Iran offers fresh hope of nuclear programme deal - Times Online - The Diigo Meta page

• 06 Jul 08
  

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  • In a remarkably conciliatory new tone from Tehran, influential hardliners welcomed a recent package of incentives offered by six major world powers.
  • Mr Velayati, referring to the US, said: “Those who are agitating against our interests want that we reject the [international] offer. As a consequence, it’s in our interests to accept it.”
  • ohn Bolton, the US’s former UN ambassador, has suggested that Israel could attack Iran between the US elections on November 4 and January.
  • President Bush said diplomacy was his first option to address the stand-off but repeated that “all options” - code for military action was still on the table.
  • “I believe... Iran will not attempt to close the Strait of Hormuz and we will not allow them to close the Strait of Hormuz. I can’t say it any more clearly than that,” Vice Admiral Kevin Cosgriff, the commander of the US Navy’s Fifth Fleet, said today.

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