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Iran Nuclear Watch: IAEA Optimistic

IAEA’s Director General Mohamed ElBaradei delivers a press statement prior to the start of the International Atomic Energy Agency’s (IAEA) 35-nation board meeting on the escalating nuclear standoff with Iran, on Monday, March 6, 2006, at Vienna’s International Center.

ASSociated Press: IAEA Optimistic on Iran Nuke Program Deal

The head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency expressed cautious optimism Monday on the chances of reaching an international agreement to defuse concerns about Iran’s nuclear activities and make
U.N. Security Council action unnecessary.

ternational Atomic Energy Agency’s 35-member board was not likely to discuss the Iran issue until Tuesday or Wednesday. But delegates said that whatever step the council might take would stop far short of sanctions.

But as the board meeting opened, IAEA chief Mohamed ElBaradei suggested the council might not need to get involved.

“I am still very much hopeful that in the next week an agreement could be reached,” ElBaradei told reporters, alluding to talks between Moscow and Tehran aimed at moving Iran’s enrichment program to Russia and possible further contacts between Iran and Europe.

He did not elaborate. But diplomats told the AP that recent talks have touched on the possibility of allowing Tehran to run a scaled-down uranium enrichment program, despite its potential for misuse in building atomic weapons.

The IAEA has NO WILL to discipline Iran for their clandestine nuclear program. Even a scaled down enrichment program is not acceptable to the United States and Israel.

The POINT of NO RETURN will be determined in Washington not in Vienna or New York.

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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