Monday, March 14, 2005

Iran Demands More US Concessions

BBC News:
Iran has urged the US to offer it further incentives to resolve the dispute over its nuclear programme. The US should unblock frozen Iranian assets, lift sanctions and stop "hostile measures", a senior Iranian negotiator told BBC News. ...

Hossein Mousavian, the secretary of the foreign relations committee of the Supreme National Security Council, told the BBC the US offer to allow Iranian membership of the WTO and sales of aircraft spare parts did not amount to real concessions.

Mr Mousavian said, however, that Iran would embrace with open arms confidence-building measures and objective guarantees to prove that it was not seeking weapons of mass destruction. ...