On Wednesday, Tehran submitted to Germany and the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council a proposal to restart talks with the international community. "We hope that we can organize a new round of negotiations within the framework of the new package," Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said earlier this week.
If there is one thing Iran wants to do, it is to talk. While the international community talked to Tehran about its nuclear program--or at least tried to--Iranian technicians made substantial progress in enriching uranium. Hassan Rowhani, Iran's chief nuclear negotiator from 2003 to 2005, admitted in a series of interviews that he had entered into discussions with the European Union--then leading the West's negotiations with Tehran--for the purpose of buying time so that his country could develop its nuclear technology and present "a fait accompli" that "would change the entire equation."
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