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...Iran Responding to economic sanctions the U.N. Security Council imposed on Tehran last month for refusing to end its nuclear program, the Iranian parliament passed a measure on Dec. 27 to accelerate its research and limit cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). More restrictions could follow...
...India President Bush reversed 30 years of U.S. policy last month by signing an agreement that would allow New Delhi - which never signed the Nonproliferation Treaty - to buy U.S. fuel and reactors. The arrangement must get approval from the 45-nation Nuclear Suppliers Group, the IAEA and the U.S. Congress before taking effect, but critics already fear it could spark an arms race with China and Pakistan...
...punitive action against Tehran. Unlike North Korea, after all, Iran continues to accept the terms of the Non-Proliferation Treaty - and even though it has expressed concerns over transparency and unanswered questions, and has challenged Iran to do a lot more to reassure the world over its intentions, the IAEA says it has found no evidence that Tehran actually has a nuclear weapons program. So Moscow and Beijing are pushing back against the sanctions option and warning that it could ruin prospects for a negotiated solution...
...more ambivalent, and there's little support for that position beyond Western Europe. The U.N. consensus is that Iran should be required to satisfy concerns over its program, but not that it be prevented from ever exercising its right as a signatory to the NPT to enrich uranium under IAEA scrutiny...
...North Korea had actually tested a nuclear weapon, Iran's transgressions have less urgency: according to U.S. estimates, it would take 5 to 10 years between the uranium-enrichment experiments currently under way and a real capacity to produce weapons-grade nuclear fuel. Dr. Mohammed ElBaradei, head of the IAEA, which monitors nuclear activities for the U.N., reiterated Monday that unlike North Korea, which had pulled out of the Non-Proliferation Treaty, Iran still operates within the terms of the NPT, meaning its nuclear activities are monitored by IAEA inspectors. And "the jury is still out," he said, on whether...