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Tuesday, September 14, 2004
U.S., Europe Agree: Haul Iran Before U.N.
September 14, 2004
The Associated Press
George Jahn
VIENNA, Austria -- Buoyed by growing European support, the United States lobbied the U.N. atomic watchdog agency Monday to send Iran before the U.N. Security Council for refusing to freeze work that can produce nuclear weapons.
A European diplomat said Washington had revised a resolution originally drafted by France, Germany and Britain, adding an Oct. 31 deadline and toughening language meant to force Iran to dispel all suspicions it is trying to make nuclear arms in violation of treaty commitments.
The draft, summarized by the diplomat, demands ''complete, immediate and unrestricted access'' to all sites and information requested by the International Atomic Energy Agency in its probe into Iran's nearly two-decade-long clandestine nuclear program.
The secret work was discovered only two years ago, bringing intensifying international pressure on Iran's government to end nuclear programs that have uses in both electricity generation and the production of atomic weapons, such as uranium enrichment.
The draft demands Iran provide a complete list of nuclear materials and know-how it imported, along with the black market suppliers, and the ''immediate suspension'' of all uranium reprocessing and activities related to uranium enrichment.
The diplomat, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the draft also would require a ''definite determination'' by the IAEA of whether Iran fulfilled these conditions.
Amid the behind-the-scenes maneuvering on Iran, the IAEA's board of governors publicly focused on U.S. ally South Korea, which last week acknowledged secret plutonium extraction and uranium enrichment experiments.
IAEA chief Mohamed ElBaradei described South Korea's previous failure to report those activities as a ''matter of serious concern from the proliferation perspective.''
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