To Javier Solana: Make Iran an Offer It Can’t Refuse
Dear Mr. Solan a, The reasons for the current impasse over Iran's uranium enrichment programme are simple. So is the solution for breaking it. The impasse exists because: P ower-plant-grade enrichment is the first step on the path to weapons-grade enrichment. N either the IAEA nor the CIA has been able to produce any evidence that Iran is lying when it claims it has no weapons intentions. (It didn’t help when the House Intelligence Committee recently issued a report purporting to prove weapons intentions that was immediately rejected as "erroneous, misleading and unsubstantiated," not by Iran, but by the IAEA). U ntil the burden of proof is met, Russian and China will block meaningful sanctions in the UN Security Council. The simple solution: make Iran an offer that it cannot refuse and still maintain the credibility of its contention that its programme is only for peaceful purposes. When Iran rejected ...