Friday, August 08, 2008

Iran...ran...ran....

From the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, DAILY ALERT, Thursday August 7, 2008:

Russia Asks that Iran Be Given More Time - Colum Lynch
Russia said Wednesday that Iran should be granted more time to respond to a package of incentives that the U.S. and five other powerful nations have offered Tehran to freeze its uranium enrichment efforts, a stance that may slow U.S. and European efforts to impose UN sanctions on Tehran. Russia's UN ambassador, Vitaly I. Churkin, dismissed assertions that Tehran had missed a deadline this week to respond to the offer, which would make a push for UN sanctions inevitable.

U.S. officials say Iran is buying time to advance its capacity to enrich uranium, and hope to secure a fourth round of UN sanctions against Tehran before President Bush leaves office in January.

(Washington Post)

...France: Iran Reply on Nuclear Offer Insufficient - Jan Sliva
France joined the U.S. on Wednesday in rejecting Iran's response to an incentives package aimed at defusing a dispute over its nuclear program as insufficient. France regrets that Iran "has again chosen not to provide a clear response," Foreign Ministry spokesman Romain Nadal said in Paris.

(AP/Washington Post)

...U.S., Britain Mulling Fresh Iran Sanctions
Six world powers agreed Wednesday to consider new sanctions on Iran after Tehran gave an ambiguous answer to their latest demand to freeze key nuclear work, the U.S. and Britain said.

(AFP)

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