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Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/03/AR2006030300266.html
U.S. Seeks Deadline in Dispute with Iran
(Washington Post) Dafna Linzer and Colum Lynch - The Bush administration, preparing to take Iran's case to the UN Security Council, is seeking a 30-day deadline for Tehran to halt its nuclear program and cooperate with international inspectors or face severe diplomatic pressures, according to several senior U.S. and European officials. But Russian officials, unwilling to give up on talks with the Iranians, which have not yet yielded results, are unlikely to go for such a tough start. Russia and China have said they are committed to seeing Iran freeze its nuclear enrichment activities to assure the international community it has no intention of pursuing a nuclear weapon. But they both firmly oppose punitive measures to compel Iran to do so.