years Bush seems to know be pinning all hopes on the "chicoms" to come up with some sort of break-thru...

I trust them about as far as I do Iran,North Korea,Russia, and our
little buddy down in Cuba.

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