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Politics : Israel to U.S. : Now Deal with Syria and Iran -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Karen Lawrence who wrote (8293)	5/11/2005 12:45:54 PM
From: American Spirit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 22250

Evidence today all Bush terrorist alerts were phony and used to scare voters when Bush was sagging in the polls.They used a big phony alert right before the GOP convention which helped sell their "fear and smear" campaign to a more cowed and frightened public.

To: Karen Lawrence who wrote (8293)	5/12/2005 4:40:38 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Respond to of 22250

Attention, mesdames et messieurs, dans un instant on va commencer Installez-vous dans votre fauteuil bien gentiment 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0, partez, tous les projecteurs vont s'allumer Et tous les acteurs vont s'animer en même temps Attention, mesdames et messieurs, c'est important, on va commencer C'est toujours la même histoire depuis la nuit des temps L'histoire de la vie et de la mort, mais nous allons changer le décor Espérons qu'on la jouera encore dans 2000 ans [...] Michel Fugain, Attention, mesdames et messieurs (Lyrics) ftpk.net Europe on alert over Iran nuclear ambitions Ian Traynor Thursday May 12, 2005 The Guardian European powers are poised to call an emergency meeting of the board of the UN's nuclear watchdog after an escalating dispute with Iran about its nuclear projects. Iran appears about to renege on a six-month-old pact with Britain, Germany and France, which freezes all of its uranium enrichment activities - a gamble that could see it penalised by the UN security council but also win a diplomatic victory in the battle of wits over its ambitions. "This is all very disingenuous of the Iranians. But they are playing this perfectly," said a diplomat who has been following the two-year-old crisis. Last night, a senior Iranian envoy flew into Vienna, home to the International Atomic Energy Agency, with a letter from his government that diplomats anticipated to be formal notification that Iran was reneging on the agreement to freeze its uranium enrichment activities. The Iranian leadership was reported to be meeting yesterday in Tehran. Diplomats said Iran could start breaking UN seals on nuclear technology as early as today. Tehran has told the IAEA it will promptly inform the agency of the decision and a letter is expected by the end of the week. The EU troika, which has been negotiating with the Iranians since last November, when the deal was struck in Paris, is expected to summon an emergency meeting of the 35-strong IAEA board for next week, at which the Americans will push to have the dispute taken to the UN security council for possible sanctions. The Iranians are expected to restart conversion of raw uranium yellowcake into UF4 gas, a precursor to manufacturing UF6, which is turned into enriched uranium fuel. The degree of enrichment determines whether the fuel can be used for nuclear power stations or nuclear weapons. The deal agreed last November 14 stipulated that Iran would freeze "all uranium enrichment-related activities". Tehran will declare that the making of UF4 does not constitute a breach of that pledge, a claim that will not wash with the Europeans or the US. "Restarting conversion of uranium would be a clear breach of the agreement," said the European diplomat. If the Iranians resume the work at their uranium conversion plant in Isfahan, the resulting breakdown in EU-Iran talks will be the second in 18 months. The EU states promised Iran that they would block a transfer of the dispute to the security council as long as there was a freeze on enrichment. But the Europeans also vowed to support Washington in referring the dispute to the security council in New York should the talks fail. This could make for another showdown next week in Vienna, with the US and the EU for the first time united in calling for security council action. Sources in Vienna said, however, there was little appetite at the IAEA board for penalties for Iran. The board generally operates by consensus. And a non-European diplomat said the non-aligned countries on the board would "accept the Iranian argument - that this is uranium conversion work and not enrichment work". Nor is it clear what would happen if the dispute were passed to New York. China and Russia could veto sanctions on Iran. Uranium enrichment is the key to obtaining nuclear weapons. The EU talks are aimed at getting Iran to abandon uranium enrichment and instead import low-enriched nuclear fuel for Tehran's civil nuclear programme. Recently the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, for the first time publicly supported the EU's policy, saying that Iran should "abandon all technology to create a full nuclear fuel cycle" - meaning uranium enrichment. An emergency meeting in Vienna next week will reinforce the sense of worsening crisis over the problem. But diplomats said there was little chance of a quick resolution and that the issue would be deferred until the next scheduled board meeting of the IAEA in mid-June, a few days before Iran's presidential election. guardian.co.uk