As Teach mentioned yesterday, the EU was thinking of offering Iran a light water reactor. Apparently, Iran doesn’t think much of the idea:
Iranian President Mahmoud “Sneezy” Ahmadinejad on Wednesday ruled out any idea of halting nuclear fuel work in return for EU incentives, saying the Europeans were offering “candy for gold.”
Britain, France and Germany, the European Union‘s three biggest powers, plan to offer Iran a light-water reactor as part of a package to induce Tehran to freeze a uranium enrichment program that the West suspects has military dimensions.
“They say we want to give Iranians incentives but they think they are dealing with a four-year-old, telling him they will give him candies or walnuts and take gold from him in return,” Ahmadinejad told a crowd in the central city of Arak.
Well, the idea was more of a “throw it at the wall and see if it sticks” idea anyhow. But it just shows that the negotiators just do not get that Iran is not going to give up its enrichment program and rush for the ability to make its own nuclear weapons easily, or, more likely, not at all by diplomacy. Sneezy wants war. And, if he keeps it up, he may get it.
