EU: Iran meeting likely in Turkey

[Chris]

EU: Iran meeting likely in Turkey
By ASSOCIATED PRESS

Talks on Iran's nuclear program will likely be held in Turkey and full US participation may lead to progress in the negotiations, the EU's chief diplomat said Tuesday. "The Americans will be present in a formalized manner, this is new. I think that has to be evaluated positively by the Iranians," Javier Solana said, referring to the meeting scheduled for Oct. 1.

Casting aside conditions that former President George W. Bush had set for talks, President Barack Obama's administration is pressing for progress after years of little movement on Iran's nuclear program. Solana says the Oct. 1 meeting could help resolve the standoff over the Islamic Republic's refusal to freeze uranium enrichment and heed other UN Security Council demands.

The US, Israel and the EU fear that Iran is using its nuclear program to develop nuclear weapons. But Teheran says the program serves purely civilian purposes and that it has the right to enrich uranium for use in nuclear power plants. The talks will be the first since a 2008 session in Geneva foundered over Iran's refusal to discuss enrichment.

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[Chris]

This is just another chance to waste time "talking" with the Iranians and playing "Neville Chamberlain" all over again.

[open door]

This is just another chance to waste time "talking" with the Iranians and playing "Neville Chamberlain" all over again.

Right, and the words "full US participation may lead to progress in the negotiations" caught my eye. They will laugh at that until the meeting begins on l0-l.