Saturday, July 01, 2006

How helpful...

Cleric Vows Iran Will Never Talk With U.S. on Nuclear Program - New York Times

From the above:

...European leaders had pressed for years for the United States to join earlier rounds of talks with Iran, and when the Bush administration decided in late May to offer to join any new discussions, the move was seen as a major concession and a prime inducement for Tehran.

On Tuesday, however, Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said he saw "no use" in talking with the United States.

And today, Mr. Khatami went further, declaring that "with regards to our nuclear case, we have nothing to do with the U.S. and principally, our officials will have no talks with the U.S.," according to the state-run Islamic Republic News Agency.

The rest of the story is worth reading too. It's a difficult world.

No comments: