Rice: Iran Letter Doesn't Resolve Standoff

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NEW YORK - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice dismissed a letter that Iran's president sent to President Bush on Monday, saying the first direct communication from an Iranian leader in 27 years does not help resolve the standoff over Tehran's disputed nuclear program.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060509/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iran_us_23


TALKING TO IRAN....What should we do about Iran? I have a suggestion, but first I need to relate a story that's gotten suprisingly little attention from the press. Perhaps they're too bored to pick up on it.
It started on May 6, 2003, shortly after George Bush declared "Mission Accomplished" in Iraq. On that day the Associated Press reported without elaboration that Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman had confirmed that "Iran has exchanged messages with U.S. officials about Iraq through the Swiss Embassy, which represents U.S. interests in Tehran. He declined to give details."
What was that all about? Last January, Flynt Leverett, who worked for Condoleezza Rice on the National Security Council,
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In the spring of 2003, shortly before I left government, the Iranian Foreign Ministry sent Washington a detailed proposal for comprehensive negotiations to resolve bilateral differences. The document acknowledged that Iran would have to address concerns about its weapons programs and support for anti-Israeli terrorist organizations. It was presented as having support from all major players in Iran's power structure, including the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. A conversation I had shortly after leaving the government with a senior conservative Iranian official strongly suggested that this was the case. Unfortunately, the administration's response was to complain that the Swiss diplomats who passed the document from Tehran to Washington were out of line.

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2006_04/008657.php
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It's ashame that everyone in our government has alzheimers disease..Or the slang verion Liars..
Back in 2003 Iran did make efforts to resolve this dispute with us not 27 years ago...We need a new party here...NO reps or dems in office anymore...They make the american people look like fools anymore..

[Lanse couche couche]

One was back channel communication and one was an official direct communication. I'm not picking up on where the lying occurred, but then again, my coffee hasn't kicked in yet.