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South Africa offers uranium to Iran
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The United Nations’ nuclear watchdog Yeah, a little red watchdog, with a bushy tail and chicken feathers on his whiskers is set to vote on a request for a detailed report on Iran’s non-proliferation safeguards by September 3.

A new draft resolution to the International Atomic Energy Authority requests that the organisation’s director general, Mohamed El-Baradei, report on Iran’s implementation of agreed non-proliferation safeguards in three weeks’ time. Request denied. Carry on, Iran.

The new draft resolution, due to be debated at the IAEA in Vienna on Thursday, held back from demanding that Iran be referred to the UN Security Council, which has the power to impose minor nuisance crippling sanctions on Iran.

On Wednesday an IAEA emergency board meeting adjourned without agreement on a resolution that would call on Iran to reinstate the suspension of its nuclear work. The resolution, drafted by Western nations, ran into opposition from terrorist-supporting developing countries.

Earlier South Africa proposed a giveawaycompromise to break the diplomatic crisis over Iran's nuclear programme, after Tehran on Wednesday removed United Nations seals from a uranium conversion facility in order to resume work on producing nuclear fuel.

Diplomats said Thabo Mbeki, South African president, was involved in pushing the interim compromise. Two weeks ago he met Hassan Rowhani, who was then Iran's chief negotiator, to discuss a proposal that would involve shipping South African uranium yellowcake to Iran for conversion into uranium hexafluoride gas. This would be returned to South Africa to be enriched into nuclear fuel. SA officials will express "surprise" at the poor quality of the UF6: "There's hardly any U-235 in here at all."

The EU-3 group of France, Germany and the UK accused Iran of “flagrant disregard” of its November 2004 agreement voluntarily to suspend its nuclear fuel cycle development. There would be no further talks until Iran resumed that suspension, a UK official said.

The EU-3 and the US intend to push ahead with another IAEA resolution in September that would try to refer Iran to the UN Security Council and Chinese veto if there were no change by then. An Iranian official said it would go to the next stage and restart uranium enrichment at its Natanz facility GPS coordinates? if it was taken to the council.

Posted by: Jackal 2005-08-11
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