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| Iran unbending on uranium enrichment in answer to six-power incentives offer |
| 2008-07-05 |
| DEBKAfile’s political sources report that Tehran has given no ground on international concerns in its reply to the six-power proposals for ending the long nuclear standoff. Iran offers nothing but more negotiations, its standard gambit for spinning out time to achieve progress on its nuclear bomb program. The New York Times of July 5 quotes Tehran as stating: “The time for negotiations from the condescending position of inequality has come to an end,” in its response to the incentives package offered by the five UN Security Council members plus Germany. The letter makes no reference to the six powers’ proposal of preliminary talks to start with a mutual six-week “freeze” - both on a fourth round of UN Security Council sanctions and on the expansion of Iran’s uranium enrichment program. |
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