Iranian Foreign Minister Says Nuclear Facility Inspections Possible To Open Negotiations

[Purveyor]

Source: Associated Press

By PHILIP ELLIOTT | ASSOCIATED PRESS | 3 hours, 20 minutes ago in Politics

Iran would open its nuclear facilities to international inspectors as part of broad negotiations with the United States that could eventually restore diplomatic relations between the adversaries and those talks have the backing of the nation's supreme leader, Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif said Sunday.

Zarif also said the United States and its allies must end their crippling economic sanctions as part of any deal. The Western-educated Zarif again repeated Tehran's position that it has no desire for nuclear weapons but has the right to continue a peaceful nuclear program.

"Negotiations are on the table to discuss various aspects of Iran's enrichment program. Our right to enrich is nonnegotiable," Zarif said during an English-language interview that comes amid a significant shift in U.S.-Iranian relations.

At the same time, Zarif's deputy tried to calm hard-liners' fears at home. "We never trust America 100 percent," Abbas Araghchi was quoted as saying by the semi-official Fars News Agency, which has close ties to Iran's powerful Revolutionary Guard.

Read more: http://www.newser.com/article/da946hhg0/iranian-foreign-minister-says-nuclear-facility-inspections-possible-to-open-negotiations.html

[Botany]

1. Is there no stopping that Kenyan Muslim Socialist?

Cue Lindsey Graham hitting his fainting couch w/ "the vapors."

[Cali_Democrat]

2. I'm sure the neocons are going absolutely crazy right now

and that's a good thing.

[Uncle Joe]

3. Kicked, recommended and welcome to the club, Zarif's deputy we don't trust America 100% either.

Thanks for the thread, Purveyor.

[bananas]

4. They don't have a right to military enrichment facilities.

Their current enrichment facilities are on military bases in hardened underground military bunkers.

That makes them de facto military facilities.

France, Germany, Japan, and the US are all decreasing their reliance on nuclear energy.

Iran should realize they've been snookered by nuclear industry PR and abandon their nuclear projects.

Nuclear energy and nuclear weapons are expensive, dangerous, and completely unnecessary.