United States vs. Manning

2010-12-01

		QUESTION: (Inaudible) out of Iran the Iran talks next week. What are your expectations for these talks? I mean, are there any indications that Iran is coming ready to negotiate with you? And do you think the Wikileaks could actually help by showing Iran what all of its neighbors think of it? MR. CROWLEY: (Laughter.) Let me take the first thing first. We would like to see Iran engage in a real process. I think I quipped last year: What's our objective for the first meeting? A second meeting. But that would signal Iran is ready to answer the questions that the international community has. I mean, Iran is alone in the fact that it is unable or unwilling to answer the questions that have arisen about the nature of its nuclear program. But these are not impossible questions to answer. We will come next week prepared to engage on the nuclear issue, engage on other topics of interest with Iran. We hope that they will come to this meeting with the same seriousness of purpose. We're under no illusions here. We understand that this may be difficult and we understand that Iran may not come prepared to engage constructively. But we're showing that we're willing to offer this continue to offer this engagement and we hope that we will have a productive meeting next week.
	Name(s:)	Phillip J. Crowley
	Title:	Assistant Secretary
	Agency(ies):	Public Affairs, Department of State
	Concerning:	Cablegate
	Url:	Url Link
	Archive:	http://archive.is/Y6JcI