Another terrible shock...

Iran scorns EU atomic incentives

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Wednesday ruled out any idea of halting nuclear fuel work in return for EU incentives, saying the Europeans were offering "candy for gold."

Britain, France and Germany, the European Union's three biggest powers, plan to offer Iran a light-water reactor as part of a package to induce Tehran to freeze a uranium enrichment program that the West suspects has military dimensions.

"They say we want to give Iranians incentives but they think they are dealing with a four-year-old, telling him they will give him candies or walnuts and take gold from him in return," Ahmadinejad told a crowd in the central city of Arak.

The EU folks were going to offer (they probably still will, since they actually enjoy getting slapped around) the extremely high end, high tech light water technology reactors, which oh BTW shock on shocks, is much more difficult to use for U235 enrichment.

For some odd reason, the Basij didn't find this an attractive offer.

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