Rice: "New urgency" in Iran talks

Fri, 09/25/2009 - 12:05pm

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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Rope-a-dope

by Don Bacon on Fri, 09/25/2009 - 4:41pm

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.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Friday his country's newly disclosed nuclear fuel facility was legal and open for inspection by the International Atomic Energy Agency.

The Iranian president said the plant, which sharpened international concern over Tehran's nuclear ambitions, was 18 months from starting operations and that Western powers would regret accusing Iran of hiding it.

"We don't have any problems with (IAEA) inspections of the facility. We have no fears," he said at a news conference in New York, where he was attending the U.N. General Assembly.
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so much for the "new urgency"

"In a public relations coup,

by eddyv7 on Mon, 09/28/2009 - 5:50am

"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.

Eddy
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