Iranians Float an Offer the West Should Not Refuse

I just sent the following. Please edit it and send on to your Reps. Bruce

The original story is linked on the bottom, a good read.

My Honorable Representative and Senators in Congress.

I expect you have this information, however I wanted to endorse it and offer it to you.

The present War-Ring administration may not embrace this offer which would be a horrible mistake. The article also points out that Iran has no missile capability to reach targets of President [sic] Bush's illusion of danger. Missile Defense Fraud Exposed These very important specifications from the Iranian side, came in the context of a broader strategic discussion on the U.S. plans for deploying radar and missile defense systems in the Czech Republic and Poland, allegedly to defend Europe and the U.S. from a supposed Iranian nuclear missile attack. The panels devoted to this issue examined it from the technical and political point of view, and were not only useful, but, in part, also somewhat amusing.

What emerged from presentations by technical experts, like Dr. Juergen Altmann of Dortmund University, was that Iran does not possess missiles with the range required to reach the Czech Republic or Poland, 3300 km away, not to mention the U.S. at a distance of 10,000-13,000 km. Its Shahab-3 missiles have a range of 1,300 km. But, for the sake of argument, Altmann said, if Iran were to have missiles with such a range, then any missiles directed to the American midwest would have to travel over Belarus or Russia, with obvious implications. Furthermore, Iran does not at present possess nuclear weapons. This point was confirmed by a leftwing German member of Parliament, Paul Schaefer, who reported that "nothing presented to us" in the Parliament "by German intelligence or military shows that Iran is going for nuclear weapons, against the U.S. or Europe."

The President [sic] has thus been spending vast amounts of money on a non-existent threat, just as he went to war based on lies. I offer the URL for the entire article and ask you to consider it and than take whatever action necessary to stop the War-Ring, expenditures on War-Ring illusions and bring a peaceful settlement to this matter. I ask that immediate Diplomatic talks begin with Iran. I also ask that a bill be sent to the pResident notifying him that he is not authorized nor allowed to bomb Iran indiscriminately.

Iranians Float an Offer the West Should Not Refuse
Will Anti-War Forces Seize this Opportunity?
By Muriel Mirak-Weissbach
02/07/08 "GlobalResearch" -- 29/06/08 " -- - If there were any substance to Condi Rice's repeated assertions, that the strife over Iran's nuclear program could, and preferably should, be solved through diplomatic means, then one would expect the U.S. Secretary of State to seize on recent offers made by Iranian figures, designed to facilitate the start of talks. Although widely ignored in the international press, highly significant statements were made at an international conference in Berlin June 24-25, by two authoritative Iranian spokesmen, one an academic, the other a political leader and brother of the new Majlis (Parliament) speaker Ali Larijani. Both said explicitly that Tehran would be willing to freeze its uranium enrichment, and to provide for concrete mechanisms to guarantee that its enrichment program would not, and could not, be geared to weapons production.

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