The United States must also continue to push the United Nations Security Council for strong action to thwart Iran's nuclear ambitions. In the meantime, it is our job to take meaningful steps to eliminate the threats posed by Iran.
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Iran's continued pursuit of nuclear weapons, support for international terrorist organizations, and abhorrent human rights practices pose one of the greatest threats to global security.
We should take stock on Iran and discuss how we might best pursue the nuclear file over the coming weeks, ... This might also be an opportunity to discuss what Iran's new government and its breaking of the Paris Agreement means for EU-Iran relations over the coming months.
The Security Council decided to deal with Iran's nuclear intentions. The international community will not be willing to tolerate an Iran with a nuclear capability and an Iran that collaborates with terrorist organizations.
Oil Gas was the only sub-component to decline last month. Rising 'geopolitical risk premiums' for light crude oil - linked to recent unrest in Nigeria and international tensions over Iran's decision to resume nuclear research - were more than offset by sharply lower natural gas and propane prices - the result of exceptionally warm winter weather in key U. S. heating oil markets. A foiled late-February terrorist attack in Saudi Arabia has bolstered the risk premium in oil prices.
With respect to the challenges that we have ahead of us, Iran's role in the future of Palestine should continue and increase.
Secretary of State Rice made clear in her remarks that the U. S. favors a referral of Iran to the Security Council for sanctions if negotiations fail, ... because the Bush Administration suspects that Irans uranium enrichment program is a nuclear weapons program, but the resistance from Russia and China to vote for sanctions, may undermine a U. S. referral.
The Russian-Iranian basic agreement to establish a joint venture on uranium enrichment on Russian territory is a positive but not final step in the solution to Iran's nuclear program. This agreement is just part of the solution to the problem, which Russia is trying to find. Russia is moving in the right direction.
This action is long overdue and should have been taken two years ago when Iran's non-compliance was first clearly established by the IAEA,
There are no grounds for anyone, including Russia, to defend Iran's position. We should discuss an appropriate plan of coordinated action for the international community.
While the United States has largely been missing in action from the diplomatic game, the European Union and Iran have been making progress at developing a formula that would lead to the suspension of Iran's nuclear enrichment program and the start of serious negotiations.
Any resumption of enrichment and reprocessing activities would be a further violation of Iran's agreement with the Europeans. So such steps would be a serious escalation of the nuclear issue by Tehran.
After September 11, when the United States took action to overthrow the Taliban, our interests and Iran's aligned, and we were able to coordinate quietly but effectively.
I told the Arabs at a recent meeting that the reason for Iran's influence in Iraq is that you are absent, ... I said the indifference, the wait-and-see attitude, helps other countries fill the vacuum.
Relatively moderate weather, ample supplies and an escalation in the dispute over Iran's nuclear program should make for another week of high volatility. Absent geopolitical uncertainty, prices should be moving lower.
Any possible action by the board of governors (of the IAEA) in informing the UN security council about Iran's nuclear project in their February meeting, as I said before, will trigger the government to cut all its voluntary measures as per the law.