Iran is keeping the world guessing about its response to the latest offer to suspend its nuclear programme in return for international incentives, as its leaders send out mixed signals in the face of warnings from Israel and the US. Nearly three weeks after Tehran was offered a new package of incentives, no formal answer has been forthcoming, though Iran’s foreign minister, Manuchehr Mottaki, promised on Wednesday that it would be delivered “very soon” and in a “new atmosphere”.
