Associated Press - "Obama offers Iran `serious, meaningful dialogue'"

[TomCADem]

It will be interesting to see if Iran decides to go North Korean and insist that it can openly develop nuclear weapons, and how other countries in the Middle East would react to such an announcement.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090926/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_obama_iran

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WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama is offering Iran "a serious, meaningful dialogue" over its disputed nuclear program, while warning Tehran of grave consequences from a united global front.

"Iran's leaders must now choose — they can live up to their responsibilities and achieve integration with the community of nations. Or they will face increased pressure and isolation, and deny opportunity to their own people," Obama said in his radio and Internet address Saturday.

Hours later, Iran's nuclear chief told state TV that his country would allow the U.N. nuclear agency to inspect Iran's newly revealed and still unfinished uranium enrichment facility. Ali Akbar Salehi didn't specify when inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency could visit. He said the timing would be worked out with the U.N. watchdog.

Obama said in his address that evidence of Iran's building the underground plant "continues a disturbing pattern of Iranian evasion" that jeopardizes global nonproliferation.

Ahead of Thursday's international talks with Iran in Geneva, Obama said the world "is more united than ever before" on this issue. Those negotiations, he said, "now take on added urgency."

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[BlooInBloo]

1. Carrots and sticks - the way it should be.

[cliffordu]

2. Yep.

[Undercurrent]

3. Exactly.

Classic diplomacy.

[grantcart]

4. multilateral carrots and sticks - strength in a united front

[lunatica]

6. agreed

I would even go so far as to say that giving Iran notice that the site will be bombed to oblivion in so an so many days would give them plenty of time to evacuate the area before it's destroyed. After the inspections of course and not done on a unilateral basis.

[Cha]

5. So Important to have real dialogue instead of

"bomb bomb bomb Iran":silly::silly: