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...Sarkozy, the new President of France - someone who, at times, has sounded more hawkish on Iran than Bush - and then German Chancellor Angela Merkel repeated that economic sanctions were a crucial part of diplomatic efforts to get Tehran to halt its development of facilities capable of producing weapons-grade uranium. But if ever there was a case where the devil is in the details, it's in the practical application of sanctions as a coercive instrument against Iran. The U.S. and the Europeans have so far been successful in getting two rounds of sanctions passed by the Security Council. That...
...results have been explosive. Huge deposits of minerals, including, at Jabaluka in the Northern Territory, the richest known uranium deposits in the southern hemisphere, lie beneath the earth. No less than 15% of the total land area of Australia is owned or controlled by Aboriginal groups and councils. Some 700 land claims, covering 50% of the Australian landmass, await determination by the courts, and more are coming in every day. This avalanche has caused legal and bureaucratic gridlock. Few Aboriginal groups accept mediation by whites. No two groups agree on land use. Some, for instance, think that tribal land should...
...consequence of Iran gaining the know-how to make nuclear weapons. Vice President Dick Cheney recently declared that Washington would "not allow Iran to have a nuclear weapon," and that Iran would face "serious consequences" if it refuses to stop enriching uranium. But the U.S. military, at least in the short term, appears to be pushing in the other direction...
...Nevertheless, that same day, more than 6,000 miles away, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, seemed to ignore any such olive branches. He declared that his country now has 3,000 uranium-enriching centrifuges at Natanz churning out highly enriched uranium that he says will be used to generate electrical power. But Washington and its allies fear that Iran's enrichment capability will be used to create fissile material for nuclear bombs. So, the U.S. continues to hedge its bets. After all, while it released two of the five Iranians captured in Irbil...
...that Sarkozy appears to be Bush's strongest European ally when it comes to tackling Iran's nuclear program. But on that issue, too, the Frenchman's tough talk obscures the larger fact that very little has actually changed: France is leading the effort to persuade Iran to end uranium enrichment through a combination of sanctions and negotiations, and calls the idea of U.S. military action against Iran "catastrophic...