BUSH ENSURES IRAN OFFER IS REJECTED, MOVES CLOSER TO GENERAL MID-EAST WAR

"Bush Ensured Iran Offer Would Be Rejected... Even before Iran gave its formal counter-offer... (the) Bush administration had already begun the process of organising sanctions against Iran... Thus ends what appeared on the surface to be a genuine multilateral initiative for negotiations with Iran on the terms under which it would give up its nuclear programme..."

"Britain, France and Germany... had concluded... that Iran's security concerns would have to be central to any agreement.... (but) tried in vain to get the Bush administration to support their diplomatic efforts with Tehran by authorising the inclusion of security guarantees..."

"... "There must consequences if people thumb their noses at the United Nations Security Council," Bush said ... If the European three, Russia and China, allow Bush to get away with that highly distorted version of what happened, the world will have taken another step closer to general war in the Middle East."

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