VIENNA (AFP) - Iran has defied a UN Security Council August 31 deadline to halt uranium enrichment, the UN nuclear watchdog announced, setting the stage for possible sanctions.
"Iran has not suspended its enrichment related activities," the watchdog International Atomic Energy Agency said in a confidential report, filed to the Security Council and obtained by AFP.
The Council had in July demanded that Iran suspend all uranium enrichment related activities by August 31, spurred by US-led concerns that Tehran's nuclear programme is a covert attempt to produce nuclear weapons.
Uranium enrichment makes fuel for civilian nuclear reactors but in highly refined form can serve as the raw material for atom bombs.
Iran says its program is a peaceful effort to generate electricity and on August 21 said it was ready to talk to world powers about a package of incentives they were offering to get Tehran's nuclear program under control.
But Iran did not meet the requirement to stop enriching uranium.
Source: AFP.com | Agence France-Presse, a global news agency
Bush: 'Consequences' to Iran's defiance
U.S. President George W. Bush insists "there must be consequences" for Iran's defiance of demands that it stop enriching uranium. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad maintains the nation has the right to nuclear technology.
Here they are happy to go to war: Regime Change Iran
More news in the days ahead, i fear. This is probably not the last post about Iran.
Lets take a look at the country and its history:
Iran knows how to fight a war! Iran-Iraq War 1980-1988 or the Video here.
Or read how the U.S. & Iran have Cooperated to Sponsor Muslim Terror
(And this while loudly denouncing one another in public...) Emperor's Clothes 13 April 2003
It is a beautiful country tough, see this.
U.S. Aligns with Iran to Keep Gays Out of the U.N. - February 2006
The United States joined with four of the world's most repressive regimes to reject an application by two international LGBT groups seeking to join a UN agency that advises the world body on economics and social issues. The application by the International Lesbian and Gay Association and the Danish Association of Gays and Lesbians was dismissed without a hearing.
They are also not nice to women, see picture (the site does not exist anymore) and read the Women's Forum Against Fundamentalism in Iran (WFAFI)