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'Resolutions unlawful'
Soltanieh said: "Repeated requests by the IAEA for further inspection are not acceptable for us.
"Iran will neither co-operate beyond the IAEA safeguards nor will it carry out demands of the United Nations resolutions."
He said Tehran's reasons for not doing so are that "Iran considers these resolutions to be contrary to international law".
While visiting Gulf states Saudi Arabia and Qatar earlier in thee week, Hillary Clinton, the US secretary of state, said Iran was heading towards a "military dictatorship" and warned it posed an international threat.
So the US is rewriting international law to suit their own agenda ...agian
hard to doubt that
Either you Are with the terrorists, or ... you Are with the terrorists 
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Hmmmm are the IAEA reports different simply because of the author ?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8524479.stm
Tougher IAEA line reflects new management
By Paul Reynolds
World affairs correspondent, BBC News website
Yukiya Amano
Yukiya Amano urged Iran to co-operate in clarifying outstanding issues
The latest report on Iran by the UN's nuclear watchdog, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), reflects a tougher approach by the agency under its new director-general.
But while the language is stronger, it is less clear that the evidence is. There are still more questions than answers.
The effect, though, is that the headlines taken from this report are more dramatic and the arguments for sanctions are more pronounced.
What has happened with this report is that the new IAEA chief, Yukiya Amano, a Japanese lawyer and diplomat, is more open in saying that Iran's activities do raise concerns, not just about its past programmes but about its present.
The key new word here is "current".
"The information available to the agency... is extensive... and broadly consistent and credible in terms of the technical detail... [and] raises concerns about the possible existence in Iran of past or current undisclosed activities related to the development of a nuclear payload for a missile," Mr Amano says.
"Iran needs to co-operate in clarifying outstanding issues which give rise to concerns about possible military dimensions," he adds.
'Credible' evidence
You can see the difference by looking at the more cautious approach under the previous director-general, Mohamed ElBaradei.
Mohamed ElBaradei
Mr ElBaradei said there "no credible evidence" about a weapons attempt
In his last report in November 2009, this was the phrasing: "There remain a number of outstanding issues which give rise to concerns, and which need to be clarified to exclude the existence of possible military dimensions to Iran's nuclear programme."
Where Mr ElBaradei avoids the word "current" and is reluctant to link his "concerns" to "possible military dimensions", Mr Amano does just that.
Where his predecessor delicately sought Iranian answers in order to "exclude" the existence of "possible military dimensions", Mr Amano comes out and says there is "credible" evidence behind those concerns.
The difference might not appear large, but in the language of nuclear diplomacy it is significant.
Concerns
So what are these concerns based on?
URANIUM ENRICHMENT
BBC graphic
Iran says it is increasing uranium enrichment from 3.5% needed for commercial nuclear reactors
Iran says it has started enriching to 20%, needed for a research reactor near Tehran
Weapons-grade uranium is at least 90% enriched
Experts say achieving 20% is a key step towards weapons grade
In depth: Nuclear fuel cycle
Q&A: Iran nuclear issue
First, it is worth noting that they are not wholly about uranium enrichment. That gets most of the headlines.
The IAEA is monitoring Iranian enrichment and continues to confirm that declared material has not been diverted (to nuclear weapons use), though this time the statement is not unqualified as it usually is.
A caveat has been added saying that Iran has not given enough information to allow the IAEA to "confirm that all nuclear material in Iran is in peaceful activities".
The concerns are also to do with other activities, about which Iran remains largely unresponsive.
The latest report lists them - notably whether Iran developed a "spherical implosion system" for a nuclear warhead; whether designs for a missile payload were for a nuclear device; plus "activities involving high-precision detonators; studies on the initiation of high explosives and missile re-entry body engineering; a project for the conversion of UO2 [uranium dioxide] to UF4 [uranium tetrafluoride], known as the 'green salt project'; and various procurement activities".
Laptop
Some of the "broadly consistent and credible" evidence on which this is based came from a laptop produced by the US and said to b
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Can you say " Arms Race " where you at Hillary!
News Middle East
Israel drones 'could target Iran'
The Heron TP drone has a wingspan the same size
as a Boeing 737 passenger jet [AFP]
Israel's air force has unveiled a fleet of unmanned aircraft that its says are able to reach the Gulf, putting Iran within range.
The Heron TP drones, which have a wingspan the size of a Boeing 737 passenger jet, were presented to the media on Sunday, as Israel pushes for international action against the Islamic republic over its nuclear programme.
The aircraft, developed by the state-owned Israel Aerospace Industries, can fly at least 20 consecutive hours and be used for surveillance or launching a missile attack.
"I can tell you, it can do a lot of missions. It can do some special missions, unique missions that no other UAV [Unmanned Aerial Vehicle] can do," Lieutenant Colonel Eyal Asenheim, a drone operator, told The Associated Press news agency.
Brigadier General Amikam Norkin, the head of the base that will operate the drones, said: "With the inauguration of the Heron TP, we are realising the air force's dream.
"The Heron TP is a technological and operational breakthrough."
However, Israeli military officials did not specifically say if the drones were actually designed for operations against Iran.
Israel, which accuses Iran of seeking to develop nuclear weapons, has been putting pressure on UN Security Council members to support US moves for fresh sanctions against Tehran.
War talk
Tehran has repeatedly said that its nuclear programme is for purely civilian purposes and has highlighted the apparent hypocrisy of Israel, which is believed to be the Middle East's only nuclear power.
On Tuesday, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran's president, said that he believed Israel was "seeking to start a war next spring or summer, although their decision is not final yet".
However, Binyamin Netanyahu, Israel's prime minister, said that there were no plans for military action, calling Ahmadinejad's remarks "manipulations".
"We are not planning any wars," he said after meeting Russian officials to discuss tougher sanctions against Iran.
"I wouldn't be surprised if the things we are hearing are a result of Iran's feeling there is an increase in talks about sanctions."
Israel has repeatedly said that it hopes the situation will be resolved through diplomacy, but it has not ruled out military action and has frequently suggested that Iran could face a military strike.
In 1981, Israeli warplanes destroyed an Iraqi nuclear reactor, and in 2007 a suspected Israeli attack destroyed what the US said was a nearly finished nuclear reactor in Syria.
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