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News out of Tehran Sunday indicates that Iran is finding parts of the proposal offered by the US and Western Europe with the blessings of Russia and China appealing while they feel some others may need strengthening.

The AP reports via Fox News.com:

Iran finds parts of a Western incentives package aimed at persuading the country to suspend its uranium enrichment program acceptable, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said Sunday.

“We started studying the package from the same hour it was presented to us. We should evaluate it. There are points which are acceptable. There are points which are ambiguous, and there are points that we believe should be strengthened,” Hamid Reza Asefi told reporters.

He insisted Iran was not stalling by taking time to respond to the package, presented to Iran last week.

“We will give our views in response to the package and we will offer our proposals,” he said.

Both the White House and the State Department has warned that Iran has weeks not months to decide.

It seems to me that we are giving them the way more than we should.

The incentives package included some significant concessions by Washington aimed at enticing Tehran to freeze enrichment. The United States would provide Iran with peaceful nuclear technology, lift some sanctions and join direct negotiations with Tehran.

The package also pulls back from demands that Iran outright scrap its enrichment program as an initial condition for negotiations, seeking a suspension instead. However, it also contains the implicit threat of U.N. sanctions if Iran remains defiant.

Hardliners and Clerics influential with the militant government are advising rejecting the Western proposal.

What more do they want? We are already giving them the store. The advice from this cleric Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati confirms my suspicions that their goal is a nuclear weapon. Because if it weren’t, Iran would jump at this chance. After all, we are offering US nuclear technology in exchange of inspections of their enrichment program.

This proposal is aimed at allowing the Iranians to continue enrichment if it can be verified that their program is strictly for civilian energy purposes. So rejection of any offer that gives them what they have been claiming that their goal is can only mean that their true goal is weapons grade uranium enrichment.

Stand by to see what the next piece of the nuclear drama will be.

ON A SIDE NOTE:

Mexico kicks the snot out of Iran at the World Cup!
That’s one good thing coming out of Mexico these days. The Mexican team beat Iran 3-1.

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