Iran Nuke News

by The Editors

July 11th, 2006

Let it not be said that this month’s issue is untimely!

Iran’s top negotiator on nuclear matters, Ali Larijani, and Javier Solana, the EU foreign policy chief, were in negotations today in Brussels. As the New York Times reports, there is “no indication that any progress was made. . . .”

Bloomberg News reports that “the Iranian Students News Agency ISNA quoted Ahmadinejad as telling supporters in East Azerbaijan province”:

In the face of the venomous campaign of malicious people, we’ll not step back one iota. The Iranian people are standing tall on their way to access their full rights and complete use of the nuclear fuel cycle.

A data point for the conversation.

Tune in tomorrow morning for Ted Galen Carpenter’s reply to Gerecht in the first of this month’s reaction essays.