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www.chinaview.cn 2006-09-01 06:03:45
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AFP
Aug 31, 2006 Vienna - UN nuclear inspectors have found no "concrete proof" that Iran's nuclear program is of a military nature, a senior official close to the UN nuclear agency said Thursday. "Inspectors have not uncovered any concrete proof that Iran's nuclear program is of a military nature," the official told reporters on condition of anonymity.
The official said this conclusion came as inspectors from the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) were investigating "additional questions about the scope and nature of Iran's nuclear program" as part of an ongoing investigation since February 2003. These questions have involved Iran's work with sophisticated P2 centrifuges to enrich uranium and blueprints Iran possesses to make nuclear weapons parts. Iran has not been forthcoming in answering these questions. "There is a standstill with regard to the resolution of outstanding issues which would clarify the peaceful nature of Iran's program," the official said. |
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By Alireza Ronaghi
Reuters September 1, 2006 TEHRAN - Iran said on Friday that a nuclear standoff with the West could only be settled through negotiation while Russia called imposing punitive sanctions on Tehran for not ending sensitive atomic work a dead end.
European Union foreign ministers, meeting in Finland, want further dialogue with Iran rather than sanctions after Tehran defied Thursday's U.N. deadline to stop work that the West fears could be a prelude to making a nuclear bomb, officials said. At a two-day informal meeting near Finland's border with Russia, the EU ministers were expected to seek fresh talks despite U.S. pressure for a rapid move to impose sanctions. |
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By GEORGE JAHN
Associated Press Aug 31, 2006 VIENNA, Austria - Iran remained defiant Thursday as a U.N. deadline arrived for it to halt uranium enrichment, and the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations said unanimity among the Security Council was not needed to take action against Tehran.
Key European nations will meet with Iran in September in a last-ditch effort to seek a negotiated solution to the standoff over Tehran's refusal to freeze uranium enrichment, a senior U.N. diplomat said Thursday. Comment: Bolton stated point blank (again) that the US doesn't give a damn about international law or agreement. If the US feels like blowing up a country with its pal Israel, it'll do just that. And what will the world's response be (again)?
"Oh... Um, okay... We're just gonna sit over here in the corner and, um, knit a sweater. OH! If you need some more soldiers, just let us know..." See anything wrong with this picture?? |
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by Pamela Hess
UPI Pentagon Correspondent Aug. 31, 2006 Washington - As the U.S. president and defense secretary try to shore up support for the Iraq war with a series of tough speeches, a professor at a U.S. military graduate school argues the United States is politically, militarily and culturally ill suited to fight and win insurgent wars, beginning with Iraq, but extending to much of what America will face in the long war on terrorism.
Jeffrey Record is a professor in the Department of Strategy and International Security at the U.S. Air Force's Air War College in Montgomery, Ala., has written extensively on the U.S. military, and served as assistant province adviser in the Mekong Delta during the Vietnam War. In a forthcoming paper for the libertarian Cato Institute, Record says the attributes that have made the U.S. military the premier conventional force are the same ones that prevent it from being effective against an insurgent enemy. |
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