EU weighs security pledge for Iran, US resists
BERLIN/BRUSSELS - European nations want to offer Iran security guarantees as a key incentive to freeze its nuclear enrichment programme, but US officials say Teheran can expect no non-aggression pledge from Washington. Iran insists its nuclear programme is aimed at the peaceful generation of electricity. But Western countries are convinced Iran is gradually developing the capability to produce enriched uranium fuel for atomic bombs, not just nuclear power stations. Mohamed ElBaradei, chief of the International Atomic Energy Agency, has urged Washington and the European Union to consider Iran’s precarious security in an unstable Middle East -- tacitly acknowledging that Iran’s atomic programme is a deterrent.
”Iran is surrounded by countries that have nuclear weapons,” the head of the UN nuclear watchdog said recently. “The only solution is a package that should ... include security issues.”
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