U.S. Rejected 2005 Iranian Offer Ensuring No Nuclear Weapons by Gareth Porter

by Gareth Porter
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
crossposted at ISP
June 5, 2012

WASHINGTON, Jun 5, 2012 (IPS) – France and Germany were prepared in spring 2005 to negotiate on an Iranian proposal to convert all of its enriched uranium to fuel rods, making it impossible to use it for nuclear weapons, but Britain vetoed the deal at the insistence of the United States, according to a new account by a former top Iranian nuclear negotiator.

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New Zealand: NATO’s Newest Partnership by Rick Rozoff

by Rick Rozoff
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
Stop NATO
June 5, 2012

Catholic Workers protest NATO at Obama HQ-0024

Image by Steve Rhodes via Flickr

On June 4 NATO’s Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen and New Zealand’s Prime Minister John Key signed a partnership agreement at NATO Headquarters in Brussels, Belgium.

As the Western military bloc reported, the Individual Partnership Cooperation Programme conferred on the South Pacific nation “formalised ties between the two sides after almost two decades of increased cooperation.”

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