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Iran urges U.S. "to be more patient" in nuclear standoff <http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/data/iran.html> Iran has urged the <http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/data/usa.html> United States "to be more patient" in the current standoff between Tehran and the West over its nuclear issue, the official IRNA news agency reported Thursday. Foreign Ministry spokesman Mohammad-Ali Hosseini advised Washington "to be more patient" if it was to prove its honesty in supporting the path of negotiations and diplomacy in solving Iran's nuclear case, IRNA said. Iran believes that the negotiation is "the only way out" of its current nuclear standoff with the West, the new Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman was quoted as saying. Hosseini was commenting on recent remarks by U.S. State Department spokesman Sean McCormack who accused Iran of trying to string out the diplomatic contacts to avoid punitive action of the United Nations. "We've seen this game before from the Iranians. They want to stretch things out...It's time to act through the (UN) Security Council, and it's time to impose sanctions on Iran," McCormack said Wednesday. Hosseini dismissed the U.S. official's remarks, saying that Washington was "seeking to advance its own goals in a threatening and bullying manners." The United States was "to poison the atmosphere of nuclear talks and derail it through its anti-Iran propaganda," the Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman said. Gregory Shulte, the U.S. representative to the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), also said Wednesday that sanctions should be imposed on Iran if it still refuses to comply with the UN Security Council resolution. Speaking at the IAEA meeting of the Board of Governors, Shulte said, "Iran's refusal to suspend and its refusal to cooperate is a choice of confrontation over negotiation." "Time has come for the Security Council to back international diplomacy with international sanctions," he said. The UN Security Council adopted a resolution in late July, urging Tehran to suspend by Aug. 31 all enrichment-related and reprocessing activities, including research and development, or face prospect of sanctions. IAEA chief Mohammed ElBaradei has presented a report to the Security Council saying that "Iran has continued enriching uranium despite a UN nuclear deadline for it to suspend or face possible sanctions." At an informal meeting in Brussels earlier this month, European Union foreign ministers decided to maintain serious talks with Tehran in efforts to solve Iran's nuclear issue through diplomacy. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
