Iran Ready to Talk About Nuclear Program

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**WarOne**

Iran Prez Sez Will Talk, but Nukes Won't Walk

Heh...trying to make that sound like a newspaper title.

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadline/post/2012/01/irans-president-says-tehran-ready-for-nuke-talks-with-west/1

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says Iran is ready for new nuclear talks with the West, the Associated Press reports.

The Iranian president's comments come as the United States and Europe have begun tightening sanctions against Iran in an attempt to convince it to halt uranium enrichment, which they worry could lead to weapons-grade material..

But Ahmadinejad, speaking in Kerman, in southeastern Iran on Thursday, says sanctions won't force Iran to give in to western demands, the AP reports.

Iran insists that it only seeks reactor for energy and research.

Ahmadinejad's remarks follow other indications that Tehran is ready to a new round of talks with the five permanent Security Coucil members plus Germany. The last round of talks was held in Turkey last January, but the negotiations ended with no resolution.

A senior U.N. nuclear agency team is expected to visit Tehran on Saturday, the AP says.

Meanwhile, the Iranian president pointed out that the sanctions from the West will probably have little impact:

http://www.jpost.com/IranianThreat/News/Article.aspx?id=255250

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Thursday that his country's economy would not be damaged by newly imposed Western sanctions, AFP reported. “At one point our trade with Europe was around 90 percent but now it is only approximately 10%, and even this 10% we don't need... History has shown that the Iranian nation can not be hurt [by Western sanctions],” Ahmadinejad said.

But be not concerned yet for it is believed that Iran won't have a bomb....yet.

http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/middle-east/120126/iran-nuclear-weapon-unlikely-2012-isis-report

Iran is not likely to develop a nuclear weapon in 2012, a draft report by the Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS) says.

Iran does not yet have the capacity to produce enough weapons-grade uranium, according to ISIS, which advises Washington and other governments about Iran's nuclear capabilities

**Mr. Burning**

This is just copied from a report about Iraq from 2002.

WarOne wrote:

Iraq is not likely to develop a nuclear weapon in 2002, a draft report by the Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS) says.

Iraq does not have any Yellowcake Uranium the capacity to produce enough weapons-grade uranium, or any nuclear, biological or chemical weapons nor does it support Al-Queada according to ISIS, which advises Washington and other governments about Iraq's nuclear capabilities

**Kilkrazy**

The Iranian economy is already being impacted by the sanctions and threat of sanctions. The riyal has plummetted in value on Iranian money markets.

However the sanctions are being imposed because the last 10 years of talks on the matter are thought by western diplomats to have been a massive delaying exercise, and they have lost faith.