ElBaradei's Idea for (nuclear) `Timeout' With Iran Is Rejected by U.S.

[jpak]

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aIY6psePXtfA&refer=home

Jan. 29 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. today rejected a proposal by the head of the United Nations' nuclear watchdog agency for a ``simultaneous'' freeze on Iran's uranium enrichment and on Security Council sanctions adopted last month.

``There is a path laid out for suspension'' of the UN sanctions against Iran, U.S. Acting Ambassador Alejandro Wolff told reporters in New York. ``That is Iranian suspension of their enrichment activities to be responded to by the council. That is very clear and it is not subject to reinterpretation.''

Mohamed ElBaradei, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, said in an interview with CNN on Jan. 26 that he favors a ``simultaneous timeout'' that would include the suspension of UN sanctions and Iranian uranium enrichment. The effort to produce a higher concentration of a uranium isotope needed for nuclear fission can be a step toward a bomb.

The Security Council voted unanimously on Dec. 23 to impose sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program, including a demand that enrichment efforts stop. The measure also calls for a ban on Iran's acquisition of materials and technology that might be used to build an atomic bomb.

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[azurnoir]

1. The BFFE aka the 'US'

will not accept anything that does not include them controlling Iran's oil there by cutting off a major amount of China's petroleum or at least making a bundle from suppling them or in other words WAR