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BEIJING (Reuters) - Western powers said on Tuesday Iran's continued stockpiling of enriched uranium devalued its deal to give up some of its potential nuclear bomb material, signaling Tehran would not evade more sanctions this way.
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Under the deal agreed with Turkey and Brazil last week, Iran would send 1.2 tons of its low-enriched uranium (LEU) to Turkey for safekeeping until Tehran received specially processed fuel for its medical isotope reactor around a year later.
But Western critics said the accord, echoing one brokered by the U.N. nuclear watchdog in October involving the same amount of LEU, would still leave Iran with enough material for one bomb, if enriched to high purity, since it is estimated to have almost doubled its LEU reserve with daily enrichment since then.
The United States, France and Russia -- parties to the original deal in principle -- saw it as a way to divest Iran of enough LEU to prevent covert "weaponisation," while giving Iran the means to maintain care for some 850,000 cancer patients.
But U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton condemned Iran's gesture, six months after it backed away from the accord, as a "transparent ploy to avoid (U.N.) Security Council action" to pass a fourth Iran sanctions resolution now on the table.
Clinton, speaking after talks with Chinese leaders in Beijing, and French officials said Iran's launch of higher-level enrichment in February seemed to eclipse any fuel swap deal.
"We discussed at some length (with the Chinese) the shortcomings of the recent proposal put forward by Iran ... There are a number of deficiencies with it that do not answer the concerns of the international community," Clinton said.
British Prime Minister David Cameron said that even if Iran followed through on the deal, it would still retain half of its LEU reserve -- sufficient for one nuclear warhead.
HARSHER SANCTIONS STAY ON TABLE
"I believe it is time to ratchet up that pressure, and the timetable is short. This government has a clear objective to ensure stronger U.N. and EU sanctions against Iran," Cameron said during parliamentary debate in London on Tuesday.
France's Foreign Ministry spokesman said Iran's extended uranium enrichment activities were problematic for its proposal, conveyed on Monday to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) which passed it on to Paris, Washington and Moscow.
Iran's simultaneous reiteration that it would not rein in enrichment in any way, defying a series of resolutions by the IAEA and Security Council, "is being taken into account and it's part of the problem," spokesman Bernard Valero said.
"At the time (of the October deal) we were talking about 1,200 kilogrammes and now the stockpile must be around 2-2,400 kilogrammes," Valero said. "There's a bit of a difference between the two and that is also part of the problem."
Iran insists its uranium enrichment program is for solely peaceful purposes of electricity generation and medical care. But it has a history of hiding sensitive nuclear activity from the IAEA and continues to restrict U.N. inspections.
In Moscow on Tuesday, Iran's ambassador to Russia was quoted by Interfax news agency as warning that Tehran would reconsider the new deal if further sanctions were imposed.
"If there are new sanctions, it will become obvious to the Iranian public that the '5 + 1' group is hiding evil intentions and pursuing political objectives. This would force us to revise the Tehran accords," Mahmoud Reza Sadjadi was quoted as saying.
"We believe that by this (deal) Iran has demonstrated its goodwill," Sadjadi said. "After all that lobbying by Brazil, Turkey and other countries, we believe that it makes no sense to talk about new sanctions."
The draft sanctions resolution agreed by six world powers -- the United States, Britain, France, Germany, Russia and France -- last week is being discussed with other Security Council members for what Washington hopes will be approval next month.
The extended sanctions provisions would target Iranian banks and call for high-sea inspections of vessels suspected of carrying cargo related to Iran's nuclear or missile programs.
(Additional reporting by Tim Castle in London, Vicky Buffery in Paris and Dmitry Solovyov in Moscow; Writing by Mark Heinrich; Editing by Michael Roddy)
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May 25, 2010 12:55pm EDT
Israel where are you ? we need another one of those covert ops you guys are so famous for. 2-3 missiles and the whole world sleeps well at night time !!!!!!!
henderson482
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May 25, 2010 1:16pm EDT
lol, looks like whiteys are mad because they couldn’t get any thing done themselves,israel is probably whinning really hard right now to daddy america. “oh daddy, please please, tell big bad iran to go away”.
sidrock23
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May 25, 2010 1:24pm EDT
IT IS A BRIBED CONSPIRACY SANCTION ON IRAN FOR NOTHING ON BEHALF OF UNBREAKABLE BOND ISRAEL.
