UANI

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
May 28th, 2009
Contact: Joe Kildea; press@unitedagainstnucleariran.com
Phone: (212) 554-3296

AP reported that "Iran's hard-line president criticized as 'disgraceful' a 2003 deal his predecessor reached with Europe to freeze the country's nuclear program, saying his own decision to stand up to the West restored Iran's dignity.

The NY Times reported that "President Obama said Monday that he expected to know by the end of the year whether Iran was making 'a good-faith effort to resolve differences' in talks aimed at ending its nuclear program, signaling to Israel as well as Iran that his willingness to engage in diplomacy over the issue has its limits. 'We’re not going to have talks forever,' Mr. Obama told Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel after a two-hour session in the Oval Office. The president added that he did not intend to foreclose 'a range of steps' if Iran did not cooperate. Mr.

Voice of America reported that "The Obama administration said Thursday it has set no deadline for its diplomatic outreach to Iran to show results, but that U.S. patience on the issue of Tehran's nuclear program is not infinite.... At a news briefing, State Department Spokesman Ian Kelly insisted however that there is no fixed timetable. 'We're not setting any deadline. And we're not interested in setting any kind of specific or even notional time-line," said Kelly. We are of course monitoring very closely what the Iranians are doing, assessing progress.