High hopes for talks with Iran

In the nuclear dispute, the five permanent members of the UN Security Council and Germany declared their willingness to resume negotiations with the leadership in Tehran on Tuesday. The left-liberal daily El País sees this as a chance to prevent war: "The timing and venue for the talks have yet to be fixed, but the Iranian regime must understand that this time it can't keep stringing along the major powers because they're worried at the prospect of Iran getting a bomb. It must offer guarantees. As a first step Iran must give the International Atomic Energy Agency IAEA access to the Parchin plant. … New talks will give Obama - and the Europeans - a little more leeway in their efforts to find a diplomatic solution and prevent an Israeli attack against Iran's nuclear facilities that could drag the US into a new war. In this election year Obama wants to avoid a conflict with unforeseeable consequences apart from the fact that it would drive up oil prices, hindering the tentative recovery of the US economy and worsening the recession in Europe."

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