Iran to Offer U.S. Share in Nuclear Program -Paper

LONDON (Reuters) - Iran is prepared to offer the United States a half share in any future nuclear program to demonstrate it is not pursuing atomic weapons, a senior Iranian official was quoted on Wednesday as saying.

The Financial Times said it was unclear how far the remarks of Hossein Kazempour, Iranian governor to the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and an energy adviser to the government, represented the policy of Tehran.

"I am telling you that the Americans can come and have 50-50 (of an Iranian nuclear program)," Kazempour was quoted as saying by the newspaper.

"This offer is on the table. But they have their suspicions. This could be removed by their presence (in the program)."

http://reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=7912711

Iran offers US share in nuclear programme

Iran is prepared to offer the US a half share in any future nuclear programme to demonstrate that it means to use nuclear energy for peaceful aims and not for military purposes, an Iranian official said yesterday.

Hossein Kazempour, a government energy policy adviser and the country's governor to the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries, said it needed to pursue nuclear energy to feed domestic growth while continuing oil and gas exports.

http://news.ft.com/cms/s/f1d7c944-95c1-11d9-bc72-00000e2511c8.html

This is a no win for the USA. If the US takes the deal it proves the Bushies are lying hypocrites. If they don't take the deal it proves Bush and his minions are nothing but war mongering assholes. Heh, heh.

Don

I predict this idea is going to be "absurd" and "ridiculous".

"We haven't heard anything about that"

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Time to invade Venezuela!!!

Can't have Hugo runnin' around the world showin' people how to make a fool of El pRetzledente!!

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or chess. The US could end up "cornered" with that move as to Bush's intentions.

Brilliant. No matter what Bush does, he loses.

This will be fascinating.

I can't wait to see how the warmonger in the WH plays this off.

Seems to me they will all be relieved in the White House and Pentagon that they don't have to plan another invasion they already know they can't mount. I'm expecting BushCo to jump on the offer and spin the media around to the, "See, we told ya kickin' some ass would get results. It's the power and muscle of the U.S. that has changed all things in the mid-east."

If I'm not mistaken, we have no diplomatic ties with Iran. To be a partner in any nuclear program in that nation would entail, I'm sure, re-establishment of diplomatic relations and a free flow of nuclear scientists between our two countries. Essentially, Iran has offered to re-open diplomatic relations with the U.S. A fact not seen since their 80's revolution.

Understand, I'm not a Bush fan, but if the offer from Iran is true, then Bush is gonna walk away wiping some crow off his chin, sure, but with a whole new open relationship with one "axis of evil". And, of course, this will be played as another justifiction for the invasion of Iraq.

I think it still remains to be seen who is playing whom.

Just so no one gets the wrong idea about where my sympathies lie, I still don't forgive Bush and his entire administration for exposing the myth that the U.S. is and always has been prepared to fight a global war on two fronts.

BushCo has exposed in a petty little war that needn't have been undertaken, not only the weakness and ineptitued of our intelligence service, but also the inability of our manufacturing base to ramp up in reponse to combat need (i.e. 150,00 troops needing body armour and armour plated humvees). The Chinese, Russian and North Korean military commanders are surely taking notes that even 150,000 fielded troops are a problem of major proportion for the muscle man on the beach.

Thanks, George. Does the old adage, "throwing the baby out with bathwater" have a ring to it?

It appears to some of us that they are determined to go to war no matter what, and that just as with Iraq, if one accusation doesn't work they'll shamelessly try another. Right now, they think they've got one the people will buy - nukes in the hands of crazies. (how ironic)

But looking at it from your perspective, yes, of course, it's a wonderful opportunity to avoid war and build a valuable and lasting replationship between two important countries. If only the crazies in the administration were as reasonable and clear-headed as you.

and too far down the propaganda trail with Iran as boogey-man.

I don't think this will get any acknowledgement at all.

now the balls in the monkeys corner. He could do the right thing and say "yes" but I'm sure he'll find some way to screw this opportunity up.