TOKYO, January 13
(RIA Novosti, Andrei Fesyun) - Iran's nuclear program will have to be referred to the UN Security Council, if the country does not give up its nuclear research, a senior Japanese government official said Friday.
Chief Cabinet Secretary Shinzo Abe told a news conference that Japan was disappointed by the Islamic Republic's announcement that it would resume research into uranium enrichment, which some nations fear will be used to develop nuclear weapons. The country removed the UN seals at its nuclear facilities this week thereby ending a two-year moratorium on nuclear research.
"If Iran does not change its position, there will be no alternative to referring the issue to the United Nations Security Council," the official said, echoing the conclusion made by a trio of European nations that talks with Tehran seem to have come to a "dead end."
The Security Council has the power to impose sanctions on Iran if it is found to have been in breach of its international commitments. U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Thursday that there was "a menu of possibilities" that diplomats could pursue against the Persian Gulf country.
UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan said Thursday following a 40-minute telephone conversation with Ali Larijani, Iran's chief negotiator on the nuclear problem, that Tehran was willing to hold "constructive" talks with the European Union.
Annan said the Iranian official had assured him that Iran sought talks, although within a certain timeframe. He added the Iranian "file" should remain under the jurisdiction of the International Atomic Energy Agency, the UN's nuclear watchdog, until it had exhausted every way to influence the country.
Also on Friday, Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Aso said the referral to the Security Council would not necessarily entail sanctions against Iran. He also backed the position of the foreign ministers of Germany, Britain, and France, the three European countries that brokered the moratorium two years ago. The trio said Thursday that it would have to turn to the Security Council if Iran did not change its approach.
Russia, a permanent member of the Security Council, said Thursday that it had never ruled out referring the matter to New York, even though it has defended Tehran's right to develop nuclear energy for peaceful purposes in the past. But, echoing other official comments about Russia's "disappointment" with the Iranian decision, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Moscow would still try to persuade Iran to re-impose the moratorium on its nuclear programs.
Russia, which is helping Iran build an $800-million nuclear power plant at Bushehr, last year proposed establishing a joint venture on its own territory to enrich nuclear fuel for Iranian power plants. The EU, and the U.S. backed the idea.
Iran has neither rejected nor accepted the proposal so far. Russian-Iranian talks were held in early January and are to resume later in the month.
MOSCOW, January 12
(RIA Novosti) - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov called on Iran Thursday to resume a moratorium on nuclear research. "We are sure that Iran will make the right choice if it resumes the moratorium," the minister said on Russian TV.
Lavrov said that otherwise, it would be difficult to continue efforts to resolve the Iranian nuclear problem.
"I hope that the European troika [France, Germany and Britain], the United States, China and Russia will work out a reasonable approach to solving the problem through diplomatic ways during their contacts in the nearest days," Lavrov said.
Iran announced Tuesday that it was resuming nuclear research after a two-year hiatus and had removed the seals at its nuclear facilities.
What is US policy? Well in 2003 it was http://www.fas.org/man/crs/IB93033.pdf , on terror
http://www.fas.org/irp/crs/IB95112.pdf. Meanwhile crap like this gets out , like the BBC :
| Iran regime wants to establishing Islamic world rule - Abedini |  |  |  |
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BBC Radio Five Live - Iran has resumed work in some of its research nuclear centers today. The United States has accused Iran of trying to develop nuclear weapons. Tehran says that its research is for purely peaceful purposes. The Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said the Iranians were pushing their luck with the international community. Hossein Abedini is on the Foreign Affairs Committee of the National Council of Resistance of Iran and joins us now. Hello to you. Presenter: Good afternoon. Obviously you are opposed to the current regime in Iran. We make that clear at the start, but why should we in the west tell Tehran about its nuclear program in the first place? Hossein Abedini: Well, first of all the removal of seals from the sensitive Natanz uranium enrichment facility is a direct challenge to the will of the international community by the Iranian regime and this move dispels any doubt about the regime’s decision to acquire nuclear weapons. The truth is that Tehran wants to arm itself with the most dangerous weapons to achieve its ominous ambition of establishing Islamic world rule. As we speak right now, the Iranian government is forging ahead with its clandestine nuclear weapons program and the construction of 14 tunnel complexes and underground facilities throughout Iran for its nuclear and missile programs. The mullahs’ president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad recently said that his policy of taking a hard line is paying off and Europeans have been forced to retreat and accept the resumption of Iran’s illegal nuclear activities. And their announcement yesterday and the removal of seals today shows that it is really high time that Tehran’s nuclear file should be referred to the United Nations Security Council. This is a regime that has been cheating and deceiving the world for 18 years until we, the National Council of Resistance of Iran, revealed in August 2002 their secret nuclear sites in Natanz and Arak and their other clandestine nuclear activities. So it is really absolutely a big lie by the Iranian regime that they are after a peaceful source of energy and we believe that the decision not to refer Iran’s nuclear file to the Security Council of the United Nations in November and continued negotiations and discussions in Vienna last December and following that, the so-called Russian proposal have only emboldened the Iranian mullahs to defy the international community’s will. Presenter: Just tell us specifically on the question of why Iran will be doing this. You make your claim that they want to be able to enforce Islamic rule across the world but what is the evidence for that? Hossein Abedini: Well, I think the evidence is what Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the mullahs’ president, the supreme leader Ali Khamenei who once again reiterated and re-affirmed yesterday what Ahmadinejad had said is not really just a rhetorical remark, it is a deliberate decision and it is a strategic decision by the Iranian regime and apart from their aggressive nuclear policy, their increased meddling in Iraq and their terrorist activities throughout the world, their murderous policy inside Iran shows that very well that this regime is trying to arm itself with the most dangerous weapons in order to achieve its ominous intentions. I want to add to this what the government’s head of strategic centre said yesterday that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has been using the strategy of shock and awe to advance the Islamic republic’s foreign policy goals. So this is what the principal policy advisory to the Iranian president has said and this leaves no doubt that it is a deliberate decision and a strategic decision by the Iranian regime. |
NCRI – In an interview with the BBC Radio on January 10, Hossein Abedini, member of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the National Council of Resistance of Iran exposed the clerical regime's ambitions to establish an Islamic empire. The following is the text of his interview: Poor Iran, next poor kid on the block to get his face kicked in by the UN or US.
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