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...State Condoleezza Rice telephoned Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov but made little headway. She plans to visit Berlin, Paris and Britain this week in an effort to hammer out a statement that can win unanimous backing in the Security Council. Meanwhile, Tehran has sped up research work on the uranium enrichment that lies at the heart of the dispute. Diplomats who have been briefed on Iran's program by international inspectors say the country has developed the ability to enrich uranium, the first step on the pathway to the Bomb. "They're progressing much faster than we thought they would...
...program. Under the proposed accord, for example, 14 of India's civilian nuclear facilities would come under IAEA inspections, but eight other nuclear facilities would be classified as military installations and not subject to inspections. Those facilities would be able to continue producing nuclear bombs, and critics charge that uranium the U.S. and other countries could provide under this agreement would enable India to use more of its limited stock of indigenous uranium for its weapons program...
...Moscow and Beijing are blocking efforts by the U.S. and its allies to have the Security Council issue an ultimatum to Iran to cease uranium-enrichment activities within 14 days or face action by the international community. They want to allow more time for negotiations, and send the matter back to the International Atomic Energy Agency rather than have the issue remain in the Security Council, where they believe the sense of "crisis" fosters a confrontational attitude on both sides. Without their support, a Security Council statement can't be adopted...
...interrupted her travels Wednesday morning through Indonesia and Australia to place a call to her Russian counterpart, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, in Moscow. A State Department official says they discussed how best to take "firm, meaningful action" to rein in Iran, which insists it has the 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...
...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...