no surprise here......i'm sure the same will happen with NK. Europeans attempt soft-line solution to imminent Iran threat The governments of Britain, France and Germany have offered Iran one more chance to halt the enrichment of uranium in violation of International Atomic Energy Agency controls, according to U.S. officials. Representatives of the three governments presented their proposal in Vienna as part of a soft-line approach to solving the Iranian nuclear program. Foreign ministry officials of the European "troika" met Hassan Rowhani, head of the Iranian Security Council, at the IAEA. The Europeans also offered technical aid to the Iranian nuclear program in exchange for Teheran's promise to renounce uranium enrichment. The United States opposes the offer, arguing that Iran cannot be trusted to follow through on its promises to halt nuclear arms-related work. A U.S. official said the European effort to solve the Iranian nuclear crisis is part of a "multipolarity" the idea that nations other than the United States can play leading roles as power brokers in the world. Iran has insisted its nuclear program is strictly for peaceful purposes. But U.S. and Western intelligence services have obtained convincing evidence that the Iranian nuclear program is bent on developing a nuclear warhead for Iran's 620-mile-range Shihab missile. German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer warned Iran before the IAEA meeting last week to fulfill its obligations regarding nuclear matters to "avoid miscalculations that might bring us into a very serious situation." U.S. officials said there are growing worries that Israel would take military action against Iranian nuclear facilities before Russian nuclear fuel can reach the Bushehr nuclear reactors, or before Iran completes construction of a centrifuge cascade a bank of hundreds of centrifuges that make enriched uranium for nuclear weapons. http://www.geostrategy-direct.com <http://www.geostrategy-direct.com/> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Make a clean sweep of pop-up ads. Yahoo! Companion Toolbar. Now with Pop-Up Blocker. Get it for free! http://us.click.yahoo.com/L5YrjA/eSIIAA/yQLSAA/TySplB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
