Nuclear Board Said to Rebuff Bush Over Iran | New York Times

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Nuclear Board Said to Rebuff Bush Over Iran
By DAVID E. SANGER

Published: November 20, 2003


IENNA, Nov. 19 — The board of the International Atomic Energy Agency appears prepared to approve a resolution on Iran's 18 years of secret work on a nuclear program that will stop short of recommending United Nations Security Council action, a setback to President Bush, senior officials from several countries said here Wednesday.

Only hours after Mr. Bush, in Britain, declared that the agency must hold Iran to its obligations under the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, officials here said that the board was likely to adopt a European-sponsored resolution that was being strengthened on Wednesday to include wording that would likely "deplore" Iran's deceptions and declare that they amounted to a "breach" of its obligations.

But Secretary of State Colin L. Powell was unable to persuade more than three of the board's 35 member countries — Canada, Australia and Japan — to vote for a formal censure of Iran. Even the government of Prime Minister Tony Blair, Mr. Bush's host, sided with France and Germany and said that the best way now to deal with Iran is to encourage its sudden conversion to openness.

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[Mountainman]

1. So I guess Bush will pull out the ol'e six gun and go it alone again

He said we could go to war alone again. I wonder where he's going to get the man power.

What if Bush gave a war and nobody attended?

Screw you Bush the whole world hates your ass!