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Iran Delaying Response to World

According to U.S. president George W. Bush, Iran is taking too much time considering the offers and demands being made by the international community which aim to get the Islamic Republic to stop uranium enrichment on its soil and abandon what are regarded as efforts by the number one state-sponsor of Islamic terrorism to develop nuclear weapons. Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said that Iran would respond to the international community on August 22, two months from this past Thursday. President Bush said that two months is ?an awful long time for a reasonable answer, for a reasonable proposal.?

The American president?s remarks came as Bush made a state visit to Austria, visiting with Chancellor Wolfgang Sch?ssel and European Union Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso. ?It shouldn?t take the Iranians that long to analyze what is a reasonable deal,? President Bush said during a press conference with Sch?ssel and Barroso. The Austrian Chancellor agreed with the U.S. president, saying ?We should not play with time.? The Austrian capital of Vienna has been the location of many negotiating sessions with representatives of Teheran.

Meanwhile, the ongoing tensions with North Korea over preparations the reclusive, Stalinist nation has made recently for a long-to-mid range ballistic missile test were also a subject of discussion for Mr. Bush. ?The North Koreans have made agreements with us in the past, and we expect them to keep their agreements. It should make people nervous when non-transparent regimes, that have announced that they?ve got nuclear warheads, fire missiles. We say to the North Koreans that this is not the way we do business in the world.?