EU Tries To Bribe Iran

This one's dedicated to Iran Watch and American Crusader...May they surface soon!

The European Union tried to bribe Iran with a "bold package" of "incentives" if Iran will only follow IAEA recommedations that it suspend enrichment, and promise only to use uranium for energy production.

A document posted on the EU's Web site said the ministers were likely to express the bloc's "preparedness to support Iran's development of a safe, sustainable and proliferation-proof civilian nuclear program, if international concerns were fully addressed."

"We ... have nothing against Iran having nuclear capabilities, if it's strictly devoted to the production of energy, (and) we have said that we would even be ready to cooperate with that," Solana said. "What we think is not appropriate, not acceptable, is to take the other route which is not to produce energy, but to produce arms or weapons."

Of course, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad rejected the proposal out of hand, and why shouldn't he? It's just another show of European weakness.

"They want to offer us things they call incentives in return for renouncing our rights," Ahmadinejad said Sunday.

EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana was unfazed by the rejection. I suppose he's the kind of guy that just can't take a hint.

"We have said over and over again that we think a diplomatic solution is a good way, and we are going to continue on that line and ... we are going to prepare a very serious package that will make it difficult for them to say no," Solana said ahead of a meeting of EU foreign ministers.

"It will be a generous package, a bold package, that will contain issues related to nuclear, and atomic matters and maybe necessary security matters," he told reporters.

Um, Javier... I don't think he's interested in your cute little fruit-basket package.

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