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2006-05-18 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Iran to Offer Economic Incentive to Europe to Keep Uranium Enrichment

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Posted by anonymous5089 2006-05-18 10:59|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [11131 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 The "Offer a Whore More Money" plan...

Posted by tu3031 2006-05-18 11:14|| 2006-05-18 11:14|| Front Page Top

#2 This is bad, very bad.

The EU is so crooked they may take the money and run.

Posted by Glerong Omavins3424 2006-05-18 11:45|| 2006-05-18 11:45|| Front Page Top

#3 nah, even if they wanted to take it, the fact that he made a public offer makes it impossible to take. Its just one more jab, for internal consumption - so he can tell his internal public "see how compromising I am, and how they reject it" Says to me that Euro offer of a light water reactor may be playing well on the Iranian street, or at least the regime fears it is.

Posted by Liberalhawk 2006-05-18 11:56|| 2006-05-18 11:56|| Front Page Top

#4 Why not? He bought off Russa and China. Should work with the EU whore as well.

Posted by CrazyFool 2006-05-18 12:02|| 2006-05-18 12:02|| Front Page Top

#5 Offering economic incentives back to EU gets a laugh out of me everytime I hear it. What a beautiful way to tell the Euros to stuff it.

Posted by Mike N. 2006-05-18 12:22|| 2006-05-18 12:22|| Front Page Top

#6 LH has rose colored lenses surgically implanted in his eyes. If the mullahs gave a rat's ass what the Iranian street cared, they wouldn't be pulling crap like banning festivals.

It's another delay, another chance for the striped pantsed traitors to put off actually doing anything about Iran.

Posted by Rob Crawford">Rob Crawford 2006-05-18 12:44|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2006-05-18 12:44|| Front Page Top

#7 based on the headline I thought for sure this was on scrappleface but actually its just business as usual in the mullarky

Posted by mhw 2006-05-18 13:04|| 2006-05-18 13:04|| Front Page Top

#8 LH's comment "Its just one more jab, for internal consumption - so he can tell his internal public "see how compromising I am, and how they reject it"

makes sense if you assume that the public Ahmadi Nejad is worried about are the mullahs on the guardian council and the streets they have to worry about are the ones in front of the class A mosques in Qom.

Posted by mhw 2006-05-18 13:08|| 2006-05-18 13:08|| Front Page Top

#9 Mahmoud's having fun, isn't he? Offer "incentives" to the dhimmies and a letter requesting conversion to the Pope. On a roll. More bottom of the well stuff, but Mahmoud appears to think EU is ready to accept dhimmitude officially.

Posted by Shuns Uleating3851 2006-05-18 15:44|| 2006-05-18 15:44|| Front Page Top

#10 Theres different "streets" in Iran of course. there are north Teheran secular middle class, antiregime students, and some ethnic minorities, who are dead set against the regime. But as others here have pointed out, theyre a minority, not enough to make a revolution. Theres also hardliners who SUPPORT the regime. And theres apparently a large group thats not wild about the regime, but not dead set against it, thats unhappy with the weak economy, but will listen to Ahmadinajads promises. The regime is working overtime through their media to convince them that the West is trying to stop them from getting nuclear ENERGY - this is a consistent theme in the regimes rhetoric. Its also a lie, of course - you dont need enrichment to have atomic power, you can import enriched fuel, and most countries with atomic ENERGY programs the size of Irans do so. The fixed costs of running a civilian enrichment program are high, and not worth it if you only have a few power reactors. But the regime doesnt want the Iranian fence sitters to get wind of that, cause the notion of being persecuted by the west accounts for much of what support they have. The EU proposal was an attempt to undercut that position, and this response is a counter attempt to blame the big bad "Western Imperialists"

and its not aimed ONLY at the internal arena - its also aimed at the larger muslim world, which theyre counting on to change the balance - an Islamic world that supports them will increase the cost to the EU of standing with the US, and will lessen cost to China and Russia of any vetos or other obstruction they engage in. The Iranian regime has attempted to play the Islamic world, with mixed success, since they took power.

The economic inducements theyve offered to Russia and China werent announced in public, so blatantly as this. If they wanted to make a serious bribe to Europe, theyd do it in private. Which would make it much easier for the Euros to accept.

Posted by liberalhawk 2006-05-18 16:32|| 2006-05-18 16:32|| Front Page Top

#11 I have a buck three eighty six that says he already has tried to bribe the Euros.

Posted by Mike N. 2006-05-18 17:35|| 2006-05-18 17:35|| Front Page Top

#12 He can bribe anybody he wants -- it's not going to stop George Bush and/or Israel from doing what George Bush and/or Israel must do.

Posted by Darrell 2006-05-18 17:58|| 2006-05-18 17:58|| Front Page Top

#13 My first thought was: Scrappleface. Alas, no.

Posted by xbalanke 2006-05-18 22:47|| 2006-05-18 22:47|| Front Page Top

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