Straw to warn Iran on nuclear programme

[EuroObserver]

Wed Feb 1, 2006 10:23 AM GMT
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LONDON (Reuters) - Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said he would tell Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki on Wednesday that Tehran had a final chance to convince the world its nuclear programme is peaceful.

"I shall be saying to him that he really needs to see this agreed position by the international community not as a threat but as ... a final opportunity (for Iran) to put itself back on track," Straw said ahead of a London meeting with Mottaki.

"On track for absolutely certainly being able to produce electricity by nuclear power, but on track too for meeting its obligations that it entered into, and says it is abiding by, not to do anything that could lead to the development of a nuclear weapons capability," he told BBC radio.
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Russian and Chinese officials meanwhile arrived in Iran for nuclear talks. "Russian and Chinese officials have arrived in Tehran and are in talks with Iranian officials over the country's nuclear issue," a senior official who asked not to be named told Reuters.

[thebigidea]

1. not so much a threat, more an "opportunity"

nice little country you got here. would be a real shame if something happened to it. but things BREAK, don't they. and my friend george is CLUMSY.

[EuroObserver]

2. They don't call it "Perfidious Albion" for no reason, you know

:hi: To be fair, (1). even the BLiar and Strawman have consistently made clear there's no way they plan to go along with a Bushite military intervention in Iran; and (2). there is no more than slightly suspicious circumstantial evidence (which may yet turn out to have been planted) to suggest Iran's intentions could be so completely stupid.

Sorry, but, the Cabal looks increasingly isolated, internationally, here.

[MrPrax]

4. LOL...

Good one...

Yes, we wouldn't want politics to degenerate into 'mob' rule, now...would we ....

[EuroObserver]

6. Heh. For more food for thought

you may like to consider the DU thread on this Guardian article from Simon Tisdall today: Resistance grows to US assumption of primacy

[sarcasmo]

3. England has now taken the bait let the countdown to War begin.

OOPS, I mean Regime change and spreading Democracy.

[EuroObserver]

5. Latest (Reuters) update: Straw warns Iran on nuclear ambitions

http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2006-02-01T170823Z_01_L01456695_RTRUKOC_0_UK-NUCLEAR-IRAN-STRAW.xml
LONDON (Reuters) - Foreign Secretary Jack Straw warned Iran on Wednesday "not to walk away" from demands over its nuclear ambitions or to make threats in its dealings with the international community.

Straw met Iranian counterpart Manouchehr Mottaki and "made clear that Iran had an opportunity which it should take", a Foreign Ministry spokesman said.

"Mottaki was warned not to walk away from the IAEA additional protocol or to make threats," the spokesman said, referring to demands of the U.N. nuclear watchdog the International Atomic Energy Agency.

"This was not in Iran's interest."
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Before the meeting, Straw told BBC Radio Iran had one last opportunity to get "back on track", not only regarding the production of electricity through nuclear power but also for meeting its obligations on the development of nuclear weapons.

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