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Iran Nuclear Watch: Cheney Warns Iran as Larijani Resigns
US Vice President Dick Cheney speaks to the Washington Institute for Near East Policy annual Weinberg Founders Conference in Lansdowne, Virginia. Cheney said the United States and its allies would not permit Iran to get nuclear weapons and warned of “serious consequences” if it continues to enrich uranium.
Cheney: US will not let Iran go nuclear
The United States and other nations will not allow Iran to obtain a nuclear weapon, Vice President Dick Cheney said Sunday.
“Our country, and the entire international community, cannot stand by as a terror-supporting state fulfills its grandest ambitions,” Cheney said in a speech to the Washington Institute for Near East Studies.
He said Iran’s efforts to pursue technology that would allow them to build a nuclear weapon are obvious and that “the regime continues to practice delay and deceit in an obvious effort to buy time.”
If Iran continues on its current course, Cheney said the U.S. and other nations are prepared to take action. The vice president made no specific reference to military action.
“We will not allow Iran to have a nuclear weapon,” he said.
Previously, Iran played its hand by the resignation of its nuclear negotiator, Ali Larijani.
Iran’s chief nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani speaks with journalists at a news conference in Tehran in this September 12, 2007 file photo. Larijani, who quit as Iran’s chief nuclear negotiator, and his replacement will go to talks with the European Union’s Javier Solana to try to defuse a row with the West, the Foreign Ministry said on Sunday.
Iran’s nuclear negotiator resigns
Iran’s chief negotiator with the West over Tehran’s nuclear programme, Ali Larijani, has resigned.
A government spokesman said Mr Larijani had repeatedly offered his resignation and President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had finally accepted it.
Mr Larijani had differences with the president over how to proceed with the negotiations, correspondents say.
The spokesman, Gholam Hossein Elham, said a deputy foreign minister, Saeed Jalili, would replace Mr Larijani in time for a meeting on Tuesday with the European Union’s foreign policy head Javier Solana.
The BBC’s Jon Leyne, in Tehran, says Mr Larijani has had differences with President Ahmadinejad over how to proceed with negotiations over the country’s nuclear programme.
Obviously there was a difference as to proceed with Iran’s nuclear negotiations with the European Union and the United Nations over uranium enrichment. Also, obvious is that Iran’s Mullahs prefer confrontation rather then negotiations. But, this is NO great news.
The new nuclear negotiator, Saeed Jalili, is a hard line supporter of President Ahmadinejad and Supreme Mullah leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Iran’s deputy foreign minister Saeed Jalili attends a meeting in Tehran, February 2007. Iran insisted its policy in the nuclear crisis with the West would not change after the sudden resignation of chief nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani, amid fears it would take an even tougher line.
So, was Larijani’s resignation a result of the refusal of Vladimir Putin’s latest offer?
Probably, or it could have been the straw that broke the camel’s back.
Iran and the Mullahs do NOT want to negotiate. They COVET nuclear weapons and will do anything to posses one.
Vice President Cheney again restates American policy that Iran will not obtain nuclear weapon capability.
But, will President Bush “PUSH” the issue or allow Iran to continue to stall?
Stay tuned…….
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Cox & Forkum: G-8 Party Crasher
Cox & Forkum: Party Crasher
Moscow could aim nuclear weapons at targets in Europe as part of “retaliatory steps” if Washington proceeds with building a missile defense system on the continent, Russian President Vladimir Putin said Monday.
Speaking to foreign reporters days before he travels to Germany for the annual summit with President Bush and the other Group of Eight leaders, Putin assailed the White House plan to place a radar system in the Czech Republic and interceptor missiles in neighboring Poland. Washington says the system is needed to counter a potential threat from Iran.
In an interview released Monday, Putin suggested that Russia may respond to the threat by aiming its nuclear weapons at Europe.
“If a part of the strategic nuclear potential of the United States appears in Europe and, in the opinion of our military specialists, will threaten us, then we will have to take appropriate steps in response. What kind of steps? We will have to have new targets in Europe,” Putin said, according to a transcript released by the Kremlin. These could be targeted with “ballistic or cruise missiles or maybe a completely new system” he said.
