Wednesday, March 23, 2005

Final EU3/Iran Negotiations at an impasse - More talks coming

The EU3/Iran negotiations were supposed to conclude with this final round of talks. Iran had even threatened to restart its enrichment program if the talks didn't produce the results they were looking for. Instead we are told, "The tone of the meeting was positive," said Iran's UN Ambassador and that they are scheduling more talks soon.

Iran is pitching the idea of an elaborate monitoring system that will permit them to continue to enrich their own uranium. Europe doesn’t seem to be too impressed with the plan.

Iran has what it wants: more time and Europe gets what it wants: not to have the talks fail.