U.S. to oppose any compromise on Iran [View All]

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The United States said Monday it would oppose any compromise on the Iranian nuclear program that would allow Tehran to have even a small uranium enrichment capability.

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The Bush administration is serving notice it will not be party to any compromise giving Iran a continuing capability to enrich uranium. And it is making clear it expects a referral of the matter to the U.N. Security Council barring a sudden policy reversal by Tehran on its nuclear program.

Talk of such a compromise surfaced Monday in Vienna as the IAEA convened to hear a report on the Iranian nuclear program from agency director-general Mohamed ElBaradei, before the matter is sent to the Security Council under a February 4 IAEA decision.

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However the Bush administration, which maintains that Iran's nominally peaceful nuclear program conceals a weapons project, says Iran cannot be trusted because of nearly two decades of nuclear deception.

State Department Acting Spokesman Thomas Casey said allowing Iran to pursue enrichment on any scale would allow it to perfect techniques needed to build weapons, and that the idea is unacceptable to the United States and broader world community:

"You can't be just a little pregnant," said Thomas Casey. "You can't have the regime pursing enrichment on any scale, because pursuing enrichment on any scale allows them to master the technology, complete the fuel-cycle, and that technology can easily be applied to a clandestine program for making nuclear weapons."

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