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From Reuters
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States is seeking to negotiate a treaty with Iran that will cover both its ballistic missile and nuclear programs, the U.S. special envoy for Iran said on Wednesday ahead of U.N. meetings in New York next week.
“The new deal that we hope to be able to sign with Iran, and it will not be a personal agreement between two governments like the last one, we seek a treaty,” envoy Brian Hook told an audience at the Hudson Institute think tank.
But Hook said Iranian leaders have not been interested in talking despite statements by President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo this year that the administration was willing to meet.
COMMENT:-
It's pretty difficult to negotiate a treaty with people who don't trust you, have a justifiable belief that you want to kill them regardless of what they do, know that what you want them to do is totally unacceptable to any independent and sovereign state, and just plain old won't talk to you - isn't it?
On the other hand, if Mr. Trump were to approach the Iranians with ironclad guarantees that NO nation in the Middle East would possess nuclear weapons and/or the means of delivering any nuclear weapons that they did have outside of the borders of their own country, MAYBE the Iranians MIGHT be prepared to make a new deal PROVIDED that that new deal was accompanied by an international arms inspection program involving ALL of the nations in the Middle East that had no more restrictions on when and where the inspections took place than the ones that Mr. Trump wants the Iranians to agree to.
Of course the odds on getting ALL of the nations in the Middle East to agree to that treaty range between "Nada" and "ZIP" since the Israelis would never sign on to it.
U.S. seeking to negotiate a treaty with Iran: special envoy
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States is seeking to negotiate a treaty with Iran that will cover both its ballistic missile and nuclear programs, the U.S. special envoy for Iran said on Wednesday ahead of U.N. meetings in New York next week.
“The new deal that we hope to be able to sign with Iran, and it will not be a personal agreement between two governments like the last one, we seek a treaty,” envoy Brian Hook told an audience at the Hudson Institute think tank.
But Hook said Iranian leaders have not been interested in talking despite statements by President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo this year that the administration was willing to meet.
COMMENT:-
It's pretty difficult to negotiate a treaty with people who don't trust you, have a justifiable belief that you want to kill them regardless of what they do, know that what you want them to do is totally unacceptable to any independent and sovereign state, and just plain old won't talk to you - isn't it?
On the other hand, if Mr. Trump were to approach the Iranians with ironclad guarantees that NO nation in the Middle East would possess nuclear weapons and/or the means of delivering any nuclear weapons that they did have outside of the borders of their own country, MAYBE the Iranians MIGHT be prepared to make a new deal PROVIDED that that new deal was accompanied by an international arms inspection program involving ALL of the nations in the Middle East that had no more restrictions on when and where the inspections took place than the ones that Mr. Trump wants the Iranians to agree to.
Of course the odds on getting ALL of the nations in the Middle East to agree to that treaty range between "Nada" and "ZIP" since the Israelis would never sign on to it.