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...issue of a nuclear-powered Iran, the senator, a member of both the Senate Intelligence and Armed Services Committees, said he was skeptical whether Iran had actually reprocessed uranium...
Iran's announcement that it has mastered the art of enriching uranium was greeted with a predictable chorus of alarm. But despite expressions of grave concern from Washington and London to Moscow and Beijing, Tehran's nuclear "breakthrough" doesn't necessarily diminish chances for a diplomatic solution. On the contrary, Tehran has long insisted it wants a compromise that both addresses Western concerns and upholds what it says is its "right" to enrich uranium, particularly in a research setting. The latest announcement may well give the Iranians room to show greater flexibility at the bargaining table without appearing to back...
...Russia or elsewhere abroad, but allows it to maintain, under international scrutiny, the small research facility that completed this week's experiment. The U.S. and Europe have flatly rejected that proposal, because they had hoped to deny Iran the means of attaining even the know-how to enrich uranium for fear that this would be used in a covert bomb program. Now, Iran appears to have already achieved that milestone - even though it remains years away from being able to manufacture its own reactor fuel on an industrial scale or create bomb material - which could render that objection moot...
...Ghomi is not likely to suffer any anxiety over U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice?s threat of ?strong action? against Iran in the U.N. Security Council in response to the news that Tehran had finally enriched a small quantity of uranium. Ghomi made it clear his government does not take kindly to being told what to do. Just as no one should interfere the internal affairs of Iraq, he said, the U.S. should not contemplate interfering in Iran. ?It?s our position that we want to be a sovereign and independent country, but the Americans seem to think they...
...President Dick Cheney and President George W. Bush. The prosecution’s filing said that Libby told a grand jury that Bush had authorized Cheney to leak specific classified information that supported the administration’s views on Iraq, namely that Saddam Hussein had attempted to acquire uranium ore from Niger...