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Report: Iran to resume nuclear talks with world powers next week
Jun 30, 2008, 11:00 GMT
Tehran - Iran is to resume next week nuclear talks with the United Nations Security Council member states plus Germany (5+1) in which the Iranian reply to the 5+1 is expected to be disclosed, ISNA news agency reported Monday.
ISNA quoted parliament deputy Emad Hosseini as saying that the two sides would resume talks next week but gave neither a date nor a venue.
Another deputy, Hassan Qafurifard, told ISNA that the proposals of the two sides to settle the nuclear dispute would be discussed in next week's talks.
The relevant commissions at the Iranian parliament had a meeting Monday with the head of the Iranian Atomic Organization, Gholam Reza Aqazadeh.
European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana earlier this month delivered an upgraded package of incentives to Tehran in an effort to persuade it to suspend uranium enrichment.
Although Iran has not yet replied to the package, the main demand from the UN Security Council member states plus Germany for enrichment suspension has already been rejected by leading Iranian officials.
The United Nations Security Council has already issued three resolutions, including financial sanctions, against the Islamic state.
The EU last week decided to freeze the overseas assets of the Iranian state-run bank because of the Islamic state's refusal to stop enriching uranium.
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HYPOCRISY AND DOUBLE STANDARDS...margeJul 1st, 2008 - 14:39:13
The IAEA, US, and UN are harassing and threatening Iran with sanctions over its legal right to enrich uranium out of fear that Iran is building nuclear bombs. So what if this is true? The US and many members of the UN have nuclear bombs and remain silence on credible information that Israel also has nuclear bombs.
Iran needs nuclear bombs to protect its people and sovereignty from enemies like Israel, which has a history of land stealing, terrorism, killing palestinians for land, violating the border boundaries of Gaza, Syria, and Iraq and bombing their properties, and starting numerous wars with its arab neighbors. Israel is now threatening to bomb Iran's nuclear plants to ensure it remains the only country in the Middle East with nuclear bombs. By contrast, Iran has committed no aggression or crimes against its neighbors to justify the sanctions and harassment imposed upon it by the IAEA, UN, and US.
Iran should pull out of NPT and stop cooperating with the IAEA, UN, and US entirely. Iran should never give up its right to nuclear energy or nuclear weapons regardless of the consequences, unless other countries give up their rights to nuclear bombs. The hypocrisy and double standards of the IAEA, US, and UN is ridiculous and should not be tolerated by any country!!!!
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