THEREFORE, MIDEAST NATIONS NEED TO HAVE PERMANENT IMPARTIAL VETO WIELDING MEMBER AT UN SECURITY COUNCIL NOW !!!. IT NEEDS A CHANGE NOW
U.S. policy on nuclear Iran underscores bias toward Unbreakable bond Israel,
AFTER IRAQ WITH NEVER BEEN FOUND WMD, IT IS CLEAR BY NOW US ANTI IRAN TIRADE
RHETORIC DOUBLE STANDARD IS ONLY ON BEHALF OF UNBREAKABLE BOND ISRAEL, NOT THE
NON PROLIFERATION TREATY OR THE WORLD, TO MAKE SURE THAT ISRAEL IS THE SOLE
NUKES POSSESSOR IN MIDEAST. HISTORY PROVES ITSELF.
THERE IS NO SINGLE CREDITABLE EVIDENCE THAT IRAN FLOUTS THE NPT RULES OR DEVELOPS NUKES.
US AND ZIONIST MEDIA USING PROPAGANDA LIES TO CREATE ILLUSION AND MAKE BELIEVE THAT IRAN IS TO DEVELOP NUKES.
US NEVER CLEARLY STATES WHAT IRAN HAS DONE WRONG WITH NPT.
Washington’s “double standard” on Iran, a signatory to the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), while selling “nuclear technology to Israel and India,” a non-signatory to the NPT.
US continues its annual $3 billion assistance to Israel, despite an American law forbidding aid to any country producing weapons of mass destruction. Not only did ISRAEL THREATEN TO SEND SYRIA BACK TO STONE AGE BUT ALSO Israel offered to sell apartheid-era South Africa nuclear warheads in 1975.
Iran is a signatory of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, is at the moment
FULLY in compliance with it, has no nuclear arsenal, and does not even have a
nuclear weapons program. (The treaty allows countries to enrich uranium for fuel, which is all that Iran
is known to be doing).
In addition, the International Atomic Energy Agency has conducted numerous inspections of Iran’s nuclear facilities but has never found any evidence showing that Iran’s civilian nuclear program has been diverted to nuclear weapons production.
With more than 200 nuclear weapons and the capacity to deliver them against its enemies or use them to buttress its policies, Israel refuses to join the Non-Proliferation Treaty or to open its nuclear facilities for International Atomic Energy Agency inspection. On the other hand, Israel and the United States insist on applying the harshest possible sanctions against Iran, which they fear may be developing nuclear weapons. The United States furthermore is responding to a regional initiative to make the Middle East a zone free of weapons of mass destruction by linking it to progress in the peace process, which means a peace customized by and suited especially to meet Israel’s interests, naturally, because Israel is the sole nuclear power in the region. In promoting this deal, imposed by a nuclear Israel on a much weaker region, the United States is affirming that it certainly pays to be a nuclear power — you get things done on your terms — It is making mockery of other nations when the white house spokesman says Iran must assure THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY. In fact more than hundred countries support Iran’s right to nuclear technology UNDER NPT but the white house spokesman and the media do not consider that number of countries as international community. Only the bullies are entitled speak for other countries.
INDONESIA CERTAIN IRAN’S NUCLEAR PROGRAMME NOT FOR DEFENCE PURPOSES.
OIC backs Iran nuclear declaration
The Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) has backed an Iranian declaration which aims to end a standoff over Tehran’s nuclear program.
lipservice12
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May 25, 2010 1:50pm EDT
“the ‘5 + 1′ group is hiding evil intentions and pursuing political objectives”
- Yeah right… So [according to the Iranian government] all the other powerful countries are ‘hiding evil intentions’; but Iran is not at all, Iran’s intentions are purer than white as they are [ostensibly] based on [the grand Ayatollah's and the Guards' interpretation of] Shariah Law.
This really is significant – if, even AFTER the Iraqi debacle, we NOW have GREATER unity and resolve in the Security Council than ever before – by Iran’s own admission, we increasingly have a unanimous feeling developing among the 5+1, based on their own pragmatic evaluations, that Iran is a threat to world security. This too, when as we all know, Russia and China will never be the lap-dogs of the West. This is realy something.
You could exchange the remarks of Iran with respect to the nuclear stand-off, and the remarks of North Korea w.r.t. their growing isolation; and you wouldn’t know much difference.
G.W.Bush might have helped stir up this hornets nest, but the Iranians are giving a gift to those who wish to prove Bush and Cheney right.
compsci
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May 25, 2010 3:39pm EDT
Why do I smell the big ugly club of Teddy Roosevelt? Because Hillary Clinton is carrying it now? Or is it Obama?
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