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Nuclear Showdown IRAN Days after the U.N. International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) approved a resolution demanding that Iran suspend all uranium-enrichment activities, a defiant Tehran announced that it had started the conversion of some 37 tons of uranium oxide (yellowcake) into UF6-gas - the feed material for enriched uranium. Iran denies its enrichment efforts are part of a weapons program, claiming they are for electricity generation, which the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) permits. A senior official at Iran's Supreme National Security Council, Hossein Mousavian, argued that " Iran cannot be subjected only to the limitations of the treaty...
...Tehran said it would react "most severely" to any Israeli strikes. Unless Iran makes progress in meeting IAEA requirements, its case could land at the U.N. Security Council following an IAEA meeting on Nov. 25. But such a move might not result in the imposition of sanctions. Even countries in favor of a Security Council referral agree that an isolated Tehran might simply end cooperation with U.N. inspections altogether. A U.S. State Department official said that the Security Council would likely only require Iran to suspend its enrichment activities, much as the IAEA has already done, but with a little...
...cease all uranium enrichment-related activities at a key meeting of the 35 nation group in Vienna . Iran, which denied U.S. claims that its enrichment activities were part of a weapons program and insisted that its program is for peaceful energy production, said it would consider the request. The IAEA will review Iran 's compliance again in November. Slow Progress BRITAIN All-party talks designed to revive the stalled Northern Ireland peace process and restore the province's power-sharing government broke up with no agreement. But the meeting's hosts, British Prime Minister Tony Blair and his Irish counterpart...
...thing is clear: this story isn't over. Earlier this month, an IAEA team left Seoul after taking more samples at the TRIGA Mark III reactor. According to the Geneva-based diplomat, "There is more to come...
...small group of very junior scientists in Taejon. But last week, a Geneva-based diplomatic source disclosed that senior scientists were also involved. The government maintains that the small amount of uranium produced was extremely weak; diplomats close to the investigation tell TIME South Korea has admitted to the IAEA it was of near weapons-grade potency. With regard to the plutonium production in 1982, the government said the misreporting to the IAEA in 1983 was a "mistake," that the final report on the experiment was lost and the leader of the group had died. Therefore, the government said...