AFP - President Barack Obama has told Iran the United States would accept Tehran having a civilian nuclear program if the Islamic state can prove it is not seeking atomic weapons, the Washington Post said Friday.
Obama sent such a message to Tehran via Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who delivered it to Iran's Supreme leader Ali Khamenei last week, said the newspaper's foreign affairs columnist David Ignatius.
"President Obama has signaled Iran that the United States would accept an Iranian civilian nuclear program if Supreme leader Ali Khamenei can back up his recent public claim that his nation 'will never pursue nuclear weapons'," said Ignatius.
Sounds like a good news story for the administration to dump on an Easter weekend! If only that poor energy starved country (sarc) can prove a negative, the use to which Iran won't put their nuclear capabilities, (and pay no attention to all those centrifuges), then it's all okey dokey with Obama if Iran continues with its "civilian" nuclear program. In a related story, Obama is not sure what the civilians who rule Iran would do with a nuclear device if they had one...
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