Special Report: Iran Nuclear Crisis

    WASHINGTON, March 6 (Xinhuanet) -- The United States said on Monday that it expects the United Nations Security Council to discuss Iran's nuclear issue and it will use all diplomatic tools to deal with the situation.

    "We certainly expect and anticipate a detailed discussion of this issue to take place in the Security Council, and at that point all tools are certainly available, and we'll use all diplomatic tools at our disposal to deal with this situation," State Department acting spokesman Tom Casey said at a briefing.

    "I certainly would expect that the Security Council would respond to this in a way that reinforces the diplomacy that's already taken place at the IAEA," Casey said.

    Casey said that the February 4th resolution by the IAEA "already reports Iran to the Security Council and the Security Council can take it up at this point, at any point that it choosesto."

    "The Security Council will choose at what particular moment it wants to address this issue," Casey said.

    The United States has insisted that the United Nations Security Council should address Iran's nuclear issue. However, Russia, another permanent member of the United Nations Security Council, has been reluctant to do so. Enditem