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AIC
UPDATE - September
2005 | Vol. 2 | No. 30
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IAEA
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Iran’s Nuclear Program
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I firmly believe that in the long run you cannot
just continue to have the privileged few relying on
either nuclear weapons or the nuclear weapons
umbrella and others are told, "You cannot have
nuclear weapons," because again we continue to
have these failures.
Mohamed ElBaradei
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The Nuclear Standoff: Iran Faces the US-EU
Coalition
Hooshang
Amirahamdi
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AIC Update is an information resource for US-Iran
relations and the efforts of the American Iranian
Council to promote dialogue and understanding
between the United States and Iran.
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| The Nuclear Standoff: Iran Faces the US-EU |
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This week the world was expecting to receive some
good news from the much-talked “nuclear initiative”
of Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. He
revealed the initiative on September 17 at the United
Nations. Unfortunately, and to Iran’s surprise, instead
of coming as a relief, it further disappointed the
European Union and the United States. They
dismissed the initiative as an “aggressive” move
toward escalation of the nuclear crisis. What irritated
the Europeans and Americans the most was Dr.
Ahmadinejad’s nuclear nationalism as reflected in his
reiteration of Iran’s determination to put into
operation its “inalienable right” to enrich uranium for
the purpose of producing energy, and to defend and
safeguard the nuclear technology as a national asset
and a source of national pride.
Iran’s new nuclear nationalism was put on display
later that day in a lecture delivered by Dr. Ali Larijani,
Iran’s chief nuclear negotiator, to a gathering of over
600 Iranian-Americans at the New York Hilton. He
compared Iran’s current struggle against the US to
preserve its “nuclear technology” to the struggle in
1950s against Britain to nationalize its oil industries.
He said that today, countries without “modern”
technologies, such as nuclear, bio, and information
technologies, are not modern. The nuclear
technology, he asserted, was Iran’s path to
modernization and asked the audience to help
safeguard this national treasure. Many observers of
Iran, including several Western journalists who have
visited the country, have indicated that most
Iranians favor nuclear technology but wish to see it
advanced peacefully.
The nuclear nationalism aside, the Iranian initiative
included four points. One, Iran will never build a
nuclear bomb as it is against the country’s national
interest and the teaching of Islam. Two, Iran will
accept and implement all regulations of the Non-
Proliferation Treaty, including its safeguard and
transparency requirements as well as its provisions
for the peaceful use of nuclear technology. Three,
Iran would be ready to negotiate with all interested
countries (presumably including the US) if such talks
are conducted within a framework of agreed-upon
goals. Four, Iran is prepared to involve domestic and
foreign private sectors (presumably including
Americans) in the country’s nuclear technology
investments to increase trust and transparency. This
last initiative is new and very important, because it
will involve the investors in the operation, who can
make sure there is no diversion.
The EU and the US have set the red line at
enrichment and have said that they will not allow
Iran to cross that line......
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| Text of unofficial U.S.-UK draft resolution on Iran |
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The initial draft of the EU resolution for Iran's
Nuclear Program, supported by the EU-3, UK, France
and Germany has been submitted to the IAEA Board
of Governer's meeting in
Vienna, Austria . The draft asks IAEA "to report to all
members of the Agency and to the Security Council
and General Assembly of the United Nations ... Iran's
many failures and breaches of its obligations to
comply with its NPT Safeguards Agreement."
The Borad of Governers were discussing the draft
while the EU-3 continued to make changes. The
new draft is softer than the initial one and does not
mention the Security Council sanctions.
Please click on the following link to read the initial
draft.
Text of unofficial U.S.-UK draft resolution on Iran
nuclear issue
http://www.mehrnews.ir/en/NewsD
etail.aspx?NewsID=231875
SPIEGEL INTERVIEW WITH IRAN EXPERT KENNETH
POLLACK
It's Time to Get Serious with Iran
http://service.spiegel.de/cach
e/international/0,1518,376022,00.html
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