No Resolution in Sight to Iranian Nuclear Stalemate

Trita Parsi, National Council of Iranian Americans | May 13, 2008

Amid escalating rhetoric about Iranian military involvement in Iraq, a new package of incentives by the five permanent members of the UN Security Council and Germany is unlikely to persuade Iran to suspend nuclear enrichment. ++ As long as open-ended suspension remains the prerequisite for the continuation of talks, Iran will continue its defiance. ++ “The insistence on this precondition has come at the expense of other non-proliferation strategies, and Iran has utilized the absence of talks to expand its capabilities.”