RFE/RL Iran Report – 06/19/2007

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RFE/RL Iran Report
Vol. 10, No. 20

Tuesday, June 19, 2007
A weekly review of RFE/RL reporting and analysis about Iran.

TEHRAN SAYS IT HAS KREMLIN ASSURANCE IT WON’T SHARE RADAR WITH U.S.

The Iranian Foreign Ministry says it has received assurances that
Moscow willl not let the United States share a Russian radar facility
in Azerbaijan as part of a missile shield against Iran — despite an
offer by President Vladimir Putin to U.S. President George W. Bush to
do exactly that.

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IRAN: LAWMAKERS REJECT NEARBY MISSILE-SHIELD PRESENCE

By Vahid Sepehri

Iranian politicians have responded disapprovingly to a Russian
proposal that the United States deploy components of a proposed
antiballistic-missile shield in Azerbaijan instead of Central Europe.

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U.S. WARNS TEHRAN OF TOUGH NEW SANCTIONS

By Breffni O’Rourke

A senior U.S. diplomat warned Iran that it is facing the prospects of
tough new sanctions "in the next week or two" unless it comes to the
negotiating table on its nuclear program.

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IRAN: U.S. IAEA ENVOY SAYS TIME FOR DIPLOMACY REMAINS

The United States’ permanent representative to Vienna, Gregory
Schulte, spoke with Radio Farda’s Fatemeh Aman ahead of meetings of
the International Atomic Energy Agency’s (IAEA) governing board, at
which member states were expected to discuss Iran’s disputed nuclear
program.

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IRAN: EL-BARADEI, U.S. NOTE DISTURBING DEVELOPMENTS AS IAEA BOARD MEETS

By Breffni O’Rourke

Muhammad el-Baradei, the head of the International Atomic Energy
Agency (IAEA), says the international dispute over Iran’s nuclear
program "needs to be defused."

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