Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Israeli official: "ending enrichment, transferring uranium must be met if not through diplomacy then "through another method."


Israeli official: "ending enrichment, transferring uranium must be met if not through diplomacy then "through another method."(JPost).As Iran and the world’s major powers begin talks in Kazakhstan on Tuesday on curbing its nuclear program, an Israeli official said the goals needed to be clear: an end to Iran’s uranium enrichment, and the transfer out of the country of all the uranium already enriched.
It is much preferable if these goals were met though diplomacy, the official said, but added that if diplomacy did not work, these goals needed to be met “through another method.”
The official said that Israel has been conducting ongoing discussions with key players in the international community in advance of the renewed talks.
A spokesman for European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton, who leads the talks with Iran on behalf of the powers, said Tehran should understand that there was an “urgent need to make concrete and tangible progress” in Kazakhstan.
Both Russia and the United States stressed there was not an unlimited amount of time to resolve a dispute that has raised fears of a new war in the Middle East.
The window for a diplomatic solution simply cannot by definition remain open forever. But it is open today. It is open now,” US Secretary of State John Kerry told a news conference in London. “There is still time but there is only time if Iran makes the decision to come to the table and negotiate in good faith.”
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said there was “no more time to waste,” Interfax news agency quoted him as saying in Almaty. Hmmmm......Pulling out all your carriers but one is a sure way to invite Iran to block the Strait of Hormuz.Read the full story here.

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