“Iran has begun negotiations with the six major world powers in Geneva on a wide realm of global issues…. The Geneva meeting is based on Iran’s package of proposals released earlier this month.”
Er, not exactly. This morning’s news story from Press TV – the Iranian government’s English language mouthpiece – shows what Iran wishes today’s talks were about: namely, nothing which begins with “n” and ends in “r”. Their “package of proposals” reads like a beauty queen’s wishlist: world peace, multilateral disarmament, international justice. Certainly not the newly-exposed nuclear enrichment plant, dug into a mountain inside a revolutionary guard complex near Qom. Or the suspicion of western intelligence agencies that Iran has restarted its attempts to engineer nuclear warheads.
Maybe it’s all a big misunderstanding. The Intercontinental Hotel, where many delegates for the Geneva talks are staying, is hosting another meeting. The sign outside the conference room reads “The World Muslim League welcomes the participants to the conference of the initiative of the custodian of the two holy mosques on dialogue and its impact in disseminating human values.”
Maybe the Iranians think that’s the conference they’re attending.