With Iran and the P5+1 making good progress at talks on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly, a new round of talks scheduled for next week has raised high hopes. But Iran is hoping to see an actual proposal.
“They should come to the negotiating table with a new approach,” added Foreign Minister Javad Zarif, who said he believed the February plan the US insisted on is too outdated to even bother with anymore.
The February plan, such as it was, demanded Iran suspend all 20 percent uranium enrichment, hand over significant amounts of its stockpile of 20 percent enriched uranium unilaterally and close the Fordow enrichment plant. In return, the US would allow Iran to return to gray market bartering in gold, but would keep materially all sanctions in place beyond that.
While that was asking an awful lot in February, the reality is that Iran’s 20 percent stockpile is shrinking drastically as Iran begins to wind down production, and converts much of it to fuel rods for its medical isotope reactor. It isn’t even clear that Iran has enough of a stockpile left to satisfy the demand, and its mostly irrelevant at any rate because, again, Iran is close to ending that production simply because they’ve made all the fuel rods they’ll ever need.
As a practical matter, getting an “in public” offer would be a major victory for Iran, because the US often likes to go to P5+1 talks with no agenda and nothing laid out for them, simply issue demands and then leave, arguing Iran was unreasonable for not agreeing to everything immediately, without any negotiation taking place.
An in-public offer would allow US citizens time to publicly critique (probably budging MSM, to some degree, off of it's role in the witch hunts). They won't make a public proposal for the same reasons we 'terrorists' are generally required to put up with their secrecy.
Anyone that have trusted western politics been victimized one way or other, trusting west is a gamble in the political arena of double moral and language played by the west.
Iran has been on the world stage for thousands of years they understand cavemen diplomacy that the US and Europe and quite easily maneuver itself.
Is Obama going to cave in on Netanyahu suggestions, that "Iran give up all of its nuclear program" or is he going to stand up as a president and do what's right.?
The impression I have at the moment is that the US whitehouse is as always unwilling to commit itself, and is completely squandering the opportunity. Iran has made a wide range of steps and the only reply from the US is "that's nice but worthless. We need more. " I hope they're a lot more serious in the private negotiations.
I read a lot of caricature about the Iranian so called 'hardliners' , and they'll sure come in all flavors, but there's a lot of realism in that corner and the iranian description of 'principlists' does sound unreasonable: we've gone through enough effort and humiliation, now we should give them absolutely nothing for nothing. Until one day the other side is serious , then we'll be there to listen.
re: does sound unreasonable
That was a typo. I ment
'does sound reasonable'
or
'does not sound unreasonable'.