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| West may drop demand for Iran to halt all nuclear work: EU minister |
| 2013-10-03 |
| [Al Ahram] Western governments are considering allowing Iran to continue some uranium enrichment, as part of a possible deal to resolve a decade-old dispute that Tehran says it wants to reach within six months, a senior EU diplomat said. The new stance - a reaction to President Hassan Rouhani's overtures to the West - would mean easing a long-standing demand that Iran suspend all enrichment, due to concerns Tehran could be developing nuclear weapons. In an interview with Rooters, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevicius said: "I believe part of the game is that if the Iranians prove that whatever they are doing is peaceful, it will, as I understand, be possible for them to conduct it." "It's conditional. It is not a done deal, but nevertheless it is a possibility to explore," he said. "Thanks to this rapprochement. How it will look, we don't know." Lithuania holds the rotating presidency of the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... until the end of this year, giving Linkevicius a closer insight into many internal policy debates. A series of UNSecurity Council resolutions call on Iran to halt enrichment. One of them demands "full and sustained suspension of all enrichment-related and reprocessing activities." Iran has refused to comply, saying its membership of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation treaty (NPT) gives it the right to pursue peaceful nuclear technology. That refusal has drawn several rounds of UNand Western sanctions. Rouhani, a relative moderate elected in June, has reiterated Iran's insistence that it does not seek nuclear weapons, but has promised to clear up international concerns, hoping for an easing of sanctions that have hit its ability to export oil. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #3 Wonder if Western governments will allow Iran to only drop some nukes on Tel Aviv. /sarc |
| Posted by: Pappy 2013-10-03 09:13 |
| #2 US SecDef Hagel repor is now saying that the Bammer Admin's new rapprochement or engagement wid IRAN is not tantamount to "surrender"??? D *** NG, DOES RADICAL ISLAM = GLOBAL/NUKULAAR JIHADIS KNOW??? Iff "post-US", "Mahanist" China sees the score as Hard Boyz - 4, Obama/US - 0, why shouldn't they see a positive outcome vee Obama for their particular agenda vee TAIWAN, KOREAS, SENKAKUS/DIAOYUS, OKINAWA?, SOUTH CHINA SEA + TIBET, ETC.??? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2013-10-03 03:07 |
| #1 Baby Assad "winning" in Syria = Iran "winning" on its NucProgs = China "winning" in ECS + SCS + India in East Asia = ... ... Iff China can "rent 5% of [debt-ridden]Ukraine" for China-centric agriculture + meat production, it can most certainly demand or do the same wid the Debt-ridden, Debt-loving USoAmerika + its Debt-ridden, Debt-loving US Govt. Again, CHINESE PERTS, MILBLOGGERS > NO NEED FOR MAJOR CHINA-US WAR AS ALL CHINA NEEDS TO DO IS DEMAND THAT THE US PAY ITS DUES TO CHINA - IFF THE US CAN'T, THEN CHINA HAS THE RIGHT TO DEMAND THAT THE US TRANSFER SOVEREIGN TERRITORIES OVER TO CHINA IN LIEU OF DEBT PAYMENT. ITV, THE MASSIVELY ENDEBTED USA HAS NOWHERE + NO ONE TO BORROW FROM EXCEPT FROM CHINA, WHICH IN TURN GIVES CHINA THE CLEAR ADVANTAGE AS PER DISPUTED TERRITORIES + GEOPOL/GEOSTRATEGIC CONCESSIONS. As wid any World Nation-State, China has the right to wage war to defend territories it already deems as its own [Taiwan, Diaoyus/ Senkakus, South China Sea]; just as China as Creditor also the right to wage war to collect on unilateral or aymmetric debt owed from other sovereign nations. CHINA'S DEBT IS US$776.OBILYUHN, WHILE THE US' IS US$16.8-$17.3TRILYUHN. CHINA HAS LR ICBMS THAT CAN HIT CONUS ON EITHER COAST - SYRIA, IRAN, TAIWAN + JAPAN + PHIL + ASEAN DON'T. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2013-10-03 00:39 |