From: Ad 

http://www.kommersant.com/p762175/Iran/

"U.S. Suddenly Wants Talks with Iran

Turkey hosted on Wednesday the negotiations between EU High Representative
for the Common Foreign and Security Policy Javier Solana and Iran’s
National Security Council Secretary Ali Larijani. At the same time, U.S.
President George Bush said that next month the U.S. might enter direct
talks with Tehran, for the first time in many years. U.S. Secretary of
State Condoleezza Rice plans to meet with Iran’s Foreign Minister
Manouchehr Mottaki at an international conference in Egypt. However, all
these negotiations might be a tactic move: Washington is simply trying to
prove that any dialogue with Tehran is meaningless.

Secret Relations

Leakages from diplomatic sources, that Washington has entered intensive
secret talks with Tehran, have become frequent in U.S. mass media recently.
For instance, Houston Chronicle reported that Switzerland acts as the
go-between in the secret contacts. That country has represented U.S.
interests in Iran since 1979, due to the absence of U.S. embassy there.
Reportedly, the dialogue concerns a wide range of issues: first of all, the
fate of U.S. citizens listed as missing in Iraq, the Iranian citizens
detained by U.S. servicemen during the raid in Iraq’s Erbil several months
ago, and the long-term economic and financial disputes. “There is
absolutely no doubt that now we are ready to hold dialogue, -- much more
ready than several years ago,” a source in the U.S. Department of State
said to Houston Chronicle reporter."

Somewhat dodgy english in the rest of the article.

My guess is that for all the counter-PR the west has been feeding the media
wrt "years away from any nuclear device...many huge technical hurdles
to overcome" etc.etc. that actually Iran's big mountain of uranium has
started to be mined in earnest.

Nowt like fission & fusion to help focus the mind.

Adam

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