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Posted on Oct 29, 2010
AP / Hasan Sarbakhshian

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad speaks at a ceremony at the country’s Narantz nuclear facility in 2009.

In one of the world’s most troubling on-again-off-again relationships, Iran has announced that it is open to resuming stalled multilateral talks over its nuclear program after irreconcilable differences shut down negotiation channels between Iran and six other nations last year. —JCL

The Guardian:

Iran has said it is willing to resume the stalled international talks over its contentious nuclear programme, the EU said today.

Iran’s chief nuclear negotiator, Saeed Jalili, sent the EU’s foreign policy chief, the British peer Lady Ashton, a letter saying he was prepared to continue the talks, which halted a year ago, “in a place and on a date convenient to both sides” after 10 November.

“I think this is a very significant move,” Ashton told reporters at the EU summit in Brussels. Earlier this month Ashton—who is the main contact point for Iran in talks involving Britain, France and Germany along with the US, Russia and China—invited Jalili for three days of negotiations in Vienna next month.

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By FRTothus, October 29, 2010 at 4:45 pm Link to this comment

Waiver, the reason the soldiers are in harm’s way is because our fellow Americans who profit from death and killing had them put there, and you claim our government doesn’t do a thing?  It brought un-tolled death and destruction upon innocent Iraqis, Afghanis, Pakistanis in what amounts to wholesale murder, with wide-spread torture and lawlessness approved at the highest levels of our corporate, war-mongering government for the benefit of the too-big-to-be-accountable war profiteers, same as ever.

Iran has every right to have nuclear power and even build nuclear weapons, and in fact, given that the US invades at will those who do not have such weapons, would be a very smart thing to do on Iran’s part. Further, the US has never lived up to its obligations under the NPT, and has no authority to demand of others what it will not itself abide. What the US really objects to is any nations that have resources our corporations covet being able to defend themselves, or for them to serve any purpose other than to enlarge US corporate profits or their market-share and hegemony.

While Americans quickly forget the elections we have subverted, the coups against democratically-elected leaders, the radicals our CIA funds and encourages, and the monumental hypocrisy with which the US pursues policies, the Iranians (and many others) understand all too well the US double-standards and the massive international terrorism the US practices.

The US invades, and then cries like a baby when its foreign occupying troops come under attack, all the while ignoring this one fundamental fact:  The invader, the aggressor, cannot claim any right to self-defense.  On the contrary, if Iran were to do to the US and Israel what the US and Israel claim as their right, and repeatedly do or threaten to do, and preemptively strike Washington or Tel Aviv, would they not be justified?  Do they have the right to assassinate our leaders and bribe our politicians?  Do they have the right to imprison and torture any nations’ soldiers who have invaded or who may someday invade their country?  If US policy is any guide, they absolutely have that right.

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By the waiver, October 29, 2010 at 1:04 pm Link to this comment

The on again-off again relations is America—not Iran!  Americans have allowed the unthinkable to happen—the Iranians have the ability to have a NUKE_I beleive they already have one (or more).

The stupidty of America is rampant across that region!  Our soldiers are in harms way and our Govt doesn’t do a thing!

Our Govt bought up copies of a book (written by an retired officer about Afghanistan-Iraq)—the transcript was sent to the leaders of the armed forces—it was approved.

When the book was published—Obama and his team saw it—THEY BOUGHT UP ALL THE BOOKS-so Americans couldn’t read it!

These Wikileaks—released America could have applied more pressure everyday—every moment—but they didn’t! Remember after Obama took office- He wanted ALL THESE DOCS—PICTURES TO BE RELEASED—THE JOINT CHIEF OF STAFFS SAID NO—IT WOULD HURT OUR TROOPS—

God Help America!  Our troops have been so compromised they should be brought home NOW!

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