Perhaps to strengthen Obama's hand as he rallies the civilized world to stop Iran's uranium enrichment program.
Even while Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was boasting about Iran's uranium enrichment program.
The mullahs have already responded by saying they will not abandon their uranium enrichment program, seed corn for nuclear weaponry.
But since the delegation last met, Iran's uranium enrichment program has expanded in violation of the United Nations Security Council resolutions.
Pyongyang dishonored the freeze, contained in the much-derided Agreed Framework, by, among other things, working on its uranium enrichment program in secret.
Security Council deadline of Aug. 31 to end its uranium enrichment program.
Security Council demand that it halt its uranium enrichment program, insisting it has a right to produce fuel for civilian power plants.
Bank Melli is under U.S. and EU sanctions for facilitating Tehran's support of Hamas and Hezbollah and funding Iran's uranium enrichment program.
True, Wednesday the UN Security Council passed a new sanctions resolution against Iran for refusing to end its illicit uranium enrichment program.
Now, his government does not intend to allow the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to conduct unannounced spot inspections of the uranium enrichment program.
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He was referring to a U.S. intelligence report released Monday that reversed an earlier assessment indicating that Tehran re-started an uranium enrichment program in 2005.
On foreign policy, Brazil was against the war in Iraq, against the Cuba embargo, and against sanctions on Iran because of its uranium enrichment program.
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They first boasted of a uranium enrichment program in October 2002.
They include Iran's ongoing uranium enrichment program, experiments with small amounts of plutonium, and a possible program that combines work on high explosives, missiles, and uranium.
It has also unveiled a uranium enrichment program that could give it a new means for making fissile material that could go into a nuclear weapon.
Many in Tehran expect the Security Council to decree even tougher sanctions in March when the ultimatum for the Islamic Republic to halt its uranium enrichment program will end.
The United Nation's International Atomic Energy Agency continues debating whether and how to advocate sanctions against Iran for its planned uranium enrichment program that could lead to a bomb.
Nuclear talks between Iran and world powers are at an impasse while the Islamic Republic barrels ahead with a uranium enrichment program that many are convinced is intended for atomic weapons.
We are working with European allies to make clear to the Iranian regime that it must give up its uranium enrichment program and any plutonium reprocessing, and end its support for terror.
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Security Council has asked Iran to halt its uranium enrichment program, and the International Atomic Energy Agency, the U.N. nuclear watchdog, has asked Iran to clear up questions about the nature of its work.
The logic of extensive new product-focused sanctions is that DPRK can make -- or jerry-rig -- only a small fraction of the advanced technologies and specialty materials that sustain an ongoing uranium enrichment program.
You also report other views - a European diplomat, for instance, who says the only way that the Iranian uranium enrichment program makes sense is if you assume they are trying to build a bomb.
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Mr. Bush also said he would work with U.S. allies in an effort to bolster sanctions against Iran after a new U.N. report showed Tehran is accelerating its uranium enrichment program in defiance of international demands.
Most of us think we know the tale of Stuxnet: it's a possibly government-sponsored worm that played havoc with Iranian centrifuges in 2009, setting back the country's uranium enrichment program without involving any traditional weapons.
Security Council has asked Iran to halt its uranium enrichment program, and the International Atomic Energy Agency -- which is the U.N. nuclear watchdog -- has asked Iran to clear up questions about the nature of its work.
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These sanctions have sharpened political division among world powers, especially when both Turkey and Brazil, non-permanent members of the UN Security Council, have and continue to resist U.S.-led efforts to push for sanctions over Iran's failure to halt its uranium enrichment program.
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For instance, when the US reacted to North Korea's 2006 nuclear and ICBM tests by reinstating the six-party talks in the hopes of appeasing Pyongyang, Iran learned that by exhibiting an interest in engaging the US on its uranium enrichment program it could gain valuable time.
So in the security realm, again, the Chinese acknowledgment in the statements that -- of the North Korean uranium enrichment program, setting forth a series of conditions that made the Republic of Korea confident enough to go into talks with the North Koreans -- is certain -- I would say one in the security basket.
Just as North Korea was able to dissipate Washington's resolve to act against it while buying time to advance its program still further through the six-party talks, so Iran, by seemingly agreeing to a framework for discussing its uranium enrichment program, has been able to keep the US and Europe at bay for the past several years.
America (and Israel) were almost certainly behind the most successful known cyber attack to date: the Stuxnet virus that impeded Iran's uranium-enrichment program.
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