Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
07LONDON3362
2007-09-04 16:07:00
SECRET
Embassy London
Cable title:
IRAN DEPFORMIN WILL VISIT LONDON TO PITCH
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S E C R E T LONDON 003362
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
E.O. 12958: DECL: 09/04/2017
TAGS: PREL KNNP MNUC IR UK
SUBJECT: IRAN DEPFORMIN WILL VISIT LONDON TO PITCH
IAEA-IRAN AGREEMENT
Classified By: Political Minister Counselor Maura Connelly for reasons
1.4(b) and (d)
S E C R E T LONDON 003362
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
E.O. 12958: DECL: 09/04/2017
TAGS: PREL KNNP MNUC IR UK
SUBJECT: IRAN DEPFORMIN WILL VISIT LONDON TO PITCH
IAEA-IRAN AGREEMENT
Classified By: Political Minister Counselor Maura Connelly for reasons
1.4(b) and (d)
1. (S) Summary: The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO)
today told London Iran Watcher (Poloff) that Iran,s Deputy
Foreign Minister Saeed Jalili will visit London Friday
September 7 to push Iran,s recent agreement with the IAEA as
Iran,s preferred means of addressing the nuclear issue, but
that FCO will reject Jalili's approach and refer him to UNSCR
resolutions 1737 and 1747, of which Iran remains in
violation. End summary.
2. (S) FCO Iran Multilateral Team Leader Will Gelling told
Poloff that Jalili had asked to meet with an array of senior
UK officials, but HMG responded that the only senior UK
official available to meet is FCO Political Director Mark
Lyall Grant. Gelling said the FCO believes this Iranian
visit is part of what FCO understands may be a broader
diplomatic push by the IRI in P5 plus 1 capitals and
elsewhere to promote the IAEA-IRI agreement.
3. (S) Gelling said Lyall Grant is scheduled to receive
Jalili September 7, and will tell Jalili the UK, the P5 1 and
the international community see Iranian compliance with UNSC
resolutions 1737 and 1747, and engagement with the P5 plus 1
in accordance with those resolutions, as the only acceptable
way for Iran to address its nuclear obligations.
4. (S) FCO had earlier briefed POLOFF that Iran's deputy
head of its London embassy had, during a July 17 call on FCO
Iran Cordinator Antony Phillipson, offered to send a "special
envoy" from Ahmedinejad to the HMG, either at the Deputy
Foreign Minister level or someone from Ahmedinejad's own
office. At the time, Phillipson had deflected the offer as
more appropriately addressed to Simon McDonald, the Prime
Minister's chief foreign policy advisor, who was then
travelling. Gelling today said there had been no follow-up
from the IRI on its July 17 proposal (Embassy comment: This
approach is not the first IRI feeler of this kind to the FCO.
End comment).
Visit London's Classified Website:
http://www.state.sgov.gov/p/eur/london/index. cfm
LeBaron
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
E.O. 12958: DECL: 09/04/2017
TAGS: PREL KNNP MNUC IR UK
SUBJECT: IRAN DEPFORMIN WILL VISIT LONDON TO PITCH
IAEA-IRAN AGREEMENT
Classified By: Political Minister Counselor Maura Connelly for reasons
1.4(b) and (d)
1. (S) Summary: The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO)
today told London Iran Watcher (Poloff) that Iran,s Deputy
Foreign Minister Saeed Jalili will visit London Friday
September 7 to push Iran,s recent agreement with the IAEA as
Iran,s preferred means of addressing the nuclear issue, but
that FCO will reject Jalili's approach and refer him to UNSCR
resolutions 1737 and 1747, of which Iran remains in
violation. End summary.
2. (S) FCO Iran Multilateral Team Leader Will Gelling told
Poloff that Jalili had asked to meet with an array of senior
UK officials, but HMG responded that the only senior UK
official available to meet is FCO Political Director Mark
Lyall Grant. Gelling said the FCO believes this Iranian
visit is part of what FCO understands may be a broader
diplomatic push by the IRI in P5 plus 1 capitals and
elsewhere to promote the IAEA-IRI agreement.
3. (S) Gelling said Lyall Grant is scheduled to receive
Jalili September 7, and will tell Jalili the UK, the P5 1 and
the international community see Iranian compliance with UNSC
resolutions 1737 and 1747, and engagement with the P5 plus 1
in accordance with those resolutions, as the only acceptable
way for Iran to address its nuclear obligations.
4. (S) FCO had earlier briefed POLOFF that Iran's deputy
head of its London embassy had, during a July 17 call on FCO
Iran Cordinator Antony Phillipson, offered to send a "special
envoy" from Ahmedinejad to the HMG, either at the Deputy
Foreign Minister level or someone from Ahmedinejad's own
office. At the time, Phillipson had deflected the offer as
more appropriately addressed to Simon McDonald, the Prime
Minister's chief foreign policy advisor, who was then
travelling. Gelling today said there had been no follow-up
from the IRI on its July 17 proposal (Embassy comment: This
approach is not the first IRI feeler of this kind to the FCO.
End comment).
Visit London's Classified Website:
http://www.state.sgov.gov/p/eur/london/index. cfm
LeBaron