Wednesday, March 23, 2005

Has Europe agreed to support real democracy in Iran, if the negotiations fail?

U.S. National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley said the Europeans are to get Iran to:
"give up its nuclear weapons ambitions. We've talked to the Europeans about it. It's clear if those negotiations fail, then we are agreed with the Europeans that the next step is to take the matter to the U-N Security Council."

Mr. Hadley says the Europeans and the U.S. now agree on an agenda for Iran:

"Which is not only dealing with the nuclear issue, but also dealing with Iranian sponsorship for terror, obstruction of the Middle East peace process, and also failure to give freedom and democracy to their people."

White House National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley says that the United States believes that "the cause of freedom for the Iranian people has been advanced by the understandings we've reached with the Europeans."
Here is the entire interview.