Rice Receptive to New Nuclear Program Offer
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice left the door open for consideration of what may be a new overture from Iran to bargain with the West over the Iranians’ disputed nuclear program.
Still, she predicted United Nations sanctions would follow “if this does not work out.”
Iran has told European diplomats it may be willing to shelve its uranium enrichment program temporarily, perhaps for two months, during negotiations with the United States and other world powers over the future and scope of a nuclear program that Iran insists is peaceful.
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