Six world powers agree incentives, penalties for Iran
Six world powers are ready to offer Iran a new choice of rewards if it gives up suspect nuclear activities or punishment if it should refuse, a gambit that either could defuse a global confrontation with the Islamic state or hasten one.
“There are two paths ahead,” foreign secretary Margaret Beckett said in announcing agreement among the United States, Britain, France, Germany, Russia and China on a package deal for Iran that carries the threat of United Nations sanctions.
