Iran Says Preliminary Agreement Reached With Europeans on Nuclear Issue

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Iran (AP) - Hoping to avoid a U.N. showdown, Iran and the European Union's three big powers reached a preliminary agreement over Tehran's nuclear program, Iran's chief negotiator said Sunday. Meanwhile, lawmakers in Iran's conservative-dominated parliament pushed for a bill banning the production of nuclear weapons in a gesture of building more international trust.

The preliminary agreement worked out in Paris with Britain, France and Germany could be finalized in the next few days, chief Iranian negotiator Hossein Mousavian told state-run Iranian television from the French capital, where talks wrapped up Saturday.

If approved, the deal would be a major breakthrough after months of threats and negotiations and could spare Iran from being taken before the U.N. Security Council, where the United States has warned it would seek to impose economic sanctions unless Tehran gives up all uranium enrichment activities, a technology that can produce nuclear fuel or atomic weapons.

Diplomats in Austria familiar with the talks outcome declined to discuss details. "One or two points remain outstanding, and they hope to resolve those outstanding points by Wednesday," one diplomat in Austria told The Associated Press. In proposals to Iran last month, Britain, Germany and France offered a trade deal and peaceful nuclear technology - including a light-water research reactor - if Iran pledged to indefinitely suspend uranium enrichment and related activities such as reprocessing uranium and building centrifuges used to enrich it.

http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGBE1NMJ91E.html

[DireStrike]

1. US and Israel being marginalized...

This would be awesome if not for the belligerent nature of our country and Israel...

[livinbella]

2. At this time it seems China would veto any UN sanctions

Iran is smart, this deal along with the huge oil deal
pending with China will foil bush's plans of invasion.
There are some lines even bush won't cross.

[UL_Approved]

3. We're out of the loop

The U.S. blew the whole idea of diplomacy over the last four years, and now we are paying the price. We won't be isolationists on our own, but the world will make us isolated. Enjoy worldwide sanctions against us.

[livinbella]

4. as bush pushes his agenda,other countries will have no choice

dark days ahead

[acmavm]

5. Whoa, so goes the grand coalition. Here comes a bigger and more

more powerful one I suspect. bush* is going to get taken down a notch or two, not by the American voting public, but by the rest of the planet.

Big players are lining up against the guy. Can't be good considering what a stupid arrogant ass he is. I can see him kicking the furniture now ranting and raving "I have a mandate, goddammit. A friggin' mandate. I call the shots. I am the MAN. KKKarl, you tell 'em. Tell 'em that I call the shots. You stole another election for me, get these guys to get with the program. They can't do this to ME."

[bemildred]

6. Yup. The jams will be kicked out now. nt