国产热热热精品,亚洲视频久久】日韩,三级婷婷在线久久,99人妻精品视频,精品九热人人肉肉在线,AV东京热一区二区,91po在线视频观看,久久激情宗合,青青草黄色手机视频

   

Iran's president defies UN on deadline
(AP)
Updated: 2006-08-31 19:22

It's not clear when exactly Thursday's deadline will run out. The US ambassador to the United Nations, John Bolton, said Wednesday that he believed it would end at 12:01 a.m. Friday in Tehran - or 3:31 p.m. Thursday at the Security Council in New York.

But diplomats said the exact timing was not particularly relevant for two reasons: They believe Iran already has given its answer; and they would almost certainly abandon their sanctions threat if Iran decides to suspend enrichment after the deadline.

On Wednesday, Ahmadinejad urged European members of the council against resorting to sanctions, saying punishment would not dissuade his country. Another top Iranian official urged Japan on Thursday to help peacefully resolve the standoff without sanctions.

Abbas Araghchi, deputy minister for legal and international affairs of the Iranian Foreign Ministry, met with Japan's foreign minister in a clear sign of Iran's continued efforts to lobby countries worldwide against support for sanctions.

"We are confident of the peaceful nature of our program. So if there is also goodwill and sincerity in the other side, we are sure that we can reach a good solution, a good conclusion through negotiations," Araghchi said.

Tehran insists it wants to enrich uranium as fuel solely for civilian nuclear power stations. However, the U.S. and other Western countries suspect it wants to use it in nuclear warheads.

German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier expressed fresh suspicion that Iran is pursuing nuclear weapons and said in remarks published Thursday that Arab governments are equally worried about Tehran's ambitions.

"At the moment, Iran has no use whatsoever for enriched uranium - unless it is planning to build the bomb," Steinmeier was quoted as saying in the newspaper Bild.

He also criticized the Iranian president for "trying to play the role of the leader of the Islamic world. .... Yet his Arab - also Islamic - neighbors share our concern about and rejection of a nuclear-armed Iran."

The United States, Russia, China, Britain, France and Germany offered Iran earlier this summer a package of incentives in exchange for a commitment from Tehran to freeze enrichment so talks could begin.

But Tehran's response earlier this month suggested the country was not willing to suspend enrichment before talks, let alone consider a long-term moratorium on such activity.

The West has struggled for years over carrots and sticks to persuade Iran to roll back its nuclear program. But Tehran has time after time played the game by its rules and kept its eyes constantly on a long-term prize: forcing the world to accept its nuclear ambitions.

Iranian leaders have indicated they are willing to bear the economic blow of whatever sanctions are passed rather than give up enrichment.

That means Thursday will hardly be a climactic milestone in the long-standing tussle between Iran and the West. Iran can go on putting forward diplomatic initiatives to try to divide the big powers and keep room for maneuver, said one analyst, Anthony Cordesman of the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington.

"This deadline will invariably be followed by another deadline and another," he said. "This is a game that will play out over five years, not a game that will play out tomorrow."


 12
 
 

锡林郭勒盟| 肃宁县| 临西县| 卓尼县| 新丰县| 黑龙江省| 神池县| 若尔盖县| 缙云县| 札达县| 东平县| 奎屯市| 怀宁县| 资源县| 彩票| 龙游县| 陕西省| 河东区| 潮安县| 桃园市| 饶河县| 云浮市| 施秉县| 泽普县| 达拉特旗| 沂源县| 湘阴县| 大理市| 化隆| 阜新市| 闽侯县| 洛阳市| 壤塘县| 蒙自县| 大荔县| 元氏县| 大兴区| 巴林左旗| 含山县| 义乌市| 泰兴市|