Wednesday, May 31, 2006

Shorter US to Iran - "Asphinctersayswhat?"

I can make this simple, I think.

The U.S. says they are willing to join European nations in direct talks with Iran if the Iranian government first agrees to suspend its programs to enrich uranium and reprocess spent nuclear fuel.

Iran has always said, correctly , that it has a right to those exact programs under the terms of the NPT and has no intention, therefore, of giving them up.

Mohammed El Baradei, head of the IAEA, says it is clear that Iran doesn't have a nuclear weapons program at present - "Our assessment is that there is no immediate threat," he says.

So yes, the official Iranian news agency is quite correct when it describes the U.S. offer as "propoganda".

That's it, folks. The rest is blowing hard and bloviating by a bunch of bloodthirsty warmongers on one hand an a crackpot with a pottymouth desperately trying to hang on to the end of his term on the other.

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