Iran Rejects `Discriminatory' Curbs on Nuclear Work

[truthpusher]

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Iran Rejects `Discriminatory' Curbs on Nuclear Work (Update1)

Jan. 27 (Bloomberg) -- Iran rejects any ``discriminatory'' proposals to restrict its nuclear work, Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi said, adding his country supports the Jan. 30 election in neighboring Iraq and the will of voters there.

``No discriminatory proposal can be accepted,'' Kharrazi said in an interview today at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. He was responding to a proposal that Iran and other countries accept a five-year moratorium on uranium enrichment.

Kharrazi said he hadn't seen reports on the proposal, which the United Nations nuclear agency said it will make this May at an international conference to update the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, and that it needed to be discussed in his government. Iran has consistently refused to accept restrictions that aren't imposed on other signatories of the nuclear treaty.

Iran in November agreed with France, Germany and the U.K. to suspend uranium enrichment work, a process that could generate fuel for a nuclear weapon, as a confidence-building measure that might lead to normalized relations, greater trade and scientific and technological exchanges with the European Union. Iran has since said its pledge was only temporary.

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[David__77]

1. Why should Iran be held to a different standard than India?

They are sovereign nations. Developing nuclear power is no crime. The current epoch has shown that countries are best to avoid any unilateral concessions to the US hegemonists.

[Mystified]

2. Huh?

"Iran in November agreed with France, Germany and the U.K. to suspend uranium enrichment work, a process that could generate fuel for a nuclear weapon, as a confidence-building measure that might lead to normalized relations, greater trade and scientific and technological exchanges with the European Union."

I didn't realize the member states of the EU were US hegemonists.

[David__77]

3. The EU is satisfied with Iran, this US is not.

It is the US that is pushing for these concessions. The EU, clearly, interceded to help head off US bellicosity. The right in the US knows that, and that's why they find EU diplomacy "unhelpful."

But, yes, to the extent that European countries act in accord with the US hegemonist strategy, they are acting as its tools.

[Mystified]

4. I know what you're saying

Was just pointing out that this article references the agreement Iran made with EU member nations.