The United Nations Security Council Resolution 1696 had urged Iran to halt all nuclear enrichment and reprocessing work by August 31. The IAEA had been asked to make an assessment of Iran's compliance to this resolution.
In Tehran, the deputy chief of Iran's nuclear agency, Mohammad Saeedi, said the IAEA report was "not negative."
In a public speech, Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said: "Iran will not back down an inch in the face of intimidation, aggression and will not accept being deprived of its rights."
(The Hindu)
A reasonable interpretation of Ahmandinejad's words might be Iran will only negotiate based on an appeasement strategy from the West.
I wonder how high President Kerry would have jumped?
Bottom line: Failure to adopt a hard line against Iran will only result in Iran achieving its aims. Appeasement such that Iran acquires the complete enrichment cycle virtually guarantees that Iran's nuclear weapons ambitions will be fulfilled. Dragging on negotiations interminably allows Iran to continue to surreptitiously tweak their program (with the help of certain UN Security Council Nations, by the way) and likewise achieve the goal Iran forsook by signing the NNP agreement.
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