West to hold back from targeting Iran at U.N. nuclear meeting

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Source: Reuters

World powers will refrain from raising pressure on Iran at a U.N. nuclear meeting next week to give its new moderate president time to show he is serious about moves to reduce tensions over its atomic activity, Western diplomats say.

But they stressed that concrete progress is needed soon in the dispute: talks on September 27 between Iran and U.N. nuclear inspectors will be scrutinized for any sign that the new Iranian government will be more transparent and less confrontational as President Hassan Rouhani has pledged.

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During Ahmadinejad's eight-year tenure, the board passed six resolutions rebuking Iran over its nuclear defiance and evasions of IAEA scrutiny, demanding a suspension of enrichment and full cooperation with IAEA inspectors, and clearing the way to successive batches of United Nations sanctions since 2006.

"There has definitely been a change in tone from the Iranian government which we recognize and welcome," a Western envoy said, speaking ahead of next week's governing board meeting.

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/09/05/us-iran-nuclear-iaea-idUSBRE9840IL20130905

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"No sound strategic energy planning would prioritize nuclear energy in a country like Iran"
- The Federation of American Scientists and the Carnegie Endowment for Peace, Iran’s Nuclear Odyssey: Costs and Risks

"The most important environmental liability of nuclear fission is neither the routine nor accidental emissions of radioactivity, but the deliberate misuse of nuclear facilities and materials for acts of terrorism and war."
- John Holdren, Assessing Environmental Risks of Energy

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1. No we're targeting Syria one thing at a time

and I'm sure the fact that Syria is Iran's closest ally in the region plays absolutely no part in this, nope none at all