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- Clinton: We Don't Want the Iranians to Say "We'll Get Back to You" - Laura Rozen
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, in an interview with USA Today Tuesday, said the U.S. and its P5+1 partners have reached a united position on what to seek from Iran in a near-term confidence building measure, and have relayed the outlines of the proposed deal to Iran ahead of new nuclear talks in Baghdad next week.
"There is a unified position by the P-5+1 going into Baghdad which sets forth what we would expect to see Iran do on what kind of timetable to reassure the international community that it is not and will not seek nuclear weapons," Clinton said.
"So once the unified position was agreed to, there has been outreach by the P-5+1 to the Iranians to say, 'Here is an idea of what we're expecting, that we want to see as the core of any negotiations, so we want you to come prepared,'" Clinton stressed, adding: "Because we don't want to just have a meeting where we present and they say, 'We'll get back to you,' because time is of the essence." (Al-Monitor.)
- Plans to Strike Iran "Ready," Says U.S. Israel Envoy
U.S. plans for a possible military strike on Iran are ready and the option is "fully available," U.S. ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro told Israel's Army Radio on Tuesday.
Like Israel, the United States has said it considers military force a last resort to prevent Iran using its uranium enrichment to make a bomb.
"It would be preferable to resolve this diplomatically and through the use of pressure rather than to use military force," Shapiro said.
"But that doesn't mean that option is not fully available - not just available, but it's ready. The necessary planning has been done to ensure that it's ready." (Reuters)
- OPEC Sees Sanctions Taking Toll on Iran Oil Production - Thomas Erdbrink
Oil production, the backbone of Iran's economy, fell by 12% in the first three months of 2012 and is likely to fall even more, industry experts say, as sanctions make it increasingly hard for the country to find markets for its crude. The decline, documented in a May report by OPEC, is sharply at odds with statistics provided by Iran's Oil Ministry that register no significant change in output.
Once its storage capacity is exhausted, Iran will be forced to shut down some of its production, a potentially disastrous step that it is trying to avoid, analysts say.
"Closing off valves sounds easy," but the consequences can be extremely damaging, said Reza Zandi, an oil specialist writing for Shargh, a newspaper that is critical of the government. "Technically it wrecks the oil wells, and we will never be able to bring their output back to previous levels." (New York Times)
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