Bush on Iran: It's all about the EU 3

This morning, President Bush is giving a informal press confrence to the American people and his press corps. In this press confrence, President Bush has said that the diplomatic efforts to deal with Iran fall on the EU Three: Germany, France, and the UK. The desire is to solve such issues diplomatically, and to that end the permanent five members of the United Nations Security Council (and Germany) are going to meet this week. The United States seeks to work with all of the members here, including Russia and China.

With such a plan, there are two great problems. The first problem is that the EU Three's efforts have produced little results of note, in other words things have failed. Such failure has led Iran to even boast about how they have fooled the West. Secondly, trying to work with Russia and China on such things is very difficult as Russia has worked in recent months to asssit Iran with the nuclear ambitions, vieled in diplomatic talks. Even those attempts have "failed" in one way or another. Both countries have stalled votes on Iran that the Security Council has tried to pass, along the lines of sanctions and such.

There needs to be other action taken, as diplomatic talks seem to be going nowhere fast.