BBC News - Rice: No US role in Iran talks

US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says she sees no need to get involved in European efforts to persuade Iran to drop its nuclear programme.

Well, it’s always best to have someone else to blame, the UN or Hans Blix for example, if or when the diplomacy goes wrong.

And never forget how horrible the Iranian leadership is:

Ms Rice also criticised Iran’s human rights record.

“The Iranian regime’s human rights behaviour and its behaviour toward its own population is something to be loathed,” she said.

“I don’t think anybody thinks that the unelected mullahs who run that regime are a good thing for the Iranian people and for the region,” she added.

Just don’t look over here.

Or here.

And certainly not here.