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Elected in 2005, Ahmadinejad has adopted a hostile stance toward the United States, ignoring its demand that Iran end its uranium enrichment program, and has also drawn fire for his denial of the Holocaust...
...Sarkozy was ratcheted up last weekend by his foreign minister, Bernard Kouchner, who urged the world to prepare for war against Iran. He later insisted that he meant simply that war was the worst possible outcome but that the failure of diplomatic pressure to dissuade Iran from enriching uranium would make war inevitable. To underscore the point, French Prime Minister Francois Fillon added Monday, "The Iranians must understand that tension has reached an extreme point ... in the relationship [with] its neighbors...
...Bush proclaims containing Iran as one of the strategic rationales for staying in Iraq. And the hawkish political faction inside and outside of the Administration that campaigned for war in Iraq are once again beating the drum for blasting Iran, warning that diplomatic efforts to deter Iran from enriching uranium are going nowhere...
...chances of the U.N. Security Council approving any further sanctions against Iran this fall, and the French call for unilateral European sanctions has been rebuffed by Italy (Iran's largest European trading partner) and sharply criticized by Russia. A deeper problem lies in the fact that the West sees uranium enrichment itself - to which Iran is entitled under the Non-Proliferation Treaty - as unacceptable, because it would give Iran the means to quickly assemble a nuclear weapon if it chose to break from the NPT, as North Korea did. Thus far, Iran has rejected deals offered by the Europeans...
...promise. Signed in 1994, the Agreed Framework called for the North to halt its nuclear research in exchange for heavy oil and two light-water reactors from the U.S. In October 2002, however, a North Korean delegation admitted to its U.S. counterpart that the North had been secretly enriching uranium for years, even while the U.S. had been sending oil and building reactors. Now, the February deal once again offers North Korea economic aid for a promise it’s already broken.The flurry of futile deals leads some Americans to believe that the U.S. should just ignore North Korea?...