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...only surprise about Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's announcement Monday that Iran has moved to "industrial-scale" uranium enrichment is the timing. Back in January, Iranian officials informed the International Atomic Energy Agency that it was installing 3,000 centrifuges at its underground enrichment facility at Natanz, and would soon begin feeding uranium gas into them. Ahmadinejad had been expected to boast of this expansion from a 328-centrifuge pilot operation last Feb. 11, as Iran celebrated the 28th anniversary of its revolution...
...Royal Marines and sailors--which Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, above left, called a "gift" to Britain--doesn't spell the end of the broader disputes between Iran and the West. Some analysts say Iran's move shows that U.S.-backed sanctions against Iran for its refusal to suspend uranium enrichment are moderating the regime's behavior. The end of the crisis was a boost to Larijani, who is also the country's lead nuclear negotiator. But hard-liners like Ahmadinejad have shown little willingness to bargain away the country's nuclear program. It will be tougher to persuade them...
...captives in what President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called a "gift to the British people" was a notable victory for Iranian pragmatists over hard-liners - one that could even build momentum within Tehran's power structure and in Western capitals for a diplomatic solution to the standoff over Iran's uranium-enrichment program...
...mean that the Western pressure on the Iranian regime is bearing fruit. A day after the Britons were taken captive, the U.N. Security Council passed the second set of sanctions against Iran in three months - and a third round of sanctions is anticipated if Iran does not freeze its uranium-enrichment program, which the U.S. fears could enable Tehran to produce a nuclear weapon. As Under Secretary of State R. Nicholas Burns told the Senate last week, "Despite the fulminations of President Ahmadinejad, Iran is not impervious to financial and diplomatic pressure...
IGOR IVANOV, Secretary of the Russian Security Council, insisting that Iran's uranium-enrichment program be suspended...