US and Europeans working on incentives for Iran to drop its rights
Iran-UN, Politics, 5/25/2006

The UN Permanent Security Council members had met yesterday in the UK to discuss Iran's nuclear file, where the US and Europe are pressing for sanctions against Iran because of unsupported allegations that Iran aims aims to develop nuclear weapons.

Iran has been verified as compliant with the nuclear non proliferation treaty and is developing nuclear technology that has been verified by the IAEA as not having deviated from the treaty.

The 5 permanent members along with Germany were meeting on a package of incentives the Europeans and the US intend to offer Iran to persuade to drop its rights to develop nuclear technology that would allow Iran to make its own fuel to feed its nuclear reactors.

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Jianchao today said that no report has yet been released on the outcome of the London meeting, adding that rather Iran's nuclear issue has been examined from various dimensions.

Iran's ambassador to Brussels, Ali Ahani, said in an interview published Wednesday that the Islamic Republic will carefully study the new EU proposals to resolve the nuclear stand-off with the West when they are received by Tehran.

"We have till today not received the EU compromise package. We have to wait till Iran receives the package. We will study the proposals carefully," Ahani told the Luxembourg newspaper Luxemburger Wort. We hope that this time the EU will not make the mistake of not recognizing Iran's rights. Iran has said that it is not seeking nuclear weapons" said Ahani. He added "For Iran, compromise proposals are acceptable which assure us these rights." He said "We are ready to give guarantees that nuclear technology will not be misused for military purposes." Ahani noted that sanction imposed by the US and to some extent by Europeans against the Islamic Republic in the last decade have proven to be ineffective.

US Department Of State Spokesman Sean McCormack had said yesterday that the incentive package to Iran being worked on by the Europeans and clearly with the US is "a comprehensive package. And this comprehensive package, it outlines incentives and disincentives for the Iranian regime. We hope -- we would hope that they make a choice once this package is presented to them." White House spokesman Tony Snow yesterday denied knowledge of any indirect channels, as some have reported, of Iran wanting talks with the US saying "I don't know" of any such efforts beyond Iran's president's letter to President Bush.

It is suspected that the US and EU aim to prevent Iran from developing nuclear technology to create its own nuclear fuel to feed its electricity generate reactors in order to keep Iran dependent on foreign powers for critical supplies and to keep Iran vulnerable to foreign policy objectives in this oil and energy rich region.

Iran said it is willing to offer needed assurances that would give transparency that its program is fully for civilian use within the framework of international laws, if that is the aim of the US and Europeans, but Iran rejects beforehand any offer that takes away any of its full rights to make its own nuclear fuel to feed its nuclear reactors used to generate electricity. Iran said its decision to make its own fuel is absolute and irreversible.

This comes amid an atmosphere in which the US aims to relay to Iran a sense of credible threat of it being attacked, in order to force Iran to abandon its rights. Iran has said that would ignore such a threat, and is not worried by such psychological warfare, and would react appropriately to any such attack if it ever develops.

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