Rice Gives Iran Weeks, not Months, To Decide on Nuclear Talks - 6/2/06

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http://usinfo.state.gov/is/Archive/2006/Jun/04-829348.html


By David Shelby
Washington File Staff Writer


Washington -- Iran has weeks, not months, to respond to the proposals from the international community to resolve the diplomatic impasse over Iran's nuclear activities, according to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.

“{W}e can't wait for months while Iran again says on the one hand maybe they're interested in negotiating, on the other hand maybe they're not. They need to make a choice and the international community needs to know whether negotiation is a real option or not,” Rice told reporters in Vienna, Austria, June 2.

The international community is putting forth a package of incentives and penalties aimed at persuading the Iranian government to suspend its uranium enrichment activities and return to negotiations about its nuclear program. (See related article.)

“I hope that the Iranian government will take a little time to think about the proposal that is being presented to it. This is a way out of the impasse if Iran indeed wants a way out of the impasse,” she told a CBS News reporter.



Why doesn't the media ever say anything about these empty threats? If she was a Dem the media would have run her out of DC with this screwup. This is the only question they would ever ask her. Over and over again. And the Repugs would join right in.

Don

[babylonsister]

1. Condi, we CAN wait for months. The alternative, what YOU want

to do, is where we shouldn't be going.
And why is she giving ultimatums? She's an obvious failure that no one listens to or trusts.

[bananarepublican]

2. She only made the threat to the local "fair and balanced" media! Ever since...

... Condi has been dreaming of a "Depleted Uranium Xmas" for Iran.

[Jacobin]

3. Take THIS Condi, you paper tigress pnac enabler:

[madrchsod]

4. i have no idea why they do`t

could be that a depression here in the usa makes for good news stories?

[No Exit]

5. I give Rice weeks, not months, to talk some sense into her husband/boss.

Make that days.

DAYS, Condi! Do it. Quit smiling and buying shoes and tell that bastard you work for we want our troops OUT of his phony wars, including his planned phony war with IRAN.