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...Still, the Bush Administration hopes the Iranians, confronted with the prospect of UN action, will buckle and accept the Western insistence that Iran cannot be permitted to enrich uranium on its own soil (because this technology and industrial capacity would allow it also to create the fissile fuel necessary for a nuclear weapon). If Tehran remains defiant, the U.S. and its allies have an uphill task of persuading a reluctant international community to impose sanctions, or else consider some form of military strike that risks provoking a catastrophic backlash without even necessarily guaranteeing the elimination of Iran's nuclear activities...
...allies are confronted by the difficulties in mustering support for sanctions against Iran, much less any form of military action, Iran's defiant posture should also be read with a measure of skepticism. Despite Tehran's insistence on exercising its right to enrich uranium for peaceful purposes, the New York Times reports that Iran is as much as ten years away from being able to perfect the kind of industrial-scale enrichment that Tehran has threatened in exchange for Security Council referral. And while its nuclear stance is remarkably popular across the political spectrum at home, even building a bomb...
...despite all the bluster from all sides, the search for a compromise formula on Iranian enrichment activities remains very much alive. A Russian proposal to enrich the fuel for Iran's reactors on its own soil - so as to prevent material being diverted for further enrichment for a bomb program - right now remains the most likely contender. There's no deal yet, because Tehran is insisting that it retain the right to continue small-scale enrichment for research purposes on its own soil, a demand flatly rejected by the West. But the fact that the parties continue to negotiate even...
...lesson can be drawn from the events of past weeks, it’s that Harvard is not above politics. Harvard is, however, institutionally impoverished when it comes to facilitating fairness and transparency in its politics. We hope that the formation of a University senate will enrich campus-wide dialogue by facilitating communication amongst the faculties, between the faculties and the administration, and between Harvard and the world outside of the academy. As an organized and institutionalized body, the University senate would serve to mitigate the many competing interests that currently clash...
...showing a degree of solidarity with the American-led pressure on Iran? Ahmadinejad, who came to power in an upset election victory last year, is a hard-liner. But not even moderate Iranian leaders accept Western demands that Iran completely abandon the right, guaranteed under the NPT, to enrich uranium for peaceful purposes. After six months in office, Ahmadinejad has concluded that no Iranian compromise will satisfy Washington. By restarting enrichment, says one Tehran analyst, Iran is simply saying that it will not permit the West to determine the timetable for its nuclear development...