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| Iran Avoids Showdown at IAEA Meeting |
| 2005-11-24 |
| After four months of bad-tempered diplomacy, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has sidestepped a fight with the rest of the world over his country's nuclear plans that was due to come to a head today. Today's meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency, the UN's nuclear watchdog, was to be a showdown at which the board of governors referred Iran to the UN Security Council. Instead, Britain, France, Germany and Russia have set aside December 6 to meet Iranian leaders in a move aimed at breaking the deadlock over Tehran's disputed nuclear program. The new talks would be the next step, after the US and the EU-3 - Britain, France and Germany - put off calling on the IAEA to send Iran to the Security Council, in an effort to give Russia time to get Tehran to agree to a compromise. Under the Russian proposal, Iran would be allowed to prepare uranium in the form of gas, but enrichment of uranium into reactor fuel and reprocessing of fuel rods - another way to produce a bomb - would be carried out in Russia. The US hopes that getting countries such as Russia, an Iranian ally, involved in talks will get Tehran "off the dangerous course it's on", said Gregory Schulte, US envoy to the IAEA. A European diplomat said next month's meeting would be to "talk about talks" between Iran and the EU trio on guarantees Tehran would not make nuclear weapons. Previous discussions broke off in August when Iran resumed its suspended uranium conversion. |
| Posted by:Pappy |
| #1 So the Mad Mullahs will be allowed to become 62.47% pregnant, with the World-Renowned Peace Specialist Dr Puttyputz attending to the blushing, er, brooding, um, bellicose, uh, belligerent bastards. I am sooo relieved. I was afraid that President Ahmedjihadi and His Merry Band of Turbans were going to receive a strong-worded letter - or worse! Whew! Bring on the |
| Posted by: .com 2005-11-24 09:19 |