Offer Iran security guarantee to end nuclear impasse: former UN weapons chief Blix

[NNN0LHI]

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/08/31/asia/AS-GEN-New-Zealand-Iran-Nuclear.php

WELLINGTON, New Zealand: Iran should be offered a guarantee that it will not be attacked and a normalization of relations with the United States to help resolve the standoff over its uranium enrichment program, former United Nations chief weapons inspector Hans Blix said Friday.

That approach — "a leaning toward diplomacy which we have seen in the case of North Korea" — has not been used with Iran, Blix said.

"On the contrary you have three U.S. aircraft carriers in the Persian Gulf which the Iranians may see as needing to protect themselves from in future," he told reporters in Wellington.

Blix, who is currently chairman of Sweden's Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission, said he believes "nonmilitary means may be better" in trying to resolve the nuclear weapons impasse between Iran, the U.S. and other Western nations.

[pocoloco]

1. I wonder if his phone is still tapped?

[Middle finga]

2. Sounds like a good idea to me

that is if the goal is really to avoid war. I still think Hans Blix was intimidated by the war mongers, he should have spoken out more forcefully at the time he was conducting the inspections instead of after.

[annabanana]

3. It sure as hell beats "Shock & Awe II"

I wish I trusted the Dem Congress to do the right thing...