Perhaps to strengthen Obama's hand as he rallies the civilized world to stop Iran's uranium enrichment program.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The United States and other Western nations have demanded that Iran stopped its uranium-enrichment program, which they perceive as a precursor to production of nuclear warhead-grade material.
Ephraim Halevy, the former head of Israel's foreign intelligence agency, the Mossad, is one of many in Israel who stand opposed to the idea of offering new incentives to Iran in return for a freeze of its uranium-enrichment program.
The serious business was conducted out of sight, and involved a series of meetings on a new diplomatic effort to persuade the Iranians to halt their uranium-enrichment program. (Iran argues that its enrichment program is for civilian purposes and is legal under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.) Secretary of State Rice had been involved with developing a new package of incentives.
The report released Monday presents evidence that Iran halted its nuclear program in 2003 and reverses a previous assessment that Tehran re-started that program of uranium enrichment in 2005.
On Tuesday, Iran offered to start serious talks - as it termed it - over its nuclear program, but there was no sign that it agreed to freeze uranium enrichment.
Given that Iran, with its currently limited capacity to refine petroleum, is a net oil importer, for the past several years, the notion of banning the Iranian imports of refined petroleum products has been raised every time the IAEA submitted a report on Iran's nuclear program and every time more information came out describing its spectacular progress in missile development and uranium enrichment.
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