On Monday, Iran’s top security official called the U.S. plans for the missile defense shield a “joke,” saying Tehran’s missiles do not have the capability to reach Europe.
“Claims by U.S. officials that installing a missile defense system in Europe is aimed at confronting Iranian missiles and protecting Europe against Iran is the joke of the year,” Ali Larijani told the state-run IRNA news agency.
“The range of Iran’s missiles doesn’t reach Europe at all,” IRNA quoted Larijani as saying in Iran’s first public reaction to the plans. Larijani is secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, the country’s top security decision-making body.
Iran is known to possess a medium-range ballistic missile called the Shahab-3 that has a range of at least 800 miles, capable of striking Israel. In 2005, Iranian officials said they had improved the range of the Shahab-3 to 1,200 miles.
The way Russia has been stalling for Iran in the United Nations Security Council, will not support tough sanctions for them to cease uranium enrichment and cutting nuclear and defense deals with Iran is it any surprise that Iran would NOT support its patron?
The fact is the new Shahab-4 and Shahab-6 missiles have the range to threaten Europe. And guess from where the technology for these multi-stage missiles comes?
Why, Russia and North Korea.
Putin speaks with a FORKED TONGUE and Ali Larijani is a LIAR.
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Iran Nuclear Watch: Iran Promises to Discuss Nuclear Activities
Iran’s nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani, right, shakes hand with Javier Solana, the European Union’s foreign policy chief at Quinta palace in Madrid, Spain, Thursday, May 31, 2007. Both sides are in Madrid to discuss Iran’s disputed nuclear program.
The quotes:
“The issue is that any Iranian civilian nuclear program really can’t have the fuel cycle attached to it, or the ability to perfect that technology,” (United States Secretary of State) Rice said, something that could be worked out once Iran sat down for detailed talks.
“What we can’t do is to have negotiations take place while the Iranians continue to perfect their nuclear technology and use those negotiations as cover,” for possibly covert work on a bomb, Rice said.
After all, there is NO rush for a new round of United Nations Security Council sanctions since Iran ignored the previous ones and have continued uranium enrichment.
The previous UNSC sanctions:
Iran will continue to stall until they reach BREAKOUT CAPABILITY.
The NUCLEAR POINT OF NO RETURN is at hand.
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The Natanz uranium enrichment complex in Natanz is pictured in this January 2, 2006 satellite image.
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Iran Nuclear Watch: Ali Larijani – Suspension of Uranium Enrichment is Not Acceptable at All
Iran’s top nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani speaks to the press at Mehrabbad airport in Tehran. Larijani said Iran would not halt uranium enrichment, on the eve of talks with the EU foreign policy chief over Iran’s controversial nuclear programme.
Iran continues to stall as they develop their uranium enrichment program (nuclear weapons development) and ignores United Nations Security Council Resolutions:
Iran will continue to stall until they reach BREAKOUT CAPABILITY.
The NUCLEAR POINT OF NO RETURN is at hand.
Iranian technicians work at the Isfahan Uranium Conversion Facilities, February 2007. Iran’s top nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani and EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana will meet on Thursday in Spain in their latest bid to break the deadlock over the Iranian atomic standoff.
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Iran Nuclear Watch: Iran Announces Industrial Expansion of Uranium Enrichment on Iran’s National Day of the Nuclear Technology
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, speaks at a ceremony in Iran’s nuclear enrichment facility in Natanz, 300 kms 186 (miles) south of capital Tehran, Iran, Monday April, 9, 2007. Iran announced Monday that it has begun enriching uranium with 3,000 centrifuges, a dramatic expansion of a nuclear program that has drawn U.N. sanctions and condemnation from the West. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said at a ceremony at the enrichment facility at Natanz that Iran was now capable of enriching nuclear fuel ‘on an industrial scale.’ Asked if Iran has begun injecting uranium gas into 3,000 centrifuges for enrichment, top nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani replied, ‘Yes.’ He did not elaborate, but it was the first confirmation that Iran had installed the larger set of centrifuges after months of saying it intends to do so.
