Word: standoff
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...shared by the international community - the U.N. nuclear watchdog, the IAEA, has found no evidence of a covert nuclear weapons program in Iran, and has reached an agreement with Tehran to address a number of specific concerns over aspects of Iran's nuclear activity at the center of the standoff. That agreement has been pilloried in the U.S., and IAEA chief Dr. Mohammed ElBaradei has come under attack, not least from Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice who told him to to butt out after he criticized the war talk from Western officials. But, having been vindicated in his prewar claim...
...Third World countries like Mexico today hold more modern and truly democratic primaries than America's, whose Iowa- and New Hampshire-centric traditions seem as atavistic to a lot of people as using groundhogs to forecast the arrival of spring. If a silver lining emerges from the Florida-DNC standoff, it might be a consensus on a new arrangement, like the rotating regional primary schedule endorsed by the National Association of State Secretaries of State - the people who actually have to run these elections...
...Suppliers Group that would finalize the deal. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's reaction was a firm no. "Our government is committed to the development of nuclear energy," he insisted. The deal is especially crucial, the government says, because India's existing reactors are low on fuel and supplies. The standoff could force an early election, and even if it doesn't, India could wind up with a lame-duck government...
WHAT TO THINK The move is intended to put pressure on hard-liners in Tehran. But raising the rhetorical heat could also slow efforts to find a diplomatic solution to the nuclear standoff...
...Like the Europeans, the Bush Administration routinely proclaims its support for a "diplomatic solution" to the nuclear standoff. But unlike the Europeans, until now the Bush Administration appears to have taken "diplomatic solution" to mean simply Iranian acquiescence to Western terms as a result of non-military pressure. The Europeans know that's unrealistic, and are more inclined toward a give-and-take approach to diplomacy. They have lately been encouraged by Iran's moves to restore cooperation with the inspectors of the International Atomic Energy Agency, which prompted them to shelve any discussion of further U.N. sanctions until September...