Eye On Iran: Iranian Says Uranium Deal Off if Sanctions Are On

For continuing coverage follow us on Twitter and join our Facebook group. Top Stories NYT: "The speaker of Iran's Parliament said Sunday that his country would abandon a deal to ship some of its nuclear fuel to Turkey and rethink its cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency if the United States pushed new sanctions through the United Nations Security Council." http://nyti.ms/bLax5c WP: "President Obama said last year that the United States and Turkey must 'work together to overcome the challenges of our time.' This month, the allies couldn't have been more out of sync. Turkish mediation of an agreement for Iran to ship abroad part of its stockpile of low-enriched uranium has threatened the Obama administration's efforts to win consensus at the U.N. Security Council on a new package of Iran sanctions and thoroughly irritated U.S. officials." http://bit.ly/dCjx0j AP: "A speech by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in a southern port town was marred Monday by shouts from Iranians demanding jobs, a rare show of public discontent over the country's worsening economy." http://bit.ly/90pBAD Nuclear Program AP: "Seeking to evade new U.N. sanctions, Iran on Monday formally submitted its plan to swap some of its enriched uranium for reactor fuel and said the onus was on world powers to defuse tensions by accepting the deal." http://bit.ly/9fTjLx WP: "The last-minute dealmaking needed to secure Russian support for new U.N. sanctions against Iran became clearer Friday when the Obama administration revealed it had ended sanctions against four Russian entities involved in illicit weapons trade with Iran and Syria since 1999." http://bit.ly/dDc2Gg Human Rights AP: "It didn't take much for Iranian courts to sentence 10 people to death over the country's post-election turmoil. For one prisoner, the main evidence was that he allegedly sent videos of protests abroad. The government accuses the 10 of leading unrest after the disputed presidential election, but none of them seem to have played any significant role in the protest movement." http://bit.ly/bYaGgE AP: "The mothers of three Americans jailed in Iran returned to the United States on Saturday, pained to leave their children behind yet heartened to find they're being treated well and are 'in reasonable health.' At a brief news conference at John F. Kennedy International Airport shortly after they returned to New York, Cindy Hickey thanked the Iranians for allowing the women to see the three and said they were disappointed they could not return with their children." http://bit.ly/aRLpPS AP: "A senior opposition figure accused Iran's hardline judiciary and conservative lawmakers of being instruments in the intimidation of pro-reform activists and the trampling of constitutional rights." http://bit.ly/9PBXCo Foreign Affairs AP: "Iran's intelligence minister on Sunday signaled that Tehran might be open to a prisoner swap with the U.S. for three Americans jailed in Iran since last July." http://bit.ly/bE5LqL Opinion Charles Krauthammer in WP: "It is perfectly obvious that Iran's latest uranium maneuver, brokered by Brazil and Turkey, is a ruse. Iran retains more than enough enriched uranium to make a bomb. And it continues enriching at an accelerated pace and to a greater purity (20 percent). Which is why the French foreign ministry immediately declared that the trumpeted temporary shipping of some Iranian uranium to Turkey will do nothing to halt Iran's nuclear program." http://bit.ly/bgmD9i Claudia Rosett in Forbes: "Beware. With stunts such as this week's bid to deflect further sanctions on Iran, Turkey's leaders like to boast that they are creating a new role for their nation as a rising regional power and broker of peace in the Middle East. What they're really doing looks more like a throwback to the ways of Vidkun Quisling, a 20th-century Norwegian politician whose collaboration with Nazi Germany earned him a special place in the lexicon." http://bit.ly/afXTpm Warren Kozak in WSJ: "We measure their rhetoric, we monitor their actions both within their borders and abroad, and we wonder: 'Once they get it, would they use it?' But perhaps we are asking the wrong question when it comes to Iran's race to get the bomb. That question may have been answered 31 years ago in the very first days of the Iranian Revolution. The regime was barely born when it manifested personality traits that clearly told us this was no ordinary group of rulers." http://bit.ly/b8op4g Eye on Iran is a periodic news summary from United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI) a program of the American Coalition Against Nuclear Iran, Inc., a tax-exempt organization under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. Eye on Iran is not intended as a comprehensive media clips summary but rather a selection of media elements with discreet analysis in a PDA friendly format. For more information please email Press@UnitedAgainstNuclearIran.com United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI) is a non-partisan, broad-based coalition that is united in a commitment to prevent Iran from fulfilling its ambition to become a regional super-power possessing nuclear weapons. 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