Tuesday, July 15, 2008

US Official to Attend Meeting with Tehran's Top Arms Negotiator

Bush Administration Sends Under Secretary of State William Burns to Geneva for Meeting with Tehran's Top Arms Negotiator This Coming Saturday
Tuesday, July 15, 2008

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BBC News website brings us this bit of news this late Tuesday evening and it starts off like this... Under Secretary of State William Burns will travel to Switzerland with the EU foreign envoy Javier Solana to receive Iran's response to a UN offer... The US said Mr. Burns would not hold separate talks with Iranian negotiator Saeed Jalili, and was there to listen... A BBC Correspondent says this is a first under the Bush administration and represents a significant policy shift... Iran denies any nuclear weapons plans, but is defying UN Security Council demands to halt uranium enrichment...
Read the full article at link below...
US official to attend Iran talks

* The Wall Street Journal
reports it this way...

In a bid to jump-start talks to end Iran's nuclear program, the Bush administration is sending the State Department's No. 3 diplomat to Geneva to meet with Tehran's top arms negotiator Saturday, the closest contact between the two countries since the Iranian revolution of 1979... The White House's decision breaks sharply from Washington's long-held policy of refusing direct contacts with Tehran until it agrees to freeze its nuclear program. It is the latest backtracking from the unilateralist character of the first Bush term, and follows a recent deal with North Korea over its nuclear program...
Read the rest at link below...
U.S. Diplomat to Meet With Iran Negotiator
Official DoS file photo

I for one believe Iran is being given their last chance with this meeting and if nothing comes of it... well... let’s just say the 'End Game' has finally arrived.
Israel -- GREEN!
AubreyJ.........

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