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...right to enrich uranium for what it says are peaceful purposes. But another knowledgeable U.S. official goes further, asserting that Rice called Lavrov to voice concern about his government?s continued opposition to a joint U.S.-European plan to have the Security Council call on Iran to suspend its nuclear activities. The official said that Rice warned Lavrov that Russia was becoming isolated from the rest of the Security Council; she referred, he says, to Tuesday's "informal" gathering of Security Council delegates hosted by the French UN mission. During that session, the official says, 13 of 15 representatives expressed...
...Western European allies aren?t ready to discuss economic sanctions. But officials say some diplomats have begun talking quietly to one another and to other countries about where they might squeeze their commercial relations with Iran to force the Islamist regime to suspend its research on uranium enrichment and other techologies essential to constructing a bomb...
...report from the UN nuclear watchdog that could not certify that Iran's nuclear program is strictly, as Tehran claims, for civilian energy purposes. The council could discuss the matter as early as next week and present Iran with an ultimatum to comply with IAEA demands that it suspend uranium enrichment activities. But IAEA chief Mohammed ElBaradei urged all parties to cool the rhetoric and apply themselves to the search for an agreement: On Tuesday, Vice President Dick Cheney threatened "meaningful consequences" for Iran's defiance, while Iran's ambassador to the IAEA warned that Iran was equally capable...
...TIME: Would Iran voluntarily suspend its nuclear activities once again to end the crisis...
...Larijani: We suspended our activities for three years. What was solved? Nothing. They [European negotiators] are repeating the same thing as in the first day, saying ?We'll take you to the Security Council.? I think that even if we do that [suspend nuclear activities], then history will repeat itself. They asked us to abandon nuclear technology. They treated us really badly. They took away the trust we had in them...