US and Europe at odds over strategy for dealing with Iran - Financial Times

Iran's talks this weekend with the EU is making little progress, but revealing none the less. For instance, Zbigniew Brzezinski, national security adviser to president Jimmy Carter said today that:

He believes that the west may even have to learn to live with a nuclear-armed Iran as it did with China, and later with India and Pakistan.

But the EU appears to need the US to make clear its position on Iran.

The US disagrees with EU3 proposals that Iran be offered assistance with a civilian nuclear programme as part of a deal to persuade Iran to suspend uranium enrichment. Washington is instead pressing its allies to start working on a Security Council resolution of condemnation that would pave the way towards sanctions.

"This is going to be the first test. It goes beyond Iran," said a European diplomat in Washington. "We have to figure out how a new Bush administration will behave and look at the first signals."

Equally, the diplomat said, the EU is not going to allow Iran to "hijack" its relationship with the Bush administration over the next four years. "The ball is in Iran's court," he said.

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