The United States has no diplomatic ties with Iran. But U.S. officials openly called on Iran to accept the EU-3 offer, a package of proposals promising long-term support for a nuclear energy program in exchange for guarantees not to develop nuclear weapons.

Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman, Hamid-Reza Asefi, said over the weekend the offer was "not acceptable." And the nation's senior negotiator, Hussein Mousavian, said his nation would under no circumstances "barter its right to the enrichment process."

I guess if you read that another way it means "Yes, we plan on building nuclear weapons, we just don't want to tell you about it". If they only cared about the power, then why not sign off on the weapons. Clearly there are other agendas.

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