Rice: "New urgency" in Iran talks

Posted By Joshua Keating Friday, September 25, 2009 - 12:05 PM Share

Following a special meeting on Honduras, U.S. Ambassador Susan Rice took some questions from reporters about the new revelations about Iran's uranium enrichment program

As the president said in Pittsburgh, we look with a sense of urgency to the meeting on Oct. 1 of the P5+1 on Iran. It is a very crucial opportunity for Iran to come clean and create a greater degree of confidence in its declared non-military intentions and to provide full transparency. That would be a crucial next step. ...We will wait to see what they produce. ...
Obviously this is a very important set of information. We are all taking it very seriously. It increases the urgency with which we approach the very important meeting next week.

At today's meeting on Honduras, which was convened at the request of Brazil, the council condemned "acts of intimidation against the Brazilian embassy" where ousted President Manuel Zelaya is staying. As to the bigger issue of actually resolving the stalemate in Honduras, Rice said "the council looks to the regional mediation to continue work on the larger political question."

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5:50 AM ET

September 28, 2009

"In a public relations coup,

"In a public relations coup, Iran has just followed up the left jab that set up the easy-to-fool USA with its knockout PR bolo punch." - a good analogy there Don.

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