Thursday, February 15, 2007

Iran: New Proposal

Asia Times: Iran, the EU and the Swiss way out
by Pepe Escobar

The United Nations Security Council deadline for Iran to stop uranium enrichment is only one week away. While for the White House escalation hysteria is the name of the game, Europe once again has nothing better to do than to demonstrate its paralysis over bottles of Bordeaux.

"Top Iranian nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani, at the sidelines of the Munich security conference this past Sunday, told Javier Solana, the European Union's top foreign-policy diplomat, that "Tehran is ready to unite all its nuclear activities in a consortium with other countries". Larijani could only have made this offer under instructions by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Solana admitted publicly that the meeting was "constructive"."

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