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...Atomic Energy Act, which both the House and Senate must approve by majority votes, because that decades-old law effectively prohibits nuclear aid to India, which detonated an atomic device in 1974 and has refused to submit all its nuclear activities to inspections by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). India conducted another nuclear test in 1998 and is now believed to have 50 to 100 atomic weapons in its arsenal...
...nuclear technology, hardware and fuel without any limits being placed on its weapons program - and without adequate safeguards that the American aid won't end up helping expand that weapons program. Under the proposed accord, for example, 14 of India's civilian nuclear facilities would come under IAEA inspections, but eight other nuclear facilities would be classified as military installations and not subject to inspections. Those facilities would be able to continue producing nuclear bombs, and critics charge that uranium the U.S. and other countries could provide under this agreement would enable India to use more of its limited stock...
...French-British draft that are, one U.S. official complains, "designed to gut the proposed statement." In particular, one source says, Russia is opposing setting a short deadline for Iran?s compliance and is trying to move the issue out of the Security Council and back to the less potent IAEA board...
...Most estimates concur that even if Iran decided to kick out International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspectors and pursue nuclear weapons, it would be somewhere between three and ten years away from its goal, but U.S. officials have begun portraying Iran as a grave and imminent danger. The U.S. also appears to be throwing the book at Tehran, with Defense Secretary Rumsfeld recently accusing it of unspecified meddling in Iraq, and Secretary of State Rice calling Iran "the central banker for terrorism...
...prove the need for a more confrontational approach. Many of the countries that have backed Washington's diplomatic efforts on Iran's nuclear program oppose both regime change and economic sanctions. China wants a brief statement of concern from the Security Council before sending the matter back to the IAEA and giving more time for Russia to negotiate a compromise; Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov warned Monday that despite the agreement in Vienna to refer the issue to the Security Council, there is no consensus among the key Council members on how to take the matter forward. Meanwhile...