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...extraordinary intervention, coming as it did in the same week that Iranian officials took an uncompromising position into talks with European negotiators over Tehran's nuclear program. Despite warnings from U.S. and European leaders, Iran has indicated that it plans to back out of a voluntary suspension of its uranium enrichment activities. Taken together, the response to the nuclear talks and the looming elections suggest that Iran's mullahs are, however improbably, feeling rather confident right...
...international balance of forces that will dictate how the crisis plays out. A top delegation of European leaders, including Britain's foreign secretary Jack Straw and EU security chief Javier Solana, are expected to meet Iranian negotiators in Geneva on Wednesday, anxious to walk Tehran back from resuming uranium enrichment activities. Those are allowed under the rules of the Non-Proliferation Treaty, but the EU-3 (Britain, France and Germany), like the U.S. and Israel, suspect that Iran is taking advantage of the considerable latitude allowed by the NPT to create nuclear infrastructure that could put it within months...
KAMAL KHARRAZI, Foreign Minister of Iran, when asked in an interview with TIME if there are any circumstances that could lead to an end to the country's uranium enrichment...
...TIME: Let?s talk about Iran?s nuclear program. Are there any circumstances that could lead to a permanent freeze on uranium enrichment by Iran? Kharrazi: There will not be any permanent freeze, because [it] is our legitimate right to have this [nuclear] technology and produce what we need for the country. No incentive can substitute for our legitimate right...
...Soon the issue of uranium sales will come under debate in Australia again. Given its expansion and global carbon-emissions protocols, China's energy future is looking increasingly nuclear. Australia has the world's largest uranium reserves. The two countries are working on a nuclear safeguards agreement. "We believe in the peaceful use of nuclear energy," says Foreign Minister Downer. Although environmentalists are not the political force they have been in the past, uranium mine expansions or a Chinese stake in the industry would bring protesters to the streets. The Howard government has changed the way Australia addresses Chinese human...