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The agreement was announced after seven and a half hours of talks in Geneva that included the highest-level official U.S.-Iranian encounter in three decades.
Iran also pledged that within weeks it would allow the inspection of a previously covert uranium enrichment facility near the holy city of Qom, and the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Mohamed ElBaradei, announced that he'd head to Tehran to work out the details.
If the talks are successful, the moves will take the wind from Israel’s propaganda sails about Iran being an ‘existential threat’ to Israel’s survival and the Zionists will need to find some other means of affecting regime change in Iran if Israel wants to separate Iranian influence from Hamas in the Gaza Strip, Hezbollah in south Lebanon, and Syria.
US lawmakers have approved legislation to punish companies exporting gasoline to Iran, in a mote to mount pressure on the Islamic Republic over its nuclear program.
The Thursday action by the US House of Representatives would even bar foreign companies exporting gasoline to Iran from delivering crude oil to the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve, Reuters reported.
"This provision sends a message to companies that put profits over security -- you can do business in our USD 13 trillion economy or Iran's USD 250 billion economy," Kyl and Collins said.
Total for 2007-08 Election Cycle $ 2,530,590
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BEIJING/LONDON—State-run Chinese companies are selling gasoline to Iran, a move that could undermine U.S. pressure on Tehran to give up its nuclear program, traders and a newspaper report said on Wednesday.
But despite the relatively promising outcome, the Obama administration was at pains to strike a cautious tone, given Iran’s history of duplicity, its crackdown on its own people after the tainted June presidential elections and President Obama’s concern about being perceived as naïve or susceptible to a policy of Iranian delays.
Not much comment otherwise. We see the same thing over and over nothing changes and some of us just run out of anger and disgust. Another day in America.
Couple of questions though, and I'm not being fecetious when I ask, I genuinely want someone's opinion; how does Iran shipping enriched uranium to Russia for refinement help ease tensions? Don't get me wrong, the Russians have it down pat, but, and yes I'm being a lil' skeptical here, what's to stop Russia from delivering said refined uranium back to Iran weaponized and ready to go?
Second question; does Iran not have the capability of refining oil into gasoline themselves? I'd think that a country as oil rich would be able to refine it into just about anything they want. As for Congress... thanks for shafting us out of another billion or so in foreign trade guys! Great job! Keep up the good work!
Couple of questions though, and I'm not being fecetious when I ask, I genuinely want someone's opinion; how does Iran shipping enriched uranium to Russia for refinement help ease tensions? Don't get me wrong, the Russians have it down pat, but, and yes I'm being a lil' skeptical here, what's to stop Russia from delivering said refined uranium back to Iran weaponized and ready to go?
Second question; does Iran not have the capability of refining oil into gasoline themselves? I'd think that a country as oil rich would be able to refine it into just about anything they want. As for Congress... thanks for shafting us out of another billion or so in foreign trade guys! Great job! Keep up the good work!
But as Dan Rather pointed out in July, the quality of journalism in the mainstream media has eroded considerably, and news has been
corporatized,
politicized,
and trivialized.
Despite the hopeful signs, however, Iranian nuclear envoy Saeed Jalili gave no ground on demands that Tehran halt the enrichment of uranium, which can be used for both civilian nuclear power and nuclear weapons, according to U.S. and European officials who were present.
"The overall problem of Iran's nuclear program remains," said a senior U.S. official who briefed reporters on the condition of anonymity.
Indeed Iran, which insists it isn't seeking nuclear weapons, got much from the meeting: help with its ostensibly peaceful nuclear program, no concessions on the enrichment issue and an opportunity once again to put its aspirations for a major global role on display.
ran agreed in principle today to export much of its stock of enriched uranium for processing and to open its newly revealed enrichment plant to UN inspections within a fortnight.
The agreements, struck at negotiations in Geneva with six major powers, represented the most significant progress in talks with Tehran in more than three years, and offered hope that the nuclear crisis could be defused, at least temporarily.
Western officials cautioned that the preliminary agreements could unravel in negotiations over the details. But if the deals are completed, it will push back the looming threat of further sanctions and possible military action.
A full day of talks in a lakeside villa just outside Geneva included the most senior and substantive bilateral meeting between an American and an Iranian official for three decades. At a lunchtime break in the proceedings, the US delegate, William Burns, took aside Iran's chief nuclear negotiator, Saeed Jalili, for a one-to-one chat that lasted 40 minutes.
At the end of the negotiations, the EU foreign policy chief, Javier Solana, on behalf of the six-nation group – known as the E3+3 and consisting of Britain, France, Germany, the US, Russia and China – said the meeting "represented the start of what we hope will be an intensive process"
DUBAI: Iran has not converted the low-grade uranium that it has produced into weapon-grade uranium, inspectors belonging to the International Atomic Energy Agency have said.
The Austrian Press Agency quoted an IAEA expert as saying that the uranium substances that Iran has produced at its Natanz enrichment facility have been carefully recorded and remote cameras have been installed to supervise part of the stockpile.
“If the Iranians intend to transport these uranium substances to a secret location for further processing, agency’s inspectors will find out,” he said.
28. Contrary to the requests of the Board of Governors and the Security Council, Iran has neither implemented the Additional Protocol nor cooperated with the Agency in connection with the remaining issues of concern which need to be clarified to exclude the possibility of military dimensions to Iran’s nuclear programme. Regrettably, the Agency has not been able to engage Iran in any substantive discussions about these outstanding issues for over a year.
29. It is critical for Iran to implement the Additional Protocol and clarify the outstanding issues in order for the Agency to be in a position to provide credible assurance about the absence of undeclared nuclear material and activities in Iran