Iran Promises To Discuss Nuke Activities

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

Iran Promises To Discuss Nuke Activities

AP NewsBreak: Iran Promises To Come Clean On Past
Suspicious Nuclear Activities, Say Officials

MADRID, Spain, Jun. 1, 2007

(AP) Seeking to evade new U.N. sanctions, Iran has pledged
to end years of stonewalling and provide answers on past
suspicious activities to the U.N. nuclear monitoring agency
probing its atomic program, an official said Friday.

The offer, which the official said was made Thursday by top
Iranian nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani to EU foreign policy
chief Javier Solana, falls short of the concession sought by
the international community _ a promise to freeze Iran's
uranium enrichment activities.

-snip-

Larijani's overture and the decision by Solana to treat the
Iranian offer seriously, thus reflected mutual recognition that
the talks needed to advance on other issues or face the risk
of collapse.

Still, U.N. and other officials, who demanded anonymity because
they were not authorized to discuss the issue, said any decision
by Iran to fully cooperate on clearing up past activities would
represent a major concession.

-snip-

Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/06/01/ap/middleeast/main2873640.shtml

---

Source: Associated Press

Rice: US flexible in Iran nuclear talks

By ANNE GEARAN, AP Diplomatic Writer
51 minutes ago

MADRID, Spain - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Friday
the United States is willing to look at creative ways to get Iran
to halt nuclear activities that could lead to a bomb. She held firm
that the U.S. won't discuss rewards for Iran until it meets that
condition.

The top U.S. diplomat signaled support for a behind-the-scenes
effort to strike a technical and semantic compromise that could
allow Iran to stop, or suspend, disputed activities and open the
door for international negotiations.

"Where we've been flexible is on how we get to suspension," Rice
told reporters one day after inconclusive talks between European
and Iranian nuclear negotiators.

-snip-

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070601/ap_on_re_mi_ea/rice_iran_2