Tehran ready to talk with Washington

[denem]

Source: Sydney Morning Herald

Iranian parliament speaker Ari Larijani, in an interview released on Sunday, said Tehran is ready to talk with Washington "without pre-conditions" but is waiting for a "concrete" offer from the new US administration.

"The dispute over the nuclear issue is not an unsolvable problem if we stop being entrenched in our positions," Larijani told the daily Suddeutsche Zeitung.

"We are ready to talk without pre-conditions. But for that, we need a real starting point," the former nuclear negotiator said in the interview to be published on Monday.

"It the Americans are really willing to resolve the problems, then they must present their concept," he said

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/tehran-ready-to-talk-with-washington/2009/02/09/1234027894032.html

[underpants]

1. Oh no does this man Achmadenajad will stop playing the Hannity types for his own internal popularity

???

We'll see

[denem]

2. Achmadenajad is an ass IMO,

shooting his mouth off for a brief burst of unthinking applause. He is not, CiC, and serves at the Supreme Leader's pleasure. If the Speaker is expressing Iranian foreign policy, it is sanctioned by Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

[underpants]

3. I agree with that but he only is "popular" inside Iran when he gets attacked by our "media" types

he pops every once in a while with some cockamamee nonsense and no one pays much attention to it until the RW machine gets cranking on it and the Iranians, understandably, rally a bit around their guy.

[denem]

4. I'll bet he doesn't like the oil prices.

Some things never change.

[SpiralHawk]

5. Hannity types = Republicon Chickenhawks

Who live in fear, and breathe out spin.

[leveymg]

6. I have the feeling we're going to wait until after the Iranian elections to sit down publicly

Don't want to give any implicit credit or seal of approval to you-know-who.

[bemildred]

7. Yes, no free dog-and-pony show for Ahmadinejad.

Edit: he did such a fine job of blowing his own foot off at the Racism conference, you don't want to spoil the effect.