Six world powers agree on incentives, penalties for Iran

[ECH1969]

Six world powers meeting to discuss the crisis over Iran's nuclear program have reached an agreement on a package of incentives and penalties to be presented to Teheran, diplomats told The Associated Press Thursday.

The diplomats were speaking on the sidelines of a meeting between officials from France, Britain, Germany, the United States, Russia and China. They requested anonymity because they were not authorized to make a public announcement.

"The United States is going to take a leadership position in solving this issue," Bush said of the decision to engage Teheran if it meets the conditions on enrichment.

French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin said on Thursday that Western powers that squabbled over Iraq will not repeat that mistake in their dealings with Teheran.

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1148482091573&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

[partylessinOhio]

1. Sad! This time France and Germany will not have the guts to say NO!

[Massacure]

8. Politics. Russia and China will do it for them.

Why should they sour relations with us? They get to save the political capital for another time...

[HuffleClaw]

2. think i'll wait for a less biased source

[ECH1969]

3. Its an AP article

[jayfish]

4. Strange Thing Though...

looking at the story on the AP site (it links to other sites running the story)reveals that the Jpost story is radically different in tone than the original AP text. The original text points hints at lingering problems with Russia and China. The JPost story reads like a slam-dunk.

Bush said he got a "positive response" in a telephone conversation on Tuesday with Russian President Vladimir Putin, adding, "We expect Russia to participate in the United Nations Security Council. We'll see whether or not they agree to do that."

Bush also spoke about Iran on Thursday with Chinese President Hu Jintao. He said little about that conversation, saying, "They understood our strategy." The U.S. would need cooperation by Russia and China, Security Council members, before that body could act.

Jay

[Tempest]

5. More the reason to wait for an unbiased source

Don't forget how AP is lying about Harry Reid and the boxing tickets.

[stepnw1f]

6. no shit! Great Catch Peeps! (nt)

[Rex]

7. Stupid Bush, nobody like you.

It's just gonna piss more people off in the ME and increase terrorism (I guess that is the idea).

[struggle4progress]

9. ... Before the meeting, diplomats said the incentives were expected ..

.. to encompass a light-water nuclear reactor and an assured foreign supply of atomic fuel for Iran so Tehran would not need to enrich uranium itself ...

There was no immediate comment from Russia and China. Their opposition to any trigger for tough sanctions against Tehran, arguing that it poses no imminent threat to peace, dragged out negotiations with Western powers on a viable package for weeks.

But European diplomats said before the meeting that to draw firm Russian support, Washington had accepted language in a proposed Council resolution to underpin the offer ensuring that no possible military strikes on Tehran would be on the horizon ...

World powers strike Iran deal
http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=newsOne&storyID=2006-06-01T235815Z_01_L13443169_RTRUKOC_0_US-NUCLEAR-IRAN.xml

[LynnTheDem]

10. WHAT "crisis"?

There the "media" goes again...