Iran Feels the Heat

There may be a debate over who won in the latest round of WikiLeaks revelations, but it's clear who lost: Iran.

But whoever won Wikileaks, it's clear who lost: Iran. Iran knows it too.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Tuesday that Iran has agreed to another round of nuclear talks with the United States and other nations.

Ahmadinejad did not provide a date for when the talks would start, in the speech televised by Iran's state-run Press TV.

"Now they say they want talks. We have said OK. We are always ready for talks as long as the talks are handled with respect," Ahmadinejad said to the cheering crowd.

A spokeswoman for Catherine Ashton, the European Union's foreign policy chief, said the talks will take place in Geneva, Switzerland on December 6 and 7.

It's important to understand that talks with Iran are not "good news." Iran just uses them to run out the clock. What's interesting here is that Iran suddenly again feels the need to run out the clock. And of course, what with those computer works wrecking Iranian nuclear facilities, and Iranian counter-intelligence officers now mistrusting and interrogating Iran's own scientists, not to mention the sad accidents that keep befalling other scientists - there is suddenly more time on that clock.