AP: Iran Expands Uranium Enrichment
Iran announced Monday that it has begun enriching uranium with 3,000 centrifuges, defiantly expanding a nuclear program that has drawn U.N. sanctions and condemnation from the West.
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said at a ceremony at the enrichment facility at Natanz that Iran was now capable of enriching nuclear fuel “on an industrial scale.”
Asked if Iran has begun injecting uranium gas into 3,000 centrifuges for enrichment, top nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani replied, “Yes.” He did not elaborate, but it was the first confirmation that Iran had installed the larger set of centrifuges after months of saying it intends to do so. Until now, Iran was only known to have 328 centrifuges operating.
Uranium enrichment can produce fuel for a nuclear reactor or the material for a nuclear warhead. The United States and its allies accuse Iran of intending to produce weapons, a charge the country denies.
Iran’s nuclear enrichment facility in Natanz
An Iranian flag is seen outside the building housing the reactor of the Bushehr nuclear power plant at the Iranian port town of Bushehr, 03 April 2007.
So, while the feckless United Nations Security Council and the European Union have been talking and “negotiating with Iran, the Iranians have been growing their nuclear program.
Let’s see, Iran has ignored three United Nations resolutions calling upon them to halt uranium enrichment:
But, Iran doesn’t care – THE MULLAHS COVET NUCLEAR WEAPONS.
Iranian clerics greet each other after attending in a ceremony at Iran’s nuclear enrichment facility in Natanz.
Notably, the United Nations sanctions have been tested by Iran and they simply are USELESS. Russia and China are complicit in Iran’s uranium enrichment program and must be held accountable – unless the West bows down to the GREAT IRAN and allows them to have a nuclear weapon.
Iranian state television reported Monday that an Iranian Revolutionary Guard general who is under travel restrictions urged by the sanctions has visited Russia without any difficulty.
Gen. Mohammad Baqer Zolqadr, who is also deputy interior minister for security affairs, was quoted on the state TV Web site as saying that his six-day journey to Moscow, which ended Monday, showed “the ineffectiveness of the resolution.”
The resolution urges all governments to ban visits by the 15 individuals and says that should such visits occur – presumably for exceptional circumstances – the countries should notify a U.N. committee.
Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Andrei Krivtsov confirmed that Zolqadr visited Russia. He told The Associated Press that the resolution does not prohibit visits by the listed individuals, but calls for heightened vigilance “directed first of all at people who are directly related to nuclear programs” – suggesting that Zolqadr was not.
ABC News has reported that Iran will possess a nuclear bomb by 2009. There is no reason to believe this will not be the case. Iran has stalled for years. Now the United States and Israel either must take action or acquiesce to the idea that Iran will become a nuclear power – like Jacques Chirac let slip.
The “NUCLEAR POINT OF NO RETURN” HAS BEEN REACHED
World powers won’t thwart Iran nuclear drive: Ahmadinejad
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Monday vowed that world powers would not be able to stop Iran’s nuclear drive and that the Islamic republic would defend its atomic programme “to the end.”
“The great Iranian nation, which for past centuries has been a pioneer of science, will not allow some bullying powers to put obstacles in its path of progress by influencing the international community,” he said in a speech.
“We will go on to reach the summits,” he added in a keynote address at Iran’s ultra-sensitive uranium enrichment plant in Natanz.
And like the British humiliation of last week, the Mullahs and Ahmadinejad will rub the West’s nose in it.
Iran’s chief nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani, answers questions from media at Iran’s nuclear enrichment facility in Natanz.
With today’s announcement the hatred of the Great Satan was on display:
Iranian students burn mock US and British flags outside Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization in Tehran, 09 April 2007.
Iranian female students stand on a representation of a U.S flag and a representation of a British Union flag during a gathering to show their support to their country’s nuclear activities, marking “National Day of the Nuclear Technology”, in front of the Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization in Tehran, Iran, Monday, April 9, 2007.
An Iranian student steps on a paper hat designed with an image of a U.S. flag as she stands in front of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization in Tehran during a rally to mark the country’s national day of nuclear technology.
How will the United States and Israel respond?
