As slippery as an oiled eel who's been made professor of slipperyness at Oxford University
- From: "Pink Freud" <somewhere@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2006 12:48:00 +0100
Iran finds some atomic incentives unacceptable Sunday June 11, 08:57 AM
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran's Foreign Ministry rejected some proposals from six
world powers trying to persuade it to stop its atomic fuel work and said
Tehran will offer its own amendments, a ministry official said on Sunday.
He did not specify what changes to the package Iran might seek but Tehran
has always rejected the central crux of the proposal -- that it should give
up enriching uranium. Without a concession on this, the deal will fail.
"We should study the package offered. We should classify it. There are
points which are acceptable. There are points which are ambiguous and there
are points that we believe should not exist," Foreign Ministry spokesman
Hamid Reza Asefi said.
"We have received the package, we should give our views in response to that
package and we will offer our proposals," he told a weekly news conference.
Although Asefi's remarks are a strong indication Iran is unhappy with the
terms offered, the Foreign Ministry does not have the last word on nuclear
issues.
Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has entrusted nuclear matters to the
Supreme National Security Council and appointed Ali Larijani as chief
negotiator.
Iran has been referred to the U.N. Security Council, where it could face
sanctions, after failing to convince the international community that its
atomic scientists are only looking to build power stations and not weapons.
The United States, France, Germany, Britain, Russia and China have agreed a
set of incentives for Iran on the condition that it stops making nuclear
fuel, something Tehran has repeatedly said it will never do.
Among the incentives, which Western diplomats say include offers of a
light-water reactor and a facility for storing atomic fuel, is a very rare
U.S. offer to join the European Union's direct talks with Iran.
Although U.S. President George W. Bush has said Iran should reply within
weeks rather than months, Asefi said Iran would not be rushed.
"We have not been given a deadline ... but that does not mean we are seeking
to buy time," he said.
When asked about the part of the offer concerning direct talks with the
United States, Asefi said: "We welcome any negotiations that do not have
preconditions."
In Iranian rhetoric "preconditions" normally refer to the Western insistence
that Tehran drop its atomic fuel work.
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/11062006/325/iran-finds-atomic-incentives-unacceptable.html
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