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Iran's top nuclear negotiator, Ali Larijani, meets with his Western counterpart, EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana, on Wednesday in Turkey, amid growing signs that the diplomatic process may be inching towards some sort of breakthrough...
...current experimental uranium-enrichment activities - a demand Iran has rejected, because it says such activities are well within its nuclear "rights" under the NPT. Finding a compromise between Western demands for an end to enrichment and Iran's insistence that enrichment is its right is the challenge facing Solana and Larijani...
...would require Iran to find some way to turn off its centrifuges, the Western powers would have to make some concessions, too. The U.S. had originally insisted that Iran could not be allowed to keep any enrichment facilities on its own soil, but it is now being reported that Solana may offer a deal in which Iran would keep its current small-scale enrichment research facility, although not actually run it, for now. Reports suggest that the U.S. will push for the Natanz facility to revert to "cold standby," i.e. turning off but not dismantling the centrifuges, whereas Iran would...
...Iran's pragmatists led by Ali Larijani, head of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, and who is also Tehran's chief nuclear negotiator. Last year, Ahmadinejad's hard-line opposition had helped scuttle a deal Larijani was crafting in discussion with European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana that involved a temporary suspension of Iran's enrichment program. In announcing the release of the Britons, Ahmadinejad signaled that the more radical faction of Iran's leadership would not stand in the way of Larijani's dealings with the West. The question now is whether Larijani can achieve the same...
Even as a heavily recruited shortstop out of Solana Beach, Calif., Matt Vance knew that baseball at the college level would require adjustments to his game. But when he prepared to suit up for his first action in a Harvard uniform, he realized that playing for the Crimson would be even more of a change than he had anticipated...