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| Talks could be West's last chance |
| 2011-01-13 |
| [Arab News] Talks next week between Iran and major powers concerned about its nuclear program could be the "last chance" for the West because Tehran's atomic capability is improving, a senior Iranian official was quoted as saying. Ali Asghar Soltanieh, Tehran's nuclear ambassador, raised the stakes for the Jan. 21-22 meeting with the five permanent members of the UN Security Council plus Germany, which want assurances that Iran is not developing nuclear weapons. Once Iran can make its own fuel for a research reactor, which it has said will happen this year, it may not return to negotiations if the talks to be held in Istanbul fail, the official IRNA news agency quoted him as saying on Wednesday. "It might be the last chance because by installing fuel rods produced by Iran in the core of the Tehran Research Reactor, probably parliament will not allow the government to negotiate or send its uranium outside the country and the Istanbul meeting might be the last chance for the West to return to talks." Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has the ultimate say on its nuclear policy and diplomacy. A similar round of talks concluded in October 2009 with a tentative pact for Iran to export some of its low-enriched uranium in exchange for fuel rods made from higher-enriched, 20 percent uranium to run the reactor which makes medical isotopes. But that deal, meant as a confidence building step leading to further talks, unraveled when Tehran backed away from the terms, ultimately leading to a new wave of sanctions which some analysts say helped push Tehran back to the negotiating table. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 IIUC, IRAN = will begin IGNORING UNO-LED DEMANDS + SANCTIONS, + proceed unilater steadily forward unto NUCLEAR WEAPONS PRODUCTION UNLESS STOPPED BY AN OUTSIDE FORCE [Newton's Law]. Oh yeah, "2012". IRAN > "D *** NG IT, WE WERE ONLY PRETENDING TO IGNORE YOU BEFORE [US + UNO], NOW WE WILL IGNORE YOU FOR REAL. D *** THE TORPEDOES, ALL CAMELS FULL AHEAD". |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2011-01-13 00:58 |