Iran Proposal to U.S. Offered Peace with Israel

I'm not familiar with Inter Press Service (IPS), which is an international news service, but Professor Juan Cole links to it.

http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=33350

WASHINGTON, May 24 (IPS) - Iran offered in 2003 to accept peace with Israel and cut off material assistance to Palestinian armed groups and to pressure them to halt terrorist attacks within Israel's 1967 borders, according to the secret Iranian proposal to the United States.

The two-page proposal for a broad Iran-U.S. agreement covering all the issues separating the two countries, a copy of which was obtained by IPS, was conveyed to the United States in late April or early May 2003. Trita Parsi, a specialist on Iranian foreign policy at Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies who provided the document to IPS, says he got it from an Iranian official earlier this year but is not at liberty to reveal the source.

The two-page document contradicts the official line of the George W. Bush administration that Iran is committed to the destruction of Israel and the sponsorship of terrorism in the region.

Parsi says the document is a summary of an even more detailed Iranian negotiating proposal which he learned about in 2003 from the U.S. intermediary who carried it to the State Department on behalf of the Swiss Embassy in late April or early May 2003. The intermediary has not yet agreed to be identified, according to Parsi.

That is bush thinking. AIPAC certainly does not care about a diplomatic solution either.


http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0412-06.htm

to go ahead with the plan to control the Mideast through invasion.

... lower income blood (not hi$ own, or hi$ "have more" ba$e's own) to rob another sovereign country's natural resource (BigOil'$).

Who's gonna throw the$e Enron-style mob$ter$ in jail? :shrug:

our fiscal budget.

How else will the FUCKWADS FROM HELL make any money? I mean, they've struck special deals with God and Jesus, themselves, to be able to take all of their material possessions and money with them when they die.

Why do you think they want the Estate Tax eliminated? Then they can take even MORE!

even the attempts by the threatened country to try to negotiate and on the terms that apparently everybody wants.

NOTHING is going to get in the way of BushCo.'s WAR.

If this indeed is true, it proves that even under different Iranian leadership, the administration would not be behaving too differently. Ahmedenijad isn't completely stable, but it's clear he's being used as an excuse to not working toward better relations.

This administration really has no intention of peace. And they have been beating the war drums.

We MUST keep people fighting or we can't sell our arms. It's all we have.

Just like Poppy. He must have his war.

a second source or a release of the document would improve my trust in this account.

This is an advocacy site. Not that advocacy means news in wrong.