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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (47957)	3/5/2005 6:11:07 PM
From: IQBAL LATIF	Respond to of 50167

Iran says US pressure on nuclear issue could destabilise ME TEHRAN: A top Iranian official said on Saturday he was confident that an agreement would be reached with Europe over the development of Tehran’s nuclear programme, but warned the US that it could destabilise the region if it blocks an accord. “If US pressure doesn’t prevent it, I think we will manage to reach an agreement with the Europeans because they don’t want to deprive the Iranian people of their right and will try to act fairly,” Iran’s top nuclear official and a senior member of the regime, Hassan Rowhani, told a conference in Tehran on nuclear technology and sustainable development. Germany, France and Britain have since December been seeking “objective guarantees” that Iran will not develop nuclear weapons or press on with the capacity to make them. Iran has argued that it only wants to generate atomic energy for purely civilian use and argues such work is authorised by the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). The United States says the country is after nuclear weapons and is “cynically” manipulating a loophole in the NPT. Rowhani warned that “if the United States manages to bring the Iran issue before the (United Nations) Security Council, Iran will retract all the decisions it has made and the confidence-building measures it has taken,” he said. He said Iran’s leaders “could be called upon to make new decisions”, but did not provide any details on what that would involve. “The stability in the region would become fragile and the United States would be the first to suffer,” he said. In return for a permanent halt to uranium enrichment, the EU is offering Iran a package of incentives covering trade, security and technology. afp