Aust secures Iran resolution for US:The US has reached agreement

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Australia and Canada have delivered the United States a compromise with France, Britain and Germany on a toughly-worded United Nation nuclear resolution on Iran that calls for an immediate halt to Tehran's uranium enrichment program, a Western diplomat said.
"It's a text that all six countries can live with," the diplomat close to the talks told Reuters, referring to discussions between Australia and Canada, both representing the US, and the European Union's "big three" on Iran's nuclear program. Iran's program for uranium enrichment, a process of purifying uranium for use as fuel for power plants or nuclear weapons, is the most controversial part of Tehran's atomic plans, which it says are limited to electricity generation.

Washington says Iran is developing nuclear weapons under cover of a civilian nuclear power program. Tehran denies the charge, insisting its nuclear ambitions are purely peaceful. The preliminary agreement, which still has to be approved by most of the 35 nations on the governing board of the UN International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), ended nearly a week of discussions on the text, which the diplomat said would set the stage for a November showdown over Iran's nuclear program.

Another diplomat said the United States had to abandon its demand for an "automatic trigger" deadline forcing the IAEA to report Iran to the UN Security Council if it did not meet a number of demands, including suspending enrichment activities. The diplomat summarised the key points of the resolution, saying it called for the IAEA board to decide in November "whether or not to take appropriate steps" regarding Iran's commitments under the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). The diplomat said that this meant that the board would decide whether to report Iran to the UN Security Council, which can impose economic sanctions, for violating the NPT by hiding its uranium enrichment program for nearly two decades.

The draft text, which diplomats said would likely be adopted on Friday or Saturday with only minor changes, also called on Iran to answer all of the IAEA's outstanding questions about its nuclear program by the time the board meets again in November. The IAEA has been inspecting Iran's nuclear program for two years. While it has uncovered many previously concealed activities and facilities, it has found no clear evidence to back US accusations that Iran is developing atomic weapons.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200409/s1201313.htm
The US says it has reached agreement with France, Britain and Germany on a draft UN resolution calling for Iran to end its uranium enrichment programme. The text says the UN's atomic agency should decide in November whether to take further action against Iran.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3664660.stm

[whistle]

1. Here we go again, another "Yellow Cake" shroud to keep things...

...all boiling up so BushCo can keep the American public in fear without showing the facts. They know Iran is doing the nuclear thing, but they don't have any evidence, but if we don't want to see mushroom clouds over Manhattan the we better back Bush, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah! So, do the Canadians and Australians know if there are nuclear weapons being developed? Send out the Israelis, if anyone can find nuclear weapons they can. This is total Bushit, once again.

[tlcandie]

2. None of it really matters....

When this regime is ready to blast Iran they will n/m what anyone else does or says... period!

The timing just has to be right, so they can tell everyone to f off!

Rummy is dying to pull the trigger on a shock and awe shroom cloud.

[muriel_volestrangler]

3. "Australia and Canada, both representing the US"

so is the Bush regime so incompetent that it now outsources its diplomacy too?