VIENNA (Reuters) - A senior Iranian nuclear official signaled Tehran's determination on Friday to press on with its nuclear work, despite facing what Washington called a "moment of truth" over a program that could produce atomic weapons.
The remarks by Mohammad Saeedi, deputy head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization, suggested Tehran may have already decided to reject offers of incentives and negotiations from six of the world's top powers in return for ending atomic fuel activities.
"Iran is determined to go ahead with its nuclear enrichment work for peaceful purposes," Mohammad Saeedi, deputy head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization, told students news agency ISNA. "The Iranian nation will not let us give it up."
The White House urged Iran to study a basket of incentives, approved by the U.S., British, French, German Russian and Chinese foreign ministers at a Vienna meeting on Thursday, before officially responding.
European officials will give Iranian officials a detailed presentation of the incentives in the next couple of days and a formal answer was hoped for within weeks, White House spokesman Tony Snow said.
Asked about Iran's insistence that it would not give up uranium enrichment, Snow said: "As we've said, we think it's fair to give the government of Iran an opportunity to review carefully everything in the package. We understand people may make statements, but we want to give them time to study this."
Decision-making in Iran can be drawn out by a complex political structure with ultimate power resting in the hands of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
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Iran has said from the outset that they have no desire to stop, let alone suspend this enrichment program, and every action they take supports this doctrine. They have been outright defiant and belligerent to the United States and leveling very major threats at our friends in the region, Israel. The Iranian president has on more than one occasion threatened to wipe Israel of the map and that all they would need is for one nuke to get through and it would destroy Israel.
Iran will be forced to make a decision, the US with it's allies have put together a incentives package to try and draw Iran away from it's enrichment program, if they continue to defy the international community and show that they do not want to negotiate, very few options will be left, and our president will act. Sooner rather than later Russia and the Chinese will fall in line.
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It is just a matter of time with sanctions against Iran. With the corruption in the U.N.,they'll sit on their butts for years. This scenario is almost identical to Iraq. What I wonder is whoever is our next President: what will he do about Iran? Or, as you say, how will Bush handle it? To me it's all very unsettling.
Maybe we need to send them some of OUR enriched nuclear material, about 100 kilotons or so to start with...
lets just bomb them lol
Why be so miserly with it Fred? "Give" them some of the high quality, high yield stuff; oh, several megatons?
send it to em in the form a bomb hehe
Agreed with all on this but first we need to stop trying to shithole into a castle.
Oops, A little tired today, "Build a shithole into a castle"
long day huh man haha
Long week man, Research on locations is tough but worth it. also gotta pay the bills you know.
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