The United States said it will join the European Union in offering economic incentives to Iran to support the ongoing European negotiations to end Tehran's nuclear weapons program, reversing its hard-line stance.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said President George W. Bush 'has decided that the United States will drop its objection to Iran's application to the World Trade Organization and will consider, on a case-by-case basis, the licensing of spare parts for Iranian civilian aircraft, in particular from the EU to Iran'.
"The Europeans have been very clear with the Iranians that there will have to be certain objective guarantees that Iran is not trying to use a civilian nuclear program to provide cover for a weapons program," she said.
