America-Dislikin' Mullahs

Apparently the mullahs don't like our influence in the nuclear negotiations.

American involvement in negotiations between Iran and the EU on the Islamic republic's suspect nuclear programme would not help, student news agency ISNA quoted the foreign ministry as saying Tuesday.

Asked about a possible European proposal to include the United States in the sensitive negotiations, foreign ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi said: "We would need to hear their arguments. We haven't seen any indication that American participation would help negotiations."

Asefi added that the European three of Britain, France and Germany leading current negotiations had not made such a suggestion.

Why the skepticism, Hamid? Could it be that the United States might actually hold you accountable for enriching uranium and using it in a clandestine nuclear weapons program? Perish the thought!