| Forgive me for noting this, Dr. Rice, but the evidence is to the contrary. |
"If indeed Iran is trying to stall, it's not going to work. The international community has said that we need to get an answer, an indication of where Iran is going with this", Rice told reporters at a joint press conference with Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul in Washington, DC. "We need to know if the path of negotiation is open or not. It is really incumbent on Iran now to take what is a very good [offer] and respond to it".
"And so I will, in fact, be talking to my colleagues a little bit later today, but I can assure you that we still intend to have a substantive response from Iran before the middle of July when the heads of state will meet in St. Petersburg. It simply makes sense for the world to have some kind of indication of whether Iran intends to pursue the negotiated track or not", she said.