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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
speaks to journalists during a news conference in Tehran August 27, 2006.
He pledged on Saturday, September 2, 2006, that his country would
"firmly" defend the goals of its nuclear program in all talks on the
issue. (Xinhua, file
photo) |
VIENNA, Sept.
5 (Xinhua) -- The United States and the European Union share the same position
on Iran's nuclear issue,
the U.S.
ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency said Tuesday.
While both the United States and the EU hope
to resolve the issue in a diplomatic way, they have also reached consensus
that the next step against Iran must involve sanctions, said Ambassador Gregory
Schulte.
The United States is "waiting for the new explanation
from Iran," Schulte told the Austria News Agency. If Iran would not stop its
"discomforting activities," the UN Security Council should discuss the sanctions
against Iran, he said.
Schulte stressed the common stand with the EU ahead
of Wednesday's talks between EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana and top
Iranian nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani. The talks are considered by many a
final chance to compromise on enrichment, which Tehran has vowed not to give up.
Observers see the Solana-Larijani meeting as the
prelude to Thursday's conference of the five permanent members of the UN
Security Council -- the United States, Russia, China, France, Britain -- plus
Germany.
The flurry of diplomacy followed Tehran's rejection
of UN resolution 1696 which had called on Iran to suspend its uranium enrichment
program by Aug. 31.
On their informal conference on Saturday, the EU
foreign ministers decided to maintain the serious talks with Tehran in efforts
to solve Iran's nuclear issue through diplomacy. Enditem
Russia possible to join sanctions on
Iran
MOSCOW, Sept. 5 (Xinhua) -- Russia still has a
possibility to join sanctions on Iran, presidential aide Igor Shuvalov said here
on Tuesday. >>>
Bush vows not to let Iran acquire
nuclear weapons
WASHINGTON, Sept. 5 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President
George W. Bush vowed on Tuesday not to allow Iran to get nuclear weapons and he
urged the Iranian leadership to "make a different choice.">>>
Merkel rules out military option for
Iran
BERLIN, Sept. 4 (Xinhua) -- "The chancellor has
expressed the view that there is no military option," Ulrich Wilhelm said,
adding that "the door for negotiations remains open." >>>
Iran calls sanction threat empty
propaganda
TEHRAN, Sept. 4 (Xinhua) -- Iranian Defense
Minister Mostafa Mohammad Najjar said on Monday that threats of sanctions from
the West are just empty propaganda and weapons of psychological wars, the
official IRNA news agency reported. >>>
Annan fails to achieve breakthrough on
Iran nuclear issue
TEHRAN, Sept. 3 (Xinhua) -- United Nations
Secretary-General Kofi Annan on Sunday wrapped up his two-day visit to Iran
without achieving any breakthrough on its nuclear issue as Tehran insisted that
suspension of uranium enrichment would not happen before talks. >>>
Chinese FM meets Iranian deputy FM on
nuclear issue
BEIJING, Aug. 30 (Xinhua) -- Chinese Foreign
Minister Li Zhaoxing met here Wednesday with visiting Iranian Deputy Foreign
Minister Abbas Araghchi where they both stressed to resolve the Iran nuclear
issue by diplomatic means. >>>
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