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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Iran Seeks European Support on Nuclear Technology
2004-08-09
By GEORGE JAHN, Associated Press Writer
VIENNA, Austria - Iran has told Europe's leading powers that it wants them to back its right to nuclear technology that can be used to make weapons as they took another pull on the crack pipe. Diplomats said Monday the move has dismayed the Europeans and strengthens Washington's push for U.N. sanctions against Tehran. France, Germany and Britain have not formally responded to the demands Iran presented to them in a document during a meeting last week in Paris. Contents of the document were obtained by The Associated Press.
A striking lack of massive cash bribes stunned European pols into shocked silence on the matter.
Diplomats said Iran's conditions effectively stall the European attempt to convince Tehran to give up the technology that would allow them to make nuclear arms and pushes Europe closer to the U.S. view that Iran should be hauled before the U.N. Security Council for violating the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty.
Let's have a Big F&%king D'uh!
The demands, presented last week to the European powers during talks in Paris, stunned senior French, German and British negotiators, said an EU official familiar with the Paris meeting. Ignoring the list, the Europeans instead whined, begged and pleaded urged Tehran to act on their pledge to clear up nagging lies suspicions about their nuclear ambitions by Sept. 13, when the International Atomic Energy Agency meets to review Iran's nuclear dossier, said the official. The Paris talks ended "with the two sides talking past each other," said a diplomat familiar with the meeting, who — like the other diplomats and the EU official — demanded anonymity.
Wow! "[T]he two sides talking past each other," who saw that one coming?
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