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Hard-line Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad wasted no time in confronting the West over Tehran's nuclear ambitions. Just days after being sworn in, Ahmadinejad defended Iran's decision to break seals placed by the International Atomic Energy Agency on a facility in Isfahan, thus ending a nine-month-old voluntary moratorium on converting uranium ore into gas used in the uranium-enrichment process. The move followed Iran's rejection of a U.S.-backed compromise proposed by Britain, France and Germany that called for Iran to give up uranium-enrichment activities - which could potentially produce fuel for an atomic weapon...
...when a Gaza leader from the ruling Fatah Party last week declared that he had set up a "popular army" to guard the evacuated settlements, government officials viewed that as a veiled threat to take over the settlements unless his group got some cash. In the end, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will probably have to pay off all the feuding parties. But by then, the greenhouses--and a chance to grow the Palestinian economy--may have withered on the vine. --By Matt Rees and Jamil Hamad
...Since the election of its new hardline president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran has become increasingly strident over its nuclear ambitions. Ahmadinejad dismissed the European offer as an 'insult,' precisely because it required Iran to renounce the right it enjoys under the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) to enrich uranium for energy purposes. Tehran's action this week ended its year-long voluntary suspension of uranium conversion activities. Its top representative to the IAEA was combative yesterday, saying that on the anniversary of the bomb that destroyed Nagasaki, the U.S. was in "no position whatsoever to preach to anyone about what they should...
...chiefs and businessmen are vying for sole control over the greenhouses. And this isn't the only example of intra-Palestinian tensions. Top Palestinian security officials say there is a dispute between different branches of the military over who will guard the empty settlements. In the end, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will probably have to pay off all the feuding parties. But by then, the greenhouses - and a chance to grow the Palestinian economy - may have withered on the vine...
Conservative Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was formally endorsed as Iran's new president, Wednesday, after winning last month's election. How will his presidency change Iran's foreign policy towards the West, and the U.S. in particular...