WORLD / Middle East
Iran's top nuclear negotiator may meet with Putin - report
(AP)
Updated: 2006-11-11 15:46
Larijani's talks in Moscow on Friday stretched on for more than five and
a half hours.
With Russia calling for major changes that would water down the proposed
sanctions, the visit appeared to highlight divisions among the five
permanent Security Council members over how to deal with Iran's refusal
to halt its enrichment program.
In comments that dovetailed with Russia's warnings that too much pressure
could deepen Iran's defiance, Larijani warned that Tehran would
reconsider its ties with the International Atomic Energy Agency if the
council adopted the European proposal.
"We will reconsider relations with the IAEA if the United Nations passes
the ... resolution ignoring Russia's amendments," Russian news agencies
quoted him as saying. Iran has repeatedly threatened to respond to
sanctions by blocking IAEA inspections of its nuclear facilities.
The five permanent UN Security Council members and Germany offered Iran a
package of economic incentives and political rewards in June if it agreed
to freeze its uranium enrichment effort. But Tehran has said it would
continue enrichment, a process that is central to both civilian power
generation and the production of nuclear weapons.
The Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty allows for peaceful nuclear power
programs, but Iran's activities and its secrecy have led to fears it is
seeking nuclear weapons. Larijani insisted that was not the case, saying
that "nuclear weapons have no place in our defense doctrine," Russian
news agencies reported.
The European draft resolution would order all countries to ban the supply
of material and technology that could contribute to Iran's nuclear and
missile programs.
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