Former UN weapons chief says US, Europe and Security Council are "humiliating" Iran

[struggle4progress]

The Associated Press
Published: February 26, 2007

NEW YORK: Former chief U.N. weapons inspector Hans Blix said Monday the United States, Europe and the U.N. Security Council are "humiliating" Iran by demanding that it suspend uranium enrichment before any negotiations and then dictating its rewards.

He said the package of economic and political incentives put forward in June 2006 by the U.S. and key European countries, which was later endorsed by the council, did not mention the key issue of security guarantees for Iran or adequately address the possibility of U.S. diplomatic recognition if Tehran renounces enrichment.

"The first incentive, I think, is to sit down with them in a direct talk rather than saying to them 'you do this, thereafter we will sit down at a table and tell you what you get for it,'" Blix said. "That's getting away from a humiliating neo-colonial attitude to a more normal (one)."

"People have their own pride whether you like them or don't," he told a media briefing ahead of a daylong conference on "Weapons Threats and International Security" organized by The Century Foundation, a Washington-based research institute on domestic and international challenges ...

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/02/26/america/NA-GEN-US-Iran-Nuclear.php

[ohio2007]

1. The Russians made Iran a very good offer to handle the dangerous material

but Iran refused the idea of returning spent fuel.

In the end, the Iranians should accept the free deal of Russia. After all, the Russians built the reactors.
I don't think the Russians ever took the offer off the table.

[peacetalksforall]

2. We have some great people speaking out and the media will give

them nothing but negative and ridiculing coverage -

Hans Blix, Scott Ritter, Pres. Jimmy Carter, Al Gore.

If anyone is out there who is just finding out about corporate entertainment and Dem bashing so-called news - examine the way these four are treated.