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...April 28 deadline looms for Tehran to comply with the U.N. demand that it suspend uranium-enrichment activities, Iran's position has appeared to grow even more defiant: Last week, it announced that it had actually succeeded in enriching uranium in a laboratory setting for the first time, and Ahmadinejad followed up with some trademark bellicosity, threatening Israel and vowing to "cut off the hand" of anyone who attacks Iran...
...council’s own anti-discrimination policy. Despite two attempts to consider the legislation, Greenfield failed to bring the proposal to a vote. In the past, the UC has traditionally denied funding to student groups that impose restrictions on its membership. Last November, the council voted to suspend its bylaws and award a grant to the Harvard-Radcliffe Asian American Christian Fellowship, despite the group’s constitution which stipulates that its executive board members be Christian. The UC’s current policy is to grant funding to student groups that comply with the council?...
...Iran is a country that is allergic to pressure and threats and intimidation." JAVAD ZARIF, Iranian ambassador to the United Nations, after the U.N. Security Council passed a resolution urging Iran to suspend its uranium-enrichment activities within 30 days or else face further action from the international community...
After three weeks of haggling, many Western diplomats had just about given up hope of convincing Moscow and Beijing to sign onto a U.N. Security Council statement pressing Iran to suspend its suspect nuclear activities, comply with international nonproliferation rules and return to negotiations with the Europeans...
...took U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice personally working the phones, and ceding a little ground, to seal the deal - which gave Iran 30 days to suspend its uranium enrichment activities or face as yet unspecified consequences. In the last several days, Rice has spoken to her counterpart, Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov, on a number of occasions, to try and bridge the gap. On the last phone call Wednesday morning, state department officials said, Rice agreed to ask the British to strike a line from their draft statement suggesting that Iran?s rogue behavior might constitute a "threat...