Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (C) kisses the Koran, during the inauguration of the country's first nuclear fuel manufacturing plant (FMP), located near the central Iranian city of Isfahan, 09 April 2009. ABEDIN TAHERKENAREH / EPA / CorbisA Nuclear Deadline Looms For Iran — And For Obama -- Time Magazine
President Barack Obama took office promising to pursue a diplomatic solution to the standoff over Iran's nuclear program, but so far, he's gotten little out of Tehran. So little, in fact, that the President has given Iran a Sept. 15 deadline to respond positively to his offer of negotiations, or face a heightening of sanctions. As U.S. officials huddled with European, Russian and Chinese counterparts in Germany on Wednesday to review the issue, Iran signaled that it will, indeed, respond — by offering its own package of proposals to achieve a diplomatic resolution to the standoff. Western leaders at the meeting in Germany urged Iran to agree to a meeting with Russia, China, the key European nations and the U.S. before Sept. 23. But nobody is expecting Iran's proposals to come close to meeting current Western demands, and that could leave Obama facing the unenviable choice either of being painted as feckless, or else moving down a road of escalation that puts a diplomatic solution further beyond reach.
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More News On Iran's Nuclear Program
World powers tell Iran to answer fast on nuclear talks -- Christian Science Monitor
Iran Won’t Bow to Deadline Demand for Nuclear Talks -- Bloomberg
6 nations meet on Iran's nuclear program -- Yahoo News/AP
Iran dismisses sanctions talk, to present proposals -- Reuters
US wants results from Obama nuclear meeting at UN -- AP
Gold warns West against giving Iran time -- Jerusalem Post
Teheran’s Nuclear Choice -- Khaleej Times Editorial
Iran’s Flip-Flopper Supreme -- Roger Cohen, New York Times
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