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...Putin arrives in Iran at a moment when the U.S. and its key European allies are pushing for a new round of sanctions aimed at persuading Tehran to suspend uranium enrichment. But the likelihood of the U.N. Security Council approving new sanctions right now appears remote, given the veto power of China and Russia - both of whom differ substantially with the West on the nature of the problem with Iran, and on how to deal with...
...What Kouchner makes clear is that the U.S. and its allies have defined mastering the technology of uranium-enrichment as a red line that Iran cannot be allowed to cross. But Kouchner exaggerates when he claims that this technology would give Tehran "de facto military nuclear capacity"; it simply gives Iran an important piece of nuclear infrastructure that is allowed under the NPT but could, if Iran pulled out of the NPT, be used to create weapons-grade materiel. While the demand that Iran suspend enrichment until it has answered the IAEA's questions enjoys broad support, the demand that...
...obvious next question is this: If Washington was prepared to compromise to achieve a deal on North Korea, then why not on Iran? Speaking Wednesday in Lancaster, Pa., President Bush indicated that he would, in fact, be willing to talk with Iran if it suspended uranium enrichment. But not otherwise. That, of course, is simply a restatement of a longstanding Administration position. But its hopes of reversing Iran's nuclear program on the basis of current policies remains remote. U.N. sanctions adopted until now have failed to force Iran to suspend uranium enrichment, and new moves by Tehran to cooperate...
...nuclear issue in Iran is less clear-cut. North Korea had withdrawn from the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and tested a nuclear weapon; Iran remains under the NPT and is nowhere close to building nuclear weapons. Western governments fear that mastering civilian nuclear technologies such as uranium enrichment, allowed under the NPT, would put bomb-making capability within reach of the Iranian regime, and should be prevented. Iran counters that enrichment is its right under the NPT. For the U.N., the concern has been over Iran's transparency rather than the principle of enrichment. The lines of compromise...
...Iran has not violated any of the rules of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Ahmadinejad says. He has proposed a multilateral uranium enrichment program with different nations, and can't understand why no one has taken up his offer...