US should consider offering Iran incentives: analysts

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WASHINGTON - With all other options failing, the United States should consider offering Iran incentives to try and find a way out of the current impasse over its nuclear program, experts say.

They argue that a debate at the UN Security Council on the Iran crisis is unlikely to lead to effective sanctions and say that a Russian proposal to end the standoff also appears doomed.

“The trouble is that all of the steps that have been taken so far don’t seem likely to produce an acceptable outcome,” Gareth Evans, Australia’s former foreign minister and current head of the Brussels-based International Crisis Group (ICG), an independent think tank, said. snip

He said that given the current state of affairs, the only realistic remaining diplomatic option for the United States and its European allies is to offer Iran “delayed limited enrichment” along with a number of incentives.

“Those incentives amount to basically withdrawal of all of the existing sanctions, diplomatic normalization, overt support for WTO (World Trade Organization) accession and of course security guarantees,” he said.



Now there is a novel approach. Become friends with Iran. That way even if some day they do manage to obtain a crude nuclear deterrent to protect their natural resources they won't be in a hurry to use it on us. Yea, I like it. I like it a lot.

[Yupster]

1. Isn't that what the European powers have been doing

for the last couple of years since they told Bush to stay out of it?

Why should Iran listen?

They know they have nothing to fear.

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2. Don't count on it with "Rambo" Bolton on board

Diplomacy is for wussies. Much better to subdue them with our superior firepower like in, ahem, Iraq.

[mom cat]

3. Isn't a little late to pretend that we are pals?

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4. We weren't on a very chummy basis with England for a good long time either

It was difficult for them to get over us winning our independence from them. Us being their former colony and all.

Iran won its independence from us in 1979 and I am over it.

Don

[mom cat]

6. Very good point!

[madrchsod]

5. this is what everyone wants but the dolts that run this country

just think we now have less than three years left of this