CONTINUE NEGOTIATIONS WITH EU AND IAEA TO DISINTEGRATE WEST

    Dual tactics are regular for Tehran to front international community since the nuclear issue came in the spotlight in past three years.

    While confronting the U.S. with a hard line stance, Iran on the other hand kept negotiations with the EU and IAEA to disintegrate the West and apparently wanted to prevent a third sanction resolution by the UN Security Council.

    From July to November, Iran held several rounds of talks with IAEA senior officials, the two sides achieved agreements to set a time-table for resolving the remaining issues of Tehran's nuclear program and actually made progress over the implementation of the agreements.

    Iran also invited inspectors from the UN atomic watchdog in July to visit an sensitive heavy water nuclear reactor in the country's central city of Arak, the country had blocked inspections from the IAEA to the site since this January after the UN Security Council imposed the second sanction on Iran.

    The favoring negotiations between the two sides dramatically eased the previous anxiety by the international community which feared the Iranian nuclear crisis could slide into an abyss. IAEA chief Mohamed ElBaradei has praised Iran for its cooperation, but insisting Tehran should be more transparent over its nuclear plan.

    Meanwhile, Iran's chief nuclear negotiator Sayyed Jalili and his predecessor Larijani also met with EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana and held several rounds of discussions. Both sides claimed that they had made good progress in the talks and decided to continue their discussions.

    "PARTIAL COOPERATION" NOT ENOUGH TO AVOID NEW SANCTIONS

    After submitting his report over the Iranian nuclear issue to IAEA board meeting in mid November, IAEA chief ElBaradei said that "Iran has made substantial progress in revealing the nature and extent of its disputed nuclear program", but adding "Tehran needs to be more pro-active in providing information."

    Since the UN Security Council will soon make decisions whether to pass new sanctions against Iran based on the report and another report by Solana to be released in the end of November, The U.S. has said it would push for new sanctions against Iran despite the ElBaradei report which showed partial cooperation between Tehran and IAEA in the past months.

    Iran insisted the IAEA report had proven the country's nuclear program was "peaceful" and the pursuit of new sanctions against it would be "wrong", but it continue to ignore the key UN demand of freezing its sensitive uranium enrichment work.

    As predicted by analysts, Iran did not promise to abandon it's enrichment rights during the meeting between Jalili and Solana on Nov. 30 in London.

    The international community now has major bifurcations on how to deal with the disputed nuclear crisis, but since the nuclear stance of Britain and France toward Iran have changed into toughness, along with the U.S. push, it's likely there's little hope the Solana and ElBaradei reports could prevent new UN sanctions since Iran didn't meet it's key demand.