![]() ![]() QUESTION: It ties very well into the next question that I’m going to ask you. We’ve done so with Libya, a country with which we had terrible relations at one point, and now we have improving relations. We believe in finding a way to cooperate. The American Government represents a great people, the American people, and Americans have no permanent enemies. That is what this is about.Īnd so, Iran knows the many opportunities that are before it for better relations with the United States. We have said we want to change the regime’s behavior. ![]() I know that from time to time the Iranians say, well, the United States is talking about changing the regime, regime change. Iran only needs to suspend its enrichment and reprocessing. I have said many times that I am willing to meet my counterpart anytime, anyplace, anywhere, to talk about anything. SECRETARY RICE: The United States has made very clear that we are prepared to deal with the Iranian regime if it is prepared to change its policies. or CIA operatives are already in Iran or in neighboring countries working to incite ethnic unrest. and they are quoted by Iranian media that Washington is spending $400 million for covert operations in Iran. QUESTION: There are press reports in the U.S. But it can have civil nuclear power.Īnd so when the Iranian regime tells its people that the West is trying to prevent Iran from having very sophisticated technology, it could not be further from the truth. It’s just that when you enrich and reprocess, you are perfecting the technologies that can lead to a nuclear weapon and because of the Iranian regime’s history of lying to the IAEA, the International Atomic Energy Agency, it can’t be trusted with enrichment and reprocessing. We have offered, in the proposal that the P-5+1 have made, to help Iran with civil nuclear technology at the highest possible levels. The United States has been supportive of what Russia is doing there. Russia has a reactor, the Bushehr reactor. SECRETARY RICE: Well, the reason that it’s important for Iran to suspend its enrichment and reprocessing, to come to the table once it has suspended, is that we shouldn’t be in a position of talking while Iran continues to improve the very technologies that could lead to a nuclear weapon.īut if Iran wants a peaceful program, it can have a peaceful program. Is it a precondition for United States for bilateral talks and for lifting of the sanctions for Iran to end its enrichment program, and could you perhaps envision future talks without preconditions? QUESTION: Madame Secretary, Iran insists that its nuclear program is peaceful and, defying UN resolutions, continues with the enrichment of uranium. And so there is a diplomatic way to do this, and that’s why the United States, as a part of the group that is Germany, France, Great Britain, Russia, and China, has made a proposal to the Iranian Government that we hope they will accept. There’s no reason that this great civilization with a great history and a great culture should be isolated from international politics. We want very much for the Iranian people to be able to have good relations with the United States. ![]() SECRETARY RICE: Oh, we believe very strongly and President Bush has made very clear that this problem with Iran about its nuclear technology can be resolved diplomatically. or Israeli attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities? Let me start with a question that’s on the mind of many Iranians these days. QUESTION: Madame Secretary, thank you so much for this interview with Radio Farda. Interview With Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty's Radio Farda Correspondents Golnaz Esfandiari and Mosaddegh Katouzian Secretary Condoleezza Rice ![]()
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