There’s good news and bad news about Iran’s nuclear development program. The good news first:
“We believe that the proposed package is a suitable and acceptable basis to work on, but we believe that this package … should be developed through talks,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi told a weekly news conference.
Now the bad news:
Iran said on Sunday sending its nuclear file back to the U.N. Security Council undermined prospects for talks over its atomic dispute with the West.
Iran’s case was referred back to the council after Tehran failed to respond to a set of proposals backed by six world powers which called for Tehran to halt uranium enrichment in return for economic and diplomatic incentives.
Iran insists on continuing with its enrichment program and it’s obviously stalling for time. As I’ve written before I think that the preponderance of the evidence would lead one to believe that Iran is, indeed, developing nuclear weapons.
As Michael Ledeen would say, faster please.
UPDATE:Â The Associated Press coverage of the story is here.
