Keep up with the news by installing RT’s extension for . Never miss a story with this clean and simple app that delivers the latest headlines to you.

 

Inertia on Iran: Russia ‘alarmed’ by lack of willingness to resolve nuclear issue

Published time: November 16, 2012 11:02
Edited time: November 16, 2012 15:02
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (R) listening to an expert during a tour of Tehran's research reactor centre on February 15, 2012 (AFP Photo / Iranian Presidency)

Moscow is alarmed by the general atmosphere of indifference that has greeted statements by Iranian officials that they are ready to restart negotiations on Iran's nuclear program.

Statements in support of another round of talks and further contacts has not led to any progress, lamented Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov.

Russia is advocating for the leaders from the 5+1 group of international mediators to find “windows of opportunity in their schedules,” announce them to each other and start the wheels of diplomacy moving.

Tehran has signaled its readiness to continue dialogue with the five permanent UN Security Council members plus Germany, but thus far the reception to the news has been cold.

"No such process can be seen,” Ryabkov noted. “Only general discussions continue. This is alarming.”

Earlier this week, Ryabkov met with Iranian Security Council Secretary Saeed Jalili in Tehran. Shortly after their meeting, the Iranians announced their willingness to meet with international mediators.

"The Islamic Republic of Iran hopes the 5+1 group will return to the negotiating table as soon as possible and…have a convincing justification for their four month delay in resuming the talks," Iranian channel Press TV quoted Jalili as saying.

He also expressed the hope that international mediators would recognize Iran’s right to the peaceful use of atomic energy. Some international powers, in particular the United States and Israel, believe that Iran is attempting to develop a nuclear weapons program under the guise of civilian nuclear energy.

Meanwhile, Israel has said in the past that “all options are on the table” for dealing with the question of Iran’s “nuclear ambitions.”

Ryabkov called for another full-format round of negotiations between the six powers and an Iranian delegation “as soon as possible.”

The last full-format round of talks took place in Moscow in June 2012.

Robert Bridge, RT

Comments (32)

Korz53 05.12.2012 07:24

Israeli Zionists  wants to expand national borders to the ancient Hebrew nation empire borders , that are on the Euphrates river. Can not get there with out a little genocide of some Moslems to make room. Russia needs not be so alarmed;   a little growth, that's all what it is. 

0

Undo

nOT war for oil again (unregistered) 19.11.2012 07:04

Look like war for Iran to keep USA in oil.

0

Undo

R.W. Emerson II 19.11.2012 06:16

One billion Muslims conquered by one million anti-Christ Zionists? It seems impossible! And yet, it is happening, right before our eyes.It's happening because Muslims insist on keeping themselves divided.It's easy to create a civil war. The black ops people dress up as Sunnis and blow up a Shiite mosque. The next day, they dress up as Shiites and blow up a Sunni mosque. Sunnis and Shiites then start killing each other. They are so eager to kill that they have no time to ask who really blew up the mosques. They would rather kill each other than kill the Zionists, because killing each other is easier. The Zionists suffer no penalty: Just the opposite, they sell the bullets and profit from the strife.Of course, we Americans are no better. We had no time to investigate 9/11 and identify the real perpetrators. Instead, we used 9/11 as a pretext for killing another million people in Iraq and countless people in Afghanistan. So Muslims and Christians are now eager to exterminate each other, while the Zionists laugh.This is possible because we scorn our great teachers and put our faith instead in death and destruction. The Almighty State has usurped the role of Christ. But instead of using love and justice to save the world, it uses bombs and missiles. We treat the government's every word as Holy Gospel. We are too lazy or demoralized to ask whether the world is really being "Saved" by death and destruction.So we have lost our humanity. We have become part of the Machine. The Zionized media tell us what to think and how to think it, and we comply. We have no independent existence, no thoughts, feelings, dreams of our own, no independent moral sensibility, no conscience, no concern for justice, no empathy for the victims of the Empire. Because we do not know what it means to be human, it is all too easy for the Zionists to get us to kill our fellow human beings.Discover the lost world: Choose to BE.

+1

Undo

View all comments (32)
Add comment

By posting your comment, you agree to abide by our Posting rules

Log in to comment in full, or comment anonymously under character-limit restriction.

100 Text

– required fields

Register or

Name

Password

Show password

Register

or Register

Request a new password

Send

or Register

To complete a registration check
your Email:

or Register

A password has been sent to your email address

Edit profile

Name

New password

Retype new password

Current password

Save

Cancel

Follow us