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Posted: Tue Mar 07, 2006 12:49 am Post subject: U.S. Dismisses Talk of Compromise on Iran |
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U.S. Dismisses Talk of Compromise on Iran
By BARRY SCHWEID, AP Diplomatic Writer
13 minutes ago
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060307/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_iran_6
WASHINGTON - Unless Iran executes a dramatic about-face and suspends all its nuclear activities, the U.N. Security Council will intervene "quite actively," a senior State Department official said Monday.
The message to Iran is that it has "crossed the international red line" and engaged in unacceptable enrichment activity "and there must be a U.N. Security Council process to deal with that," Undersecretary of State Nicholas Burns said.
Burns did not say what the United States would ask the Security Council to do. While the Bush administration takes a stern line toward Tehran it might not be able to persuade other nations to impose economic or other penalties on Iran.
The U.N. nuclear watchdog agency, which voted to refer the dispute to the Security Council, will reaffirm its stance this week in Vienna, Austria, "unless Iran does a dramatic about-face and suspends all of its nuclear activities," Burns said at the Heritage Foundation, a private research group.
His remarks followed a State Department spokesman's dismissal of reports an eleventh-hour compromise might be struck over Iran's nuclear program.
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Posted: Thu Mar 09, 2006 3:26 pm Post subject: Rice: Iran May Pose Greatest Challenge to US |
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Rice: Iran May Pose Greatest Challenge to US
March 09, 2006
Reuters
today.reuters.com
http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=politicsNews&storyID=2006-03-09T151045Z_01_WAT005018_RTRUKOC_0_US-NUCLEAR-IRAN-USA.xml
WASHINGTON -- Iran is probably the No. 1 challenge to the United States, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Thursday after Tehran vowed no compromise in a standoff with the West over its nuclear programs.
Rice, who wants the United Nations Security Council this month to start taking action against Iran that could lead to sanctions, also repeated concerns that Washington believes Tehran supports anti-Israel militants and meddles in neighboring Iraq.
"We may face no greater challenge from a single country than from Iran, whose policies are directed at developing a Middle East that would be 180 degrees different than the Middle East we would like to see developed," Rice said at a congressional hearing.
Faced with the threat of eventual international sanctions, Iran warned the United States on Wednesday it could also inflict "harm and pain" in its dispute over nuclear programs that it says are peaceful despite Western suspicions it wants a bomb. |
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Posted: Fri Mar 10, 2006 4:47 pm Post subject: Rice says Iran case must go to Security Council |
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Rice says Iran case must go to Security Council
1 hour, 11 minutes ago
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060310/pl_afp/irannuclearpoliticsus_060310193016
SAN JUAN (AFP) - US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice insisted that the Iran nuclear crisis must now go to the UN Security Council, rejecting a call for international talks outside the world body.
While saying that more meetings of the main countries involved in the controversy were likely, Rice said: "I think what is ahead of us now is pretty clear and that is the Security Council."
Speaking on a stopover in the Puerto Rico capital while heading for Chile, Rice said the main powers had agreed that if Iran did not respond to International Atomic Energy Agency calls for cooperation then its case should be referred to the UN Security Council.
"I am always happy to meet with my colleagues but I think we know what we need to do now," Rice said.
US Undersecretary of State Nicholas Burns earlier said the Security Council talks will be "early next week."
Washington believes Iran's nuclear programme is hiding efforts to develop an atomic bomb. Tehran insists its aim is peaceful.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said earlier Friday that the five permanent members of the UN Security Council -- Britain, China, France, Russia and the United States -- plus Germany should meet for talks on Iran before the case went to the world body.
Lavrov said that although the situation was critical, "this does not mean that now we must now all go to the Security Council and start demanding, threatening and carrying out threats." |
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Posted: Sat Mar 11, 2006 8:35 pm Post subject: US President George W. Bush(R) speaks to the press |
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http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/060311/photos_pl_afp/b9d4f24c85aa1cd1aa80ca943bc1b94a
US President George W. Bush(R) speaks to the press as Admiral Edmund P. Giambastiani, Jr.(L), Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Peter Pace(2nd L), and retired General Montgomery C. Meigs(3rd L) look on after a briefing at the White House in Washington, DC. Bush suggested Iran was stirring up violence in neighboring Iraq.(AFP/Jim Watson) |
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