ProPublica, a non-profit organization supporting investigative journalism, has very helpfully published the Iranian regime’s proposal for “comprehensive, all-encompassing and constructive” negotiations on everything bar Iran’s own nuclear program.

The proposal rambles in much the same way as Ahmadinejad’s speech at the Durban Review Conference in Geneva earlier this year rambled. “…our world today needs mechanisms that come from divine and godly thinking…” is a typical phrase. Right at the end, the proposal urges investigation into the “root causes of [the] global economic and financial crisis.”

Ahmadinejad already knows the answer to that one. As he said in Geneva:

“World Zionism personifies racism that falsely resorts to religions and abuses religious sentiments to hide its hatred and ugly face. However, it is of great importance to bring into focus the political goals of some of the world powers and those who control huge economic resources and interests in the world. They mobilize all the resources including their economic and political influence and world media to render support in vain to the Zionist regime and to maliciously diminish the indignity and disgrace of this regime.”

Somehow, I don’t think talks with this regime - or, for that matter, talks about talks with this regime - are going to get very far.

For good measure, Putin’s making it clear that sanctions won’t go very far either.