G8 to back new "measures" if Iran keeps enriching
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POTSDAM, Germany  - Major industrial nations threatened on Wednesday to support "further appropriate measures" if Iran failed to comply with U.N. resolutions demanding that it suspend nuclear enrichment.
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Iran again vowed to continue enriching uranium, in a potential setback to a European plan to ease the nuclear standoff with Tehran by offering sales of nuclear fuel and a trade deal as incentives.
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France, Britain and Germany are drafting  a resolution on Iran for a key meeting of the U.N. nuclear  watchdog next week and Washington is pushing the trio to  include some tough language, diplomats said on Thursday.
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Some top politicians are concerned Iranian influence will affect the new democratic process.
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"We said that on behalf of the countries of the G-8, that we are aware of our obligations and we would like to fulfill the promises that we entered into and we are going to do that."  Leaders of the Group of Eight agreed Friday on a $60 billion package to fight AIDS, TB and malaria in Africa and warned Iran over its disputed nuclear program, closing out a summit of the world's richer nations.But a deal could not be reached on the the independence-seeking Serbian province of Kosovo during three days of talks at the Baltic Sea resort of Heiligendamm.About half of the $60 billion was pledged earlier by the U.S., and other nations will contribute the rest, Germany's development minister said. Read more
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The Netherlands would support European Union sanctions over Iran&#39;s nuclear programme if the UN Security Council fails to agree on new measures, Dutch Foreign Minister Maxime Verhagen said Monday.
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Iran said Sunday that it will offer a "multifaceted response" Tuesday to a Western package of incentives aimed at persuading Tehran to rein in its nuclear program, but insisted it won't suspend uranium enrichment altogether.
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VIENNA - Iranâs reported rush to make uranium gas that could be used to make nuclear weapons raised alarm bells but the week ahead will show if international efforts to rein in Teheranâs atomic ambitions are still on track, diplomats said.
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Key European nations warn that Iran is trying to weaken international opposition to its contentious nuclear program by stalling on giving a clear response to terms set by six world powers for negotiations, according to a confidential document obtained Thursday by The Associated Press.
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Experts from the United States and five other powers leading efforts to rein in Iran's nuclear program plan to meet within the week following a U.N. report that Tehran has expanded its uranium enrichment program.
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It's not going to be pretty folks.  Mr. Sarkozy praised the current diplomatic initiative by the world's powers, a two-pronged approach that threatens tougher United Nations-mandated sanctions if Iran does not stop enriching uranium for possible use in a nuclear weapon, but holds out the possibility of incentives if Iran complies.   That approach, he said, "is the only one that can enable us to avoid being faced with an alternative that I call catastrophic: an Iranian bomb or the bombing of Iran."
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The chief of the U.N. nuclear watchdog will tell skeptical nations on its governing board this week Iran's pledge of atomic transparency should be given a chance to work, not dismissed as a time-buying ruse.
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Iran on Saturday brushed aside warnings  by G8 leaders that it would face further U.N. sanctions if it  failed to halt uranium enrichment work.
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POTSDAM, Germany  - World powers, including Russia, threatened "further appropriate measures" on Wednesday if Iran failed to comply with U.N. resolutions demanding that it suspend nuclear enrichment.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin warned strongly Thursday against imposing new international sanctions on Iran, in words that appeared to be a response to newly announced U.S. measures to punish Tehran.
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VIENNA, Austria Diplomats say Iran has apparently continued with a process that&#39;s used to enrich uranium -- but the Iranians may not be breaking any promises.
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The U.N. nuclear watchdog's governing body is this week expected to ratify cuts in aid to Iran and scrutinize Tehran's defiant expansion of uranium enrichment, a possible route to atomic bombs.