(New York Sun) Eli Lake - Tahkim Vahdat, Iran's largest student organization and a pillar of the 1979 revolution, on Tuesday publicly urged the Tehran government to suspend uranium enrichment and cooperate fully with the international community. A former member of its central committee, Reza Delberry, said the group did not refute Iran's right to enrich uranium, but rather was concerned that the regime's prioritization of a nuclear program was detrimental to other, more pressing needs. A spokesman for Tahkim Vahdat, Saber Sheykhlou, said, "The irrational and confrontational behavior of those who are in power has put the country and the nation on the threshold of a war or devastating sanctions."
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