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November 26, 2004
Iran gives in on N-deal. Really?
Topics: Middle East News and PerspectivesNews.com.au (Australia) is reporting that Iran has given up and dropped its demands, leading to an Agreement:
IRAN has backed down in the face of fierce international pressure and dropped its demand for changes to a key agreement designed to reassure the world that it does not want nuclear weapons. Last week, Iran promised the European Union it would halt all activities related to uranium enrichment, a process that creates atomic fuel for power plants or weapons, in a bid to neutralise the threat of economic sanctions.
But the ink on the hard-won accord was barely dry when Tehran demanded an exemption for about 20 enrichment centrifuges for research purposes.
Western diplomats said that was impossible and could only deepen suspicions that Tehran had a secret weapons program, as Washington alleges. And Iran has now backed down.
"They (Iran) have agreed to drop the demand and (the EU) are awaiting confirmation that a letter has been given to (UN nuclear watchdog chief Mohamed ElBaradei) confirming this," a diplomat said.
A second Western diplomat confirmed the development.
The head of the Iranian delegation to this week's International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) board of governors meeting, Hossein Mousavian, said agreement had been reached, but still needed the final stamp of approval from Tehran. He had said earlier in the day the 20 centrifuges were "not important" and reaffirmed his commitment to the deal.
"We are fully committed to a suspension of enrichment and related activities."
He said the EU deal did not cover centrifuge research and development, but European diplomats said such research was clearly banned under the agreement suspending enrichment.
Asked what broke the three-day deadlock over Iran's request, which had threatened to torpedo the entire agreement, one diplomat said: "It was (the EU's) hard stance. The Iranians just gave up."
Western diplomats in Vienna said the request to amend the terms of the freeze had infuriated not only the European Union, which is offering Iran a large package of political and economic "carrots", but also Washington, which despite Iranian denials has long accused Tehran of trying to build an atomic bomb. Read More...
Does this mean that we have heard the last about Iran developing a nuclear weapon and threatening Israel, Europe, and the United States? Do we no longer have to worry about Iran handing-over nuclear technology to terrorists? Remember, we have our old friend El Baradei keeping watch in behalf of the not-yet-ready-to-be-believed UN. Even El Baradei declared in a November 15 summary report that he could not rule out the existence of secret nuclear activities that UN inspectors had not uncovered(from the above article in the JP). The issue over Iran's nuclear ambitions are not over, merely begun. More to come!
Posted by Hyscience at November 26, 2004 8:23 PM
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