It looks like Iran is getting upset that talks aren’t going anywhere. But that’s to be expected, really. I can’t think of a recent event in which European negotiations came to a benificial fruition. Except for Libya… oh, except it was the U.S. doing that. My apologies:

TEHRAN, Iran – Iran will never scrap its nuclear program, and talks with Europeans are intended to protect the country’s nuclear achievements, not negotiate an end to them, an Iranian official said Wednesday.

The remarks by Ali Agha Mohammadi, spokesman of Iran’s powerful Supreme National Security Council, are the latest in a hardening of his country’s stance amid ongoing talks with European negotiators. They also reflect Tehran’s possible frustration at the lack of progress.

Now where did Teddy leave his big stick? I know it isn’t in Brussels. In any case, Regime Change in Iran has extended thoughts on the issue:

So what options are left?

An effective non military response to the Iranian threat would require the administration find an issue that is universally accepted in order to gain international support. Such international support was essential in the recent popular revolt in the Ukraine.

Such an issue already exists.

I believe the issue the administration intends to focus on is human rights in Iran.

If you follow the news on Iran, the administration has begun focusing on the human rights issue as it relates to Iran. Here are a few examples:
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Europe and the UN have a long history of advocating human rights. Europe has tied increased trade with Iran to improvements in their human rights record. European leaders advocacy for Human Rights in Iran bought them popular political support at home at very little cost.

Europeans are proud of their leaders stand for Human Rights. It was no surprise to Europeans that the Iranian human rights lawyer, Shirin Ebadi, won the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize.

If the US makes Human Rights in Iran a centerpiece of its Iran policy, the EU and the UN will have to support it. Russia and China would find it difficult to oppose it.

For some reason I don’t buy it. Oh, maybe that’s because the EU bailed on the Cubans in favor of doing business with Castro. While a military response, even just a bombing, may not be suitable, I do not think that the Europeans have the necessary cultural mindset to tackle the problem when it is inconvenient to do so. More on the European piece of the puzzle at Blog-Iran and some disturbing thoughts on Iran’s plan of retaliation against the U.S. and Israel.