http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=asN9v9jQ.A.g&refer=homeHere's the entire article, but there is a pic at that site that I couldn't copy - if you need a Biden fix.
Feb. 7 (Bloomberg) -- Vice President Joe Biden said the U.S. is determined to end three decades of tension with Iran as long as the Islamic republic halts its nuclear program and stops fomenting terrorism.
Speaking to an audience that included Iranian Parliamentary Speaker Ali Larijani, Biden urged European allies and Russia to back diplomatic efforts to keep atomic weapons out of the Iranian government’s hands.
“This much is clear: we will be willing to talk,” Biden said at the Munich Security Conference today. Iran has “a very clear choice: to continue down the current course and there will be continued pressure and isolation. Abandon the illicit nuclear program and your support for terrorism, and there will be meaningful incentives.”
Sketching out what he called President Barack Obama’s “new tone” in U.S. engagement with the world, Biden made no mention of military strikes as a last resort to prevent Iran from going nuclear. Instead, he emphasized Obama’s desire to reach out to Muslim countries and hailed Iran’s “great civilization.”
Before Biden arrived in Munich, Larijani told the opening session yesterday that Iran isn’t seeking to build nuclear weapons and urged the U.S. to abandon the “tired carrot-and- stick” approach that he blamed for tensions dating to the 1979 Islamic revolution.
Iran says its uranium enrichment program is for civilian electricity generation, denying Western suspicions that it wants to build a bomb and shrugging off three sets of United Nations sanctions.
‘Tougher Sanctions’
U.K. Foreign Secretary David Miliband urged Iran to take up the American offer or face “very serious, tougher sanctions.”
“It’s not going to get better than an American administration saying we want normal relations with Iran,” Miliband said.
Germany will press for tougher sanctions unless Iran abandons uranium enrichment, Chancellor Angela Merkel said. Germany has worked with the five permanent members of the UN Security Council to put the squeeze on Iran.
“We have to prevent Iran from getting nuclear weapons,” Merkel said.
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Sounds like he was able to get Merkel and the UK to agree to work with us to prevent Iran from getting nuclear weapons while letting Iran know that we are willing to work with them - unless....
I find this very exciting. We have allies again!
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