Iran rejects UN demand for halt to enrichment

[gilliam]

BERLIN (Reuters) - Iran rejected on Thursday a U.N. Security Council demand that it halt uranium enrichment to reassure the world that its nuclear program is peaceful.

“We will not, definitely, suspend again the enrichment,” Iran’s ambassador to the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Aliasghar Soltaniyeh, told Reuters. Soltaniyeh spoke as Germany and the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council were meeting in Berlin to discuss their next steps on Iran, with Russia and China seeking assurances that force would not be used.

today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2006-03-30T130018Z_01_N29372487_RTRUKOC_0_US-NUCLEAR-IRAN.xml

 

[M-Dent]

It will be interesting to see how this develops. Too bad some covert operations where not possible to contaminate the ‘yellow cake’ so the enrichment process failed most of the time. Then Iran’s centrifuge program wouldn’t cause such a stir.

 

[Semper_Fi_1]

gilliam:

BERLIN (Reuters) - Iran rejected on Thursday a U.N. Security Council demand that it halt uranium enrichment to reassure the world that its nuclear program is peaceful.

“We will not, definitely, suspend again the enrichment,” Iran’s ambassador to the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Aliasghar Soltaniyeh, told Reuters. Soltaniyeh spoke as Germany and the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council were meeting in Berlin to discuss their next steps on Iran, with Russia and China seeking assurances that force would not be used.

today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2006-03-30T130018Z_01_N29372487_RTRUKOC_0_US-NUCLEAR-IRAN.xml

I wonder how long it will take for the Iranian apologists to jump on this thread? Let the fireworks begin… it was good knowing you Earth.