Later, it was reported that Iran is offering to suspend its nuclear enrichment activities temporarily.
Summer enrichment activities like camp and travel, now so common for children whose parents have means, might be usefully alternated with summer jobs, with real responsibilities.
Tehran insists its enrichment activities are solely for civilian purposes, while the international community suspects Iran wants to be able to use it for nuclear weapons.
It said they must not be "enrichment activities for the most able" but should interest those whose backgrounds would not lead them on to higher education.
Until Wednesday, in accordance with three binding UN Security Council resolutions, the US, Russia and the EU refused to accept the legitimacy of Iran's uranium enrichment activities.
Today both the US and the Europeans are poised to set aside the option of escalating sanctions against Iran for its refusal to end its uranium enrichment activities.
The administration of former U.S. President George W. Bush scrapped a nuclear-freeze agreement with North Korea in 2002 over allegations that Pyongyang abrogated the pact by exploring uranium-enrichment activities.
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The Center offers young people diverse, educational and extracurricular enrichment activities as well as support to help prepare them to graduate from high school and to pursue college and meaningful careers.
"We are working with them to verify the suspension of all enrichment activities and I think we are making good progress and I hope we will continue to be able to make further progress, " the IAEA chief added.
Our British, French and German partners have rightly required that Iran fully and verifiably suspend its enrichment and reprocessing activities before the sides can return to negotiations.
In the remaining 2.5 hours children would work with other council staff on an "enrichment programme" of activities.
This week they said that Iran would suspend its uranium enrichment and plutonium reprocessing activities, in return for European concessions over trade.
The tension this year goes well beyond such symbolic spats: Mr Ahmadinejad's Iran is in defiance of multiple Security Council resolutions calling on it to cease uranium enrichment and other nuclear activities until it can convince the world it is not aiming at making bombs.
The carrots offered through diplomacy consisted of promises that if Iran were, in the words of the Security Council, to suspend all enrichment-related and reprocessing activities, it would find itself on the receiving end of many benefits.
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Determined to give effect to its unmet 31 July demand that Iran suspend all uranium enrichment-related and reprocessing activities, the Security Council today imposed sanctions on that country, blocking the import or export of sensitive nuclear materiel and equipment and freezing the financial assets of persons or entities supporting its proliferation sensitive nuclear activities or the development of nuclear-weapon delivery systems.
Security Council has passed half a dozen resolutions since 2006 demanding Tehran suspend enrichment until it proves its nuclear activities are for civilian purposes.
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