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Iran Nuclear Watch: UNSC Foreign Ministers Fail to Agree on Iran Resolution

France’s Foreign Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy, right, and France’s U.N. Ambassador Jean-Marc de la Sabliere, walk from the Security Council at the United Nations, Tuesday May 9, 2006.

ASSociated Press: U.N. to Present Iran Nuke Program Options

Key Security Council nations agreed Tuesday to present Iran with a choice of benefits or sanctions in deciding whether to suspend uranium enrichment, a move that will delay a U.N. resolution to curb Iran’s nuclear program, a European official said.

Political directors from the United States, Russia, China, Britain and France as well as Germany made the decision to present Tehran with the possible carrots and sticks at a meeting after their foreign ministers failed Monday night to reach agreement on the resolution.

As a result of Tuesday’s decision, political directors from the three European countries that had been spearheading negotiations with Iran will spend the next few days preparing a package of benefits and sanctions, the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity because no official announcement has been made

The package will be presented to European Union foreign ministers on the sidelines of an EU meeting in Brussels, Belgium, on Monday, and when approved will be presented to the Iranian government, the official said.

So, no UNSC Chapter 7 resolution vote this week. The UNSC is pathetically weak.

The delay over the past few months has been done nothing but embolden the Iranians and in the meantime uranum enrichment continues at Natanz.

However, Flap does not think Israel will wait for UNSC or European sanctions – if they EVER come.

Pakistani Daily Times: Israel will hit Iran in the next few months: Israeli official

Israel will strike Iran’s nuclear facilities in the next “month or two or three,” an Israeli official has been quoted here as saying.

The unnamed official told Arnaud de Borchgrave, editor-in-chief of the United Press International (UPI), at the recently held national day reception at the Israeli Embassy that he believed Israel would strike Iran first in the next two or three months and that fighter bombers would not be involved as they had been to take out Iraq’s Osirak nuclear reactor before it went critical in 1981. For Osirak, Israel had used 14 F-15s and F-16s. This time, the Israeli said, it would be missiles. Asked if Israel would employ Cruise missiles, he replied, “with a gesture of his hand that went up and down again”, which meant that it would be the weapon of choice.

Asked if tunnel entrances to widely scattered Iranian nuclear facilities would be targeted, he responded that Israel had its own geo-stationary spy-in-the-sky satellite taking constant pictures of Iran with a resolution down to 70 centimetres. “We know far more than anyone realises,” he added.

And why is President Bush dwelling on diplomacy?

Is Bush stalling for a possible military operation later in the year?

Stay tuned……

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The Natanz uranium enrichment complex in Natanz is pictured in this January 2, 2006 satellite image.

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