
In a joint press conference with Turkish Foreign Minister Ali Babacan after their Meeting on June 5, Condoleezza Rice, US Secretary of State, emphasized on manintaining pressure on the Iranian regime to stop Uranium enrichment.
Rice said: We talked today about Afghanistan, about Iran and the need for Iran to carry out the obligations that the international community has put upon it.
I think one thing that we can do is we can all insist that the Iranian Government tell the truth to the world and to its people about what it’s been doing, about cooperating with the IAEA, but also in telling the truth about what it’s been offered.
And there are now three Security Council resolutions that speak directly to what Iran must do and all member states. And Turkey, of course, is a member in good standing of the United Nations. All member states have an obligation to carry out the terms of those resolutions and to use whatever offices they have with the Iranians to insist that the Iranians carry out the obligations that the UN Security Council has imposed.
But we believe that those relations have to be carried out in a way that respects the sovereignty and independence of Iraq and does not interfere in Iraqi affairs, particularly through the arming of militias and criminals who then go and threaten coalition forces and often kill innocent Iraqis.
But the Iranians need to know that the United States is going to continue to confront them and pursue them as long as they are engaging in policies that endanger our forces and endanger our interests.