NYC Letter: "Crise Internationale" ! What Will Iran Do?

Waiting on the little bearded man. Ho! The suspense! The imminent delivery of nuclear energy to the capitals of Europe! The map wiping! Clean maps!

It's like Christmas and the Apocalypse all in one!

IRAN GOES TO BRINK ON NUCLEAR
ENRICHMENT AS DEADLINE DAY DAWNS

VIENNA August 31, 2006 (Scotsman) - A defiant Iran continued to enrich uranium up to 48 hours before today's deadline for Tehran to freeze such activity or face the threat of sanctions, UN and EU officials said last night.

In another sign of Iran's willingness to confront the international community, a senior EU official said Tehran had not responded to a recent offer on behalf of the five Security Council members, plus Germany, to discuss Tehran's terms for new nuclear talks.

IAEA inspectors remained in Iran yesterday, gathering information to go into today's restricted report. While their most recent findings were not available by yesterday afternoon, a senior UN official said that Iranian centrifuges were enriching small quantities of uranium gas as late as Tuesday.

We invite you to read our post at Pave, where we have done an honest day's work collecting the headlines of France's confuse-a-cat diplomacy with Iran.