Russia Asks That Iran Be Given More Time

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Source: Washington Post

No Deadline on Incentives, Envoy Says
Russia said Wednesday that Iran should be granted more time to respond to a package of incentives that the United States and five other powerful nations have offered Tehran to freeze its uranium enrichment efforts, a stance that may slow U.S. and European efforts to impose U.N. sanctions on Tehran.

Russia's U.N. ambassador, Vitaly I. Churkin, said the six nations should continue negotiating with Iran over its nuclear program. He dismissed assertions by the United States, Britain and France that Tehran had missed a deadline this week to respond to the offer, which would make a push for U.N. sanctions inevitable.

"We haven't set any deadlines for their response," he said. "We have some negotiating opportunities, and rather than focus almost entirely on sanctions we should focus on what those opportunities should be."

Churkin's remarks raised the prospect of renewed strains between Washington and Moscow over Iran policy during the final months of President Bush's tenure. Administration officials say Iran is buying time to advance its capacity to enrich uranium, an effort they suspect is intended to fuel a nuclear weapon. They have made it clear they hope to secure a fourth round of U.N. sanctions against Tehran before Bush leaves office in January, according to U.N. diplomats.

Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/06/AR2008080601085.html?hpid=topnews

[ohio2007]

1. Kadhafi warns 'arrogant' Iran of military humiliation ( it just got crazy )

the Gene Simmons of Africa just speaking his mind......




any more proof needed he's crazy ?

Kadhafi warns 'arrogant' Iran of military humiliation
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TUNIS (AFP) — Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi on Tuesday warned "arrogant" Iran that it faces military humiliation on the scale of Iraq for its refusal to respond to western powers over a nuclear impasse.

"What Iran is doing stems simply from arrogance," Kadhafi said during a visit to Tunisia after Tehran ignored another western deadline to accept an incentives package
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http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5grMl8ol2QmK2WKplOZU5CGnMHCpQ

[Wwagsthedog]

2. Goodness, who ran over this man's head. nt

[prayin4rain]

3. hahahhaahahahha..... oh that was funny :D n/t

[Tempest]

4. Kadhafi has become quite the Bush puppet

Ever since Bush renewed ties to his country.