Iran Nuclear Watch: Iran and European Union – NO Agreement

German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, his French counterpart Philippe Douste-Blazy, Iranian chief negotiator Ali Larijani, EU foreign policy chief Xavier Solana and political director of Britain’s Foreign Office John Sawers, from left, pose for a group photo in front of the residence of German ambassador to Austria after their talks on Iran’s nuclear ambitions, on Friday, March 3, 2006.

ASSociated Press: Iran, EU Nuclear Talks End Without Result

Talks between European Union negotiators and Iran over its nuclear ambitions broke up Friday without any agreement, paving the way for potential U.N. Security Council action against Tehran as early as next week.

French Foreign Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy said the EU had been demanding “full and complete suspension” of Iran’s uranium enrichment and related activities.

“Unfortunately we were not able to reach an agreement,” he told reporters after meeting with Iranian negotiators for just over two hours.

The talks took place ahead of Monday’s meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency’s 35-nation board. The board put the U.N. Security Council on alert Feb. 4 after Iran refused to heed requests to reimpose a suspension on enrichment, which can make both nuclear fuel or the fissile material for warheads.

Douste-Blazy, his German counterpart Frank-Walter Steinmeier, EU foreign affairs chief Javier Solana and a senior British official met with Iranian chief negotiator Ali Larijani after his arrival from Moscow, where Russia tried to persuade Tehran to accept its offer to enrich uranium for Iran.

This is NO SURPRISE. All of these negotiations have been a waste of time. Iran will NOT stop their plans to enrich uranium – IN ANY CASE.

So, onto the International Atomic Energy Agency meeting on Monday and United Nations Security Council meetings and a China veto.

Before leaving Moscow, Larijani warned that handing over the nuclear issue to the Security Council â€” as the United States has demanded â€” would kill Moscow’s initiative.

There had been little hope the Vienna meeting would achieve a breakthrough. A Russian nuclear agency official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to media, confirmed the Moscow talks remained snagged over Iran’s refusal to freeze enrichment at home.

Still, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said a deal on Iran’s nuclear enrichment program was still possible before next week’s IAEA meeting.

“There always is an opportunity to reach an agreement,” the Interfax news agency quoted Lavrov as saying Friday.

The Russian plan â€” backed by most in the international community including the U.S. and the Europeans â€” is meant to deprive the Iranians of domestic control of all enrichment, easing fears that Iran might misuse the process for making nuclear weapons.

The Russian Plan is a NON-STARTER because Iran wishes to continue their own uranium enrichment – and, of course, diversion into nuclear weapons manufacturing.

U.S. intelligence chief John Negroponte told lawmakers in Washington on Wednesday that the risk of Iran’s acquiring nuclear arms and merging them with ballistic missile systems was “a reason for immediate concern.”

Providing what he called secret details of those missile programs, Iranian opposition figure Alireza Jafarzadeh told the AP on Thursday that Iran had “significantly increased the production line” of its Shahab 3 missiles last year, and was now turning out 90 a year â€” more than four times its previous production rate.

The most advanced Shahab has a range of nearly 1,200 miles, he said. That is enough to target arch-foe Israel.

Right.

And Iran President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is just fanatical enough to create his own holocaust in Israel.

Stay tuned……