IRAN DOESN’T PROMISE TO STOP CONCENTRATING URANIUM
By Petros Keshishian

AZG Armenian Daily
12/09/2006

In the course of the negotiations on the nuclear program of Iran,
the official Tehran didn’t stop concentrating uranium. Ali Ashgar
Soltanie, a representative of the Iranian delegation to Vienna,
informed a France Presse correspondent about this. He stated that
they even didn’t touch upon such a theme in Vienna.

Earlier last week, Ali Larijani, head of the National Security Supreme
Council of Iran, met with Javier Solana, EU Foreign Policy and Security
Chief Representative, in Vienna.

After the meeting, the sides stated that they have achieved progress
around several important issues.

While a number of diplomats, members of the European delegation even
said that Iran is ready to stop concentrating Uranium for two months.

Tehran keeps stating that its nuclear program has exclusively peaceful
character. The contradiction around the program has become deeper,
when the current conservative authorities of Iran came to power. The
Iranians stopped cooperation with MAGATE and resumed concentrating
uranium. USA and Europe are afraid that a new nuclear power will
appear in the Middle East and they threaten Iran with International
punishment measures.

Russia is acting as a mediator for overcoming the crisis. Russia is to
soon finfish the construction of the nuclear power plant near Busher
city in Iran.