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IAEA chief: Iran not close to developing nuclear weapons
By Haaretz Service and The Associated Press
Tags: Israel News, nuclear weapons 

The head of the United Nations nuclear watchdog agency said on Monday that Iran remains far from acquiring capabilities to develop nuclear weapons.

In an interview broadcast on Channel 10, the chief of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Mohammed ElBaradei, said the Islamic Republic is still lacking the key components to produce an atomic weapon.

"They do not have even the nuclear material, the raw unenriched uranium to develop one nuclear weapon if they decide to do so," ElBaradei said. "Even if you decide to walk out tomorrow from the non-proliferation treaty and you go into a lot of scenarios, we're still not going to see Iran tomorrow having nuclear weapons."
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Senior diplomats from six world powers on Monday discussed the possibility of imposing new sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program, but they failed anew to reach a consensus on how or whether to proceed, U.S. officials said.

The high-level talks among the five permanent members of the UN Security Council - Britain, China, France, Russia and the United States - along with Germany, came after the Chinese dropped objections to the consultations, the officials said. China had blocked the discussion for nearly two weeks, apparently in retaliation for U.S. arms sales to Taiwan.

The United States had been trying to organize the telephone conference call since the beginning of the month after the Security Council, in late September, passed a new resolution reaffirming three previous rounds of sanctions on Iran but imposing no new penalties that the U.S. and its European allies had sought.

On the call, the diplomats said "they remain committed to the dual-track strategy and will remain in close contact on developments over the coming days and weeks," said deputy State Department spokesman Robert Wood. He declined to discuss details of the conversation.

The dual-track strategy is the main element of a slow-moving pressure campaign to persuade Iran to give up objectionable parts of its nuclear program. It calls for offering Iran incentives to stop enriching uranium but imposing sanctions if Tehran refuses, which it has thus far done.

Russia and China have balked at additional sanctions.

