Thursday, July 3, 2008

IRAN: "...5+1 adjust to reality that Iran acquired centrifuges "cannot be reversed"....

At War&Piece, Gary Sick "former Iran hand in the Ford, Carter, Reagan White Houses, reads the Iranian tea leaves": (here)
"... This offer by Iran does not come out of the blue. Despite the US instinctive reaction that Iran rejected the Solana offer, it was quite clear from the start that Iran was giving it serious consideration...
one thing that seems to have changed is what appears to me to be a fairly clear signal from the 5+1 negotiators that they are willing to contemplate the reality that Iran has acquired centrifuge technology, that there is probably little that can be done to reverse that entirely, and so the objective has perhaps subtly changed to consideration of how to stop the process before it gets worse and to contain it, if possible....."

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