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Politics : Bush Administration's Media Manipulation--MediaGate?

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To: steve harris who wrote (4486)8/2/2005 9:23:07 AM
From: Proud_Infidel  Read Replies (1) of 9838
 
France Urges U.N. Intervention With Iran
YahooNews/AP ^ | Aug. 2, 2005

France Urges U.N. Intervention With Iran

By CHRISTINE OLLIVIER, Associated Press Writer

Iran's decision to resume its nuclear activities could spark a "major international crisis," France's foreign minister said Tuesday, increasing the pressure on Tehran to return to the negotiating table or risk facing sanctions.

Hardening France's tone, Philippe Douste-Blazy said that European negotiators planned to urgently propose a meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency's council of governors.

In the meeting, the EU would ask the U.N.'s nuclear watchdog "to specify very strongly and very firmly to the Iranians the need to return to the negotiating table" or risk facing sanctions.

"If the Iranians still do not accept what the council of governors propose, then the international community must turn to the Security Council" and "we will see what type of sanctions to give to Iran," Douste-Blazy said.

On Monday evening Iran agreed to a two-day delay in reopening its Isfahan nuclear processing plant, after vowing to restart nuclear processing.

France, Germany and Britain have urged Iran not to take unilateral action, saying they are only days from delivering a package of incentives addressing security and political, economic and nuclear issues.

"This Iranian affair is very serious," Douste-Blazy said. "It could be the beginning of a major international crisis."

France's Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin said earlier Tuesday that Iran should be taken before the U.N. Security Council if it follows through on its promise to resume uranium processing.

"It will be submitted to the Security Council if Iran does not comply," Villepin told Europe-1 radio. "Iran must hold to the commitments it has made."
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