Will it be back to the United Nations for more sanctions?
Will they militarily take out the facilities?
Will they surrender?
As Flap said yesterday – TIME TO SHIT OR GET OFF THE POT.
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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Iran Watch: Iran-UK Hostages Reunited with Family
Leading Seaman Faye Turney shares a joke at Heathrow
Hostages reunited with family after 14-day ordeal
After 13 days of fear and worry, the 15 British sailors and marines held captive in Iran were finally reunited with their families today.
The 14 men and one woman arrived by Sea King helicopter at Royal Marines Base Chivenor, near Barnstaple, north Devon, shortly before 2.30pm.
They filed out onto the grass in front of the officer’s mess in brilliant sunshine to be greeted by naval officials.
As they gathered on the concrete terrace, the faces of family and friends were pressed against windows before they were allowed to greet them. Hugs were exchanged.
The sailors and marines had earlier touched down at Heathrow airport after a seven hour flight from Iran. The aircraft landed shortly after midday in brilliant sunshine and taxied to the VIP section of the runway.
Passengers on the flight from Tehran said a round of applause was heard from Business Class when the plane touched down.
Prime Minister Tony Blair today said he had ‘rejoiced’ at the return of the service personnel and that there have been new and interesting lines of communication opened with Iran. He added the international community must remain steadfast in dealings with Iran.
Mr Blair says people have not been taken in by the “theatre” in Iran and there are no “agreements” between Iranian elements held in Iraq and released crew. He said Britain managed to secure release of crew without any deal or negotiations.
Oh really!
No deal huh……..
Here is a timeline of the two weeks British humiliation:
Then, why did Ahamdinejad and the Mullahs release your hostages, Mr. Blair?
Was it this?
The USS Nimitz and its carrier strike group had been ordered by President Bush to the Persian Gulf to supplement the USS Dwight David Eisenhower and USS John C. Stennis who are already in theater.
Flap figures that the Mullahs decided they had milked this story and humiliated the Brits enough to the Arab Street so why not get out “quick and dirty” without any reprisals. How humiliating to the British Empire to be given an Easter gift from the Iranian Mullahs – a return of their own captured sailors/marines.
Flap had mentioned a number of weeks ago to watch for a provocation by either Iran or the West over the Iranian nuclear program. Obviously, the West did not bite.
The question is why?
Video grab shows Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad speaking to Britons who had been detained in Iran at a ceremony to mark their release, April 4, 2007.
So, what comes next?
Another provocation? Against an American ship?
Perhaps.
Iran has probed the Brits and found them WEAK. Will they test the Great Satan and the Great Cowboy Bush?
Probably and then let the war begin………
Freed British sailors wait at the republic pavillion of Mehrabad airport on 05 April 2007.
Stay tuned…….
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Iran Watch: Iran-UK Hostage Crisis Day 12
AP: Britain calls for direct talks with Iran
Britain called for direct talks with Iran over 15 captive Britons Tuesday after speaking for the first time with the chief Iranian negotiator. The announcement followed the sudden release of an Iranian diplomat in Iraq that raised new hope in resolving the standoff.
In a statement late Tuesday, Prime Minister Blair’s Downing Street office said “both sides share a desire for an early resolution to this issue through direct talks.”
Hours after Foreign Secretary Margaret cautioned against expecting a swift resolution to the crisis, Downing Street struck an upbeat note, announcing there had been “further contacts” between the two countries, including with chief negotiator Ali Larijani.
“The prime minister remains committed to resolving this by diplomatic means. The UK has proposed direct bilateral discussions and awaits an Iranian response on when these can begin,” Blair’s office said.
Earlier, Iranian diplomat Jalal Sharafi arrived in Tehran, hours after he was freed by his captors in Iraq, officials said. He was seized Feb. 4 by uniformed gunmen in Karradah, a Shiite-controlled district of Baghdad.
His release also suggests the standoff over the captive Britons may end with a de facto prisoner swap — something both Tehran and London have publicly discounted.
Iran alleged the diplomat had been abducted by an Iraqi military unit commanded by U.S. forces — a charge repeated by several Iraqi Shiite lawmakers. U.S. authorities denied any role in his disappearance.
