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EU3 pushing incentives plan for Iran
U.S. still favors sanctions if Tehran continues nuclear project

Wednesday, May 10, 2006 Posted: 0405 GMT (1205 HKT)

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Manage Alerts | What Is This? NEW YORK (CNN) -- Britain, France and Germany are cobbling together a United Nations incentives package to induce Iran to halt its nuclear program, a European diplomat said Tuesday.

Washington, meanwhile, is working to amass a coalition of willing states to impose sanctions against Iran if U.N. diplomacy fails.

The five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council -- the United States, Russia, China, France and Britain -- have agreed to the idea of a "package that sets out for Iran a choice of benefits as well as sanctions," said the official, speaking on condition of anonymity.

Nothing concrete has been proposed, but ideas include incentives for Iran's civil nuclear program and energy security for the country.

Political directors from the EU3 -- Britain, France and Germany -- will work on the proposals, and the countries' foreign ministers will discuss them in Brussels, Belgium, on Monday.

The ideas then will be circulated among the foreign ministers from the permanent five members of the Security Council.

Iran argues it is legally entitled under the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty to produce enriched uranium for nuclear power plants. But the United States and other nations suspect Iran is working toward producing nuclear weapons.

The International Atomic Energy Agency has urged Iran to extend greater cooperation to U.N. inspectors to resolve questions about its intentions.

Both the EU3 and Russia have previously offered separate proposals to entice Iran into cooperating. The new approach would ostensibly bring together the EU3, Russia and China on a package for Iran.

U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Thursday the nations will continue to work on a U.N. resolution to compel Iran to cooperate.

"The U.S. has long supported an effort by the Russians, by the EU, to make available to the Iranian regime if they choose to do so, a way to fulfill aspirations for a civil nuclear program, and that is what's being discussed," she said.

She further said that Iran is not getting incentives and said that Iran should be reminded there is a "price to be paid for continuing to defy the international community."

U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton said the United States would be in "consultation" on the incentives proposals but called it "principally a European effort."

All offers would depend on Iran's agreement to suspend the enrichment of uranium and cooperate with the IAEA, which has not been able to rule out Iranian pursuit of a nuclear weapons program.

"The intention behind all of this is to make absolutely clear to Iran the real benefits to be gained if Iran makes the right choice, and the international community is not just insisting that Iran should knuckle under," said the European diplomat.

France's foreign minister, Philippe Douste Blazy, said incentives might come as an "ambitious package" potentially "in the field of civil nuclear energy."

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said he didn't like the carrot-and-stick approach back by Washington because, "I prefer to speak of reasonable proposals that would show a positive alternative, and certainly we have discussed this for quite some time."

Meanwhile, ambassadors at the United Nations will continue to work toward a resolution on Iran, which is no longer expected this week. Bolton said that while proposals were being discussed among Europeans, "We're going to ... continue to press ahead on the resolution."

The United States, France and Britain have not been able to get support from China and Russia for a proposed draft resolution that would demand Iran suspend its uranium enrichment and cooperate with the International Atomic Energy Agency.

The proposed resolution would make compliance mandatory under Chapter 7 of the U.N. Charter. However, Russia and China are concerned that would open a path to eventual sanctions or even military action.

Bolton, acknowledging the lack of progress on the resolution Tuesday, told reporters unity is "a desirable objective" and the "state of play on discussions had not reached that point."

Iran has refused to comply with a presidential statement from the U.N. Security Council that called on it to stop enriching uranium, which can be used as fuel in civilian nuclear plants or, in much higher concentrations, to produce nuclear weapons.

Letter to Bush
The ministers also discussed a letter sent to President Bush by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, which was dismissed by both the White House and the State Department for failing to address the nuclear issue. (Full story)

In it, Ahmadinejad went beyond nuclear issues, choosing instead to level accusations of coups and manipulation against the United States and its media -- and asking how such actions jibe with the teachings of Christianity. (Read a translation of the letter)

He also questions the legitimacy of what he calls the "phenomenon of Israel" and doubts whether 6 million Jews were killed during World War II.

"Again, let us assume that these events are true. Does that logically translate into the establishment of the state of Israel in the Middle East or support for such a state? How can this phenomenon be rationalized or explained?" Ahmadinejad wrote in the letter.

Ahmadinejad addressed the nuclear issue only briefly, repeating his stance that the Islamic republic's nuclear intentions are solely peaceful.

"Why is it that any technological and scientific achievement reached in the Middle East regions is translated into and portrayed as a threat to the Zionist regime? Is not scientific R&D one of the basic rights of nations?" Ahmadinejad wrote.

He continued: "You are familiar with history. Aside from the Middle Ages, in what other point in history has scientific and technological progress been a crime?"

Ahmadinejad closes by saying that there might not be "an ever-increasing global hatred of the American governments" if the U.S. diverted its military spending to peace and social programs around the world.

Responding to the letter, White House spokesman Scott McClellan said, "There are a number of concerns that the international community has with the regime, and the letter doesn't appear to do anything to address those concerns."

A senior State Department official called the 17-page letter a "long philosophical discourse of the view of the world from Tehran" that was "heavily religious" in tone.

Iranian officials, however, said Ahmadinejad's letter proposed "new ways" to end the nuclear dispute.

During a Monday visit to Turkey, Iran's chief negotiator, Ali Larijani, said it was a "very important" letter addressing world and regional concerns, "and if looked at carefully, it will lead to a change in the behavior of powers that cause trouble in the region."

It's believed to be the first correspondence between the presidents of Iran and the United States since 1980, when Washington broke off ties with Tehran over the seizure of American hostages in the U.S. Embassy after the overthrow of the U.S.-backed shah, which also is addressed in the letter.

The letter was sent to Bush through the Swiss Embassy in Tehran.

http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/me...ock/index.html

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