Iran's Hillarious Negotiation Offer

Pro Publica has reproduced the letter Iran sent to Western nations to address their demands for a negotiated halt to its nuclear activities. In the letter, Iran offers to talk. But not so much about nukes. Instead, among the items they wish to tackle:

Elevating the weight and position of environmental issues in the international relations and fostering collective participation in the management of environmental issues.

Equitable definition and codification of the rights to space and sharing of oil possessors of space technologies in the management and fair use of space.

This is obviously absurd. Yet the Obama administration appears intent to engage anyway. There's little harm in that, of course. It will neither impede nor accelerate Iran's nuclear program, which appears to be humming along irrespective of outside pressures. But it's hard to review this letter and not conclude that Iran is daring the world to levy harsher sanctions.

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