Has the sun finally set on the British Empire with a feckless Tony Blair? Flap cannot imagine a “COLD WAR” prisoner abduction/trade ever being so mishandled by Maggie Thatcher. And the Brits then were dealing with the Soviets!
If Britain is going to negotiate with these terrorists then at least do it quickly and out of sight so your own people can’t see how WEAK you really are.
Shameful…….
This picture, apparently a still taken from a video, showed six sailors sitting in blue and red tracksuits on a carpet in a room with what appears to be a little bowl of nuts standing in the middle of the group.
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Iran Nuclear Watch: Iran Will Have Nuclear Bomb by 2009
A technician works in the control room at the uranium conversion facility in Isfahan, 450 km south of Tehran, February 3, 2007. Russia’s leading nuclear scientist said on Monday that it was just a question of time before Iran developed a nuclear weapon and it should be stopped.
ABC News: Iran Nuclear Bomb Could Be Possible by 2009
Iran has more than tripled its ability to produce enriched uranium in the last three months, adding some 1,000 centrifuges which are used to separate radioactive particles from the raw material.
The development means Iran could have enough material for a nuclear bomb by 2009, sources familiar with the dramatic upgrade tell ABC News.
The sources say the unexpected expansion is taking place at Iran’s nuclear enrichment plant outside the city of Natanz, in a hardened facility 70 feet underground.
And this is a surprise?
Last year Israeli Defense estimates said that Iran’s development of a nuclear bomb was imminent – within a year or so.
Why in the hell do you think they have been stalling with meaningless negotiations at the United Nations and G-8?
In the meantime, a Russian scientist has expressed concern:
Reuters: Russian expert says Iran can make nuclear weapons
Russia’s leading nuclear scientist said on Monday that it was just a question of time before Iran developed a nuclear weapon and it should be stopped.
The Islamic republic, facing a showdown with the United States over its nuclear ambitions, clearly has the know-how to make atomic weapons, said Yevgeny Velikhov, a leading physicist and close associate of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
“From a scientific point of view of course they could create nuclear weapons,” Velikhov, president of Russia’s Kurchatov Institute, told reporters. “When they could do it is a more difficult question.”
“If you remember, U.S. scientists expected the Soviet Union would only be able to create a nuclear bomb by around 1954 at the earliest,” he said.
“They were rather surprised when we created one in 1949,” he said with a chuckle. Velikhov trained under Igor Kurchatov, the leader of the Soviet atomic bomb project.
The “NUCLEAR POINT OF NO RETURN” has been reached with Iran.
Will the United States and Israel do anything about it?
Stay tuned as the USS Nimitz sets sail from Malaysia – destination, the Persian Gulf.
A technician at the uranium conversion facility in Isfahan, south of Tehran, February 3, 2007. The IAEA is pushing Iran to agree to cameras in its underground nuclear plant within days and Western states are mulling whether to seek a crisis IAEA meeting if Tehran refuses, diplomats said.
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Iran Nuclear Watch: New Iran Nuclear Sanctions Headed to United Nations
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An Iranian technician works at the Isfahan Uranium Conversion Facilities (UCF), February 2007. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has said the UN Security Council lacked any legitimacy, as the world body prepared a second package of sanctions over Iran’s disputed nuclear programme.
AP: World powers agree on new Iran sanctions
A proposed new package of sanctions against Iran for enriching uranium appeared headed to the U.N. Security Council after ambassadors for six world powers resolved remaining differences.
The six-nation show of unity would be unlikely to meet strong opposition from the other 10 members on the council, which must approve the measures. A vote was expected in the days to come.
But, will the “NEW” sanctions be MEANINGFUL?
NOPE
The modest package includes an embargo on Iranian arms exports and an asset freeze on more individuals and companies associated with Tehran’s nuclear and missile programs, council diplomats said.
The United States and the Europeans would certainly favor tougher sanctions, but knew they had to settle for less to ensure that Russia and China, which have close commercial ties with Iran, will not use their veto power to block a resolution.
More weak sauce from the P-5-Plus-1 and……..
