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| Iran Apparently Agrees to Stop Enrichment |
| 2004-11-28 |
| Backing down before a Monday deadline, Iran apparently has given up its demand to exempt some equipment from a deal freezing uranium enrichment programs that can make nuclear weapons, diplomats said Sunday. Diplomats from the European Union and elsewhere said on condition of anonymity that the International Atomic Energy Agency received a letter from Iran containing a pledge not to test some centrifuges during the freeze it agreed to Nov. 7 during negotiations with Britain, France and Germany on behalf of the European Union. The pledge appeared to resolve a dispute that threatened to escalate into possible referral of Iran to the U.N. Security Council for defying the IAEA board. The Security Council could then impose sanctions against Iran. On Sunday, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi said Tehran was maintaining a demand made Thursday at the start of the IAEA meeting to use the 20 centrifuges. The centrifuges spin gas into enriched uranium. Tehran had insisted the Nov. 7 deal allowed it to use those centrifuges purely for research, but the EU disagreed. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #5 Iran Apparently Agrees to Stop Enrichment Key word: Apparently, as in; From all external appearances. All-righty then, class, it's euphemism time ... The only way Iran will "stop enrichment" as part of making headway in their pursuit of "nuclear |
| Posted by: Zenster 2004-11-28 4:25:06 PM |
| #4 "apparently" - heh. Shame me five times, shame on me for not using the grand qualifier. |
| Posted by: lex 2004-11-28 4:20:18 PM |
| #3 Sooo.....is this like the third or fourth time that they've supposedly "stopped" doing this? |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2004-11-28 4:01:22 PM |
| #2 Actually, I said I would just before I said I wouldn't. |
| Posted by: Ayatollah Ruholah Kerry 2004-11-28 2:10:06 PM |
| #1 Where are the IAEA and E.U. offices located? I have some 'summer vacation' property in Florida and Arizona as well as several bridges in New York and Chicago I need to sell...... Oh! And I can make them an excellent deal if they want to buy an certain, rather large, statue standing in New York harbour.... |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2004-11-28 1:24:06 PM |