Iran Given Two-Week Deadline to End the Nuclear Impasse

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http://www.truthout.org/article/iran-given-two-week-deadline-end-nuclear-impass

Sunday 20 July 2008

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by: Julian Borger, The Observer


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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad tours the Natanz uranium enrichment facility in April 2008.
(Photo: AFP / HO / File)

Geneva - Iran was given a fortnight to agree to freeze its uranium enrichment program yesterday or face further international isolation.

After a day of inconclusive talks in Geneva, a six-nation negotiating team warned the Iranian delegation that it had run out of patience and demanded a 'yes or no' answer to a proposal it put forward five weeks ago.

Under that offer, sponsored jointly by the US, Britain, France, Germany, Russia and China, Iran would not expand its uranium enrichment programme, while the international community refrained from imposing further sanctions. This phase would last six weeks, possibly paving the way for suspension of enrichment and more comprehensive talks.

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1. So this is Bush/Rice diplomacy, stop in two weeks or the bombing begins