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad gestures during a meeting with Iraqi Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi in Tehran March 12, 2007. Ahmadinejad said on Thursday a United Nations Security Council resolution could not stop the Islamic state from obtaining nuclear technology, the official IRNA news agency reported.
……..President Ahmadinejad REJECTS the new sanctions as “A TORN PIECE OF PAPER.”
Reuters: U.N. resolution “torn paper”: Ahmadinejad
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Thursday dismissed any new U.N. sanctions resolution as “a torn piece of paper” that would not stop Tehran’s nuclear work, the official IRNA news agency reported.
“Issuing such torn pieces of paper … will not have an impact on Iranian nation’s will (to obtain nuclear technology),” IRNA quoted Ahmadinejad as telling a rally in central Iran.
U.S., British, French, German, Russian and Chinese diplomats at the
United Nations have reached a tentative deal on imposing fresh sanctions on Iran and hope to introduce the measure at the Security Council on Thursday, providing their governments agree.An earlier sanctions resolution passed by the Security Council in December was derided by Ahmadinejad in similar terms.
In the meantime…….
Iran ‘s top nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani gestures during a news conference after the 43rd Conference on Security Policy in Munich February 11, 2007. Iran would respond militarily if the United States attacks the country to disrupt its nuclear program, Iran’s official IRNA news agency quoted Larijani as saying on Wednesday.
……Ali Larijani continues Iran’s sabre rattling.
Iran has refused to halt uranium enrichment despite United Nations Resolution 1737.
So, this move by Iran will further isolate the country and lead the United Nations Security Council to consider further economic and political sanctions. But, will this be enough to stop Iran’s quest for a nuclear weapon?
Probably not….
Flap foresees a couple of scenarios:
1. Israel learns that Iran is further along in its nuclear weapons development program and decides its survival is predicated on taking out this capability militarily.
2. Iran attacks a Gulf State, oil transport, or mines the Strait of Hormuz in retailiation for United Nations sanctions or Israel/American military movements.
In either case the World oil supply particularly to Europe wil be disrupted. There will be economic hardships until oil transport is restored.
But, Flap asks the question: Does the world confront Iran now or wait until it is closer to possessing a nuclear bomb?
Others are concerned and predict dire consequences should the United States attack Iran.
Perhaps the Europeans and Brits do not completely understand President Bush and the American government. President Bush will take measured steps (as he did prior to the March 2003 invasion of Iraq) against Iran. A diplomatic track is always preferable to military action.
However, the American government and the United Nations Security Council have stated that it is not in the world’s interest to have a nuclear weapon possessing Iran. And, thus, all options are on the table, including military action.
Flap thinks that EU and United Nations negotiations have been feckless, fruitless FAILED efforts and that a “NUCLEAR POINT OF NO RETURN†is at hand. Now is the time for decisions.
Tick Tock Tick Tock
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The Natanz uranium enrichment complex in Natanz is pictured in this January 2, 2006 satellite image.
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Iran Nuclear Watch: Iran Refuses to Halt United Nations Demand to Halt Uranium Enrichment
Iran’s top nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani listens to a reporter’s question during a press conference after his meeting with Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA, Mohamed ElBaradei, on Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2007, at an hotel in Vienna. Tehran wants new talks on its nuclear program, the senior Iranian official said Tuesday, the eve of a U.N. Security Council deadline for his country to stop uranium enrichment or face the threat of harsher sanctions.
AP: Iran refuses to budge on UN demands
Iran called Wednesday for talks with the United States — but despite a U.N. Security Council deadline did not budge on council demands that it mothball its uranium enrichment program or face harsher sanctions.
Amid Iran’s nuclear defiance, the U.N. nuclear watchdog finalized a report to be released Thursday that is expected to formally confirm the Islamic republic’s refusal to freeze enrichment — a conclusion that could subject it to tougher U.N. sanctions.
More Iranian BLOVIATIONS.
The United Nations will eventually pass some additional but MEANINGLESS economic and/or political sanctions.
The “NUCLEAR POINT OF NO RETURN” is at hand.
Who will FLINCH first?
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