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...basis for referring Iran to the Council is its failure to disclose a variety of uranium enrichment activities, rather than the activities themselves, which are permitted under the NPT but require disclosure and monitoring...
...promised aid, a light-water reactor and the possibility of normal relations in exchange for a guarantee from North Korea that it would mothball its nuclear weapons program. After a strategic review of that framework, however, the U.S. accused North Korea of carrying on a secret program to enrich uranium for nuclear weapons; North Korea then accused the U.S. of failing to live up to its end of the agreement, withdrew from international protocols and began to reprocess nuclear material in earnest. It's that material, from plutonium rods previously been under international supervision, which North Korea is believed...
...PROPOSAL YOU'RE PITCHING TO THE U.N. IS TO ALLOW FOREIGN COUNTRIES, AS WELL AS PRIVATE COMPANIES, TO PARTICIPATE IN IRAN'S URANIUM-ENRICHMENT PROGRAM. DO YOU THINK THIS OPENNESS, AS WELL AS THE POTENTIAL TO PROFIT, WILL FINALLY BREAK THE DIPLOMATIC DEADLOCK...
Iran's new President flew to New York City last week, where George W. Bush was lobbying the United Nations to stop Tehran's uranium-enrichment program. From his heavily guarded hotel suite, Ahmadinejad, a blacksmith's son who still drives his 1977 white Peugeot on occasion, spoke with TIME's Adam Zagorin about his nuclear frustrations, the Iraqi insurgency and his wife's home cooking...
...seeking nuclear weapons capability Saturday, as Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad countered with a series of proposals at the United Nations designed to defuse those fears. In a much-anticipated speech Ahmadinejad offered to permit foreign countries as well as private companies to participate in his country's uranium enrichment program as a confidence-building measure that would demonstrate Iran is not fabricating nuclear weapons. He also asked the UN General Assembly to set up a special committee to compile a report and draw up practical strategies for complete nuclear disarmament...