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| Obama ends G8 with warning to Iran |
| 2009-07-11 |
| [Iran Press TV Latest] The G8 summit in Italy draws to a close with US President Barack Obama delivering a blunt warning to Tehran over its uranium enrichment activities. Obama, speaking at the end of a G8 summit in Italy, said Iran should understand that world countries are "seriously concerned" over its nuclear work, and would not wait "indefinitely" to allow Tehran to develop a nuclear weapon. He, however, said that G8 countries are united in their decision to negotiate with Tehran to resolve the international standoff over the Iranian nuclear issue. "...My hope is that the Iranian leadership will look at the statement coming out of the G8 and recognize that world opinion is clear," Obama told the L'Aquila summit. Obama explained that Iranian officials have time to respond to the offer for negotiations until the G20 summit, which is slated to take place in September in Pennsylvania, ahead of the United Nations General Assembly. "And I think what that does is it provides a time frame. The international community has said: 'Here's a door, you can walk through. That allows you to lessen tensions and more fully join the international community," said the US president. "If Iran chooses not to walk through that door, then you have on record the G8 to begin with, but I think potentially a lot of other countries that are going to say, we need to take further steps," he added. Washington and its European allies accuse Iran of attempting to make nuclear weapons. Tehran, however, dismisses the allegation, saying its uranium enrichment is aimed at peaceful energy production. Iranians see nuclear development as a sign of national independence, similar to the oil, nationalized in 1951, in the face of fierce western opposition. The Mossadeq government, which led the oil nationalization movement was as a result brought down in the 1953 coup d'état engineered by the CIA. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #3 I'll HUFF...and I'll PUFF... |
| Posted by: Barry O 2009-07-11 10:32 |
| #2 Weak and late and perfunctory. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2009-07-11 10:08 |
| #1 They don't need the West to wait indefinitely. Just until they have an unknown number of reliable nukes in their pockets. Testing courtesy of the NorKs. |
| Posted by: gorb 2009-07-11 00:36 |