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      1.   No matter what the IAEA says... 22:51  |  Silvienne 20/10/08
      2.   CHIEF, STOP CHAING YOUR MIND ALL THE TIME! 23:24  |  Joey 20/10/08
      3.   Ignore this, Israel. Look at his definition of `close`... 23:26  |  Yo 20/10/08
      4.   Friendly cooperative ventures. 23:48  |  Maureen Ann 20/10/08
      5.   McCain is gonna be depressed, no more song singing... 23:55  |  BBSNews 20/10/08
      6.   SERIOUSLY .... 00:02  |  whatever 21/10/08
      7.   Iran does not want a bomb 00:05  |  Fahim 21/10/08
      8.   SERIOUSLY (2) .... 00:18  |  whatever 21/10/08
      9.   German SPD candidate, Steinmeier to challenge Merkel 00:45  |  GFit 21/10/08
      10.   #2 mr Yo, what makes you more qualified the the IAEA chief??? 01:14  |  antoine 21/10/08
      11.   its the misssing aluminium tubes!!! 01:23  |  Rob of melbourne 21/10/08
      12.   el baradei:as honest as reuters 02:14  |  Arie 21/10/08
      13.   Iran`s nuclear program 02:29  |  zaz 21/10/08
      14.   Maureen Ann: Shill For Iranian Press 02:45  |  Ruth 21/10/08
      15.   Fire our Egyptian Friend and Close the Agency 03:26  |  NoToStupidRules 21/10/08
      16.   #Ruth. Perspective. 03:55  |  Maureen Ann 21/10/08
      17.   Arie takes on the Nobel winner... 03:58  |  BBSNews 21/10/08
      18.   Where do you get news from Iran Ruth? 04:32  |  BBSNews 21/10/08
      19.   Do you know how long it takes to build a nuclear weapon? 05:26  |  Gili 21/10/08
      20.   ElBaradei, does the word Chamberlain ring a bell? 05:56  |  Dan 21/10/08
      21.   Maureen Ann: NO PERSPECTIVE 06:30  |  Ruth 21/10/08
      22.   Israel should not take existential risks! 07:07  |  Jean Van Daem 21/10/08
      23.   Gili expects Iran to burn revenue... 07:16  |  BBSNews 21/10/08
      24.   Ruth misleading on Maureen Ann... 07:28  |  BBSNews 21/10/08
      25.   #Ruth. Liberty and the legacy left by George Bush. 07:49  |  Maureen Ann 21/10/08
      26.   BBSNews 07:54  |  Ruth 21/10/08
      27.   #4 - Gee, I`m impressed Maureen 09:24  |  JES 21/10/08
      28.   #18 - LOL @ BBS 09:26  |  JES 21/10/08
      29.   persian pride. 10:12  |  Hirz 21/10/08
      30.   1: Because the IAEA is as incompetent as Silivienne 10:14  |  David Teich 21/10/08
      31.   BBS gets it wrong, as usual 10:20  |  David Teich 21/10/08
      32.   23: BBS almost gets it right, then veers away again 10:24  |  David Teich 21/10/08
      33.   25: Maureen Ann inventing as is her wont 10:30  |  David Teich 21/10/08
      34.   he has no credability what so ever. misleading us 12:20  |  ralph 21/10/08
      35.   No.16 Maureen Ann 12:48  |  Henry Blofeld 21/10/08
      36.   didn`t he say the same about Pakistan? 13:10  |  r 21/10/08
      37.   Even Jean van Daem`s given up # 22 13:19  |  Clickfool 21/10/08
      38.   Do tell us, Mr. Van Daem 13:29  |  Murray 21/10/08
      39.   Ispections and safeguards 13:30  |  Mark Lincoln 21/10/08
      40.   The price of ignorance 13:44  |  Mark Lincoln 21/10/08
      41.   Awesome report by... Mr.El Baredei..! 13:52  |  Stephen. 21/10/08
      42.   Hold no illusions 13:56  |  Scott G 21/10/08
      43.   Remember - His Name Is Mohammed 14:51  |  Bill Foonman 21/10/08
      44.   If your enemy says "I want peace" in the media.. 14:53  |  Marco 21/10/08
      45.   No.16 Maureen Ann: Had you ever heard about Iranean Azerbaijan... 15:12  |  Vittorio 21/10/08
      46.   #27 Jes. It will soon be... 15:28  |  Maureen Ann 21/10/08
      47.   Soon To Come. 15:35  |  Cool B 21/10/08
      48.   #29 Hirz 15:54  |  John Allen 21/10/08
      49.   A nuclear Auschwitz must be prevented 16:01  |  Jonathan S 21/10/08
      50.   IAEA chief: Iran not close to developing nuclear weapons 16:03  |  me 21/10/08
      51.   #25 Maureen Ann 16:05  |  John Allen 21/10/08
      52.   #35 Henry, you are correct. 16:08  |  John Allen 21/10/08
      53.   #30, David Teich, hello again... 16:46  |  Silvienne 21/10/08
      54.   #33, David Teich, for once I agree with you... 16:48  |  Silvienne 21/10/08
      55.   #37, Clickfool, more agreement... 16:52  |  Silvienne 21/10/08
      56.   didn`t he say the same about Pakistan? 16:54  |  Mark Lincoln 21/10/08
      57.   What 450 kg of Plutonium Stephen? 17:07  |  Mark Lincoln 21/10/08
      58.   Mohammed the Wavering 17:14  |  Yonatan 21/10/08
      59.   #29 Hirz 17:26  |  Yonatan 21/10/08
      60.   Gili 17:53  |  Persian Kitty 21/10/08
      61.   what a joke after the release of new NIE Report 17:58  |  Avi 21/10/08
      62.   IRAN ALREADY HAS IT BOMB FROM UKRAINE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 18:04  |  Ron Schmidt 21/10/08
      63.   Good to see Obama supporting publicly US-IRAN relations 18:23  |  Nicholas 21/10/08
      64.   The IAEA has failed, and I dont trust El-Baradei... 19:18  |  Jordan 21/10/08
      65.   We will wake up to a mushroom cloud...IAEA/UN/Kadima failure... 19:23  |  Mike 21/10/08
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      76.   Hey cool B #47-will you also sleep well during a nuclear war?? 22:12  |  Jordan 21/10/08
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      80.   #Peter Williams. America`s rip roaring Arms trade to Shiite Iraq! 01:08  |  Maureen Ann 22/10/08
      81.   More wierdness from the twilight zone 01:39  |  Mark Lincoln 22/10/08
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      83.   Mark Lincoln 02:24  |  TonyL 22/10/08
      84.   #8 seriously(2) 03:19  |  Moshe 22/10/08
      85.   #8 seriously(2) 03:32  |  Moshe 22/10/08
      86.   Maureen Ann #80 06:47  |  Peter Williams 22/10/08
      87.   Occupation? 11:50  |  Murray 22/10/08
      88.   Moshe #84 reality check for you 13:58  |  American in NY 22/10/08
      89.   53-4: Silvienne just can`t get it right 14:28  |  David Teich 22/10/08
      90.   80: Maureen continues with surreality 14:35  |  David Teich 22/10/08
      91.   68: BBS speaks from the heart 14:38  |  David Teich 22/10/08
      92.   #79, you lecture us? (nice name...?) 16:07  |  Silvienne 22/10/08
      93.   PETER WILLIAMS is PETER SM, maureen 01:01  |  VIPER 23/10/08
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