Tuesday, May 16, 2006

The Euro Plan to Stop Enrichment

Because it worked so well with North Korea:

Key European nations are considering offering Iran a light-water nuclear reactor as part of incentives meant to persuade Tehran to give up its uranium enrichment program, a senior diplomat said Tuesday.

Seriously, people, how far away are we from Europe just offering Iran a nuclear warhead to halt Uranium enrichment and calling that a victory?

Old Europe: refining our understanding of "supine" every day.

UPDATE:

Iran rejects the kind offer and mocks Europe in response:

In a nationally televised speech before thousands of people in central Iran, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad cast scorn on the proposal.

"Do you think you are dealing with a 4-year-old child to whom you can give some walnuts and chocolates and get gold from him?" he said.

Members of the crowd shouted back: "We love you, Ahmadinejad!"

Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi mocked Europe's offer by saying Iran was willing to give its own incentives in return for recognition of Tehran's right to enrich uranium and produce nuclear fuel.



The Euro offer of an actual nuclear weapon (But a relatively low yield one, the French will say. "No more than 50 kilotons! That is our final offer!") can't be far away now.