A senior Iranian official says his country’s new leadership speaks with one voice on Tehran’s nuclear program and is more committed to making progress at the next round of talks with world powers than its predecessor.
Ali Akbar Salehi heads Tehran’s nuclear program. He says he, Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and President Hasan Rouhani have a “more full-fledged … desire” to reach agreement than the previous government.
Salehi spoke Monday outside a 159-nation U.N. nuclear conference in Vienna.
Years of nuclear talks between Iran and the U.S., Russia, China, Britain, France and Germany have been inconclusive. A new round is expected within the next few months.
The world powers seek curbs on Iranian programs that could make nuclear arms. Tehran insists it does not want such weapons.
(AP)
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BALONEY !!!
BUT Obama and Kerry will eat this up…just wait and see
If this is for real, this is very good news.
And just as George H. W. Bush got credit for the end of the Soviet bloc even though he had little to do with it, Obama and Kerry will get credit for this.
My suspicion is that the Mullahs were horrified by the chemical weapons attacks in Syria. They remember Iranians being on the receiving end of such attacks during the Iran-Iraq war. They Mullahs then realized that the world won’t do anything to them if they just refrain from producing WMDs.
There is one other possibility, of course — that they are pulling the wool over our eyes. I will believe this when I see it.
I substantially agree with Comment No. 2, but I also recognize the similarity between comments 1 and 2. Both reach the same conclusion – wait and see what, if anything, comes from the nice-sounding statements coming from the current Iranian government.