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Iran Says It Will Never Bow to West on Nukes Reuters | Feb 28, 2007 Iran said Feb. 27 it would never suspend uranium enrichment as demanded by the West, a day after world powers agreed to work on a new U.N. resolution to pressure Tehran to back down over its nuclear program. Officials from the five permanent U.N. Security Council members — the U.S., France, Russia, China and Britain — plus Germany, who met in London on Feb. 26, also said they were committed to a negotiated resolution to the standoff. The U.S., which says "all options" are on the table while insisting it wants a peaceful solution, has ratcheted up pressure by sending a second aircraft carrier to the Gulf. Russia has voiced concern about growing talk of military strikes and China again called Feb. 27 for a diplomatic solution. Both countries, which have veto powers in the Security Council, have been reluctant to penalize Iran in the past. "Suspending uranium enrichment is an illegal and illegitimate demand ... and it will never happen," Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki was quoted by the official IRNA news agency as saying. The United Nations imposed limited sanctions on Iran's nuclear program in December and Tehran faces possible further steps for ignoring a Feb. 21 deadline to halt enrichment, which the West says Iran is using so it can make atomic bombs. Iran's open refusal to halt enrichment, a process it insists it only wants to make fuel for nuclear power plants, is echoed by some Iranian officials in private, suggesting the public pronouncements are more than just rhetoric. British Prime Minister Tony Blair said Iran was making a "big miscalculation" with its defiance. "The comments from Iran are very worrying ... because yet again they are indicating they want to defy the international community," he said. U.S. State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said after the London meeting world powers would hold phone talks March 1 to discuss elements of a new resolution. New steps could include a travel ban on senior Iranian officials and restrictions on nonnuclear business. +++ ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Great things are happening at Yahoo! Groups. See the new email design. http://us.click.yahoo.com/lOt0.A/hOaOAA/yQLSAA/TySplB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> -------------------------- 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/
