EU faces showdown with Russia over Iran

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VIENNA (Reuters) - The EU will soon decide whether to confront Russia at the U.N. nuclear watchdog and force a vote on a resolution reporting Iran to the Security Council over fears it is seeking atomic weapons, diplomats said on Friday.

The foreign ministers of France, Britain and Germany and the European Union's foreign policy chief Javier Solana were to hold a conference call to discuss how to break a deadlock at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) the diplomats said.

U.S. security experts urged the Europeans to abandon their search for unanimity over how to deal with an unbending Iran and put an EU draft resolution reporting Tehran to the Security Council to a vote at the IAEA's governing board.

"I think we should go for it," said George Perkovich, vice president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a U.S. think-tank.

[GreenPartyVoter]

1. Some days I get so mired down in US politics I almost

forget that the rest of the world is a mess too. *sigh*

[pocket]

2. probably a moot point. Israel will bomb the reactor

like they did in 81 to Iraq.